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Will young Han Solo encounter a young Lando Calrissian ?! If so, who will play young Lando ?..

It’s confirmed by the official site: http://www.starwars.com/news/its-the-resistance

Fake !!!

Ghibili said:

Fake !

The origins of Star Wars : http://kitbashed.com

He will just offer his Star Wars shooting script for sale…

http://rmqgallery.blogspot.fr/?view=magazine

FanFiltration said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSJMoH7tnvw

It’s called “Into the trap” on the original LP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpj1DYK4fCs

I’ve seen it! (This morning, in France; it’s officially out)

It’s great. It’s truly great. Don’t be afraid!

Actually for a long time there was whale oil used in the formula for the magnetic tapes, but sometimes in the late seventies it was replaced with synthetic oil that is not as stable and those tapes after many years became sticky and could not be played back. The baking of the tapes has the effect to reduce the stickiness enough to allow for the tapes to be played back one more time.

The game is so gorgeous I wish there was a “tourist” mode, just to be able to enjoy the scenery peacefully !

New movies comes out traditionally on a Wednesday in France. I think it's the simple reason why TFA is out two days earlier here. 

This old ad (1995) just appeared on the official Star Wars tumblr :

http://starwars.tumblr.com/post/126703535163/promotional-poster-for-the-1995-edition-vhs

(I don't know what to think of it, at least they're acknowledging the original)

In 1977, George Lucas was only 33, and had made just 2 movies before (the first one, already a sci-fi movie, in 1971)

ray_afraid said:

NeverarGreat said:

I think that it was a rather missed opportunity for HISHE. They could have ended it a lot sooner.

"There goes another one."

"Fire."

Ha! I like it.

"Did you hear that ? They've shutdown the main reactor. We'll be destroyed for sure !"

KABOOM

The end. 

Harmy said:

I just wish I could find the Falcon in the DS hanger matte.

You can find it in "The Art of Star Wars" book, page 82. But it's a very small picture, you may not be able to use it. Besides I can understand why it's rarely seen: it's a pretty boring matte ! The Millennium Falcon has only its edges painted (they must have composited the falcon model for the final image)

On his blog, J.W. Rinzler acknowledges Special Edition screen grabs in the Making of ESB book :

P.S. Errata

Unfortunately, The Making of ESB went out with a few mistakes. We hope to fix all of these by the fourth printing. The biggest one-and if it's any consolation to fans, the one that has kept me up at night-is that a double-page matte-painting spread of the Falcon in the book is actually from Return of the Jedi, not Empire; and not painted by McQuarrie but by Michael Pangrazio. A host of strange circumstances went into that error, but I take the blame. Another series of small errors occurred when the publisher replaced my screen grabs from the original ESB version on DVD with screen grabs from the Special Edition DVD; Del Rey regrets the error, too. 

 

We try and minimize all errors by having expert readers go through each of our nonfiction and fiction books, but mistakes happen. It's some sort of cosmic law against perfection.

savmagoett said:

So they say "Long-range views of Luke Skywalker ascending a cable beneath an AT-AT indicate a height of 22.6m", which is not what I calculated, hummm.

 

It is Luke Skywalker ascending the cable, but is it Mark Hammil ?  It seems to me that it may be a puppet... So, are we sure the puppet is correctly scaled ?!!

Absolutely incredible post ! Great analysis pictures. How did you draw the vehicles outlines ?

The Tech. Coms. on that gushers site has somewhat similar estimates on the AT-AT dimensions.

As always, the databank on the official site is completely off, and wookieepedia cites two contradicting sources (it's so obvious that the AT-AT length cannot be smaller than its height that they don't see it ?!)

EyeShotFirst said:

Sluggo said:

Maybe if one reads TF.n.  And I don't always trust them over there.  I think we have enough fans who can think for themselves here to come up with a good analysis or two.

Hear Hear!!!!!

The Star Wars fans here are the only ones I like. Too many GL worshipers and PT lovers elsewhere.

Even though Star Wars Technical Commentaries are hosted on TF.n, they are not part of the GL worshipping occurring on the main TF.n site. *sigh*

Oh, by the way, these technical commentaries are written by Dr Curtis Saxton, PhD who contributed to some of the best Star Wars reference books, in the Incredible Cross Sections and Inside the Worlds of series.