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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQLBgqERN_4

You might be better off listing them on Ebay in small lots of a few figures each.  I sold a bunch of loose Vintage ones years ago and I did them in lots of 3 or 4 that all went together in some way - core characters, by location (Hoth/Endor/Tatooine/Bespin, etc), by affiliation (Rebel/Empire/Cantina/Jabba, etc.).  In other cases, I listed a vehicle with 1 or 2 figures that went with it.

Another tactic is to put two "peg warmers" - lesser demand figures - with 1 "valuable" one.  Then people are forced to take the cheap stuff in order to get the important one.

The speeder and walker are both moving, remember?  Obviously both vehicles positions are going to shift a touch while Luke and Dack are saying their lines.

That's what I mean.  Something has to give one way or the other, so just pick a side and move on.

Well, that gets into the whole time paradox loop-de-loop chicken-and-egg thing.  No matter which way they went with it - kill Kyle or not - you end up with either a plot hole or a continuity hole.

If they kill him, then not only do we not have this film, but the other three films now become non-existent as well.

I guess the only way it could work is if Skynet kills Kyle, at which point the film just abruptly ends and the theater lights come up.  ;-)

Speaking of models, and this may fall into the category of "killing a fly with a sledgehammer", but at a sci-fi model convention I went to over the weekend, there's a guy who just started producing a studio scale (or maybe larger) Twin Pod Cloud Car.  Thing's gotta be about 24w x 18d.  It would be perfect for creating whatever cloud car shots you wanted to straighten out the various Cloud City flyovers.  Down side - $400...PLUS shipping.

Love the trailer!  And, as everyone else has said, the Cloud City reveal...well, it's a good thing I had a change of underwear handy.

So how close is this to re-release?

EyeShotFirst said:

Tobar said:

EyeShotFirst said:

Jedi Dark Knight said:

Jar-Jar? "I have a bad feeling about this"...as a side note: I can't imagine what pushed GL to creat a creature such as Jar Jar....he could have gone with something "chewie" like and have that character be the "Chewie" of the PT for Anakin, of course he could have died at the end or what ever but why pursue a creature so.....utterly..........OK! Back to ESB.

 

Among one of those things of doing "something just because you can", how about showing the googles of the AT-AT that recognize the power generator be more flashhy? hehehe ok, turbolaser time now.....

I know how to make jar jar stand able. Re-dub his voice. Ah ha. He can keep a Jamaican accent  but a cooler Jamaican accent. Like he's about to roll up a big fatty in the middle of tattooine. More like Hermes from Futurama.

 

You mean Kit Fisto from the Clone Wars. =P (They're both voiced by the same actor)

 

I'm not saying get Phil LaMarr. But someone who can speak in a more ''laid back'' Jamaican accent. I'm sure one of us can do a Jamaican accent. Look at all the other gungans they are cool. But Jar Jar is annoying because of his voice and his constant meesa. If you remove his childish shenanigans and re dub his voice he will not stick out like the big annoying thumb he is.

 

Check out "The Phantom Edit".  The way to fix JarJar, aside from removing some of his antics, is to re-do the sound mix.  Not by re-dubbing a different voice but just by adjusting the levels.  Every time JarJar speaks, THE VOLUME LEVEL GOES WAY UP, and then back down to normal for everyone else.  Bring him back down to the same volume level as the rest of the movie and he becomes a lot more tolerable.

JP1 was also still a bit of an experiment in CG.  They didn't want to push themselves into too many shots because they didn't know how well it was going to work in the first place.  T2 only had maybe a dozen or so shots of the T-1000 that were CG, the rest were practical FX.

Another thing that points out CG as being such is animation quality.  I remember a shot in one of those Sci Fi Channel "giant monster of the week" Originals where a giant snake got decapitated.   Now, we're talking about a flesh and blood creature here.  The head should have squashed and deformed a bit, like a half deflated basketball, but the way it was animated, the head bounced on the floor like it was a solid bowling ball.  Granted, those SFCO's aren't Hollywood level, but you'd think someone would have caught that in dailies, or at least thought of it in planning the shot originally.

But to build on a comment above, yes, focus and lighting is definitely being ignored in CG, either by choice or by incompetence.  Part of that I think is pride - they're so glad they created this uber-detailed CG model that they want to show it off and make sure people see all the work they put into it, so they keep everything sharp and clear and well-lit instead of doing what makes the shot look convincing.

RoccondilRinon said:

The DVD-9 (NTSC or PAL). Which one you get depends on region (USA/Canada = NTSC, real world = PAL) and whether you prefer jittery pulldown (NTSC) or smooth 25fps (PAL).

Yeah, that's not a biased opinion.

',:-\

Plus $50 shipping, right?  :-)p

blacklodge said:

I just wanted to drop in and say thanks to everyone who PMed me with help grabbing the DVD9. You all rock! The "deleted scene" with the destruction of Alderaan was awesome!Thanks again all.

Keep poking around with the arrow keys in the Special Features sub-menus.  There's two hidden Easter Eggs.

Ok, some notes for Ady and everyone else who's not intimately familiar with the FM Falcon -

It's based on the 32" Falcon FX model, almost to the point of being a perfect 1/2 scale to it.  There are some differences between the 32"er and the 5 footer, which is what most people use as the ultimate reference.  The dish on the 32" is smaller and the cockpit cone is proportioned a little differently.  Also, if you're looking at it "top down", the mandibles toe in a bit more on the 5 footer...not enough to notice in normal shots though.  While there are people who have "corrected" this, it requires major surgery and re-structuring of the kit's body...not a task to be undertaken on a whim.  (I say "corrected" because whether you consider it "wrong" is relative to which particular FX model size you consider to be the definitive Falcon.  Among modelers, that's the 5 footer.)

As far as battle damage and markings - things like blaster burns and asteroid scars aside - the kit is VERY accurate as far as the decals for the various gray and rust colored panels.  Even if you decide not to use the decals and want to do a full paint job instead, the included color reference sheet of the completed kit is virtually like having the 32"er in front of you.  You'll need to create your own hull scars with a Dremel, hobby knife and/or soldering iron.

The only other tweak I might make when I build mine is to leave the rear engine grille off and just go with the engine elements exposed, or if I'm really brave, file out all the holes to make the grillework thinner.  It feels a little too thick as is.

And, for anyone who's going to build one, get yourself a couple of highlighters.  Follow the instructions METICULOUSLY and mark off every greeblie as you glue it in place.  This kit has over 800 pieces.  It's the only way to keep track of what you're doing in between stopping points.

Ok.  I haven't watched thru all of them, just scanned a few minutes here and there.  I found the the pilot and the second episode on and old tape of my own, so that's my basis for comparison for the opening credits.

Good versions of these things have gotta be out there somewhere.

Do those have the original opening credit sequences?

Rip - track the currency exchange rates over time.  PayPal could be using back-dated info - last exchange rate on prior business day/week, or within some other amount of time - so their exchange rate is what it was a few days ago rather than at the time of transaction.  I don't do a lot of foreign currency exchanges at all, let alone thru PP, but the ones I have done, that's been my experience.

Check your PMs.

I found the whole series on a torrent.  Video quality looks good, audio varies from ep to ep.  Only problem though is that they're taken from TechTV who apparently cut down the opening credits to bare minimum.  Anyone know if the original credit sequences are out there to be had?

Digging this up from the depths...

Anything happening with this?  I found the whole series on a torrent, and while it looks good, it's taken from TechTV and they chopped down the opening credits to bare minimum.  Anyone know if the original credit sequences are out there to be had?

Akwat - I'm sure you've seen the "Original" fan edit of TPM, the one that started it all, right?  Sit thru it with his audio commentary.  It's interesting not just from a Star Wars perspective but from a general editing view as well.  You can really see the differences the little trims make without changing the story.

adywan said:

there's another that i just can't fix either and that's a flipped shot of chewie and R2 as they run away from the stormtroopers on bespin. oh well. :)

What's the issue with flipping the shot back?

No, that was ret-conned a while ago.

Just before they lower him in, you see a couple of ugnaghts stop in front of him and do something, but because it's at the very bottom of the screen you can't tell what.  Han keeps his hands in the same position, so the explanation is that they took the cuffs off him at the last second and he just didn't feel the need to move his hands at that point, since it wouldn't have gained him anything anyway.

As for the strap across his back connected to the bands on his arms, that was explained away as being made of a form of carbonite that melted into the rest of the block, which is why it wasn't there when Leia freed him in ROTJ.

If you work backwards thru the thread you'll find it.  It's a shot or two, maybe one scene, that he could only find in full screen form, not widescreen, so it's only partly missing.