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Star Wars The Ewoks Join the Fight Read-Along Story Book and Cassette - from 1983

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGs7TdnQ1wY - 10 minute vidoe, at Star Wars Radio

more information: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/The_Ewoks_Join_the_Fight_(book-and-record)
 

a flick through the actual book 10 minute video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYl1p28zCeI

Star Wars website article on some early picture books: www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-in-the-uk-read-along-adventures

and the third and final Star Wars children’s storybook released in 1979:
 

Star Wars: The Wookiee Storybook (Voice Dubbed Picture Book) - from 1979

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJT6FXD1ZxM - 15 minute video, at Star Wars Audio Comics

more information: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/The_Wookiee_Storybook
 

a flick through the actual book 5 minute video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaapdaXBrgU

Star Wars website article on some early picture books: www.starwars.com/news/6-vintage-star-wars-picture-books

Star Wars: The Mystery of the Rebellious Robot (Voice Dubbed Picture Book) - from 1979

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4KfO3bxWKE - 9 minute video, at Star Wars Audio Comics

more information: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/The_Mystery_of_the_Rebellious_Robot
 

a flick through the actual book 4 minute video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAqfBu6sECA

Star Wars website article on some early picture books: www.starwars.com/news/6-vintage-star-wars-picture-books

Star Wars: The Maverick Moon (Voice Dubbed Picture Book) - from 1979

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQWwvTytw_k - 8 minute video, at Star Wars Audio Comics

more information: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/The_Maverick_Moon
 

a flick through the actual book 2 minute video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y818jC8owEk

Star Wars website article on some early picture books: www.starwars.com/news/6-vintage-star-wars-picture-books

1983 Star Wars Droid World - Read-Along Story Book and Cassette

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jjEm6g3FNw - a 12 minute video, at Star Wars Radio

more information: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/The_Further_Adventures:_Droid_World

1983 Star Wars Planet of the Hoojibs Read-Along Story Book and Cassette

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMJllPYMyzs - a 10 minute video, at Star Wars Radio

more information: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/The_Further_Adventures:_Planet_of_the_Hoojibs

‘Star Wars Radio’ has a 28 video playlist for these Star Wars “Read-Along Story Book” adventure type stories, here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl3cG50eOp8&list=PLhYrGbe8YHBcmjOKZFLfaQYoeSMEeLRFD

more information: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Read-Along_Adventures

Some of the artwork for these stories from the 70s and 80s were pretty cool.

I’d have liked to have the option to customize or select a character (droid, alien, legacy character, or make your own) in this as much as anyone. But fans having issues about the lead character in this for being a woman? Dickheads.
 

Toxic Star Wars fans threaten to boycott Ubisoft’s open-world game over female protagonist at Gaming Bible

Star Wars Outlaws’ Backlash Proves We Need More Women Protagonists at Kokatu (a woman of color being the protagonist)

First ever Star Wars open world game reveal has left ‘fans’ fuming at Unilad

Star Wars Outlaws Fixes The Franchises’ Big Protagonist Problem at ScreenRant

Caston said:

^ The Kings of baffling retcons in Star Wars. Often it is simply unnecessary alterations or re-writes of other creatives’ work in the GFFA.
 

[snip]

Lists of retcons made in 2008 The Clone Wars, and writing over of Karen Traviss’ previously established work in the EU.

[snip]

I then thought about some of the other retcons and alterations that Dave Filoni has made in his Star Wars projects to other creatives’ previous work in the GFFA… and I ended up going down a bit of a rabbit hole on this! I’ve edited in more articles and information below on just some of his retcons to… the EU, in both Legends and Canon, the Prequel Trilogy, 2003 Clone Wars, Rebels, The Bad Batch, The Mandalorian, Book of Boba Fett, Tales of the Jedi, and also for the Ahsoka series.

[snip]

Wow! Caston, that really is some post! Nice work, and I have bookmarked it for future reference.

I hadn’t realized Filoni was so habitual when it comes to using and then altering others’ previous contributions in Star Wars.

Those links for enormous amount of retcons and alterations in the 2008 The Clone Wars series are real eye openers to me.
 

The apprentice really has done his best to surpass the master at unnecessary retcons and writing over other creatives’ work.

And those original creatives should definitely have their work credited or referenced each time it is used afterwards by others.

Emre16O1 said:

Mocata said:

This looks very good. But I’m done with games that are just a big open space filled with fetch quests. Hope to be proven wrong but otherwise done after the likes of Horizon and Tsushima burned me out on the genre. Then again I could be lured in when it actually gets here…

I get that. I’m also hoping for some specific space combat levels or locations, somewhere you can go to just blast some TIEs, or maybe even some X-Wings! Probably a few levels or locations where there is some intense yet mindless blasting away of many stormtroopers or Greedo types too.

Oh yes, absolutely. I’ll probably play through the levels once or twice. After that it will hopefully be some sections, levels or missions where there is some good simple dogfights and “Dark Forces” type of shooting many, many Imps.

Caston said:

I did find these more interesting photos and articles too. The photos:

from https://twitter.com/ILMVFX/status/1661811470055911425

“Last weekend we celebrated George Lucas’ picture #ReturnoftheJedi at the 40th reunion. Photographed by ILM modelmaker Don Bies, these photos represent the crew, cast, friends, and families of ILM and Sprocket Systems on both Return of the Jedi and the Special Edition.”

Last time I checked it was a Richard Marquand movie. The photos are cool, ILM’s claim it was “George Lucas’ picture” is not.

They still haven’t fixed their mistake, or even acknowledged the guy who told pointed out ROTJ is a Richard Marquand picture, and not George’s, in their twitter thread. I don’t think they care, or are that bothered about it.

Those pictures, and the others in the thread, are pretty cool though!
 

and the three articles:

OPTICAL DOGS, DAILIES AND THE ORIGINS OF ‘CBB’: 40 YEARS OF ‘JEDI’ - at Before and Afters

A Bunch Of Muppets: The Monsters Of RETURN OF THE JEDI - at Fangoria

‘Return of the Jedi’ at 40: How ‘Star Wars’ legend Phil Tippett crafted special effects magic - at Space

I enjoyed reading those, thank you. I also found these reads on “ROTJ at 40” pretty cool:

The Unsung Gravity of Return of the Jedi - at Paste

40 Years on, ‘Return of the Jedi’ Is the Most Surprisingly Revolutionary Star Wars Movie - at Esquire UK

40 years on, ‘Return of the Jedi’ is still up there with the best of ‘Star Wars’ - at Space

40 years ago, NPR had to apologize for airing ‘Return of the Jedi’ spoilers - at NPR

How Salacious Crumb Became Return Of The Jedi’s Unexpected Breakout Star - at SlashFilm

Andor
Visions
Clone Wars (2003)
Mandalorian (if season 4 is bad as the 3rd this will drop significantly to a Kenobi rating level)
Bad Batch
Rebels
Tales of the Jedi (Dooku episodes were cool, Ahsoka episodes felt like unnecessary promos for the new series, enough Ahsoka already)
Obi Wan Kenobi
Ahsoka
The Clone Wars (2008)
Resistance
Book of Boba Fett (I disliked the idea of his new personality, I loathed the awful execution of it and the whole thing)
 

Edited to include the Ahsoka series.

I’m actually looking forward to this game. It’ll probably be put back to 2025 at some point in the future 😉 But I’ll wait.

A proper “open world” action-adventure game, set in the Original Trilogy era, with space combat too? Count me in.

(Until they give us an updated X-Wing, Tie Fighter, and SW Arcade all-in-one type of game!)
 

A few videos with some initial thoughts of the trailer & game videos so far:

Star Wars Explained - www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkEDf_av_2Q
EckhartsLadder - www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldSHair2BFs
HelloGreedo - www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nTxtM97dhY
jackfrags - www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiIu9H9rqfQ
IGN - www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI1xD5NwEME
 

a few articles:

www.polygon.com/23757878/star-wars-outlaws-gameplay-new-ubisoft-game
www.theverge.com/23758235/star-wars-outlaws-gameplay-trailer-ubisoft-forward-2023
www.ign.com/videos/star-wars-outlaws-is-the-open-world-star-wars-game-weve-always-wanted-summer-of-gaming-2023
https://gamerant.com/star-wars-outlaws-gameplay-combat-guns-space-ship
https://kotaku.com/star-wars-outlaws-release-date-commando-droid-nd5-1850534004

 
The game description:

"Experience the first-ever open world Star Wars game, set between the events of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Explore distinct planets across the galaxy, both iconic and new. Risk it all as Kay Vess, a scoundrel seeking freedom and the means to start a new life, along with her companion Nix. Fight, steal, and outwit your way through the galaxy’s crime syndicates as you join the galaxy’s most wanted.

If you’re willing to take the risk, the galaxy is full of opportunity."
 

www.starwarsoutlaws.com & https://twitter.com/StarWarsOutlaws & https://twitter.com/LucasfilmGames
 

Star Wars Outlaws: trailer at official SW YouTube channel & https://twitter.com/starwars/status/1667942084001792002

Star Wars Outlaws: Official Gameplay Walkthrough: 10 minute video from Ubisoft

Star Wars Outlaws Gameplay Breakdown by the Ubisoft Developers: 12 minute GameSpot video with more details & background

Z6PO said:

Luke is a proxy for the audience, he doesn’t seem to know a lot about the galaxy, even about Tatooine except for his Uncle’s farm, and Tosche Station (where you can pick up some power converters), so presenting a strange weapon to him (and to the audience in the theater) and explaining where it come from, what it does, is an organic way of exposition, without it feeling like exposition to the audience. (It’s way better than say Luke noticing the lightsaber dangling from Ben’s belt and obnoxiously asking him about it)

It’s the magic of Star Wars, the 1977 movie, the necessary exposition to present this completely new universe to the audience is very natural, never feeling forced and dragging on. This is a feat that not a lot of fantasy movies are able to achieve with as near perfection as Star Wars (looking at you MCU).

I love this view on the film, and completely agree with it as well. So few other fantasy films do manage to achieve, or even approach, that near perfection.

Personally I love watching Star Wars occasionally as a standalone movie.
 

Has anyone on here done an edit where this is a standalone film, where Han & Chewie simply blows up Vader’s ship, instead of it spinning out into space?

I’ve been watching this to refamiliarize myself with HttE for the coming Ahsoka series and Mandoverse finale. It has been a long time since reading Zahn’s novels, and thought I’d give these a watch instead. A really, really enjoyable experience watching these episodes.

Fantastic work and dedication from DarthAngelus.

Just when you think things are looking up for Star Wars gaming.
 

Star Wars KOTOR 2 Restored Content DLC Canceled On Switch - article at Gamespot

They advertised and marketed the KOTOR II game at sale as having the DLC available soon, and for many that was the deal maker. Without it the game is buggy and obviously shorter, and shitter. When the game was actually released there was a patch needed to be able to complete the game (what sort of game is released when you can’t finish it?).

On top of that, Aspyr press release isn’t even an apology, or gives any reason why it has been cancelled, why it has taken this long for the announcement, and so on. They should be offering refunds, not ‘a free game’ to other SW games you many not be interested in, or actually available for a dollar or 2, or on discount, anyway.

8 minute video from EckhartsLadder on the issue: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqLdbPbRjPg

Edit: I forgot to say how disappointing it is that TOR game is essentially stepping closer to “maintenance mode” now:

www.ign.com/articles/star-wars-the-old-republic-development-third-party-bioware

www.gamesradar.com/veteran-fans-of-the-star-wars-mmo-are-trying-not-to-panic-over-reported-studio-change

 
Star Wars Storyboards: The Original Trilogy. By JW Rinzler, in 2014. (RIP)
 

Description: ‘For the first time, Lucasfilm has opened its archives to present the complete storyboards for the original Star Wars trilogy A New Hope and its operatic sequels, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi–as well as never-before-published art from cut and deleted scenes. From the opening chase above Tatooine in A New Hope to the Battle of Endor in Jedi, this book presents the visual inspiration behind now-iconic moments. Readers can finally see a full set of storyboards by legendary artist Joe Johnston, as well as early boards for Episode IV by Alex Tavoularis and Ivor Beddoes, rarely seen Episode IV boards by Roy Carnon and Ralph McQuarrie’s art for Episode V.’
 

Review: I adore this book. Although it is in hardback I’ve already thumbed it a LOT. It provides great insight into some early creative development by the very talented people involved in the OT. Along with some of the original concepts that gave Star Wars the look and feel we have come to know and love, and some contrasts between ‘what could have been’ and what became Star Wars.

Most images are quite large and the detail in them is well presented, so you don’t have to squint or get the magnifying glass out to vie or appreciate the love that went into drawing these. There are 15 artists total, with the likes of Joe Johnston, Ralph McQuarrie, Nilo Rodis-Jamero, Roy Carnon. Paper quality is good, and will should last many years. The space and creature scenes are the highlight for me, but there are many other great scenes and sequences covered as well. It really is a visually appealing and fun read, when engrossed you’ll be forgiven for thinking it is an audio book too, although that is probably just me making the sound effects myself reading along.

My only nitpick is that while there are some notes and text on how the artists came to these visual concepts, it would have been nice to have more. And if the book had featured the scripts for the 3 OT films, it would be near perfect.

Overall, it was a fast enjoyable read for anyone who wants to relive that feeling that the OT gives us, just like when we saw the films for that first time (and times after!) If you see this book on sale, or at a good price, go get it.

 
a 2 minute video highlighting the book contents: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1YsYutN08c

Star Wars
Empire
Jedi
Rogue One
Solo
The Last Jedi
The Force Awakens
The Rise Of Skywalker
The Phantom Menace
Revenge of the Sith
Attack of the Clones (although this often changes with ROTS)
The Clone Wars (2008 film)

As others have posted in here, it is probably down to logistics, convenience, and the possibility of including something from the Prequels.

For me Alec Guinness is Kenobi, the one and only.

Ewan McGregor, James Arnold Taylor, Sam Vincent all do good jobs at playing Kenobi, with Ewan doing particularly well as he could with the material given to him in the Prequels, but they are simply substitutes for the real thing.

In the Sequels, with the “big 3” from the OT appearing in it, it really should have been more of Alec channelled as the voice, be that through an impersonator, his vast previous body of work, or a voice AI tool. That’s obviously just my opinion, though.

The ‘bare minimum’ appears to be the ethos used by Lucasfilm for many years now when it comes to the Original Trilogy.

I wasn’t hoping for much on the 40th anniversary of Jedi, so I wasn’t too disappointed in the handful of articles they conjured up for it.

As long we those of us interested have the versions of the Original Trilogy we want, even it has been made by the fans, then that is more than enough for me. I’ll still sign any petition or put my name to asking for an official release of the unaltered cuts, but at this point I think us fans would do a better job than a possible official release would.

If Lucasfilm’s last release of the theatrical cuts is to be those awful 2006 GOUT DVDs it says a lot about them, and their attitude to the Original Trilogy, and none of it is good.

I’m looking forward to getting your book. If it is half as engrossing as your old filmumentary trilogy on the Original Trilogy I’ll be a happy man.

Really enjoy your www.filmumentaries.com website with all the other content and documentaries too.

Hi everyone,
I’m an old time fan, and was even on here many years ago, though have no recollection of any username or logins.
I’ve been lurking for a while to get the lay of the land on here once more, and looking forward to talking with you all.