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i watched this the other night, its amazing documentary. i learned a lot about the suit too, never noticed the seam line in the neck, or the hands not being able to close. i remember he had a hard time closing hands and the mic in ANH was held in his hand with scotch tape lol
im not a fan of anthony daniels, but the documentary was good
I just read a small interview where Daisy Ridley was complaining about the lack of love for the sequel movies. Well that's obvious. It made me think that maybe from now on Disney should stick to tv. It would let them explore more areas of SW instead of concentrating a ton of money into something the fans won't like. It would be more like the EU where they could do all kinds of stories and not be locked into a trilogy. Then if people ended up not liking it, they just go onto the the next idea.
Bigdaddy
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I think that's the wheel house Disney should keep Star Wars in. It's easier to produce higher profit on low budgets with TV shows. Plus they can do "kiddie" cartoons like Droids and Ewoks for one market, Rebels style shows for "YA" audiences and Mandalorian style serials for the "grown ups"!
All the content would be exclusive to Disney's streaming service(s), pretty much a gold mine in their yard.
How long before Guardians of the Galaxy show up for a crossover in a cartoon? Will we finally find out if a Lightsaber can cut Captain America's shield? Will Wolverine's guest appearance on Mandalorian season 2 become canon in the DSW universe?
Joek3rr
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And with Unreal's Stagecraft......the possibilities are endless.....I think that's the wheel house Disney should keep Star Wars in. It's easier to produce higher profit on low budgets with TV shows. Plus they can do "kiddie" cartoons like Droids and Ewoks for one market, Rebels style shows for "YA" audiences and Mandalorian style serials for the "grown ups"!
All the content would be exclusive to Disney's streaming service(s), pretty much a gold mine in their yard.
How long before Guardians of the Galaxy show up for a crossover in a cartoon? Will we finally find out if a Lightsaber can cut Captain America's shield? Will Wolverine's guest appearance on Mandalorian season 2 become canon in the DSW universe?
DARTH ANIBAL
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I'm still amazed at the visuals they achieve with that tech. Recently, in the absence of new content, I've taken to looking for the "seams." They're there if you REEEALLY look, but I'd be none the wiser if I didn't know.
Not enough. Never enough. I was two-and-a-half when Star Wars came out, so the lack of initial merch didn't affect me much. Late '78 (Fall birthday plus Christmas) saw me get some of the First Twelve. Into and through '79 more were added. I mailed away for the rocket-firing Boba Fett and was one of the confused and disappointed kids who got one with a missile glued in place instead. There were some irritating gaps, though. I think my mom deemed me "too young" for the vehicles and playsets, so I had none of those for the first film. And she was and is very anti-war and anti-violence, so I had none of the blasters or lightsabers, and none of the Stormtroopers. And I never got the Star Wars Han Solo on purpose from my end -- his head looked too big and I didn't want any part of that.
By Empire, I was in school and old enough to be thinking and doing more sophisticated things, and, conveniently, that film saw Kenner's abilities to produce step up a lot. Still no TIE Fighters or other "bad guy" vehicles, but I got the Snowspeeder and Falcon and Slave I, and the Rebel transport was my action figure case.
I also use the toys to track our family's financial situation through that period. I ended up with eight of the First Twelve figures, and seven of the eight follow-on figures, plus the mail-away Boba Fett. So sixteen of the twenty-one, and could have had all of them if my mom had opted to get them. Ditto the vehicles and playsets and props. For Empire, I had four of the seven vehicles, including one of the two biggies, plus the standard tauntaun, but no playsets, and ten of the thirty figures released (I count Boba Fett with that). Would've had more if not for the "bad guy" thing. But still very much not all. Things were starting to be rough as the later waves came along.
Then for Jedi, I got one vehicle, with my own birthday money -- the B-wing. And my aunt got me the pilot figure to go with it. That was it. We weren't doing to hot. I subsequently got myself a loose-complete Emperor's Royal Guard, since I've been in love with them since the promo materials. More recently I've started adding, one at a time, loose-complete Jedi and Endor Luke, Boushh-Leia, Endor Han, and some of the other figures I actually want, and am keeping feelers out for a non-stupidly-priced Imperial shuttle, TIE Interceptor, and Y-wing. I also got myself the A-Wing and pilot released for Droids, but consider that part of the Jedi waves. Ditto the POTF Anakin Skywalker. I hate to ascribe so much happiness to those little hunks of plastic, but many of the ones I didn't or couldn't get then have left an unresolved niggling in my memories. I'm not a completist, here. I'll leave that to others. But the ones I've wanted for over forty years and still want to this day? Yeah, it feels good when I finaly have one in hand and it can join the others. It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Joek3rr
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Being born in 93, I sadly missed out on all of that stuff. And I was always a little more into LEGO. But I do have a small assortment Hasbro figures.
Oh I do have the 1980 Han, Lando, and Snowtrooper. And one Ewok. I actually found the Ewok at work
DARTH ANIBAL
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Let's see...
SW-Vader, Obi-Wan, X-Wing Luke, Chewbacca, C3-PO, R2-D2, Jawa, Hammerhead, Death Star Droid
ESB-Bossk, IG-88, Yoda, TIE Fighter pilot, Boba Fett
ROTJ-Biker Scout, Gamorrean Guard, Logray, Jedi Luke, Princess Leia/Boushh, Emperor
The only vehicles I had were the Millenium Falcon, and the Speeder Bike. All the SW and ESB figures were passed down to me by an older cousin. The ROTJ stuff I got to open, myself.
SW-Vader, Obi-Wan, X-Wing Luke, Chewbacca, C3-PO, R2-D2, Jawa, Hammerhead, Death Star Droid
ESB-Bossk, IG-88, Yoda, TIE Fighter pilot, Boba Fett
ROTJ-Biker Scout, Gamorrean Guard, Logray, Jedi Luke, Princess Leia/Boushh, Emperor
The only vehicles I had were the Millenium Falcon, and the Speeder Bike. All the SW and ESB figures were passed down to me by an older cousin. The ROTJ stuff I got to open, myself.
My folks started getting me LEGO around the same time. It factors in a little to what I did or didn't get, nut not much. But yeah, you definitely missed out on the experience of it. All of it. The excitement when "Star Wars 2" was announced. The shell-shock of having just finished watching the Holiday Special. Listening to the young-reader audio abridgements ("You will know it is time to turn the page when you hear Artoo-Detoo beep like this..."), the Marvel comics stories, Splinter of the Mind's Eye, Han Solo at Stars' End, the MPC model kits... Living through it was definitely something. The excitement surrounding the Prequels and, to a lesser degree, the Special Editions kiiiiiinda captures a similar echo of it. But holy crap I wish I could bottle the feeling of living through it all the first time round. I want everyone to know that experience.Being born in 93, I sadly missed out on all of that stuff. And I was always a little more into LEGO. But I do have a small assortment Hasbro figures.
Oh I do have the 1980 Han, Lando, and Snowtrooper. And one Ewok. I actually found the Ewok at work
I feel like I was just about the perfect age. Yeah, if I'd been a few years older, I would have been in a position to better appreciate Star Wars and Star Trek: The Motion Picture at the time, but I still got most of that (and the experience of seeing that beautiful stark-white Enterprise all lit up in drydock is right up there with the opening shot of Star Wars for me). I was old enough to watch and appreciate Battlestar Galactica -- and young enough to not catch that they were using stand-ins on location in Egypt for the exteriors in "Lost Planet of the Gods", painfully obvious on later viewings. Star Trek was a slow burn for me. The reruns were on every week because my parents were first-generation Trekkies, including being part of the letter-writing campaign. But while I would watch and be entertained, it didn't really click for me until I was about 11. I also lived through the golden age of animation. Star Blazers every morning before going to kindergarten, He-Man, G.I. Joe, Transformers, Robotech, M.A.S.K., Jace and the Wheeled Warriors, Robotix, Starriors, Snorks, Fish Police, Biker Mice From Mars, Centurions, the Disney Afternoon (Chip & Dale's Rescue Rangers [had a huge crush on Gadget, of course], Goof Troop, Tale Spin [had a huge crush on the Sea Duck, of course], and Duck Tales), and even older fare kept going like Looney Tunes and Scooby-Doo.
All through there I was reading and gaming and building models and such and it was wonderful. I knew when I was in high school, painting Warhammer miniatures, building Enterprise model kits, writing Blacktron-Futuron fanfic for my LEGO, sewing Starfleet uniforms, and just generally geeking out with all the abandon of an alcoholic in a brewery, I knew that was probably the best it was ever going to be.
There have been a lot of technical improvements since, revelations and discoveries into this prop or that filming miniature, my skills and knowledge have increased and improved... But, in general, I feel I was right. The newer toys are so much better than what we had then, but the content to back them up and contextualize them is lacking. And I miss Just Building The Damn Thing™ versus my acquired Need To Get It Right™.
I was born in 77 so I didn't start getting the toys until I was 3. The last time I looked at the old Tomart's SW guide I think I had 34 figures. I had a X-Wing, Snowspeeder, Slave I, Cloud Car, Speederbike, that little Imperial shuttle por minirig, the little tracked tank with lasers minirig, Imperial Attack Base, Ewok Village, and Jabba with his dais. Oh I also had a Tauntaun, Rancor, and Dewback. I really wanted the AT-AT but it was too expensive at the time. I would have had more but then GI JOE, Transformers, He-Man, MASK, and LEGO entered the mix once I got a little older. When I was around 10 I stupidly gave it all away to a younger neighbor kid because I thought I was too old for SW toys. Irony...
You be amazed at how many homes I work in, or inspections I do where no one has working smokes or Carbons..
I am some what related to the family I am about to talk about.
But 3 generations live in this 2 family apartment. Grand son and his wife and kids on first floor, his mother on second floor, and grand father on 3rd..
Second and first floor haven’t had batteries in their smokes in forever..
Only one with working smokes is the grand father on 3rd floor because he’s in his late 80s and walks down the stairs slowly..
(God only knows why they just didn’t have him move down stairs on the first floor..)
He burns a walmart pizza in the oven. sets off the only working smokes. Daughter on second floor removes batteries, next night the house burns to the ground..
Grand father died, didn’t have a chance, fire started in attic because of squirrels chewing on the wires
Do your family a favor, check your smokes right now..
Think I’m full of crap?
This is one of my largest fears, and I always replace all the batteries the same day one starts chirping
I see it over and over and over in homes. It’s not a joke
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