SilverWook

C3PX said:

Exactly. It is amazing it took them this long to do it.

Maybe it was because I was younger then, but I always found the OT ships fascinating. But the only PT ship to ever be of any interest to me was the Naboo fighter. Not sure why, but I always kind of liked that one. Kind of funny how we all made such a connection with the Falcon in the OT, but there was nothing like that in the PT. No special ship they flew around in and cared if it got damaged or not, everything was extremely expendable.

It is also kind of silly that we don't see a bunch of the PT ships flying around in the OT, Obviously we still see people driving around in twenty year old cars today. But nothing in the PT even resembles sleeker versions of ships seen in the OT. It honestly feels like two different universes. I really thought we'd be seeing Y-Wings and X-Wings or something a lot like them in the PT.

One of the long rumored changes to the next incarnation of the OT was adding some Naboo fighters to the Rebel fleet scenes.

Whenever I see an old DeLorean on the road, I am reminded of Luke's Lanspeeder. ;)

I believe these are supposed to be Y-wings in their original configuration. Not prototypes.

One factoid that's been around since the 70's, was that the rebels used a lot of old ships, and modify the heck out of them to keep them running. The streamlined fuselage was removed for ease of maintenance.

This is one reason a lot of us old coots thought we would be seeing shiny new X-Wings in the prequels. ;)

Y-Wings have long been my favorite rebel ships.

The chairs the clones were sitting on in the briefing session look like the ones used on the Death Star. ;)

Wow!

http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=24972

I've enjoyed the first two episodes, for many of the same reasons already stated.

If only they would tone down the battle droid slapstick. They are more annoying now than they ever were in the prequels!

I've long presumed Order 66 is some sort of deep subconscious brainwashing thing ala "The Manchurian Candidate". The clones simply can't disobey it.

How the hell Order 66 was programmed into an Army bought and paid for by an alleged Jedi is anyone's guess. I don't think the Kaminoans would do it without asking a lot of questions, and Palpy can't possibly have met every clone personally...

That's pretty much what the Doctor Who restoration team did with some of the early 1970's episodes that only survive as black and 16mm prints. They used the color information from vintage off air video recordings provided by a fan.

http://www.purpleville.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/rtwebsite/colouris.htm

If only they had gone with the McQuarrie concept look. For Vader's armor to go essentially unchanged for two decades is hard to swallow.

You can get the new Lars Homestead playset at Toys R Us, and recreate the pivotal scene from "Troops" now! ;)

I think the whole series is out on DVD isn't it? The original commercials on the print would be of historical interest though...

Judging by the size of the reels, this wasn't the whole movie anyway. AFAIK, there wasn't a legit Super 8 release besides Derann, and that was the complete film.

I noticed the buyer seems to be selling a lot of Super 8 films, so we might find out what's on those reels eventually.

Although I think anyone who goes out of their way to send a nastygram in reply to a polite inquiry probably isn't someone worth doing business with. Let them get ripped off, so we don't have to! ;)

Isn't the VHS source for the mono mix an old PAL broadcast recording to begin with?

I've watched a thing or two transferred off a 16mm projector modified to have line audio outputs, and they sounded fine to me.

And I've heard some pretty bad sounding 35mm prints in my time. ;)

Another reel has popped up you know where. Looks a little pink though...

Phantom Menace was shot on film.

The 70mm Empire would be good for documenting those morning after changes made for the 35mm version. It would require a miracle to get it transferred though!

Robot Chicken's version of Vader killing Jar Jar would be hard to top! ;)

The most recent auction seems to have been pulled. Did the usual suspects actually get it?

I watched a few minutes of it on Youtube last night.

Did we really need to see the host's nearly naked Jabba the Hutt impression? And his opinion that all Science Fiction films before Star Wars were "rubbish" is ignorant at best, insulting at worst. And really ironic he used a Buck Rogers clip to illustrate his point!

Just like with Star Trek, people freak when they find out not everyone in the cast is buddy buddy, or anything like their onscreen persona.

It's a fun job, (sometimes) but it's still a job. And they probably sometimes get sick to death talking about films they worked on years or decades ago. When Mark Hamill stiffs some orphans, then I'll get upset. ;)

And for the record, Mark has been a voice actor long before Star Wars.

It does sound like Anthony Daniels needs to lose the restraining bolt though!

As the other threads are now locked, can someone please let us know what's going on with the latest 35mm reel to pop up?

Someone has put up a couple episodes on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwet4SeyKgc

Funny that this is finally coming out around the same time as Clone Wars!

Someone here was going to preserve the colorized King Kong a while back.

Rage against George, that's some new rock band right? ;)

I could have sworn that infamous phrase was coined in 1997, right after the special editions came out?

C3PX said:

SilverWook said:

It's interesting that the one Old Republic era story the old Marvel comic was able to do had Ben Kenobi in a sleek black outfit as well.

 

Wow, really? Marvel did a single issue in the Old Republic era? I did not know about that, I'll have to attempt to track that down. Was it merely a short flashback? Or a whole one shot issue about Kenobi in the Old Republic days?

It's a whole issue, but framed by Leia telling the story to everyone aboard the Millennium Falcon. Given the huge list of things Lucasfilm didn't want them to touch between movies, I'm amazed they got this one out.

Obi Wan does not wear robes in the actual story.

I think Luke was intending to prevent anyone from pursuing them. And it's not like anybody couldn't jump off the sail barge!

On second thought, we're lucky they didn't digitally add in some henchmen escaping to make Luke more of a nice guy. ;)

It's interesting that the one Old Republic era story the old Marvel comic was able to do had Ben Kenobi in a sleek black outfit as well.

Once upon a time, if you bought an RCA Videodisc player and a big screen projection tv, you got Star Wars for free!