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TV's Frink said:

Darth Bizarro said:

Lando's excursion to the blob races

What?

Get ready for this...

Wookieepedia said:

A blob race was a bizarre contest of speed between protoplasmic, gelatinous Umgullian blobs through a course of obstacles—from fine mesh screens to a bed of nails. It was a major betting sport in Umgul City on the planet Umgul. The syrupy masses, usually grayish green but laced with bright hues, rolled, slithered, and oozed their way through. Cheating on the races was punishable by death.

and

Wookieepedia said:

The typical blob was a base color of sickly green. Most, however, were patterned with vivid spots and stripes. There were many subspecies of blob, some bred for racing, some bred as domestic pets and some even for medicinal purposes. All, however, consisted almost solely of a large mass of jelly-like fluid encased in a thin membrane. This membrane was thin enough to let the moisture of Umgul's foggy atmosphere to pass through. This skin also had the ability to break and then reform instantly. This allowed the blob to split into two new blobs. These new blobs would behave exactly like the original blob until, at any point, they were able to re-merge into one. This was also how the blobs reproduced; when a blob grew to the appropriate size, it would divide into two equal, smaller blobs, like giant amoebae

and finally...

Wookieepdia said:

Along with C-3PO and R2-D2, [Lando] was led to the Umgullian Blob races in search of the possible Force-sensitive. The individual they were searching for, Dack (also known as Tymmo), turned out to be a cheater on the blob races instead of a Force-sensitive, and Calrissian helped expose him. When Calrissian went to confront Tymmo at the blob stables, he found that the man had planted something on one of the blobs. Tymmo did not take kindly to being discovered and a short firefight at the corral ensued before security forces arrived to subdue him. Rather than suffer the usual death penalty for cheating, Tymmo was returned to his wife Mistal, the Duchess of Dargul. As a reward for Calrissian's help in returning her husband, Mistal gave him one million credits.

So... now you know.

The only problem I see with the eyes is the whites of his eyes - He doesn't have any in the non-CG bits.

Other than that, this is a pretty good change (if we're changing things, which is a different judgment scale, see).

Chewtobacca said:

DuracellEnergizer said:  This may just be me, but it's kind of hard to tell that Shaw has any discernible British accent in ROTJ.

He most certainly has an English accent.

As an American, I'd just like to say that I've never heard it (and still don't).

ray_afraid said:

I like the idea of changing the Ewoks eyes to make them more believable and life-like. But the way they've done it makes 'em look so creepy!

This may be something we need to see in motion.

TV's Frink said:

vbangle said:

Sorry but that just looks gay as hell.

Sorry but using "gay as hell" to describe something you don't like is gay as hell.

...double standard?

ImperialFighter said:

Anyway, it turned out that he intends to alter the intro. of ROTJ for his eventual Revisited edit, so that it seems Vader is on his Executor rather than some random Stardestroyer...so the existing ROTJ shot of the shuttle dropping down from the front 'bay' is likely to be GONE in his version. 

Although this raises the question of "Then how does Palpatine get to the Death Star?", I'm really glad to hear this. Having Vader arrive in the Executor keeps better continuity with ESB, and results in a more impressive SD-flyover shot, instead of just repeating the ANH intro.

But was the picture letterboxed? If not.... could it have been DJ's v3 or something? Harmy's Despecialized?

IMPORTANT NOTE: you're going to want a much higher resolution file than that for physical printing.

But seriously guys, that looks amazing.

Anchorhead, it's good, but I have to agree with Silver - It needs the "SAVE"

And maybe just the url for savestarwars.com, as I feel like ot.com is a little less publicly presentable.

And maybe a different font for the url?

EDIT: I forgot to say - Thank you for actually making what is at least a prototype!

Oh goodness, a whole message board for people making protocol droid costumes and models. Well, there goes that logistical problem!

I don't think anyone has ever built a good C3P0 costume. I certainly haven't found such a thing online... but maybe I haven't looked hard.

Well, I'll believe it when I see it.

none said:

A promotional patch to throw off onlookers.

...by using Star Wars font.

doubleofive said:

Can you imagine if someone tried to piece together the plots from the prequels based on pictures like this?

"He's walking in front of a blue screen... He takes his lightsaber out and swings it around, then continues walking..."

Having been a regular TFN and VirtualEdition reader during the Prequels, I can confirm that it was much like that. Thankfully some info did leak, over time, and so you could start to figure things out.

If any of you are unfamiliar with the Virtual Edition, I strongly recommend you check out http://virtualedition.net/ . They're slowly working on writing and illustrating their own Sequel Trilogy, but the really fascinating stuff is their "Virtual Editions" of the prequels. They were updated over time, so you'll probably find them a little more accurate than you'd expect as dialogue became available through trailers, but it's pretty fascinating to see what spy reports and photos plus photoshop could give you, before each prequel was released. Here's their version of TPM.

By the way, the title of this thread is a little silly. I never thought they didn't film the Barge scenes, you know?

Unfortunately, I think that amount of deviation from the plot would require significant exposition which we can't really make any characters do.

slight changes to Jabba who is now digitally expressive.

This is new, but not surprising.

Questions:

1. Why does Threepio sneak down to the planet if he's a TF droid? It might work better to make him the Jedi's droid, not replacing the TF Welcome Party. (Note: This might make "Nice to see a familiar face" in ESB a little funnier, if you get what I mean?) If they're ambassadors, why shouldn't they have a protocol droid?
2. How do they get from the swamp to the city, if they don't visit Otoh Gunga at all?
3. If we're talking about no gungans, when/where/how/why is the Padme/Amidala thing revealed effectively?

Jaitea said:

wonder if the whole Dermot shot will be an extra on the BD

Well, it hasn't been on any of the lists we've seen. :-/

I'm hoping we can compile some fair reviews by knowledgeable folks like Hairy (sound), Ady (picture) and whoever else you think would be the exact right people to comment on relevant issues with the discs, after they're released. I mean no offense to those who have been saying things so far, but there would be far more value in having a collection of reviews of the actual, confirmed releases.

And yes 005, that's exactly the case.

Sounds like a call for full-assed effort to me!

I think it might require a Threepio costume and a greenscreen... but yeah, it is actually doable.

And a really great idea.

LegendaryPOO said:

Why complain about the matte lines anyway? Arent you wanting the video to look as close to the original product as possible? Removing the matte lines will mean more tinkering, which everyone is complaing about. Im so confused by the indecision about fixing stuff and leaving it the way it was.

This is a central tension around here. The best way of explaining it, as near as I can figure, is to say that there are two main thoughts:

1. The Originals need to be released in high-quality scans worthy of the historically important and really great films that they are.

2. If you're going to do a Special Edition, which is pretty understandable given the modern viewing audience and wanting things to be a little more consistent across all 6 movies, at least do a good and thorough job.

Folks around here think Lucas has done neither. Not everyone agrees with #2, but many do. They're not mutually exclusive goals, either, because he could certainly release both.

Here in Baltimore, MD, we sure did feel it.

TV's Frink said:

^Fanedits to the rescue.

The guy/girl was hit by a poison dart. I don't see why poison darts couldn't do that to your face, in Star Wars.

DuracellEnergizer said:

 

theprequelsrule said:

Empire is a better movie, but Star Wars was the best Star Wars movie.

There's something about this statement that makes me feel like I'm seeing an impossible object in word form.

 

He's drawing a distinction between two systems of judgment. By the rules of "What makes a good movie?", Empire is better. By the rules of "What makes a good Star Wars movie?", Star Wars is better.