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Rise of the First Order

Alderaan said:

It’s probably going to be called The Knights of Ren fwiw

This seems the most likely candidate.

Hey wow! Those are mine. Good find 😃.

I made this cover a long time ago for the Dr Gonzo DVD set of four discs. It’s for a thicker case (ALPHApak three DVD case with a single disc clip in extension).

It’s been fun reading some of these posts. We are so used to prequel vs. anti-prequel crap in the Star Wars fan universe, but now we have to fight over TFA and RO?

Here’s my simple way of looking at things:

1. There are these things called the prequels. They have done damage to the Star Wars world and in my humble opinion strongly divide the camp into those who enjoy versus those who are repulsed by the very idea of the prequel movies existing.

2. Then there is everything not prequels. To me that means OT, TFA, and RO. Those are my Star Wars world.

I was born before Star Wars came out in the theater. Perhaps that flavors my view of things. But in my humble opinion, TFA and RO are much, much, much closer to OT than the PT in terms of filmmaking quality and Star Wars feel.

I’m glad we can all have opinions, and hopefully we can continue to have a civilized discussion. I really enjoyed RO. I have seen it twice.

Gorramnerd said:

meisterwho87 said:

Hello everyone! I am just about to start the project of creating the boxsets and so damn excited for it. I am going for 2-disc cases for each entry (50GB+25GB). I haven’t decided if to go with the criterion cases or standard blu ray cases. Any suggestions as far as the artwork? tips are getting it all done right the first time? where to buy the cases ?

I’m in the same boat, looking for artwork for 2 disc sets. For Jedi, are you going with the two 50GB disc version?

Also, Casetopia seems to be pretty reasonable price wise and they have both criterion and regular blu ray cases.

I intend to make disc labels for the 50GB versions. I have all 25GB so those were my priority, but now that my box set is all done I can move on to other versions. I used the Criterion-style covers by JMoomer (but I had to create a fourth cover for my 25GB trilogy documentaries case). I also made a box for them just last night.

I ordered three-disc and single-disc Criterion cases from casetopia. Would order again.

These are the covers I’m using for my njvc complete set. Love em!

Jackpumpkinhead said:

i think this is a great thread! a lot of you have been saying that you print your discs with a canon pixma printer, but i am not sure what pixma printer is the best/actually prints on a disc. could someone please point me in the right direction?

I recently got a Canon Pixma MX922. So far for me it is working out great. I have printed about 20 labels right on disc already and it’s perfect. I am on a Mac.

I’m on a Mac and just use the Finder to burn my images - Right click on the file and select “Burn Disk Image <filename> to Disc…”. This works well with the .iso images for njvc’s set. Not sure why you would want to use the MKV if you are burning to a physical BD disc. NJVC has two options for you - all 25GB discs or some 50GB discs. Make sure you have the appropriately sized blank discs of course. I chose to go the 25GB route so I needed 10 blank 25GB BD discs.

I am using the Criterion style cases for my complete njvc set, so I needed to create a fourth cover for the trilogy documentaries disc. Just in case anyone else needs something, here it is:

Fang Zei said:

I was scrolling through facebook and noticed someone had done a fan-made saga trailer.

One of my biggest problems with the prequels is that George decided to shoot 2 and 3 on glorified HD video cameras and they look terrible compared to the other films.

And now they can’t be re-scanned at 4K like film can. Ooops!

Also, with NJVC’s set, there is a trilogy documentary disc, so I made this label for it:

joefavs said:

It’s a great label and I’ll probably end up using it, but I’d hoped for something with another McQuarrie concept painting for consistency’s sake (more for consistency with SteveE’s labels for the other two than JMoomer’s original ANH set; I realize the poster sketch was his choice for SW Revisited).

How’s this?

Handman said:
Why would you have one for Despecialized and another for njvc, seeing as njvc’s set is the Despecialized editions just with bonus features and menus? Perhaps there is a difference I’m not aware of.

Also, I’m curious as to what covers you used for the Grindhouse ESB and ROTJ discs. Thanks.

My goal is to have three sets: 1) Just the Despecialized movies, 2) the silver screen / grindhouse versions, and 3) the full NJVC ten-disc set. It’s just what I have in my mind as my projects. No real reason, but I like having the simple three-disc despecialized trilogy on its own.

For the Grindhouse ROJ I made my own cover. The Grindhouse ESB I used one I found that has a lighter cover with a millennium falcon on the cover. If you google for “grindhouse esb cover” and look for images it’ll show up.

JEDIT: Here is the ROJ grindhouse cover I made:

joefavs said:

It’s a great label and I’ll probably end up using it, but I’d hoped for something with another McQuarrie concept painting for consistency’s sake (more for consistency with SteveE’s labels for the other two than JMoomer’s original ANH set; I realize the poster sketch was his choice for SW Revisited).

I can do that - I was just using what was in that “alternate feature” label for that one. Give me a day or two. For all my covers and artwork lately I’ve been very heavy on the concept artwork. Love McQuarrie’s stuff!!!

joefavs said:

Bringing this query to the photoshoppin’ community here because my PMs to the original creators have apparently fallen on deaf ears. Over in the thread for njvc’s custom blu-ray Despecialized set in the Preservations section, user JMoomer created some very beautiful case inserts for all three films and disc labels for ANH. User SteveE then created labels for the other two films, and I was able to assemble the set using my new printer. The problem, however, is that JMoomer included Star Wars Revisited as disc 3 of his ANH set instead of njvc’s documentaries disc, and SteveE didn’t make ANH labels because JMoomer had already done it. I reached out to both of them to see if they wouldn’t mind whipping up a quick documentaries label to round out the set, but that was more than a month ago and I’ve gotten no reply from either. Would anyone here mind throwing something together for the docs disc to match these?

Here’s what I whipped up for my third disc label for that set because I ran into the exact same issue you encountered!

JEDIT: New image below.

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Every few years I would think “they can’t be that bad, I should give them another chance”. That’s where I kept going wrong. Every time I would watch them they just got worse. After the last viewing I physically disposed of the DVDs so I will not be tempted to make that mistake again.

As far as my household is concerned, there are only five Star Wars films right now (plus the Holiday Special, naturally).

We watched it last month. Made it the whole way through (this is a feat). My daughter summed it up best: “That was weird”. She did like seeing Princess Leia singing, though.

Moth3r said:

First heard in the theatrical mono mix: http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Star-Wars-sound-mixes/id/15294

Thank you!

Back in the early 90’s I swear I saw a version of Star Wars where the Stormtroopers chasing Han and Chewie in the Death Star said “Close the blast doors”, only to have Han and Chewie jump through as they were closing, then they said the line we have in there now “Open the blast doors”. I thought it was hilarious. It’s obviously not in the '77 theatrical release, but I swear I saw it way before the 97 Special Edition. Anyone know where this first appeared?

I put together a second box for my silver screen / grindhouse set - these use 14mm cases so I had to change the dimensions of my box.

So now I have one box for Despecialized (films only) and one box for the 35mm scans. Next will be a box for the full ten disc set by njvc (probably three 3-disc cases plus one 1-disc case).

MalàStrana said:
2 very bad SW movies in a row

Wut.

Dude, we just got over the damn prequels. That was a low point for Star Wars. Anything new is good. You might not have liked TFA or RO, but I for one think they were pretty damn good and a great way for Disney to start to correct the sins of the prequels.

Anyone dismissing TFA doesn’t understand the tightrope Disney had to walk to try to please both old and new fans. I think they did a great job.

To seal the deal, they need to release an original unaltered theatrical set of the trilogy. It might not sell like hotcakes, but damn if it won’t cement a hardcore fan base.

Tarkin was totally believable to me. Fantastic work. But Leia is the one I have a problem with. Just her one short scene still was off for me. It was her mouth - they didn’t quite get it right.