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One of the directors who just got fired.

Just caught a Star Wars tribute at one of the many 4th of July concerts being televised tonight, I think it was the DC one. The orchestra played the main title and finale, and the video feed switched over to clips from ANH. It didn’t look to be the Lowry transfer, and at first I thought it might even be the GOUT until they showed the Death Star explosion with the praxis ring. I think it might have been an old broadcast version of the 1997 SE.

Also, even if it did fall out the bottom of Cloud City like Luke did, there’s no reason to think it couldn’t have landed on some kind of mining platform lower down in the atmosphere.

I thought you meant the very fun card game. Anyway, I didn’t realize they actually had Daisy Ridley voicing herself in this. Very cool.

yhwx said:

I thought this was a Star Wars site but by the look of a lot the new users here it doesn’t seem like that anymore.

I’ve been really weirded out recently by how much energy people have been expending on making sure everyone knows that they’re so totally over Star Wars.

I don’t think they ever tied up his story, he just sort of went off at the end of the last story arc he was in and he never came back before the show ended. I remember (obviously quashed) rumors that he would turn up in Rogue One. I’d like to see him show up in a live-action film at some point, and the Han Solo movie seems like much less of a long shot.

Are they still making those though or are the discontinued? I remember seeing the characters and the OT X-wings before TFA came out but I haven’t come across them since.

SilverWook said:

Does that Falcon kit come with a “OT” dish?

No, sadly; that’s why I put Rey in the cockpit instead of Han. Bandai only does the TFA ships currently (they had the ST X-wings and TIEs at the booth I got the Falcon at). I don’t think anyone’s making OT kits right now, unless there were any Rogue One tie-ins that I missed, which is a shame.

I’m not ruling out taking a crack at it down the road, but I don’t have the time or energy to devote to doing it right at the moment. It’s all snaps and no glue, so it wouldn’t be that difficult to partially disassemble it for painting. Time will tell.

Here’s the 501st basket, which honestly wasn’t anything special, but it was cool to win something. I don’t feel like gathering it all up again for a photo, and anyway I split it with my friend so I only half of the good stuff. The highlights were a little die cast X-wing and TIE fighter that I’ve got on my desk now.

Here’s everything else. I actually finished building the Falcon yesterday. I don’t trust my ability to paint it without ruining it, so I’m leaving it naked for now. It’s still plenty cool that way, IMO.

Here’s some more shots of the Falcon.

Also, I accidentally snapped off Rey’s left leg when I was putting her in the cockpit, so if she loses it in TLJ I want credit for predicting it.

Forgot to post this when it actually happened, but I went to a comic con last weekend in Worcester, MA and scored a bunch of Star Wars schwag. The 501st had a charity raffle where I ended up winning a gift basket full of figures and legos and stuff. Also got a Millennium Falcon model kit, the 40th anniversary black series Luke action figure with the 77 packaging, and the coup de grace, a Sebastian Shaw Anakin Skywalker action figure from the 90s.

I’m very into this, as the GOUT is the transfer that’s seared into my 1990s mind as well. Excited as hell to see someone doing all three at a consistent quality.

luckydube56 said:

And now its come out that Alden Ehrenreich had raised concerns about Lord and Miller during filming describing the Han Solo characterization as something akin to Ace Ventura.

If this is true, then I’m 200% on board with them getting sacked. I’m not a huge Ron Howard fan, but he’s absolutely competent. If he just assembles the movie according to Kasdan and Son’s script, I feel a lot better about that than the bro-down that it sounds like Lord and Miller were drifting towards, even if it isn’t the most inspired thing I’ve ever seen.

I always figured he couldn’t fit through the door.

I hadn’t heard about The Thing, and now I’m happy I procrastinated so long on the Shout disc. I have the Universal BD from back in the day. It’s fine, especially considering it’s only a single-layer disc, but I imagine either of these remasters is probably a huge improvement.

I had to turn off The Lego Movie after six or seven minutes because it was giving me a headache. That’s the sum of my experience with Lord and Miller.

I’m not sure if that was the reaction here specifically because I haven’t been in the spoiler thread in a while myself, but the rest of the Internet lost its collective shit.

Swazzy said:

Between this and half of Rogue One being reshot, it seems we won’t ever be getting a new Star Wars film with the director’s vision left entact again.

I love how a week or two ago everyone was freaking out about LFL not having a plan for the ST after that article about Rian Johnson’s near complete creative control on TLJ, and now it’s this.

Looks like Rogue One will land on Netflix next month.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/21/15843104/netflix-streaming-rogue-one-star-wars-exclusivity-deal

I think it would have to be the Faces and 97 SE tapes, the Power of the Force action figures, the Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight and Rogue Squadron video games, the Decipher Star Wars CCG cards, and whatever Bantam EU books I could snag at the grocery store. A very 90s Star Wars.

Safety Not Guaranteed was one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen, so I’ve been on edge about this from day one. That review excerpt that Alderaan posted for Book of Henry honestly made me morbidly curious, though.

I’m with you. I’m just surprised that I’m with you.

Watching Alderaan defend ROTJ is making me feel like Hammond in the dinner scene.

I don’t believe it! You’re meant to come down here and defend me against these characters, and the only one I’ve got on my side is the blood-sucking lawyer!

I actually have seen the Criterion release of Benjamin Button at WalMart.

I feel like I need to see the gorilla walker in motion before I can pass judgement either way. I’m having a hard time figuring out how it’ll move based on the still. Do the front legs bend backward?