By far the Luke ANH graflex hilt, and Obi's ROTS/ANH. Followed closely by the dl-44 blaster, preferably Hans ANH, ROTJ, and TFA. Anybody agree? Disagree? Hate 'em all? Love 'em all?
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Growing up I loved Luke's ROTJ lightsaber the most. I had no idea there were so many versions of it though. I was only aware of what we now call the Hero version. It wasn't until reading forums like theRPF and of course the go to Parts of Star Wars (partsofsw.com) that I began to learn about the various prop iterations of this lightsaber. Like so many others, I fell in love with the V2 the most. The weathering, the screen time it had, the Graflex clamp (which spiritually connects it back to Luke's Graflex lightsaber), the fact that it's been in each OT movie. Just so many cool things about it.
I always liked the Graflex hilt but it wasn't until I obtained my first vintage one that I fell in love with it as well. Despite being a real world object, it fits so naturally with how you imagine a lightsaber would look. Even outside of Star Wars props, it's a beautiful looking piece of hardware. You look at so many other flash guns and they're all pretty much utilitarian in their appearance but the Graflex 3 Cell is a work of art and judging by how difficult it is for companies to replicate, it was designed and built to be more than just your average piece of equipment. Though I like both, I've always favored the ANH variant over ESB. I prefer the clean t tracks and single button/glass eye pairing. I absolutely hate the ground down exposed brass glass eye on the TFA prop. So many vintages got mangled for such an unworthy movie. Plus I don't even think it looks good.
Besides lightsabers I love Luke's training remote, Han's ANH DL-44 of course, and the E-11.
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Luke's ROTJ saber, any variant, is my favorite.
Frogfreak
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Han Solo's Bespin DL-44
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After 'Rise of Skywalker' and Baby Yoda, Kathleen Kennedy's plan for 'Star Wars' and beyond
Kathleen Kennedy faces perhaps her biggest challenge since George Lucas chose her to shepherd 'Star Wars': figuring out what's next for the franchise.
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The Last Jedi dared to put the philosophy of Star Wars in the foreground
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Solo4114
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After 'Rise of Skywalker' and Baby Yoda, Kathleen Kennedy's plan for 'Star Wars' and beyond
Kathleen Kennedy faces perhaps her biggest challenge since George Lucas chose her to shepherd 'Star Wars': figuring out what's next for the franchise.
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I cannot tell you how happy I am to see that. Even if they're still wary about it, or aren't sure how/when to do that, the notion that "Hey, maybe trilogies aren't the way to go..." is even on the drawing board is fantastic news.
Here's the truth: much as I love the original trilogy.....trilogies suck. They suck because they force you to condense your storytelling in unnatural ways. For that matter, going into a story with a finite quantity of time to tell the story is, I think, a bass-ackwards way of storytelling. Nobody starts a novel by saying "Ok, I'm only allowed to have [#] chapters, so what kind of story can I fit into that?" You write the story out, then figure out how to break it into bite-sized pieces. I think only television shows really do this, and I think it only ends up working because they have a good bit more story to work with over 8/10/13/16/22 episodes. But even then, it makes more sense to figure out what your story is, and then -- if you have to -- to determine how to contain that within the alotted time, not to start from "Ok, so we're going to do a trilogy....what's each movie about?"
I'm currently fully prepared for Rise of the Skywalker to be deeply unsatisfying precisely because it'll try to wrap everything up too neatly, and will probably do it in (1) a ham-fisted way, and (2) a very recycled-feeling way. I have zero faith in Abrams to be able to bring this all to a satisfying conclusion, and I fully expect he'll s*** the bed by basically making this his fan version of ROTJ. I hope he'll prove me wrong, but...I don't have a lot of faith he will.
And you know why that is? Partially it's because I think Abrams is a pretty underwhelming storyteller who is better at aping style than he is at actually crafting narrative, but partially it's because we're stuck with this trilogy concept. At the end of TLJ, I thought the story could have continued for anywhere from 2-4 more films. You could do a TON of stuff that would be interesting with these characters and this setting and the state of affairs where we are when the thing ends. But instead, I'm betting Abrams will do a small time-skip, say "two years later..." and then have it seem like the Rebels have suddenly pulled together a big fleet to fight the New Empire's latest super-duper-ooper Death Star v5.0 weapon or whatever.
I still want them to really crash this train by making a whole movie showing the brilliant concept that the Empire is wasting Stormtroopers on janitorial duties.
Joek3rr
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Have you ever heard of KP or latrine duty?
patrickivan
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They didn't say he got in trouble, they said that was his job.
HAN
What was your job when you were based
here?
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Sanitation.
Joek3rr
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Is this not one of the coolest lightsaber emitters?
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And lightsaber that someone made with it!
MHSV1 Blade Holder Style 32
And lightsaber that someone made with it!
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