SilverWook

LOL!

ZkinandBonez said:

SilverWook said:

Haarspalter said:

Due to the burnt corpses of Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru, i always thought a laser blast would slowly incinerate a dead body from inside.

Since blasters have stun settings much like phasers in Star Trek, something a notch below disintegrate must also be present. (Vader cautions the bounty hunters in ESB not to disintegrate their quarry.) Unless that was disintegration? I’ve had the unpleasant theory Owen and Beru were executed after refusing to divulge where the droids were, in order to protect Luke. Their bodies were posed, and then burned after death to complete the impression the Tuskens did it.

Yeah, I always assumed they simply burned them to blame it on the Tuskens as well. The burned farmhouse looks a lot like the scorched sandcrawler.

It’s also interesting to see that no one bothered to include disintegration in any SW live-action until recently in the Mandalorian. Even the stun setting was largely relegated to books and cartoons until it reappeared in TLJ. The only pre-Mandalorian disintegration I’m aware of were in the Jedi Knight games, which has somewhat of a Star Trek vibe to it.

I remember that. I always thought it looked like someone getting derezzed in Tron. There was a weapon that needed to be found in a custom Dark Forces level called the Black Whirlwind? that I wished someone had recreated for the later games.

JadedSkywalker said:

That comic is truly bizarre, the Space Battleship Yamato actually shows up. In Star Wars.

Not as bizarre as when it turned up in a Gamera movie. 😉
https://youtu.be/gD3FZlZiuvc

There has been speculation George saw SBY when he spent time in Japan in the early 70’s.

Thanks for the links, none! 😃

Haarspalter said:

Due to the burnt corpses of Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru, i always thought a laser blast would slowly incinerate a dead body from inside.

Since blasters have stun settings much like phasers in Star Trek, something a notch below disintegrate must also be present. (Vader cautions the bounty hunters in ESB not to disintegrate their quarry.) Unless that was disintegration? I’ve had the unpleasant theory Owen and Beru were executed after refusing to divulge where the droids were, in order to protect Luke. Their bodies were posed, and then burned after death to complete the impression the Tuskens did it.

Do they have a name? There are plenty of shady characters laying claim to films that are otherwise orphaned. Ask any MST3K fan.

The things I stumble across on ebay! Anybody know the history on these? Some of the art is similar to Russ Manning, some of it is like from some alternate universe.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/STAR-WARS-CHINESE-COMIC-BOOK-YODA-DARTH-VADER-CHINA-LIANHUANHUA-GEORGES-LUCAS/274384777893

https://www.ebay.com/itm/CHINESE-BOOK-STAR-WARS-GEORGES-LUCAS-YODA-DARTH-VADER-CHINA-SCIENCE-FICTION-JEDI/273868419263

https://www.ebay.com/itm/STAR-WARS-CHINESE-COMIC-BOOK-YODA-DARTH-VADER-CHINA-LIANHUANHUA-LUCAS/313084550722

https://www.ebay.com/itm/STAR-WARS-CHINESE-COMIC-BOOK-YODA-DARTH-VADER-CHINA-LIANHUANHUA-LUCAS/313102970728

https://www.ebay.com/itm/STAR-WARS-CHINESE-COMIC-BOOK-YODA-DARTH-VADER-CHINA-LIANHUANHUA-GEORGES-LUCAS/312633599324

https://www.ebay.com/itm/STAR-WARS-CHINESE-COMIC-BOOK-YODA-DARTH-VADER-CHINA-LIANHUANHUA-LUCAS/313084549877

https://www.ebay.com/itm/CHINESE-BOOK-SPECIAL-DARTH-VADER-STAR-WARS-DARK-VADOR-GEORGES-LUCAS-YODA-JEDI/273868420283

https://www.ebay.com/itm/STAR-WARS-CHINESE-COMIC-BOOK-YODA-DARTH-VADER-CHINA-LIANHUANHUA-GEORGES-LUCAS/273963887015

Thanks for the SOTME links, Fated. 😃

A Jaxxon story? Hot damn! 😄

If there isn’t a SOTME thread around here, there should be.

Nice!

The Porgs facemask is disturbing though. 😉

On a related note, can there really be this many “vintage” 1970’s SW shirts sitting in a warehouse after all these years?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/vTg-1977-ORIG-STAR-WARS-POSTER-12-back-kenner-teaser-promo-Screen-Stars-t-Shirt/402320918592

The ones I remember having pretty much disintegrated by the fifth washing.

rocknroll41 said:

The 40th anniversary of ESB has made me start to wonder what the world would be like right now had we gotten Splinter of the Mind’s Eye as the film sequel to SW77 instead.

I like ESB in a vacuum (both as it’s own film as well as the middle chapter of the OT), but I feel that some of the rather dark story choices it made (mainly Vader being Luke’s father) is what set the franchise on a bad path in the long run. ESB turned SW from a space opera into a soap opera (or a “family saga,” as Lord Lucas likes to say it). And ever since then, people have been arguing about what SW should and shouldn’t be.

Splinter and anything afterwards would’ve been boring, sure, but at least we wouldn’t have cared so much, and the fandom at large wouldn’t have become so toxic.

ESB, despite being an absolutely GREAT movie on its own, put SW on an unreachable pedestal from that point onward. Ever since then, nobody can decide whether SW should keep “growing with its audience” or stay as a “kids thing.”

Sorry for ranting. Just wanted to get that out of my system!

Had Splinter been made into a film, it could have been equally as dark.

This is the earliest mention of Star Wars I’ve seen.

https://twitter.com/ClassicHBOGuide/status/1307477485504741376

A preview questionnaire with some interesting details. (They misspelled Wookiee!) I wonder if any filled out ones survive?

https://twitter.com/ClassicHBOGuide/status/1303725905345277954

Always wondered what that board hanging from the rafters was for.

He does have a story by credit on the film.

And let’s all be thankful the sequel didn’t end up like this. 😛
https://youtu.be/RudzOqb-fRc

Anakin Starkiller said:

NeverarGreat said:

I wasn’t aware that there were any plans for another season, since the cliffhanger set up the events of the film pretty well. It was a fun show to a good movie, but I’m not sad it’s over.

Honestly, the movie isn’t good. The artistry of the visuals is outstanding (for its time), and so is the worldbuilding, but it’s letdown by honestly one of the worst stories on film, and I don’t say that lightly. It just feels like it’s lacking any meat on its bones, which is a shame.

Worst? Compared to what? I think Michael Bay would like to have a word. 😉

And dissing The Dark Crystal on Jim Henson’s birthday no less…

Star Trek fandom says Hello.

Any large fandom has it’s jerks, unfortunately.

Interesting, but they don’t seem to be asking crazy money for it.

That does happen once in a while. It can vary from a generic reply with a spam link in the sig, to the more sneaky ones that cut and paste a reply from someone else and require more scrutiny to spot.

Never thought anything good could come out of this bantha poodoo year! Congrats on getting a scanner. I hope you’ll take a photo or two of it so people can see what one of these beasts looks like.

Currently made video projectors still have 3-D.

Disney isn’t that keen on 3-D Blu-ray these days. It’s a miracle their own films and Marvel stuff have 3-D home releases overseas at all anymore.

I think there were some one off trilogy screenings to benefit charity in the 90’s, but no nationwide reissues.

Mistakes were made and we’ve apologized. There’s no need for snark.

Feel free to change it back. Sorry for any problems it has caused.

The announcement wasn’t as prominent as it could have been.

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/The-recent-re-organisation-of-the-Fan-Project-sections-of-the-site-and-more-/id/77878

Going forward, we will leave it to a thread creator to keep the status of their project up to date. The possible exception will be for projects that have not been updated in six months to a year. Announcements of forum changes will be made more prominent.