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JadedSkywalker

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#1650874
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Klunk's Star Wars Trilogy: 1992 Special Letterbox Collector's Edition VHS Transfer (Released)
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Wow. I have this but mine is missing the certificate. I also seem to have lost the creative impulse excerpt that just covers the Star Wars trilogy. For years it was just 3 tapes i found Star Wars to Jedi somewhere else and put it back together with the others. I also still have the Styrofoam inlay.

I had better put into storage again before it gets all covered with dust.

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#1650654
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<strong>Star Wars Radio Dramas</strong> - a general discussion thread
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The third radio play it’s more an extension of the EU than an expansion of the film.

You have mentions of EU. Luke building his lightsaber in Ben’s hut or cave with Kenobi’s book with Adegan Crystals. Mara Jade shows up as Arica at Jabba’s Palace. And they mention Threepio flying the Falcon in Shadows of the Empire.

Mark Hamill does not reprise, nor does Billy Dee Williams. Only Tony Daniels returns as Threepio.

Though they were able to bring back the other radio players. Perry King as Han, Ann Sachs as Leia. Brock Peters as Vader. And Johh Lithgow as Yoda and they had Ed Asner as Jabba the Hutt.

Joshua Fardon does a decent job but he is no Mark Hamill. Lando is exceedingly poorly cast. Arye Gross sounds nothing like Billy Dee.

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#1650355
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A '<strong>Rumour and News</strong>' thread for reported new Star Wars films and tv series
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I’m not surprised by his decision since he already retired the role In the Last Jedi, came back for a cameo in Rise of Skywalker. And for those two deepfake Luke episodes.

It’s a bit presumptuous though to say you won’t be in a movie that isn’t greenlit or fast-tracked and may not even get made.

I’m not convinced Luke won’t Return in Dave’s movie. Only that Mark is done and has been for a while.

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#1650283
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Last Item(s) Purchased?
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Caston said:

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The 1998 version. https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Encyclopedia

According to Sansweet it was based upon the second edition of the Guide to the Star Wars Universe and first generation of the Essential Guide books. From before the Prequels and changed timeline and lore it introduced.

Hardback, colour illustrations, great condition (so far). For €4 in a book market stall.

I have this very same edition. I was quite pleased with it when it came out and i bought it on sale at Borders, a bookstore that no longer exists.

The same shop i used to buy my Criterion And Kurosawa DVD. Books on Leone Westerns, Stanley Kubrick, and books on mythology. Comics/magazines all my fantasy and science fiction, most of my star wars books. Where I purchased all my prequel books and CDs and cassettes. And even my master replica lightsabers.

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#1650281
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Last Item(s) Purchased?
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An Ultra Magnus and Optimus Prime. Specifically, the 2012 reissue of Ultra Magnus from Asia, and the 15th Anniversary Optimus Prime from 2000. From Takara Japan.

And they probably will be the last action figures I buy for a while.

Prices are out of hand on everything from Electonics. to Toys, to food, and video games. Blu-Ray and 4K.

Sometimes I find deals on laserdiscs and DVD but not often.

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#1650271
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All Things Star Trek
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I was reading the making of Star Trek and i stopped for a while. I’ve also picked up the Making of Star Trek Phase II. The unmade series.

I have the making of Star Trek V by Shatner’s daughter Lisbeth.

I will see if the library has The view from the bridge from Nick Meyer.

Edit:

I’m reading Star Trek Prime Directive by Judith and Garfield Reeve Stevens.

And i finished most of Nick Meyer’s book and not much new was added about the making of those Star Trek films he hadn’t already covered in interviews or DVD commentary. Though there was a bit of stuff about The 7 percent solution and time after time but not much just his personal experience. It’s a not a production kind of document it’s a memoir.

The Star Trek films deserve the same kind of attention in making of books that the Rinzler books did for Star Wars. The only thing remotely close is Return to Tomorrow and that was self-published, has no pictures and is in need of editing. and its only Star Trek TMP.

And there is an updated Making of Khan and Star Trek First Contact but they did no others. And the Insurrection book by Michael Piller is about the films writing not its making. Also a self-published book for screenwriters and quite expensive. Though the book had already been leaked for free for quite a while before Michael’s Wife published it.

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#1649059
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What do you HATE about the EU?
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The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. They literally quoted Palpatine from Revenge of the Sith.

Rey was the daughter of his clone. His clone had no force powers and was a disappointment.

how he was able to transfer his soul into another dying clone, and maintain his midichlorians they never explain.

there is no way his body survived the death stars explosion or falling into a reactor. It’s absurd even for Star Wars.

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#1649013
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'Rey Skywalker' (Upcoming live action motion picture) - general discussion thread
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Was there any news at celebration Japan because I did not hear of such.

Also not a peep about Kinberg’s trilogy either.

And Waititi and Mangold are still working on theirs independently.

Starfighter was greenlit; Rogue Squadron you would think never had existed. Is it memory holed like Rian Johnson’s trilogy, Benioff and Weiss Old Republic trilogy. Lando pretty much disappeared as well.

I swear it’s like half the projects either don’t get made or they take the idea and make it into something else.

Instead of a Boba Fett Bounty Hunter western film you get the Mandalorian. Instead of an Obi-Wan trilogy you get a season of a tv show. Instead of Old Republic you get the High Republic and the Acolyte.

Well to be clear I don’t want a Disney Revan trilogy.

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#1648949
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Favorite official non-theatrical non-Special Edition release of each OT movie
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The 1990 Pan and Scan or it may have been a 1992 reissue. That is VHS.

If i was to pick a laserdisc its the Special Widescreen Edition for Empire Strikes Back.

And Definitive Collection for the whole trilogy.

For DVD its easily Return of the Jedi PAL Gout. The other two transfers look horrible. In Pal or NTSC. I prefer the PAL THX laserdiscs for those.