Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Pre-release)
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Jaitea
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The SE ar considered the ONLY canon version of the films at this point.
The SE ar considered the ONLY canon version of the films at this point.
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Which means that the YT-2400 freighter is one of the few ships that was first introduced in the original Expanded Universe to survive the purge. It's the tiny things.
Which means that the YT-2400 freighter is one of the few ships that was first introduced in the original Expanded Universe to survive the purge. It's the tiny things.
Wolfsburg
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Yeah, that and the aforementioned landing craft. I think an Action VI transport (like the Wild Karrde) is seen in the PT too.
Anyway, I do find it odd that filming has already begun on Rogue One and, besides Felicity Jones, we haven't had any cast announcements. I figured as soon as Rogue Nation came out, we'd start hearing some things. Maybe they are waiting for D23 next weekend...
Yeah, that and the aforementioned landing craft. I think an Action VI transport (like the Wild Karrde) is seen in the PT too.
Anyway, I do find it odd that filming has already begun on Rogue One and, besides Felicity Jones, we haven't had any cast announcements. I figured as soon as Rogue Nation came out, we'd start hearing some things. Maybe they are waiting for D23 next weekend...
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I'm not sure why they chose to make a new lander when they could have used the cool shuttle design in the ANH:SE. If this one is the same one from TFA, that thing looks like a flying box. It looks like the designers were told to make something equivalent to a WW2 landing craft so they literally made a spacefaring Higgins Boat.
I'm not sure why they chose to make a new lander when they could have used the cool shuttle design in the ANH:SE. If this one is the same one from TFA, that thing looks like a flying box. It looks like the designers were told to make something equivalent to a WW2 landing craft so they literally made a spacefaring Higgins Boat.
jkno
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A tad larger pics here: http://www.starwars7news.com/2015/08/new-photos-from-the-rogue-one-set.html
Cool to have the classic and iconic Stormtrooper back for a movie. This will be great!! :cool
Though the Stormtrooper in the right seems to have a diamond knee plate (seen on Sandies) and regular TK armor.
A tad larger pics here: http://www.starwars7news.com/2015/08/new-photos-from-the-rogue-one-set.html
Cool to have the classic and iconic Stormtrooper back for a movie. This will be great!! :cool
Though the Stormtrooper in the right seems to have a diamond knee plate (seen on Sandies) and regular TK armor.
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Well yeah I agree they could. I just think, from what we can see, it's not a really inspired design. People complain about some Prequel designs, but nothing in them was that lazily designed. I just hope that in making the new movies, they don't ignore existing cool designs whether from the movies or things they could pluck from the old EU, just because they can.
Well yeah I agree they could. I just think, from what we can see, it's not a really inspired design. People complain about some Prequel designs, but nothing in them was that lazily designed. I just hope that in making the new movies, they don't ignore existing cool designs whether from the movies or things they could pluck from the old EU, just because they can.
Wolfsburg
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I always imagined the Empire being pretty standardized in equipment and assets and I wouldn't think they had multiple types of landing craft at once that did the same thing unless they varied considerably in payload. From what I can tell, it looks like the TFA lander and the Sentinel lander carry around the same number, more or less. Considering we already saw a Sentinel lander in the OT, it'd just make sense to go with that in a OT-era movie rather than retconning the new lander from TFA. This does now make the TFA lander design pretty old, ranging from sometime before ANH to 30+ years after ROTJ. Of course, this was all done for budgetary reasons rather than creative reasons.
I always imagined the Empire being pretty standardized in equipment and assets and I wouldn't think they had multiple types of landing craft at once that did the same thing unless they varied considerably in payload. From what I can tell, it looks like the TFA lander and the Sentinel lander carry around the same number, more or less. Considering we already saw a Sentinel lander in the OT, it'd just make sense to go with that in a OT-era movie rather than retconning the new lander from TFA. This does now make the TFA lander design pretty old, ranging from sometime before ANH to 30+ years after ROTJ. Of course, this was all done for budgetary reasons rather than creative reasons.
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Well knowing the EU is out we can still take a wild-arsed guess about a few things:
The SW universe is old,very old so having ships around that could be hundreds if not thousands of years old is possible.
The Empire may have the best-and-latest but considering the size of the SW universe who's to say the farther out units don't have older gear? it's still good and I don't see the Empire selling off stuff surplus.
The thing could be from the Clone Wars for all we know,maybe a secondary lander that was used in remote ports,hell maybe it's a native design they used in backwaters and isn't really standard.
Well knowing the EU is out we can still take a wild-arsed guess about a few things:
The SW universe is old,very old so having ships around that could be hundreds if not thousands of years old is possible.
The Empire may have the best-and-latest but considering the size of the SW universe who's to say the farther out units don't have older gear? it's still good and I don't see the Empire selling off stuff surplus.
The thing could be from the Clone Wars for all we know,maybe a secondary lander that was used in remote ports,hell maybe it's a native design they used in backwaters and isn't really standard.
Riceball
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Overall, what you say makes a lot of sense except about it being from the Clone Wars era, considering that it's been shown (possibly) in TFA that would mean that the New Order is using some really old transports since by the OT they would already be on the old side. Of course, this doesn't rule out that the possibility that the design originally dates back to the Clone Wars or some time after but has seen improvements over time, sort of like the venerable Huey and Cobra helicopters. Both of these choppers date back to the Vietnam war but are still in use today by the Marine Corps but in newly built and heavily upgraded forms and are most definitely not the same airframes as the ones from Vietnam.
Overall, what you say makes a lot of sense except about it being from the Clone Wars era, considering that it's been shown (possibly) in TFA that would mean that the New Order is using some really old transports since by the OT they would already be on the old side. Of course, this doesn't rule out that the possibility that the design originally dates back to the Clone Wars or some time after but has seen improvements over time, sort of like the venerable Huey and Cobra helicopters. Both of these choppers date back to the Vietnam war but are still in use today by the Marine Corps but in newly built and heavily upgraded forms and are most definitely not the same airframes as the ones from Vietnam.
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It's completely different from the Lambda shuttle. The cockpit and wings are different. It's supposed to be made by the same company. It makes a lot more sense than making a scifi WW2 landing craft. I could do that in 5 mins.
It's completely different from the Lambda shuttle. The cockpit and wings are different. It's supposed to be made by the same company. It makes a lot more sense than making a scifi WW2 landing craft. I could do that in 5 mins.
