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DominicCobb said:

I know they kept Lumpy, at least.

What about Stinky

Sure visually in terms of colours and shot composition it was far more interesting overall.

Can we talk about saber effects for a second, I liked how they looked more in TFA. Here the original blade is weirdly pointed and too clean? Sounds might have been better too, but I can’t verify.

Yeah there were more waves just like today. I remember picking up R2, Han, Chewbacca and Vader when they had just arrived. It was really funny to compare them to the originals I had collected where everyone was so thin, there was no middle ground.

I think the quote from Mark Hamill was “Good God, they’ve put me on steroids!” but here it’s “Me? I wish!” http://www.starwars.com/news/force-throwback-the-first-modern-star-wars-action-figures

I don’t remember the sabers being this long, but the extra blasters were way too big and the plastic was always bent.

SilverWook said:
Don’t forget Kenner brought back the toys in 1995, a full two years before the SE’s. Sure, Luke and the gang looked like they’d been hanging out on Eternia, but damn it was good to see Star Wars toys on the shelves again!

Hah the jacked up figures, those were the days. Galoob made some great stuff too. That period was the height of Star Wars for me growing up with the 1995 video tapes. Looking back it was all clearly a big brand awareness push as they headed for Shadows of the Empire, the SEs and the PT.

lovelikewinter said:
I still prefer the Rankin Bass animated version.

Hah I give that one a pass too

Eh I was hoping one would be Dengar

SilverWook said:

Is this better? 😉

Too soon!

ray_afraid said:
lol wat

LOL

Hal 9000 said:

Hopefully Kylo Ren wears the Snokeing jacket as he sits on his throne.

This is my one real hope for the movie. New matching helmet too.

SilverWook said:

Holes in the hatch would probably let in debris in the heat of a battle. How many open air cockpit jet fighters have you ever seen? 😉

It’s a space superiority fighter XD

I swear this isn’t made up. Maybe it is.

I dunno, I just always remember reading somewhere that they have no life support, no shields and no landing gear, no long distance power supply or hyperdrive engine; to make them totally dependant on the capital ships (and therefore the Empire itself) which was a creepy extra detail. The windows on the top hatch didn’t have any glass, just two exposed holes.

Okay, real talk.

When did TIE Fighters become ships with air inside? Is this just a TFA thing or is the old pilot dependency thing non-movie level canon? If so why do the FO pilots still have the mask with a hose attached?

SilverWook said:
I find this interesting, as I had the crazy idea of a Trek Mirror Mirror type Universe when I was a kid, where the Empire was the good guys, and Vader wore white.

Yikes. Luke is pretty baked there.

Snoke’s origin could have been included as one throwaway line. Which begs the question why does anyone want it, because he was just generic evil guy no.27. He killed someone or did something, who cares. The end of ROTJ was eroded over 3 decades so of course things have changed. I’m sure the EU immediately ruined the “happy ending” too with a hundred despotic Empire guys and Dark Jedi weirdos.

SilverWook said:

What about that Russian version? 😉

It’s like an hour long and has more charm that budget so it gets a pass XD

They’re overseeing the construction of the new Systemkiller Base.

The only good adaptation of The Hobbit is in audio recording and comic book form.

All of Serkis’s work Gollum, Kong, Caesar - is never 100% perfect (maybe the last Apes movie) but it’s perfectly believable in terms of characterisation. That’s why Gollum holds up over 10 years later, the CGI isn’t that good today, it’s aged. But the personality, and performance makes it work.

Rogue One on the other hand is poor, and it’s made poorer because the surrounding story doesn’t support the inclusion of these creepy death masks. I wanted to see Krennick and Galen, that relationship. Or Jyn and Saw, that relationship. These are things that matter inside the plot, but we don’t get them. Instead, all that money wasted on pointless visuals.

TV’s Frink said:

It should have been a bunch of speeders that were being abused by robots though.

It should have been a scene where the animals get loose, then the heroes escape with a speeder. Or on foot.

Matt.F said:

To me this set is fantastic. It wonderfully straddles that fine line of being ‘Star Warsy’ yet also giving us something we haven’t seen before. Great visuals.

A good chunk of Star Wars appeal to me is the sets and costumes. You don’t have to concentrate on what the main characters are doing or the plot, there is always some piece of set design or prop in the frame that will interest the eye.

Bit of Kagemusha, a bit of Flash Gordon. In the middle is Star Wars, so yes perfect.

Hopefully they can push it further in EpIX and have some Throne of Blood moments.

I’m surprised he managed to stay quiet, after selling up so he could move on he couldn’t stop talking about it.

The Boba Fett movie would have to be a Western.