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#1581878
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Details about the making of the Death Star CGI in ANH & ROTJ
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Here are a couple videos on the original Star Wars …Making of the Computer Graphics for Star Wars (Episode IV)…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMeSw00n3Ac and Creating Computer Graphics for Star Wars: Episode IV (1976),even though it wasn’t called A New Hope until 1981 ,or 1979 if ya wanna get technical …Creating Computer Graphics for Star Wars: Episode IV (1976)…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_QoigEbwyA

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#1581126
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The original Marvel Star Wars series
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^ as always , of_Kaiburr_and_Whills , a pleasure to hear others takes and reviews of this series ! Thank you again and for the scans that compliment your reviews . Issue 19 had an interesting cover . A few years back I made a modernish homage to it ,which you can see here …https://www.deviantart.com/screamsinthevoid/art/Marvel-Star-Wars-19-Homage-823402251

also ,here is an excellent forum that reviewed the entire series , as well as the exclusive U.K. Marvel Star Wars publications ,with a lot of feedback from other users that you may enjoy …https://classiccomics.org/thread/1039/star-wars-marvel-reviews-confessor

Looking forward to more of your reviews and scans Whills , thank you for sharing !

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#1578303
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The original Marvel Star Wars series
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of_Kaiburr_and_Whills said:

Like many others, I’ve lost so much enthusiasm for Star Wars over the past few years. In an attempt to revive my excitement for the saga, I’ve decided to dive head first into the old Marvel Star Wars series.

I envy you getting to read this series all the way through for the first time and look forward to your further reviews . Great scans by the way ! I think you are in for a real treat . While there were some duds along the way , the series was a hell of a lot of fun and also had some very serious and poignant stories ,especially between TESB and ROTJ , as well as post ROTJ ,with issues like 92 and 86 . Anyway ,as you go along , I think you will find that a lot of these comics fit very well around the OT films . The first time I read the issues between Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back , when I got to watching the scene in Empire when Luke says farewell to Han ,just before the battle of Hoth ,that scene had a lot more resonance for me . Due to the comics filling in the 3 year gap, I really got the sense that these two had a long history of adventures together . It’s also fun seeing the writers come close to adding things that ended up in the later OT films after TESB , going so far as a forest world , small furry aliens on hang gliders , speeder bikes ,and even what basically amounted to a second Death Star ( with some modifications mandated by Lucasfilm ) !

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#1577197
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'Rey Skywalker' (Upcoming live action motion picture) - general discussion thread
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Z6PO said:

Daisy Ridley excited for “fun direction” of new STAR WARS film (YouTube)

I’m glad she is excited to return . Also glad to hear her praise of Sharmeen Obaid’s documentary experience . Wasn’t there something about George Lucas making the original Star Wars in a documentary style ? Seems like this may be in good hands , between the lead , the director and the writer , I am optimistic . Idk , we will see . anyway , looking forward to seeing Star Wars in theaters again soon .

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#1575137
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The original Marvel Star Wars series
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JadedSkywalker said:

I got the reprint of the comics adaptation for Star Wars, Empire and Jedi that was given away with the 2006 DVD sets. I wanted to get these to see if they are recolored or as i have been told the original book just reprinted.

They are recolored , not the original colors that were shown in the original Marvel run . This is actually a reprint of the recoloring of all 3 adaptations done by Dark Horse in 1994 . I have all of these as well as the 2006 dvd pack ins . In 94 , it was the first time they were digitally recolored ,and they published each movie adaptation over 2 issues apiece , with new cover art by Al Williamson , Cam Kennedy and Adam Hughes . The back cover of the a new hope adaptation that came with the 2006 dvd was used as the second cover for the 94 release . All they did for the 2006 pack ins was to put each movie adaptation issue from 94 together as single books and in the case of ANH , replace the original splash page with a white text crawl against a black star field .

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#1573911
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<strong>Pre-PT era lore</strong> | an OT &amp; EU scrapbook resource | additional info &amp; sources welcome
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also , a Cinescape magazine from November of 97 ,after some of the actors had been cast ,but still full of speculations …found on the archive …https://archive.org/details/cinescape-11-97/page/42/mode/2up
very interesting how close to what ended up being Jango’s armor color scheme is on that cover !

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#1573910
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<strong>Pre-PT era lore</strong> | an OT &amp; EU scrapbook resource | additional info &amp; sources welcome
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Don’t know if it has previously been posted elsewhere on this site , but here is a link to an article from Cinescape magazine speculating on the prequels in 1995 . Found on Reddit …https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/10vv3qk/cinescape_magazines_predictions_for_the_prequels/

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#1573763
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<strong>Pre-PT era lore</strong> | an OT &amp; EU scrapbook resource | additional info &amp; sources welcome
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Awesome thread BoShek !!! A couple things to add to the thread …In Star Wars official poster monthly from 1978 , the Storm Troopers were described as clones ,

" The creation of an Imperial Stormtrooper. A cloned man is one of a group of genetically identical humans, an assembly-line product. He is a thinking man, but he serves a specific purpose and no other. A Clone has no mother; only his trainers, and he accepts his fate because he believes it is inevitable. A Clone is, physically and emotionally, a normal man. He simply has no human rights and no name. He is the property of the Emperor. Soldiers fully formed in the growth tanks quickly proved impractical. Scientists found themselves the befuddled fathers of 12-stone blubbering idiots. A foetus is now removed from the hatchery after a gestation period of 60 weeks and is delivered immediately into the hands of its trainers."

A scan of said article can be found here…https://imgur.com/08OBzmC

Also , I have a Starlog magazine , issue 236 , celebrating the 20th anniversary of Star Wars in 1997 . There is an article in it speculating about the then upcoming prequel trilogy . It has some cartoony illustrations of a group of Jedi Knights all wearing Luke’s ROTJ garb ,mentions them fighting Mandalorians ,and gives a breakdown of how they thought each movie may go . Unfortunately , my copy is buried in a box somewhere in my walk in closet under a pile of old electronics . So if anyone has a copy of that issue ,it would be great to post it here with scans . I couldn’t find the article online anywhere . ( too bad the internet archive took down their collection of Starlog that was on there a few years back )

Also , as the prologue of the original novel mentioned the Journal Of The Whills , I always thought that might have been the title of Episode 1 and we would have gotten an explanation of who they were . One thing I appreciated about Rogue One was the inclusion of Chirrut and Baze as Guardians of the Whills , nodding back to that .

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#1564673
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Implied starting date of the Empire from OT dialogue
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yotsuya said:

Well, completely ignoring the PT, I get the following.

Luke. In ANH we find that Vader hunted down the Jedi. Luke’s father died (in ANH there is nothing linking Anakin and Vader). So we can come to the conclusion that the events where the Empire rose were not earlier than Luke’s conception. Anakin knew of Luke’s at least impending birth before he died.

Leia. Kenobi severed her father in the Clone Wars. This doesn’t tie specifically to Leia’s age, but does pin down her father being of the generation of the Clone Wars.

Kenobi. He speaks of the Jedi, before the Empire, before the Dark times. There is no clear link between what he says and the Clone Wars, only that he and Anakin both fought in the Clone Wars. So Kenobi, Anakin, and Leia’s father were all in the clone wars in some capacity.

All of that agrees with the PT.

In TESB we get a more firm timetable of the Empire with Vader being Luke’s father. We do hear Luke thinking Dagobah is very familiar, but we don’t get any reason why. From the context of the film it was most likely a force vision.

In ROTJ we find out that Luke and Leia are twins. This firmly plants the start of the Empire at their birth. Why? Vader did not know Luke had a sister which means he was not present at the birth. So the event that turned Vader and started the Empire happened between conception and birth of the twins.

We still have no indication of when the Clone Wars took place. It could be a month before or a decade before.

From the actors it is also hard to guess. Alec Guiness was was 63 when ANH was released. Sebastian Shaw (true he wasn’t cast yet) was almost 72. Phil Brown was 61 and Shelagh Fraser was 56. So Alec, Phil, and Shelagh were contemporaries and from the dialog in ANH, Sebastian was cast to show how the Dark Side had aged and warped him. Anakin was Kenobi’s student. When you look at the ages in Attack of the Clones, the relative ages of Kenobi, Owen and Beru are not that different, 31, 27, and 18) from the ANH cast (63, 61, 56 about 30 years older). So Anakin was young enough for Kenobi to train (also remember that Yoda said Luke was too old in TESB, so Anakin would be younger than Luke… by a lot). So Sebastian’s advanced age much have had a reason beyond Anakin actually being older than Kenobi.

So from the casting and the dialog just in the OT, the Clone Wars had to have taken place somewhere between 30 and 20 years before ANH. Officially it was 22-19 years before. So all the timings of the PT fit with what we see in the OT, except the age of the actors. But there is also nothing in the movies indicating how long the Clone Wars lasted so adding in another 5 to 10 years of war doesn’t break anything. Also, Ahsoka appears to have grown up considerably more than 3 years, and she is introduced when the Clone Wars are well underway (Anakin was still a Padawn when they started). So the official timeline seems too short and doesn’t really fit with the ages of the actors cast in both the OT and PT.

As a side note, Jimmy Smits was much older than the others in AOTC, but he was contemporary by the time he appeared in Rogue One (he was 61 when it was released).

^ based on the above ,an idea popped in my head …it seems logical to me that Anakin should have been 15 years old at the start of the prequel trilogy . That would have made him fairly substantially younger than Luke at the start of his journey in the OT , without straying into the kiddie territory with Anakin being 9 years old in episode 1 as released . I wonder if Lucas had the thought that making Anakin 15 at the start of the PT would be straying too close to Dune ,what with Paul Atreides being 15 in the first book and being part of a chosen one prophecy in the sense of Paul being a prophecized messiah . Maybe he realized how much he borrowed from Dune in the OT already ( among many other sources ) , looked over at his son who was a toddler at the time , and decided on placing Anakin at 9 years old as a happy medium between 9 and 15 so that it wouldn’t be too on the nose derivative of Dune . Probably a stretch ,but I find it fun to think about . I would still like to have had Anakin start out at 15 in episode one anyway . I vote 30 to 25 years before ANH as the start date of the Empire .

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#1564264
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Clone Wars [ Micro-Series ] - Original Broadcast Restoration / Chapter Format (RELEASED)
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cool project ! I like the colors on the first cover you posted more ,but I can appreciate the nostalgic vibe you were probably going for with the second iteration . I loved this series when it first came out . I have fond memories of watching it on the official Star Wars website , on a Windows desktop with a CRT monitor . When the series was finished,and both DVDs were released , I enjoyed watching it as a complete movie . This felt more like it captured the feel of Star Wars than any of the live action prequel movies did to me .

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#1559348
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Heir to the Empire - animated fan film series adaptation (up on youtube)
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I have really been enjoying this series . It’s not perfect , but closest to a direct movie adaptation we have gotten so far . I wish Disney/LFL would officially adapt the best of the Legends material into animation in the style of the DC animated movies . Those are pretty faithful to the source material , the Legends novels are still in print ,and I don’t think it would be a conflict of interest . Be a great way to appease the fan base .

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#1559346
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A thread for reporting any spam seen on the site
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I’ve been noticing massive amounts of spam across the boards lately , too many to copy and show here . noticing most of it in the late night or early morning hours and a lot of it being for illegal and illicit activities . The mods seem to be on top of it ,but I’ve never seen so much of it . banned member using sock accounts ? If so , they are pretty stupid. I’m guessing it’s just a matter of time before they get tracked somehow and hopefully receive harsh consequences for illegal activities .

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#1554285
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<strong>Ahsoka</strong> (live action series) - general discussion thread
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BedeHistory731 said:

screams in the void said:

and sorry if I spoiled the OG Thrawn trilogy for anyone ,but it came out 32-30 years ago , if you haven’t read it by now , that’s on you . And what the heck is wrong with you if you haven’t ? ( meant that kinda tongue in cheek ,with all due respect )

The unabridged audiobooks of the trilogy are also superb, if you’re an audiobook person.

For sure ! They were excellent and Mark Thompson gave a stellar performance. His voicing of the main OT cast was spot on and that’s exactly how I heard Thrawn’s voice in my head when originally reading the books