Short peak into new ILM book "Sculpting a galaxy"

[Boxcar Bret]

Ok, so I was listening to a replay of Lorne Peterson's presentation on the book at ComiCon and here's the condensed version of the story about the speeder.

The speeder is actually a replica of a tiny one that was made for episode iv that was used in the scene where the tuskens take aim as Luke and 3po are looking for R2. He said since it was so small and shot at a distance that a lot of work did not go into it. In fact the engines were made from sharpie caps. He always like that model and it was given away so he rebuilt it (with sharpie caps) and thought it would be cool to include it with the figures. Everyone likes things to be "screen accurate" so there you are. One that's as crappy as the original.

As for the panels, well those are just crap.

 

[JP05]

Not only did Lorne build the speeder for the book, he also built the Death Star panels that will be included. My friend and I spoke with Lorne for about 2 hours at Comic Con. The dvd will contain a lot of photos from his personal collection (he was the only person taking stills during the making of SW) will be in the DVD.

 

[phase pistol]

So what's the deal with the landspeeder you get with the book? Is each one handmade with Sharpie caps? Or did Lorne make one, and they've mass-produced em?


- k

 

[JP05]

Made one.

 

[Boxcar Bret]

He made the speeder and figs the same as the original he made 30 years ago and then they mades casts of it.

 

[Qrest Fourstar]

I wanted the deluxe, but Im not thrilled about the extras either. The DVD sounds interesting, but I'm mainly after undersid pics of the 5 footer before the ESB upgrade.

 

[casey]

those death star pieces being soft on detail is probably close to what they actually looked like. those pieces on toysrgus dont look THAT much more detailed. id like to see a better picture of them.

 

[Lynn TXP 0369]

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He made the speeder and figs the same as the original he made 30 years ago and then they mades casts of it.
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How big is it?

Lynn

 

[Boxcar Bret]

From the looks of it I would say about 6-7".

 

[rmschneider104]

I was originally thinking that I wanted the Deluxe version, but after hearing about the inserts, I think I'm going to save a few hundred dollars and just get the regular version.

 

[animek]

Wow. The price had raise, lucky me, I did reserve one before gas price went up. :confused

 

[Ewok]

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those death star pieces being soft on detail is probably close to what they actually looked like. those pieces on toysrgus dont look THAT much more detailed. id like to see a better picture of them.
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well,...if you ask me.....it would be cooler to have these cast of originals with the same material they originally used (extruded foam) and paint them in the exact same color they used during production. Would make a nice *as close as you can get* display. Why resculpting? Can't see the point of trying to match the look of the originals and didn't even come close to it.....except for the general shape of course.