Lets talk all things Star Wars

[Psab keel]

Everything is borrowed from something else to an extent. The OT just did it better than the new films. Far better. George was really clever in the way he referenced the films that influenced him in the originals by doing reversals and things like that.

 

[Halliwax]

He was not. He did, however, have folks passing out autographed pictures to the kids and passing on his regrets that he couldn't attend.

Sean

That’s freak’n awesome. This guy is amazing

 

[Psab keel]

Mark is the best!

 

[Mara Jade's Father]

Everything is borrowed from something else to an extent. The OT just did it better than the new films. Far better. George was really clever in the way he referenced the films that influenced him in the originals by doing reversals and things like that.

I always like to take a classic show or movie and try to think how it might be portrayed with a Star Wars twist. Is wish I had the knowhow and ambition to do a fan film. I've had an idea bouncing around for a comedy fan film based on Hogan's Heroes.

 

[Psab keel]

I love that added layer of shots from one film being mimicked in other films as homage to the directors influences.

There was a great shot in Get Out that could have come directly out of a Kubrick film the way it was framed.

 

[BipeFlyer]

I always like to take a classic show or movie and try to think how it might be portrayed with a Star Wars twist. Is wish I had the knowhow and ambition to do a fan film. I've had an idea bouncing around for a comedy fan film based on Hogan's Heroes.

That would be hilarious Colonel Palpatine and Darth Schultz.

 

[Joek3rr]

What's going on with the Tantive?

Lego is releasing their newest version of said ship. So I was browsing pictures and noticed that there are two distinct versions of the Tantive IV. Anyone know the story?

 

[Mara Jade's Father]

What's going on with the Tantive?
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Lego is releasing their newest version of said ship. So I was browsing pictures and noticed that there are two distinct versions of the Tantive IV. Anyone know the story?

I think the first image is of the old essential guide which is probably not canon and probably prone to errors any how.

I think the second is a fan made schematic.

All it means is that you should consider your sources before looking at pictures on the internet.

Additionally I would not be surprised if the ship did had different design aspects as it was created various times in various movies. Even the Falcon has different design elements within the OT itself.

 

[Halliwax]

What’s going on with it?! Last I knew it was in the shop getting the hyperdrive fixed

Wait until the EPA find out on what size leak it spewed across the galaxy

 

[Joek3rr]

What’s going on with it?! Last I knew it was in the shop getting the hyperdrive fixed

Wait until the EPA find out on what size leak it spewed across the galaxy

So that's why the Empire was chasing them down!

 

[masterjedi322]

Lego is releasing their newest version of said ship. So I was browsing pictures and noticed that there are two distinct versions of the Tantive IV. Anyone know the story?

They had 200 kits available at Celebration signed by the kit developer. My buddy snagged one. They are supposed to be available for public sale in the Fall IIRC.

Sean

 

[ThreadSketch]

Resident n00b here - if y'all will permit me, I wanted to ask: any fans of the NPR radio dramas around?

 

[Treadwell]

you bet!

 

[Joek3rr]

Resident n00b here - if y'all will permit me, I wanted to ask: any fans of the NPR radio dramas around?

I'm afraid I've never heard of it. Are they good?

 

[Mara Jade's Father]

I'm afraid I've never heard of it. Are they good?

Here is he info: Star Wars (radio series) - Wikipedia

I used to have eps IV as a cd box set.

 

[Greenie]

 

[Greenie]

 

[Greenie]

 

[ThreadSketch]

Glad to see I'm not alone!

I won the full trilogy CD box set in a furious eBay match in college, but like everything else, it went in the Purge. Last year a good online friend found another set for herself and did me the huge favor of uploading all the tracks as MP3s so that I could have them again. (Everything that I've re-obtained or re-downloaded in recent years I used to own/paid with my cash to begin with, so I feel no guilt about it.)

I know ROTJ is the least creative of the bunch, but I'm still satisfied they rounded the OT out. I'm actually OK with Josh Fardon as Luke, I think he did a good job. But man, I love the ANH and ESB adaptations. Makes for nice immersive listening when I have to slog through long, mindless work at the office.

 

[Treadwell]

I have the box set, I think I got it at "Endor Traders", as it was called then, at Disney World.

I was always a little perturbed that the main presentation of ANH was the rerun version, which redoes the intro narration and edits out a bit here and there. They provide most (but not all!) of that excised material as extras, but they should've just ran them complete to begin with.