The attempts at revising the comic are laughable. It’s a product of it’s time like the original film. Even Hasbro was faithful to the original colors with their comic packs line.
Reagan did joke during a mic check before a radio address about nuking Russia once. It didn’t go out on the air, but was leaked later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_begin_bombing_in_five_minutes
Let’s not forget this is the guy who wants a freaking big military parade in DC, cost to the taxpayers be damned. Not to mention the street damage heavy armored vehicles will probably cause.
Wow, that reminds me a of used book I read as a kid that had several key pages missing and somehow I didn’t notice until the mystery plot simply went nowhere. The last chapter was pretty much characters leaving for home and saying their goodbyes with no reference to the mystery. I have to wonder now if someone was devious enough to remove those pages in a sort of literary vandalism.
Speaking of vandalism, did anyone encounter video sabotage back in the golden age of VHS? For those who have no idea what I’m talking about, some fiend would cover the record notch on a rental tape and insert inappropriate footage at a key moment in a film or erase an imporant scene entirely. Happened to me once with the key scene at the end of Jason Goes to Hell. I didn’t mention it to the video store for fear I would be on the hook for a $80 tape. Priced for rental sucked so hard back then.
I feel as if I’ve seen that style of graphic design used elsewhere before. The side by side comparison is amusing though. Chewie’s got soul!
Cribbing poster designs is actually nothing new. Sometimes studios even get the same artist to do the deed. The Hildebrandt’s said in an old Starlog interview they were basically asked by MGM to copy from their famous Star Wars poster.
Pretty cool!
As I’ve seen everything from a Star Trek TNG themed apartment to home theaters resembling a starship bridge, (even a basement made out to resemble the interior of the Jupiter 2 from Lost In Space) I’m surprised nobody has recreated the Falcon interior in their home yet.
There weren’t a whole lot of new characters with what Kenner used to call toyetic qualities. Other toy lines are slumping, so it’s not just Star Wars. All the clickbait articles I’ve seen thus far have been pushing the same TLJ was a flop crap and pointing at toy sales as proof.
When you see six year-olds with their faces buried in the digital devices in their hands already, who’s left that wants to play with action figures these days?
Even his horse isn’t returning his calls. 😉
Aren’t all weapons dangerous?
Shit, you could probably beat a guy to death with a Sunday New York Times, couldn’t ya? If you really cared enough.*
*Line stolen from George Carlin.
Didn’t Carlin also point out you could threaten someone with a sheet of paper?
There is a old story I’ve heard about a small dog getting flattened by the Sunday edition of the L.A. times.
Maybe figuring out there is no Lesson 3 is the lesson?
Politics thread is that way…
Remind me never to go scuba diving in Minnesota! 😛
https://nerdist.com/jason-voorhees-statue-minnesota-lake-friday-13th/
That seems a bit mean to stir up hopes like that. Bad enough there are constant hoaxes around missing episodes. Just about any loon can doctor up an old 16mm film can to look like something from the BBC, and get their jollies.
I wonder if the long awaited return of a certain meat eating green rabbit in the comics is tied to the Han Solo issues? Nice to see Zuckuss and 4-LOM get a little love. I can’t recall if the original Marvel run ever did anything with them.
Chewie looks good with aviator googles.
And what’s this, a Rogue One crossover in the Chewie story?
Let’s hope. Although it would suck if the private collector who allegedly got it after it was nicked from that tv station in Africa, (where it was originally discovered a few years ago) walked away with money in their pocket after all this. It seems unlikely they didn’t know they were receiving a stolen print.
A necessary evil I suppose if the BBC is ever going get some of these episodes back.
Did Ian really make those faces or is it CGI? It’s like his teeth totally vanish at one point.
I wonder how long it’s gonna be before they outfit their guns with religious iconography.
What movie is this from?
It’s a typographic error that has never been corrected over the centuries. It actually refers to the Rod of Ron. Which could be interpreted as referring to adult film star Ron Jeremy. 😛
I scanned the whole book from a copy that was falling apart quite some time ago.
A shame that book is forever out of print. It’s quite the unvarnished look at ESB’s production. I doubt anyone gets that kind of unfiltered access on a studio set today.
Poita might know where you could get your film transferred.
I could kick myself for letting that LD get away. I once returned a slightly defective copy and the store was never able to get me a replacement. Must have been a very small production run.
Not by itself. If I get a BD drive I ought to be able to extract it?
Here’s hoping. I had Grease on VHS back in 1996 (which I recently discovered I still have) and I did have the DVD at one point but that got sold. I’m assuming my VHS had the original sound mix but haven’t had a chance to check. I’ve never owned it on Blu Ray so if this 4K release is decent I’ll pick it up. Has anyone tried to sync any pre-98 mix up with the current Blu Ray yet?
I believe someone on FanRes managed to sync the VHS audio to the BD.
Yes they did, using my VHS Hi-Fi capture of a factory sealed tape. (Pre 20th anniversary.) I have a copy lying around, but I don’t have a BD drive just yet.
I was hoping someone would do that. I recently captured the early 80’s Laserdisc stereo mix.
WOW! Amazing, absolutely amazing! Atlas, are you secretly an ILM employee? 😉
