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So within the Star Wars “lore” does Solo happen just as usual except with young Harrison Ford’s face) or does Han gets plastic surgery somewhere between Solo and Ep IV

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OutboundFlight said:

So within the Star Wars “lore” does Solo happen just as usual except with young Harrison Ford’s face) or does Han gets plastic surgery somewhere between Solo and Ep IV

Bigger question is what happened to everyone’s faces during the clone wars.

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DominicCobb said:

OutboundFlight said:

So within the Star Wars “lore” does Solo happen just as usual except with young Harrison Ford’s face) or does Han gets plastic surgery somewhere between Solo and Ep IV

Bigger question is what happened to everyone’s faces during the clone wars.

That’s a representation due to animated constraints. I get why they needed a new actor for young Han, but it opens up some strange scenarios. Like there’re selling things with Alden-Han based around that time period. If a new book is set between Solo and ANH centered around Han, would it have Alden or Harrison?

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OutboundFlight said:

DominicCobb said:

OutboundFlight said:

So within the Star Wars “lore” does Solo happen just as usual except with young Harrison Ford’s face) or does Han gets plastic surgery somewhere between Solo and Ep IV

Bigger question is what happened to everyone’s faces during the clone wars.

That’s a representation due to animated constraints. I get why they needed a new actor for young Han, but it opens up some strange scenarios. Like there’re selling things with Alden-Han based around that time period. If a new book is set between Solo and ANH centered around Han, would it have Alden or Harrison?

it would have Han.

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I always thought that there should be droids in their respective compartments in the Y-Wings in Star Wars during the Battle of Yavin. It wouldn’t hurt for the CGI people to color in R2-D2’s panels during that very same battle as well.

Reality sucks, watch movies.

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I thought there were and they did?

JEDIT:Artoo’s panels are still black in the DS battle, but I always thought they turned black when in outer space for some reason.

And dead Artoo still has black panels when Luke returns to the base, supporting my theory. 😉

There must be a reason the Y-wings don’t have R2 units? Even the Kenner die cast toy has one.

I swear photos I’ve seen of the original models have them, but they could have been added later?

The design of the Y-Wing cockpits would make it impossible to see the R2 units behind the pilot even if they were there.

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Came across this article the other day about the old Star Wars CCG game from the 90s, which I collected avidly as a kid and recently have been trying to get into playing with a couple friends. Link: https://www.theringer.com/2018/5/21/17374528/star-wars-customizable-card-game-player-community

Anyway, the reason I’m sharing it here is this paragraph:

Holland helped them do that by purchasing an original print of Star Wars and an expensive editing machine that (Braunlich recalls) carried a $50,000 price tag. Decipher imported the equipment from Hollywood to its headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, and used the machine to capture high-quality images for use on the cards. “That was one of the reasons I always thought it was such a successful game—because the cards were just awesome,” Braunlich says. “Sometimes an image that’s fleeting in the movie, just in the background, we’d want to make a card out of it. And the artists there would do computer magic, and the players really loved that.”

Now, I know from experience that the printing process was unreliable enough that sometimes copies of the same card would look a little different, so the cards themselves probably aren’t worth much as a color reference for projects here, but this was a fun new fact to me that I thought was worth passing along. Honestly, I think a lot of my own personal ideas of what the “right” colors are for Star Wars are based on these cards.

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SilverWook said:

I thought there were and they did?

JEDIT:Artoo’s panels are still black in the DS battle, but I always thought they turned black when in outer space for some reason.

And dead Artoo still has black panels when Luke returns to the base, supporting my theory. 😉

There must be a reason the Y-wings don’t have R2 units? Even the Kenner die cast toy has one.

I swear photos I’ve seen of the original models have them, but they could have been added later?

The design of the Y-Wing cockpits would make it impossible to see the R2 units behind the pilot even if they were there.

Huh, I can’t believe I’ve never noticed the empty droid sockets in that shot. The models DID have droids in the sockets, and just doing a quick look at the copy I have on my iPad I was able to find this:

So I’m not sure why the models would have them sometimes and not others. Unless maybe they didn’t build as many droids as they did ships and they were swapping the droids from model to model and just forgot sometimes?

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is it unreasonable to consider the post-Lucas era of Star Wars fan fiction?

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Collipso said:

is it unreasonable to consider the post-Lucas era of Star Wars fan fiction?

Depends on your definition. If it was, a lot of modern media would be too. So much so as to render the label pointless.

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By that reasoning, are Superman comics by anyone other than Siegel/Shuster fanfic? Or post-Roddenberry Trek?

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Collipso said:

is it unreasonable to consider the post-Lucas era of Star Wars fan fiction?

Depends on how you choose to use the word. In a negative sense? Positive? Neutral?

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Collipso said:

is it unreasonable to consider the post-Lucas era of Star Wars fan fiction?

What about 1999 to 2005 was worth keeping?

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DominicCobb said:

Collipso said:

is it unreasonable to consider the post-Lucas era of Star Wars fan fiction?

Depends on your definition. If it was, a lot of modern media would be too. So much so as to render the label pointless.

what in modern media would be considered fan fiction? i mean, if a guy bought the rights to lotr and decided he’s the new tolkien and wrote a sequel to the book, i’m not sure if i’d consider it “official canon”. i know i don’t consider the 8th harry potter canon, for example.

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Saying something is not part of your personal canon isn’t quite the same as calling it fan fiction.

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Collipso said:

DominicCobb said:

Collipso said:

is it unreasonable to consider the post-Lucas era of Star Wars fan fiction?

Depends on your definition. If it was, a lot of modern media would be too. So much so as to render the label pointless.

what in modern media would be considered fan fiction? i mean, if a guy bought the rights to lotr and decided he’s the new tolkien and wrote a sequel to the book, i’m not sure if i’d consider it “official canon”. i know i don’t consider the 8th harry potter canon, for example.

I’d be here for a long time if I was listing everything. Even a lot of SW media made while Lucas was in charge would qualify.

Also, Harry Potter 8?

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suspiciouscoffee said:

By that reasoning, are Superman comics by anyone other than Siegel/Shuster fanfic? Or post-Roddenberry Trek?

i know nothing of star trek (i don’t know anything about comics either), but yeah, i guess you’re right when talking about comic books and comic book characters. but then again, these superheroes (or other characters) have several ‘canons’ from what i understand, so… i don’t know, i think i’d only consider certain stories by certain authors to be ‘canon’ when talking about comics.

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DominicCobb said:

Collipso said:

DominicCobb said:

Collipso said:

is it unreasonable to consider the post-Lucas era of Star Wars fan fiction?

Depends on your definition. If it was, a lot of modern media would be too. So much so as to render the label pointless.

what in modern media would be considered fan fiction? i mean, if a guy bought the rights to lotr and decided he’s the new tolkien and wrote a sequel to the book, i’m not sure if i’d consider it “official canon”. i know i don’t consider the 8th harry potter canon, for example.

I’d be here for a long time if I was listing everything. Even a lot of SW media made while Lucas was in charge would qualify.

Also, Harry Potter 8?

The Cursed Child, the play. it was released as the eighth harry potter story, iirc.

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Collipso said:

DominicCobb said:

Collipso said:

DominicCobb said:

Collipso said:

is it unreasonable to consider the post-Lucas era of Star Wars fan fiction?

Depends on your definition. If it was, a lot of modern media would be too. So much so as to render the label pointless.

what in modern media would be considered fan fiction? i mean, if a guy bought the rights to lotr and decided he’s the new tolkien and wrote a sequel to the book, i’m not sure if i’d consider it “official canon”. i know i don’t consider the 8th harry potter canon, for example.

I’d be here for a long time if I was listing everything. Even a lot of SW media made while Lucas was in charge would qualify.

Also, Harry Potter 8?

The Cursed Child, the play. it was released as the eighth harry potter story, iirc.

But wasn’t that co-written by Rowling?

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DominicCobb said:

Collipso said:

DominicCobb said:

Collipso said:

DominicCobb said:

Collipso said:

is it unreasonable to consider the post-Lucas era of Star Wars fan fiction?

Depends on your definition. If it was, a lot of modern media would be too. So much so as to render the label pointless.

what in modern media would be considered fan fiction? i mean, if a guy bought the rights to lotr and decided he’s the new tolkien and wrote a sequel to the book, i’m not sure if i’d consider it “official canon”. i know i don’t consider the 8th harry potter canon, for example.

I’d be here for a long time if I was listing everything. Even a lot of SW media made while Lucas was in charge would qualify.

Also, Harry Potter 8?

The Cursed Child, the play. it was released as the eighth harry potter story, iirc.

But wasn’t that co-written by Rowling?

was it? i thought that it had been approved by her, but not co-written or anything like that.