Top 100 - best of post-1983 SW

This thread is an olive branch to Darth Axia. She's not nearly as strident or irritating as other Lucasites, so I'd like for us to post 100 different enjoyable post-1983 Star Wars items in tribute. Whether it's entire movies (not bloody likely!), songs, characters, whatever. I'd like to show the lady Darth that we don't hate post-Jedi whole-cloth.

I'll start with five:

1) Double-bladed lightsaber. Awesome!

2) "Droids" the animated series

3) "Duel of the Fates"

4) The Knights of the Old Republic games

5) The 1997 ending music in ROTJ. A definite improvement over the original. (The fact that the movie shouldn't have been altered in the first place doesn't change my opinion about the music)

Come on, guys! We're not always negative, are we?

Sluggo said:

6) Star Wars on DVD.  Maybe not the way most of us want it, but still...  We have cool documentaries and cut scenes.  That's a plus in my book.

8) New Star Wars toys.  Sure it took a while for Leia to not look like a chimp, but now the figures look great!  Maybe I should buy one or two.

10) Behind the Magic CD-ROM.  You have any idea how long I've wanted to see Biggs and Luke and Anchorhead.  This was huge.

I agree with you about those. I especially liked the Luke & Leia ceremonial action figures (yes, I bought them). ;-)

Not a fan of the SW Chronicles, though. Didn't buy it.

The music during the lightsaber duel in TPM.

17) Various amazing LucasArts Star Wars games throughout the nineties, such as X-Wing, Tie-Fighter, Dark Forces, and much later, the Rogue Squadron series. X-Wing PC game.

18) Timothy Zahn.

19) Star Tours (you know you loved it).

vote_for_palpatine said:

This thread is an olive branch to Darth Axia. She's not nearly as strident or irritating as other Lucasites, so I'd like for us to post 100 different enjoyable post-1983 Star Wars items in tribute.

I agree, Axia cannot even be compared in the slightest to many of the obsessive Lucas apologists we have had come our way over the lifetime of this site.

20) Lego Star Wars - The Original Trilogy.

Way to be so broad C3PX. I was going to list each individual SW video game that I liked but you put the kibosh on that, how else will we reach 100 ;)

If there's ones we don't agree can we subtract them eg ROTJ ending :)

21) Ewan McGregor. The character may not have been perfect but the casting was.

22) Liam Neeson. Totally superfluous character but man was he a ray of sunshine.

23) I might as well add Star Wars Lego (I'm assuming point 8 referred to the Kenner/Hasbro lines).

+1 on the GOUT. It may be no where near what we wanted or what the original films deserve but to me it's better then nothing for now.

24) Seven dollar fully retractable lightsabers with belt clips from Hasbro that hit stores in the late 90's early 00's. Durable and cheap. Beat the crap out of them dueling with friends and the only thing that gets broken are you fingers, if one does happen to break, dish out another meager seven bucks and your good to go. Looks great retracted, not a replica by any means, but still pretty cool. And they have a freakin belt clip!!!

25) Tie Fighter.

26) Dark Forces.

27) Rogue Squdron 1-3.

He he I was just kidding around C3PX

28) The "Super" series for the SNES. Super SW / TESB / ROTJ.

29) SW radio drama.

30.     Mara Jade Skywalker.

31. Force FX Lightsbers from Master Replicas.  I own 2,lol. 

33.  Star Wars Galaxy Topps Cards

34 Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson Run of Star Wars newspaper comics aka as classic star wars

35 The Art of Dave Dorman

36 Thrawn Trilogy Novels

37.  Mara Jade by the Emporers Hand graphic novel/comics

38.  Thrawn Trilogy comics

39 Shadows of the Empire comics

40 Star Wars Definitive Laserdisc Collection, picture not as good as the gout but Pure PCM owns!

41 Star Wars Trilogy Special edition 1997 versions ( i enjoyed them before we were told the original no longer existed)

40 Shadows of the Empire n64 game

41 Shadows of the Empire novel

42.  Legacy Comics

43 Kotor Comics

44 Star Wars Tales comics

45 Republic Comics

46 Prequel Trilogy graphic novels and novelizations

47.  Star Wars Battlefront II game

48 Star Wars Trilogy Arcade By sega

49 Topps Finest star wars cards

50 1995 One Last Time VHS set

51 Splinter of the Minds Eye Graphic novel/comics

52 Volumes 1-6 Of Star Wars a Long Time Ago marvel reprints by Dark Horse

Whoa, almost halfway there already. Though I think you got a redundant one on there Sky, I already mentioned Timothy Zahn, which would include the Trawn Trilogy.

53.  The other Star Wars arcade game by SEGA... if I'm not mistaken there are two.

54.  Episode I.  Here comes the flaming...

55.  the Episode I videogame - yup, really reaching here...

56.  Jedi Knight series of video games (all of them are just incredible... dark forces as well, but someone already got to that)

57.  The fanedit community; maybe this shouldn't count, but it does for me.  If I hadn't stumbled upon the Darth Editous edit I wouldn't be here today.  Plus, they ROCK!

58.  Star Wars Starfighter - neat plot to this game...

59.  The revived interest thanks to the prequels.  The movies are in "meh" territory (save for episode I) for me, but if not for them I wouldn't be the Star Wars freak I am now; a little less obsessed.

Well, that's about all I got...

C3PX said:

vote_for_palpatine said:

This thread is an olive branch to Darth Axia. She's not nearly as strident or irritating as other Lucasites, so I'd like for us to post 100 different enjoyable post-1983 Star Wars items in tribute.

I agree, Axia cannot even be compared in the slightest to many of the obsessive Lucas apologists we have had come our way over the lifetime of this site.

 Thanks C3PX, I wish I could see this whole thread, its doing that can-only-see-half-of-it thing.  Haha! I can see it now! Apparently this site doesnt like IE or vice-versa so I was forced to use Firefox.

60. The Force Unleashed
61. Sideshow Collectibles
62. Aayla Secura
63. Karen Travis
64. Star Wars Legos
65. Star Wars Celebration (got to have dinner with David Prowse, man that was fun)
66. Jedi Starfighters (I love those things)

The current version of the forum software doesn't always strip out MS Office junk when people paste text from Word. Conversely, Firefox is happy to ignore this junk and display the thread, but MSIE doesn't like it and throws a strop.

Anyway, should be fixed for IE users now.

AxiaEuxine said:

64. Star Wars Legos

I'm assuming that that is the same as Star War Lego, in that case strike that one off as I already said it.

I'm also assuming you are American, because Lego is singular apart from the U.S where everyone seems to think it's a plural.

Not trying to pick on you just a pet hate of mine.

It's U.S. instead of "U.S".

A pet hate of mine.

60. The Force Unleashed
61. Sideshow Collectibles
62. Aayla Secura
63. Karen Travis
64. The re-release of vintage carded action figures
65. Star Wars Celebration (got to have dinner with David Prowse, man that was fun)
66. Jedi Starfighters (I love those things)

Why are you even adding things to the list, Axia? This thread was made for us to make a list for you.

I'm not participating because I think it's rather futile, but still.

DarkFather, I don't think that was particularly the case.  BUT, my question is, why the same list both times? @_@

Someone pointed out that number 64, lego(s), had been done so I changed that one.

67. Genddy Clone wars micro series

68. New Clone Wars cartoon 

69.  Lowry Restoration of the star wars trilogy.

70. Ahsoka Tano.

71. Star Wars Japan Special Collection Laserdiscs, CAV full feature widscreen presentation.  On full CAV Release of original return of the jedi, Defintive collection has that too but with DVNR and new sound so that really not unaltered.

72. CAV full feature Releases of Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back in pan and scan. 

73.  A lot of people hate this but i don't Care, Kevin J. Anderson's Jedi Academy Trilogy

74. Rogue Squadron Novels

75 Rogue Sqaudron Comics

76. Tales of the Jedi Comics

77. Jedi VS sith comic

78. Star Wars obsession comic

79 star wars comics general grievous

80. Star Wars manga

81. Vision of the Future and Spectre of the Past t. zhan

82.  Star Wars Outbound flight

83. Survivors quest

84. Shatterpoint

85. Traitor

86. Young Jedi Knights series

87. Mark Hamill Vector Prime Commercial

88. Reunion of the star wars oot trio at an Afi tribute to Lucas

89. Harrison Ford on Conan O'Brien trying to deny the existence of the holiday special

90. Triumph the Insult dogs Episode II mockery of return of the dorks

91. Star Wars Union the wedding of Mara and Luke graphic novel

92. Not sure if this counts 1985 Re-release of Return of the Jedi (the first film in the series i saw in a theater)

93. Saga game gear or nintendo game boy release of star wars video game

94. Energizer Bunny Commercial

95. References to star wars in Lost

96. US postal service stamp collection, OT only lol. I won't include the prequels.

97. First edition of the star wars chronology 

98. Star Wars encyclopedia first edition

99. Star Wars posters book

100.  Master Replicas Lightsaber prop reproductions

We can go way beyond a hundred lets see what you guys can come up with.   I could come up with stuff all day, no one wants to read my walls of text.  Or see another skyjedi centric thread,lol.

As you can see i am no prequel gusher, nor am i like Vaderisnothayden.  But i like a good deal of the EU, not sure how to quantify how much if you subtract all the crap that has come out of Lucasfilm since 1999.

I said this in another thread earlier today:

Ahsoka Tano is cuter than hell.