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I'm not sure whether this is shameful theft of fan sentiment, pandering, ironic, or what. But it's definitely very cute -- they've coopted their traditional enemy's mode of speech, and are now whispering these familiar words back at us. And making a quick buck off it, too. Imagine any other establishment corporate giant taking the catch phrase of their most productive critics, putting it on a t-shirt, and selling it back to them.

Microsoft: The Power to Serve (for MS-BSD)

Xenu: This is What We Actually Believe (for Scientology)

GOP: No Blood for Oil (for drilling in ANWAR)

Taking your opponent's aggressive language and making it your own is one of the oldest defenses against such language. And corporate appropriation of grassroots slogans is one of the slicker techniques in marketing. Lucasfilm has impressed me with their wonderful ideological 180 and their relatively rapid adoption of the Han Shot First meme.

Note that the t-shirt has the roman numeral IV on the sleeve. Not very promising for a true, 1977 theatrical release, is it? We also see confirmation that the theatrical edition is just a bonus, for those who care about such things.

What do you think the next two in the series will be? Monkey Lady and Sy Snootles? An invisible wampa and an Ewok singing Yub Yub? A slimy, bad tasting Artoo and Sebastian Shaw throttling Hayden Christiansen? Eager minds want to know.
"It's the stoned movie you don't have to be stoned for." -- Tom Shales on Star Wars
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HA! That makes me laugh.

I'm really curious about what George Lucas has to say about all this.
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It's a nice-looking shirt, but now Lucasfilm has trademarked the phrase, or so I've heard, even though they stole it, which means that the other shirts being sold, which came first, are now illegal. But I love your idea of Shaw throttling Hayden. I'd definitely get that one. I doubt they'd do it. But I'd love to see it.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Damn, knew I should have trademarked that "Han Shoots First" slogan.
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Originally posted by: yanksno1
Damn, knew I should have trademarked that "Han Shoots First" slogan.



You can still do it,ask Doc Brown for the Dolerean,travel back a few years and WHAMMO
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meh. I'm glad i have my "han shot first" shirt from pvponline. the classic esb logo font blows that cartoon han out of the water. i'm kind of surprised that 1) lucasfilm totally stole that idea & is flaunting it as their own. 2) lucas is allowing all this official bashing of his "definitive vision".
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Originally posted by: casualimp
Better get this one while you still can.


wierd. they changed it. i have the old version (which i like better than any of the others i've seen)

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Originally posted by: Davis
HA! That makes me laugh.

I'm really curious about what George Lucas has to say about all this.



something like: "good...more $$$!"

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Why did they go with the most unflattering cartoon depiction of Han Solo since 1978? At least if he was shooting a cartoony Greedo it would make some sense...
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Where were you in '77?

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Fight the power! We have become the Rebellion! No "Official" "Han Shot First" T-shirt for me!
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Originally posted by: Scruffy
A slimy, bad tasting Artoo and Sebastian Shaw throttling Hayden Christiansen?


Heh, I'd pay for a shirt like that. You never know, in a few years, George Lucas may digitally remove Alec Guinness from the original trilogy and replace him with new footage of Ewan McGregor.

"Now all Lucas has to do is make a cgi version of himself.  It will be better than the original and fit his original vision." - skyjedi2005

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Originally posted by: Hal 9000
I just ordered the really cool looking one from starwarslegacy.com


I would get that one too if it came in t-shirt form. Summer is just about here and I'd never be wearing a long sleeve.

Hey look, a bear!

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If Han hadn't shot first, Greedo's han' would've shot Han first.
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"ou can still do it,ask Doc Brown for the Dolerean,travel back a few years and WHAMMO"

Wrong trilogy.

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>

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But it still could work. It did happen a long time ago. Maybe if Doc Brown invented a space ship Marty could go back in time and help fight along side the Rebels.

The ultimate fan cross over! I think I just gave myself a nergasm.
"I am altering the movies. Pray I don't alter them any further." -Darth Lucas
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Originally posted by: Tiptup
Originally posted by: Scruffy
A slimy, bad tasting Artoo and Sebastian Shaw throttling Hayden Christiansen?


Heh, I'd pay for a shirt like that. You never know, in a few years, George Lucas may digitally remove Alec Guinness from the original trilogy and replace him with new footage of Ewan McGregor.


Sssshhhh GL looks at this site don't give him ideas
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Sssshhhh GL looks at this site don't give him ideas


I dunno. Ewan McGregor is a very good actor. He singlehandedly saved the flat plot and horrible dialogue in the prequels. George could write entirely new scenes for A New Hope involving Obiwan by using McGregor. Oooh, imagine if he redid the combat between Obiwan and Darth Vader in that film.

"Now all Lucas has to do is make a cgi version of himself.  It will be better than the original and fit his original vision." - skyjedi2005

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I dunno. Ewan McGregor is a very good actor. He singlehandedly saved the flat plot and horrible dialogue in the prequels. George could write entirely new scenes for A New Hope involving Obiwan by using McGregor. Oooh, imagine if he redid the combat between Obiwan and Darth Vader in that film.



Eek.

http://i.imgur.com/7N84TM8.jpg

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Double, triple, and quadruple eek followed by a, "Wash your mouth out with soap!"

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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He singlehandedly saved the flat plot and horrible dialogue in the prequels.

"I canna watch nomorr', cap'n!"

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All right, he usually is decent, but in that particular scene, he is so atrocious he makes Christensen look like Marlon Brando...'s t-shirt (What?!? Did someone think I would actually say Christensen is comparable to Brando under any circumstances?)
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You have to admit that scene makes absolutely no sense though. How did the Jedi computer's suddenly get such sensitive data on the emperor? A force
power? Why couldn't they uncover the plot in the first place? Did the dark side interfere with security cameras?

"Now all Lucas has to do is make a cgi version of himself.  It will be better than the original and fit his original vision." - skyjedi2005

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I guess because this is the only time Anakin has used the Jedi Temple phone system to call the Emperor and discuss mass murder. I do so like the provenance of this scene -- it demonstrates that the Jedi spy on all communications going out of and coming into the Temple, and keep copies of them (for blackmail?). They really are a wacko cult. I think the peg-knocking-down of the Jedi and the quasi-rehabilitation of the Sith/Empire was the one good thing, story-wise, in the prequels.
"It's the stoned movie you don't have to be stoned for." -- Tom Shales on Star Wars
Scruffy's gonna die the way he lived.