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#213731
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The Star Wars Storybook
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213731/action/topic#213731
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I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but I own both the Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back Storybooks. They're actually the first piece of anything Star Wars I ever owned. I had these books long before I ever saw the movies. They originally belonged to my older cousin Josh. He would have been nearly three when Star Wars first came out, and he was really into the movies growing up. But by the time I was a young child, I guess he'd grown out of it, and I found myself the apathetic recipient of these two storybooks. I rarely looked at them. It's not that I didn't like it. I had a vague understanding of it based on the Muppet Babies parodies that I loved. And I'd actually written a parody of Star Wars as a small child (like most of the parodies I wrote, I had little knowledge of the source material and basically just used the title with my name in it (like Lance Wars, Indiana Lance, and LaGuyver for example) and a few iconic images filled in with my own ideas. It wasn't until I actually got the movies in '95 that I actually became interested enough to dig out these old storybooks and read them. I have them with me right now, in fact. They're really interesting. The storybook actually contains the Luke/Biggs subplot, as well as having Luke witness the Tantive IV battle at the beginning, complete with images from the movie, which look really good.

"You don't know ow bad things are, kid," Biggs interrupted. "Only the threat of the Rebellion keeps the Imperials from being even more evil. Out here on Tatooine, you don't hear much about the terrible things the Empire does. The Rebellion is growing, and I want to fight for the side I believe in."

The friends said a sad good-bye. Luke returning to the farm and Biggs going off to fight for his beliefs. Luke couldn't remember ever feeling so alone.

There were plenty of liberties taken with the script, and Darth Vader's violence, as well as most violence in general (the Greedo confrontation wasn't even mentioned, although the picture of his fried body, coincidentally, was in there). I love what they did with the Force choke scene...

On Death Star, the powerful new battle station, the Imperial leaders were holding a meeting. General Tagge, a young man who hated Darth Vader, said angrily, "The Rebels are more dangerous than any of you think. They have good ships and pilots. They also have the plans of the battle station, thanks to Lord Vader, who has not been able to find the data tapes. He has not found the location of the hidden Rebel fortress, either."

Vader was infuriated.

Not as much a man of action, huh? The coolest thing about the books, though, are the pictures. Very high quality images, especially of the end battle (why George ever thought the models needed replacing is beyond me), and a lot of them are from different angles than the images in the movie, which makes for a whole new experience. I'm so glad I have these.
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#213718
Topic
Return of the Jedi Script Game
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213718/action/topic#213718
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Aw, I was hoping to get some of that scene done, because I would have called the droid Richard Marquand!

Anyway, I believe that Jabba's "Ah, do that again!" line was only part of the Jedi Rocks special edition, so

Sy Snoodles: singing in Huttese to Lapti Nek.
Oola: Protesting Huttese. *scream*
Alien: *Huttese* grunt
Boussh: I have come for the bounty on this Wookiee.
3PO: Oh, no, Chewbacca!
Jabba: At last we have the mighty Chewbacca. Kanji-ta droid!
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#213717
Topic
Moving in from the Basher's Sanctuary (TF.n)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213717/action/topic#213717
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Originally posted by: Scruffy
There's a great gabfest on bbs.stardestroyer.net about TF.N and their policies. It seems some EU author came up with some ridiculous ideas about the Clone Wars, and when they called her on it, she

a) accused them of sexism,
b) accused them of harrassment,
c) got the mods to change the rules so VIPs cannot be told they're wrong,
d) got several of her interlocutors banned,
e) accused them of libel, and
f) ranted about how she would like to kill them (garroting and evisceration).

The kind of behavior that the mods here don't tolerate is considered VIP behavior on TF.N.


So it's the insane fighting the insane, huh? How fun.

EDIT: I hate women whose first line of defense on anything is to pull out the old sexism card. It's so retarded.
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#213698
Topic
Moving in from the Basher's Sanctuary (TF.n)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213698/action/topic#213698
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Wow, that stuff sounds crazy. This is the only Star Wars message board I've ever posted on. I've read stuff occasionally on the starwars.com board, but even that doesn't seems as screwed up as tf.n. It's hard for me to believe that such places even exist! I'm so glad I'm here and not there. It seems that many pilgrims (some of whom have decided to use that avatar that's been amost exclusively mine for the past year, grr ) have found their way over here. Welcome all!
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#213641
Topic
Try to take it easy with the Lucas bashing.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213641/action/topic#213641
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
While we're on the subject of pointing out things people might try not to do, how about not being so trigger-happy on the creation of new threads? I've seen about 20 threads pop up in a matter of days that are all talking about the same thing (namely the non-anamorphic affair). Most of the posts contained in these threads could easily fit in an existing thread. I'm not trying to be a moany old rule-maker, but I felt someone should say it. There were also 2 threads created today to mark the 29th anniversary of Star Wars - Check before you make a thread.


Yeah, it's almost impossibly to keep up with all these new threads. I'm glad tht all this new news has gotten everyone into the posting spirit, but let's show a little restraint, please.
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#213636
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My Response
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213636/action/topic#213636
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It might not be that constructive to say that Mr. Joe Average won't be buying this, and that it only a pplies ( I mean applies, my backspace key isn't working) to a niche market. This is tu, er, true to an extent, but there's no need to make them think there isn't too much of an audience fo rthis. There might be more interested in it htan you think.
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#213294
Topic
STAR WARS - Enhanced HD & O-OT HD Packs... some suggestions...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213294/action/topic#213294
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Don't forget the animators. Have you ever listened to the commentary track for Attack of the Clones? Every time Yoda would appear on screen, the animators would fall over from patting themselves on the back so much. "Did you see how awesome Yoda's eye looked when he blinked right there?" or "The level of detail on Yoda's chin is just so amazing!" It got really old really fast.