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Post #701318

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canofhumdingers
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STAR WARS: REBELS (animated tv series) - a general discussion thread
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Date created
20-Apr-2014, 10:21 PM

I think the ship carrying the two TIE Fighters is awesome. Reminds me of some of the things the Nazis did with their bombers carrying two or three fighter planes. And I see no scale issues. It's a small ship, probably smaller than the Falcon. Large enough for a few rooms, maybe a couple of extra crew bunks for the fighter pilots. It's an awesome idea for a small but effective scout ship, especially since TIEs don't have hyperdrives of their own...

As for the larger image with the star destroyers, again I see no scale issues. There is NOTHING in that image that acts as a point of reference for how close the TIEs are to the other ships. For all we know the fighters could all be much closer to the camera than the other ships.

And the truth is, scale was never all that strictly adhered to in the OT anyway. If you really start analyzing it, the scale of ships and vehicles totally falls apart. I mean, geez, the interior Falcon sets couldn't even fit inside the (unintentionally but severely undersized) "full scale" Falcon prop in ESB.

I'm actually getting excited for this. I agree that the characters might be a little TOO Disney-ified. But so far the over all feeling I'm getting is that this might be the first Star Wars media to really grab me and capture that classic Star Wars feel in years. I watched some of the character introduction videos and was actually interested! Something I can't say for any new Star Wars characters since I don't know when. That new Jedi guy sounds awesome. Very Kyle Katarn, who happens to be one of my favorite non-film Star Wars characters ever. So that's awesome!