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Post: #33842
Topic: NEW SECTION ON SITE: MAP OF USA
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/33842/action/topic#33842
Time: 16-Feb-2004 12:30 PM

Who says we cannot have extras?

The 'backups' I plan on making will also have backups of some other things:
a 1986 Nova on Special Effects
The old "Star Wars to Star Wars" documentary
Maybe George Lucas in Love and other fan-created movies

Post: #33498
Topic: and i thought blonds were stupid (edit: re Troops fan film; and it is spelled 'blonde', stupid...)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/33498/action/topic#33498
Time: 14-Feb-2004 7:34 AM

I've got the movie on DVD as well.

Total Movie was giving away its first issue (with Troops). I signed up to get that free issue.

Since I liked the magazine and everything I kept getting it. Before the magazine went defunct, I had several disks of trailers and shorts, plus 41 full-length DVD movies.
(Most were old B&W movies, couple Dick Tracy movies, 2 Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes, Road to Bali original Little Shop of Horrors).

Post: #33316
Topic: Info: OT Bootleg DVDs
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/33316/action/topic#33316
Time: 13-Feb-2004 1:17 PM

I also plan on making my own "digital backups" of the VHS Original Trilogy.

I've got DVDit and have already started work on my own menus (work is slow though, DVDit is not as versatile as I had hoped).

Post: #32646
Topic: SE Trilogy on DVD coming this Fall
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/32646/action/topic#32646
Time: 9-Feb-2004 1:04 PM

DVDs are always released on a Tuesday. Don't ask me to explain why, they just are.

Post: #32408
Topic: Classic SW DVD Release Info- from tf.n
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/32408/action/topic#32408
Time: 7-Feb-2004 10:20 AM

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Originally posted by: R2-G2
George, it was good the way that it was.

As long as people own the original trilogy in some form, we should be safe in saying "Its good the way it is."

Post: #32356
Topic: Classic SW DVD Release Info- from tf.n
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/32356/action/topic#32356
Time: 6-Feb-2004 2:01 PM

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Originally posted by: obi-wan trentobi
I don't doubt that Lucas will tinker further with the Original Trilogy, but I doubt that he'd go as far as that list says he will.

He wants to create his "perfect" Star Wars, and given he's made fundmental changes already to the original, why would you be surprised if he makes "Star Wars v3.0"?

Post: #31665
Topic: Link Swapping
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/31665/action/topic#31665
Time: 1-Feb-2004 8:00 AM

Thanks.

I use EZboard for a lot of stuff, and I'm use to their system:
No matter how old, you can always see it.

Post: #31629
Topic: Star Wars: The Rise of Darth Vader = TV series
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/31629/action/topic#31629
Time: 31-Jan-2004 11:38 AM

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Originally posted by: Bossk
For me, I wish I could say that. I hate ST:TMP. I am a fan of the even numbered ST movies. The odd numbered ones were just that... odd.

Wrath of Khan is my favorite of the TOS-cast movies.
First Contact is THE best of the TNG-cast movies.

Star Trek: Generations was the best of the odd number ones.

Anyways, I'd love to see a SW TV show, even if it is just a miniseries. The hard part, though, would be in maintaining integrity. Would Hayden continue as Darth Vader? He's going to take the helmet off every now and then, like in ESB, and to have anyone else under there wouldn't seem quite right.

Post: #31613
Topic: Link Swapping
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/31613/action/topic#31613
Time: 31-Jan-2004 5:53 AM

Question:
Why is it on the main forums listing page, it says there are 16 topics here, butwhen I enter, only mine is visible to me?

Post: #30378
Topic: Wanted: Vintage Cardbacks
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/30378/action/topic#30378
Time: 23-Jan-2004 1:27 PM

I saved all my original cardbacks back about 15-18 years ago.

But when we moved about 13 years ago, I lost track of every last one of them. My parents say they don't remember them ever getting thrown away, so I have to wonder where they went.

Post: #30377
Topic: Link Swapping
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/30377/action/topic#30377
Time: 23-Jan-2004 1:22 PM

I had a couple thoughts about getting the originaltrilogy.com address around the web.

1. In addition to having a "Link To Us" page so that people can link to you, have a page of banners/links of people that are linked TO you.
Ex. I have an ot.com banner on my site, you could have a link to my site on ot.com. A simple swap.

This kind of thing might appeal to those people that have the 'What do I get out of it?' attitude.

2. Join some free banner exchanges. When I was running my website (Starkiller's Sci-Fi Battlefield), I was part of 3 or 4 different SW-related free banner exchanges.

Here, check some of these out:
The Jawa Trader Banner Exchange
The Star Trek and Star Wars Banner Exchange
The Star Wars Combine Banner Exchange

Then there are those "Top 100" sites:
Hit Rocket
Hapes Top 100

Post: #30341
Topic: SE Trilogy on DVD coming this Fall
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/30341/action/topic#30341
Time: 23-Jan-2004 9:38 AM

I just stopped by dvd.ign.com, and found this on their "Our Most Anticipated DVDs of 2004" page.

The Star Wars Trilogy
Publisher: Fox/LucasFilm
Publication Date: September is the rumored month

The Pitch: Finally, after a long, long time…

Why it's Going to Rock: After a lot of haggling, nagging, haranguing and pestering, George Lucas seems to have finally gotten the message. The original word was he would wait to do the original trilogy after the third film was released, which is in 2005. No one wanted to wait that long, and apparently, neither did Lucas.

These three films won't be the originals we saw in theaters in 1977, 1980 and 1983. Nor will they be the Special Editions released in 1997, which featured the hated scene with Greedo shooting Han Solo first. Supposedly this new version will have Han shooting first again, but a whole bunch of new effects, including the light saber fight between Obi-Wan and Darth Vader. We shall see, George, we shall see.

Post: #30339
Topic: SE Trilogy on DVD coming this Fall
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/30339/action/topic#30339
Time: 23-Jan-2004 9:20 AM

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Originally posted by: Jay

I sold my LD player but kept my THX Faces trilogy so I could feel justified in purchasing a DVD backup somewhere on the web. Sadly, it looks like I might actually have to go through with that purchase.

It leaves me wondering what the future of the site is at this point.

1. Not going to purchase. I'm going to make mine.
My menus. My extras.

2. I'm with Motti. In the immortal words of former Cleveland Mayor Michael White "It Ain't Over." (Context: Concerning the move of the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore to become what is now the Ravens)

This petition exists to (hopefully) get Lucas to release the original movies on DVD.
This petition, at least in my mind, wasn't to make sure the original movives were the first released.

Post: #29565
Topic: why do they call us geeks
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/29565/action/topic#29565
Time: 16-Jan-2004 10:14 AM

Actually it was a guy AT Lucasfilm that revealed this, so it wasn't an observant viewer.
It was one of the people responsible for it.

I'll go through my Behind the Magic CD. I think that chunk of video might be viewable on it, and if it is, I'll try to capture it.

Post: #29558
Topic: why do they call us geeks
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/29558/action/topic#29558
Time: 16-Jan-2004 7:30 AM

Quote
Originally posted by: Bossk
Quote
Originally posted by: starkiller
People that rush to the TV to point out the 2 H's that appear for 4 frames during Return of the Jedi, could probably be considered geeks.

Come again? 2 Hs? Apparently, I'm not a geek.

Break out your copy of Return of the Jedi, I shall attempt to walk you through finding them.

Watch until the Imperial Fleet reveals itself at Endor.
At one point, Lando says "Fighters coming in."
Then we cut to a cockpit view of the TIEs coming at, then going around the Falcon.

During the next shot we see the reverse angle, of the Falcon flying towards the camera with the Death Star behind it. If you watch this shot, frame-by-frame, you will see that as the Falcon flies by, 2 letter H's will appear on its hull, then disappear within 2 or 3 frames.
They are a mistake by Lucasfilm. They are 2 TIE fighters that were put in the wrong place (I don't recall exactly how its explained).

A Nova special, which I have mentioned before, about Special Effects points this out. You have to look very closely at the correct spot on the screen to even notice it with the movie going by at full speed.

Post: #29300
Topic: why do they call us geeks
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/29300/action/topic#29300
Time: 13-Jan-2004 2:16 PM

I am no expert on the subject, but in my case I think the explanation that Gundark Hunter gave is the most accurate.

Enjoying, or even loving, Star Wars does not make a person a geek.

Its the fact that some people can recall, off the top of their heads, that the chances of flying through an asteroid field are approximately 3720 to 1, that make them geeks.
People that rush to the TV to point out the 2 H's that appear for 4 frames during Return of the Jedi, could probably be considered geeks.

During the scene where Palpatine is using the Force Lightning on Luke, in 2 different shots, we see Vader turn his head towards the Emperor. In one, there are smudges on his helmet. In the other, they are gone. Shot during different days? I don't know, but something must have happened.

Does it make me a geek for knowing this from memory? Perhaps, but I don't mind.

Post: #29205
Topic: Classic SW DVD Release Info- from tf.n
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/29205/action/topic#29205
Time: 12-Jan-2004 1:11 PM

As I said above:
And if GL sees his way to not releasing OT...well, I'm not supposed to discuss it.

Let's just say that backing up legal copies is legal, and I should be able to get access to the proper facilities.

Post: #29114
Topic: Classic SW DVD Release Info- from tf.n
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/29114/action/topic#29114
Time: 9-Jan-2004 7:39 AM

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Originally posted by: Bossk
I pray that between the time that blurb was actually written and the time when the DVDs are worked on, GL will change his mind. When was the book published?

I can hope, right?

From Amazon.com:

Paperback: 256 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.61 x 9.16 x 6.02
Publisher: Allworth Press; (July 2003)
ISBN: 1581152795
Amazon.com Sales Rank: 1,115,217

Post: #28889
Topic: Classic SW DVD Release Info- from tf.n
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/28889/action/topic#28889
Time: 6-Jan-2004 1:00 PM

theforce.net has another article about the rumored DVD release:

Lucas Confirms DVD Changes to Classics
Tue, Jan 06, 04 02:08:12 AM EST

Rob sends us this interesting note:
A little something I noticed today while browsing in Barnes & Noble today might be of some interest to other Star Wars fans. It's not much, but in Robert J. Emery's The Directors: Take 4, there is a chapter dedicated to George Lucas and his work. In it, George Lucas discusses his revisions to the Classic Trilogy that we are all familiar with in the Special Editions. However, at the end of that section, Lucas mentions that when the Classic Trilogy is released on DVD he will finally be able to release the films in the way he had originally intended.
He doesn't come out and say it directly, but I think it is fairly safe to assume that he intends to make additional changes to the Classic Trilogy. Either way, there are some good things in this book would recommend the series to any interested in filmmaking.

Sure sounds like it to us as well.

Post: #28562
Topic: The Empire Strikes Back trivia
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/28562/action/topic#28562
Time: 29-Dec-2003 12:27 PM

Indeed.
But as I said, with his helmet on, even the crew working on the set that day didn't hear it.

I only learned about it myself because a local news boardcast was doing a story about Jeremy and some other SW actors being in town for a convention or something like that.

That was years ago, but I remember the story so well.

Post: #28490
Topic: Star Wars Behind the Magic HELP
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/28490/action/topic#28490
Time: 26-Dec-2003 7:34 AM

Well, there is another option.

There are programs out there, I think some are even freeware, that are capable of video capture. I think the more advanced version of FRAPS (A Frame-per-second program) is capable of doing this. Whether or not the video would look any good or not, I do not know.

I've never used one myself, so I cannot say for sure.

Post: #28368
Topic: The Phantom Menace trivia
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/28368/action/topic#28368
Time: 21-Dec-2003 7:55 AM

· Warwick Davis

Warwick Davis had multiple appearances in EP1. One was as the Rodian Wald, one of Anakin's friends and his other part is as a Spectator at the race. He can be seen for the first time without a mask, sitting in the box with Watto.

· Other special Credits.
Credit was given to what must have been a very special coffee maker, Javva the Hutt.

Post: #28367
Topic: The Empire Strikes Back trivia
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/28367/action/topic#28367
Time: 21-Dec-2003 7:46 AM

· Jeremy Bulloch

- In the scene after Vader has been torturing Han, when he tells Boba Fett that Solo is his, and Fett replies "He's no good to me dead."
That wasn't Jeremy Bulloch. It was the actor who played Luke's dead speeder gunner, Dack.

- In the very end, when Han is being loaded on Slave I, Jeremy actually screwed up his lines. He said "Put Captain cargo in the Solo hold."

But with the mask on, no one heard it. The line was later dubbed in.

Post: #28366
Topic: The Empire Strikes Back trivia
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/28366/action/topic#28366
Time: 21-Dec-2003 7:38 AM

· The Wampa subplot:
The Rebels imprison a number of Wampas and are able to keep themtrapped thanks to R2. R2's high-pitched whistling sounds seem to have a strong effect on them.

After C-3PO rips the sign off the door, 3 Snowtroopers enter the room, and are quickly shreaded, and the monsters escape. When Vader gets to the room, he comments "Rebels?", to which another troopers replies, I don't think so sir.

For the best evidence of the cut-scenes of ESB, get the comic book.

Post: #28048
Topic: Star Wars Behind the Magic HELP
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/28048/action/topic#28048
Time: 14-Dec-2003 8:14 AM

For some reason I cannot edit.

Sorry, sorry. I just tried the videos I mentioned above, and the links are dead. The movies don't exist there anymore.