adywan said:
Ganamae said:
5: And something that I have always wondered about, the Ion cannon on Hoth, should it's bolts not be blue?

Now this is something that has only cropped up since the PT and the new Clone Wars cartoon. There were no blue laser blasts ever in the OT. This is one thing that seemed to be added in the PT to go with the over-colourful look of those movies. Turning the Ion cannons lasers blue just wouldn';t work. it fires against a blue background so the laser would just blend in. I don't want to change the colour of lasers at all in the OT

Actually, the blue for ion blasts started in 1991 with the X-Wing game for the PC, and has been the case in all of the games since then as far as I know. Granted, that's EU, but it's pretty old EU (if that matters).

In ANH, the stormtrooper stuns Leia with a blue laser. It could be argued that stun blasts and ion blasts are the same thing.