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#54895
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Prequels from an Expanded Universe POV
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hmmm

well mine is a very low budget R2 dvd player & when i bought mine i "asked" the salesman if he would give me the code to unlock it to make it multi region.

I think im right in saying ALL dvd players are multi region but due to copyright laws (i think) they have to be set to a standard format for the country or region they are being sold in.

might be worth running a google search with your "dvd make, serial number & multi region unlock code"

or something along those lines, has always worked for me mates!

btw that addy is www.google.co.uk (just in case ya didnt know)
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#54809
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Prequels from an Expanded Universe POV
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54809/action/topic#54809
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theres also X wings & a tie fighter in Attack of the clones, as well as the flying cop vehicles (spinners I think they're called) from Blade Runner in either Phnatom Menace or AOTC..cant remember which off hand.

R2 D2 & C3PO are also to be found in Raiders Of The Lost Ark...they're represented as Hieroglyphics on the wall of the Well Of Souls, just behind the Arc.

In Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom the club theyr in at the very beginning is called Club Obi Wan.

Does this mean that all these films are connected in some way? that they all exist in some parallel universe?

Course they don't!

It's just a bunch of geeks having a laugh & sticking in things they find funny where ever they can get away with it for geeks like us to seek out & say "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, Cheeky"
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#54471
Topic
Prequels from an Expanded Universe POV
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54471/action/topic#54471
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Originally posted by: Shimraa
Finally a thread that talks about my type of SW. NJO was fanatic they were the first SW novels i read, for me i guess since i didnt know anything the first couple of books were slow but after that they are fantastic. I'd love any sort of reference to rogue planet or any thin NJO related in the movies, also a reference to anything from thrawn. can you imagine a thrawn camio, i would love that, or a reference to vergere.


or even Nom Anor striding by in the back ground

Apparantly there are some of the Hapian representative (from the Courtship of Princess Leia & the NJO series) in the Coruscant scenes of Attack Of The Clones......a woman with a veiled face flanked by 2 bodyguards!

1st to find her wins a Mars bar!

I'd scan the picture in here but alas to save on space when moving I threw out all my Star Wars magazines
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#54470
Topic
Prequels from an Expanded Universe POV
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54470/action/topic#54470
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Originally posted by: starkiller
I've read a fair chunk of the books.

I don't think that the Prequels mesh as well as I would have liked with the EU (which Lucas seems to have completely disregarded).

Point 1: Boba Fett- Originally was a man banished from the planet Concord Dawn. Now, he's a clone copy of the same man used as the template for the stormtroopers??


Over the years there have been many different tales of Boba's origins, if you read the Dark Empire comic series they reveal Boba Fett to have once been an Imperial Stormtrooper. He's also been the last survivor of the Mandalore Battle Commandoes (which if you now do any background research on the OS ha snow been handed over to Jango), a Journey man named Jaster Merell etcetc

I can't remember where I read it, but that question was once posed to some lacky at Lucasfilm who replied "the many myths of Boba Fetts origins are part of an elaborate deception scheme to confuse potential assassins/would be competitors"

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Point 2: Clones- This is slightly more dependant on EP3, but where are the Spaarti Cloning Cylinders?? For that matter, who/what are Spaarti??


Ahh the blessed EU, throws up so many amazing ideas that get poo-poo'd by the movies.....I've always thought of the Spaarti cloning tanks as being one of many sources for cloning.

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Point 3: Ships- Again, this is more dependant on EP3, but where are the Dreadnaughts, Alderaanian War Frigates, Republic TIEs, Z-95 Headhunters?


theres 20 years between eps 3 & 4, thats a lot of time for new ships to come be wheeled out of the production line, plus we dont know for sure what ships we are going to see in Ep3, it has been suggested we will see early prototypes of some Ep4 ships

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Point 4: Events- I'm hoping we get some mention of Thrawn and/or the Outbound Galaxy Project. So many have said that Lucas likes the Zahn Trilogy best, that it holds truest to the spirit of Star Wars, yet Lucas has yet to do anything that shows that the Zahn books fit into his own story.


Um Zhan created Coruscant.......nuff said!

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#54389
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Changes in 2004 DVDs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54389/action/topic#54389
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Originally posted by: jimbo
I am just saying I believe women are treated better in society then men. I have no doubt of this. I also have two sisters. I hate them. There worthless individuels. I believe women have more rights then men and have given several examples of why. True women deserve respect but so do we. Also the bits does not post fanboy rumors. There rumor mill is industry speculation. If they say its confirmed is confirmed. I trust the bits.


OMG!!!!

Well let's just say that you have been born in the wrong century my lad!

Let's take you back in time to say........................the 18th or even 19th century.

You'd probably feel very much at home there.

If in doubt, my young friend, here's a little bit of a history lesson for you.

Ever heard of Womens Emancipation?

The burning of the Bra's saga?

Nope?? didn't think so...........

Women have been treated as second class citizens for so long I can't even begin to quote figures (or even make them up ), the Womens Suffragete movement lobbyed & fought for basic human rights, the right for them to have jobs & earn equal pay to Men, to be able to serve in the Armed Forces, TO VOTE!!

Yup thats right Women were at one point NOT ALLOWED TO VOTE.....

Obviously there are still a few of us Men out there who believe in the old fashioned views (as our grandfathers did once) that Women should be courted & wooed. Doors should be opened for them, they should be taken out for meals, bought flowers etcetcetc

thats fine by me.....however many women nowadays don't like to be made to feel they are getting a "free lunch" & like to either pay their way (again fine by me) or even....gasp............... treat their fella to a decent night out.

Sorry if this upsets ya Jimbo, its the way society has progressed, ya could almost call it EVOLUTION

Im not gonna call you a sexist pig, just cant be bothered, but that feisty young attitude of yours might end you up in court in later life on Sexual Harrasment charges.........

sleep tight
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#54289
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spider-man 2
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54289/action/topic#54289
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Originally posted by: Jedi Master
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Originally posted by: die-jarjar-die
Other "comic book" adaptations that might or might not be worthy of mentioning:

Ghost World
The Phantom
Flash Gordon
Road To Perdition
League Of Xtraordinary Gentlemen
The Shadow
Dick Tracey
The Rocketeer

thats all I can remember off the top of my head, but I know theres been loads more....I left out the Hulk & Spiderman tv movies...thought them too obvious



Oooo eck! dont quote me BUT........................I dont think DARKMAN is based on a comic....i think it was just ripping off comics....i could b wrong...I'll check me dvd later on

Don't forget Darkman.


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#54097
Topic
spider-man 2
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54097/action/topic#54097
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Other "comic book" adaptations that might or might not be worthy of mentioning:

Ghost World
The Phantom
Flash Gordon
Road To Perdition
League Of Xtraordinary Gentlemen
The Shadow
Dick Tracey
The Rocketeer

thats all I can remember off the top of my head, but I know theres been loads more....I left out the Hulk & Spiderman tv movies...thought them too obvious
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#54096
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spider-man 2
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54096/action/topic#54096
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Originally posted by: starkiller If you watched the early 90s Spiderman cartoon, do you recall the string of episodes with Madame Web, where The Beyonder wanted a test of good vs. evil.
...Doing some checking, it was called "The Secret Wars" and there were 3 chapters too it.



Yeah I remember that...didn't they have an Infinite Universe thing going on & there was like 6 different Spidermans running about trying to save the world?

BTW...just on another note....The Secret Wars of the title was originally an Epic crossover story from the early 1980's Marvel comics. If I remember just about EVERY MARVEL superhero/villain was involved in some way & I think there were quite a few characters killed off too. But as it was an "alternate universe" story it didn't really affect the characters regular titles once the storyline had finished.
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#54095
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spider-man 2
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54095/action/topic#54095
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Originally posted by: jimbo I only read more recent comics and in those and the cartoon Doc Oc seemed much more evil then in the movie.


There we go! That's your answer to your own concern right there.....you only read RECENT comics & watch the cartoons...I assume you mean the 2 recent Spiderman cartoon series?

There have been many, many interpretations of Spiderman in comics over his 40 year history. Many reinventions & many restarts of the Spiderman mythos. These contradict each other & change characters/villains motives along the way. I don't think it's really that fair of you to say that Doc Ock was wrong in the movie because it's not like the version you know when there have been upteenth variations of the character that you haven't had prior knowledge of to draw a comparison. Had your knowledge of the various interpretations been less limited then you would be in a better position to argue your case.

It's kinda like watching the 1960's Batman television series & then moaning that Tim Burtons 1989 movie completely changed all your favourite characters & totally messed it up

See what I'm getting at?

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#54073
Topic
spider-man 2
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54073/action/topic#54073
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Originally posted by: jimbo Spoiler warning. First of all Docter Octopus was done wrong. He was never just a good guy who was corrupted by the tenticles. Doc Oc in the comic was one of the most evil of Spider-Mans villians. He just isn't as evil anymore.


Depends what series of comics & from what era you are reading, if original 60's comics then yes, Octavius wasn't EVIL, he was a wronged Scientist trying to exact revenge, driven insane by the welding of these "empathic" tentacles to his nervous system

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#54072
Topic
spider-man 2
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54072/action/topic#54072
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Originally posted by: sean wookie
die-jarjar-die edit the quote


do you mean I have to edit my quote of you or that i edited your quote?

if the latter then all i did was quote the end of your post so I havent altered the context of it, you still released a spoiler without giving any warning

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#54007
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DVDs of 2004?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54007/action/topic#54007
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Originally posted by: Bossk
Also, has anyone here seen the 2003 version of Peter Pan yet? Just saw it and I thought it was great.




I quite agree Bossk, I avoided it at the cinema thinking "oh god not more Hookness"

Then got a preview dvd from work & thought what the hell, watched it, loved it!
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#53940
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Changes in 2004 DVDs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/53940/action/topic#53940
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Originally posted by: Galahad_Skywalker
And truthfully, we'll never know how Lucas originally intended anything. His original intentions vary from year to year, and from video release to video release.


Amen to that brother.......

I'm beginning to seriously doubt the legitimacy of ANYTHING that emerges from that dudes mouth......

"Well I had a 9 part treatment for the story written back in 1972. Did I say 9? Oh meant 6, no 9, no 6, yes definitely 6 & I'd always envisioned Jar Jar being in the movies (even though my then 5 year old son created him in 1997, but we'll just brush that under the carpet shall we??)"