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Here's my first draft of the first one. I'll be putting up the next one as soon as it is ready. I'll finetune them according to feedback. Jay was nice enough to let me know where to purchase the fonts he used for the site, as soon as I've gotten around buying them, I'll update the banners with the site's fonts.

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Next one is ready.



I'm currently just focusing on shelling out ideas before I forget them. Again tweaking will follow later according to feedback.
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MSD, both of these rock! One suggestion for the Yoda one would be to change the final line to "my childhood memories are these!" Sounds better, IMHO.
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very cool keep on going MSD Its all our child hood memorys at stake
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Here goes the falcon one:


I've also changed the yoda one according to Bossks feedback.
Thanks for the interest!
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ideas still flowing


hmm... somehow I don't like this one, it doesn't go with the flow of the others, imho.
Oh well, I'll leave it up for now. Plenty of time to sort out the crappy ones after I've finished doing all my banner ideas.
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I dunno, MSD. I really dig the "Enjoy the Silence" one. Perfect for Depeche Mode freaks like Motti (and myself who is just a simple DM fan, not a freak). I just wish there was some way to zoom in on Luke a bit more in that image. The rest of them rock as well. And, yes, the Yoda one does seem better with the changed text.

You've got some great ideas here, MSD. You should PM Jay and let him know to look them over and maybe add them to his link logo page.
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Bossk, I'm sure Jay is aware of this thread. I assume he wanted the custom stuff to remain in the forums. otherwise he would have put up the "Bring my shuttle!" one by RRS-1980 ages ago. On the other hand, you're right that not many folks seem to end up in this section of the forum. I might drop him an e-mail when I'm done with all the banners.

About the yoda banner: I'm still breeding over this. Don't you think "My childhood merories these are!" would be more correct yoda-speak-wise? Because the original line is "My home this is!". With the current version we've not only modified it into plural, but also flipped two words. Hmm... I'd like to hear your thoughts on that.

The silence banner: Yah, I tried using a shot with Luke being zoomed on more. But I felt it didn't have much dignity showing him so close up. I also thought the picture to become more interesting if you have too look at the pic for a while to get it. But I'll put up the earlier version next to it, so you can judge for yourself.
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Originally posted by: Master Sifo-Dyas
About the yoda banner: I'm still breeding over this. Don't you think "My childhood merories these are!" would be more correct yoda-speak-wise? Because the original line is "My home this is!". With the current version we've not only modified it into plural, but also flipped two words. Hmm... I'd like to hear your thoughts on that.

You can do either "these are" or "are these". My concern was with using "these is" or "this is", whichever was the original because it wasn't matching up in terms of plural usage. You were using singular "is" with plural "memories". Yeah, Yoda speaks backwards, but he still matches up his tenses and plural usage and all that jazz. Surprisingly. But he does.
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I'm partial to the odds one and the falcon one, for obvious reasons. Nice work, MSD.

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*starts singing... "all i ever wanted, all i ever needed, is here in my arms... words are very unnecessary, they can only do harm..."

awesome banners...
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Showing your true DM colors, eh, Motti?
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yup! you know it!
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That was a great album.
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'."
--Vizzini (Wallace Shawn), The Princess Bride
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so are many of their others, but true Violator was a masterpiece.
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That it certainly was.
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'."
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still think that Music for the Masses was their best, if there is such a thing!
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I've only got their 2 disc Decade set. My Violator copy died years ago.
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noooo... sorry to hear that... im trying to get my vinyl collection on cd or download it.
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You have Violator on vinyl? Sweet! I know how to rip it to MP3 using my Mac.
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'."
--Vizzini (Wallace Shawn), The Princess Bride
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no, violator is one of the few i have on cd...

i have many of their singles and remixes on vinyl, and also where the record itself is in a different colour and not the usual black.
"The ability to speak does not make you intelligent."
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