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#520501
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Info & Ideas: ESB and ROTJ Wishlist
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Small note: I was thinking about the DS explosions, and about how most of us want to see the shockwave gone from ANH.

I'm actually not sure I feel the same way about ROTJ. The collapse of the reactor makes the shockwave make more sense in ROTJ, it looks pretty cool the Falcon at the end, and it makes a nice visual distinction between the DS and DSII explosions.

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#519875
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In Defense of Death Star II
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Wookieepedia said:

The canonicity of the events depicted in the original Star Tours experience has been disputed for many reasons, the most obvious being the inclusion of the Death Star. Since R2-D2's presence onboard the Starspeeder 3000 precludes the events taking place during the Battle of Yavin or the Battle of Endor, the Death Star seen in the ride video has been considered by some to be the Death Star prototype, as seen in Jedi Search and Champions of the Force and its destruction to be a depiction of the prototype's destruction at The Maw. However, it does not match that prototype's skeletal construction and R2-D2 is accounted for during that event, as well. Also, the Star Tours Death Star is very close to Endor, far from the Maw's location. This may indicate it is a so far unrevealed Death Star, or that the ride's events are simply not canonical. Others have suggested that the Death Star is one of the modified habitation spheres seen under construction over Coruscant. Leland Chee has tentatively named it the Death Star III.

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#519723
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Info & Ideas: ESB and ROTJ Wishlist
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Bingowings said:

Great idea but it would be in my view even better if the scouts were cremating their own men to cover up the hellhole they were working in.

The audience would be thinking "What the hell did that to them?", then our heroes are captured by these things too and then we meet the Ewoks.

Suddenly the teddy bears turn into guerrillas.

This is a great point.

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#519363
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The ANH:SE Redux Ideas thread (Radical Ideas Welcome).
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I don't understand why this is necessary. Obi-wan is lying to Luke about things anyway - It makes sense for him to say "Your father wanted you to have this", because Luke would want to do what his father would have wanted. It helps convince Luke to go down the Jedi path, which is what Obi wants.

EDIT: Oh right, to preserve the ESB surprise. Right. *rolls eyes*