Lets talk all things Star Wars

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

View attachment 1005448 Does anyone know more about the “TIE droid”’or Zuckuss droid on Bespin? Are there any other reference pictures of them?

I read pretty much all of the old EU except some of the comic series, and don't recall reading anything about them. They also weren't in either of the Essential Guides to Droids. Maybe one of the WEG books had them, I don't know.

 

[Joek3rr]

View attachment 1005448 Does anyone know more about the “TIE droid”’or Zuckuss droid on Bespin? Are there any other reference pictures of them?

do you mean this thing? TIE/D automated starfighter

 

[Joek3rr]

Okay guys, time for some serious talk. Where the heck do Podracers get their fuel from!?!?!? I mean they're freakin' 747 like engines, those things must gas guzzlers!

EDIT feast your eyes on this wonderful cross section while you ponder this question

EDIT #2 I see some little fuel tanks on Sebulba's pod, kinda built into the engine. But that's not a lot of fuel.

 

[Mara Jade's Father]

Okay guys, time for some serious talk. Where the heck do Podracers get their fuel from!?!?!? I mean they're freakin' 747 like engines, those things must gas guzzlers!

EDIT feast your eyes on this wonderful cross section while you ponder this question
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EDIT #2 I see some little fuel tanks on Sebulba's pod, kinda built into the engine. But that's not a lot of fuel.

We can’t compare real world engines to fantasy engines. The ones in the Star Wars galaxy probably have engines and fuels that are well advanced than what we understand. Take coaxcium as an example. That’s probably one of the more advance fuels but it sort of puts things in perspective.

 

[Mara Jade's Father]

do you mean this thing? TIE/D automated starfighter

He’s referring to the junked droid in the bottom left of the photo he referenced. It looks as if the prop department took an old TIE pilot helmet, removed the center of the face plate and tried to disguise the emblems as not to look like imperial symbols and made the body with parts of trooper armor. I don’t think it is suppose to bean imperial droid, just the prop department using some scrap pieces to make junk for the scene.

 

[Joek3rr]

He’s referring to the junked droid in the bottom left of the photo he referenced. It looks as if the prop department took an old TIE pilot helmet, removed the center of the face plate and tried to disguise the emblems as not to look like imperial symbols and made the body with parts of trooper armor. I don’t think it is suppose to bean imperial droid, just the prop department using some scrap pieces to make junk for the scene.

Ah, I didn't see that. Cool

 

[Joek3rr]

We can’t compare real world engines to fantasy engines. The ones in the Star Wars galaxy probably have engines and fuels that are well advanced than what we understand. Take coaxcium as an example. That’s probably one of the more advance fuels but it sort of puts things in perspective.

We can’t compare real world engines to fantasy engines. The ones in the Star Wars galaxy probably have engines and fuels that are well advanced than what we understand. Take coaxcium as an example. That’s probably one of the more advance fuels but it sort of puts things in perspective.

Oh yeah, I know that, but these things are literally jet engines. Air intakes, spining turbines. They couldn't run on anything like coaxium, which is a form of hypermatter.

 

[Mara Jade's Father]

Oh yeah, I know that, but these things are literally jet engines. Air intakes, spining turbines. They couldn't run on anything like coaxium, which is a form of hypermatter.

To you they look like jet engines but in the Star Wars universe they are not. They are a very different type of engine the performs better and utilized a different type of fuel as listed in the image you posted.

And I didn’t say they ran on coaxium, I was just using it as an example of technology that needs a small amount to achieve a lot.

 

[Laspector]

Didn't Qui Gon hand Anni a little container about the size of a small coke can and say "Here, use this power source."

Pretty sure Star Wars stuff doesn't run on fossil fuels.

Have no idea what those hoses were that they were disconnecting from the x-wings before the battle of Yavin, but probably not gas lines.

 

[Joek3rr]

Didn't Qui Gon hand Anni a little container about the size of a small coke can and say "Here, use this power source."

Pretty sure Star Wars stuff doesn't run on fossil fuels.

Have no idea what those hoses were that they were disconnecting from the x-wings before the battle of Yavin, but probably not gas lines.

I've always thought the hoses they are un-hooking from the X and Y-wings were meant to be some sort of starter like this

 

[Inquisitor Peregrinus]

But Luke doesn't need one to get off Dagobah or Tatooine. And Han had something similar hooked up to the Falcon in docking bay 94. Given the extreme energy density of Star Wars fuels and power cells, and the enormous radiator panels the Imperial fighters have to blow off waste energy, which the larger Rebel craft don't have... My theory for ages has been coolant hoses.

 

[Mara Jade's Father]

Didn't Qui Gon hand Anni a little container about the size of a small coke can and say "Here, use this power source."

Pretty sure Star Wars stuff doesn't run on fossil fuels.

Have no idea what those hoses were that they were disconnecting from the x-wings before the battle of Yavin, but probably not gas lines.

I'd say the powers source could simply be like a battery to run systems. The cross section says they run on Tradium fuel. I'm always take these books with a grain of salt but I just because it is a fuel, it doesn't mean it can't be synthetic or has to be a liquid or maybe the running is assisted by the power source like a hybrid.

I've always thought the hoses they are un-hooking from the X and Y-wings were meant to be some sort of starter like this
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The hoses could be something like a transportable APU (auxiliary power unit). We called them huffers in the Navy. You use them if the craft's on APU is not working or you do not want to utilize it. Here is a definition of an APU I copied off the net:

APUs are like small jet engines, small enough to be started electrically. So you would use the power of the battery or an electric ground power cart to spin up the APU by its electric starter motor, and then introduce fuel into it once its spinning fast enough, just like a jet engine is started. Depending on the design, the electric motor will then either act as a generator to supply electrical power back to the aircraft or decouple when a separate generator is used.

The APU will spin up, and besides spinning the electric generator, some pressurized air will be 'stolen' from its compressor to supply "bleed air" for engine starting, the air conditioning packs, etc...

Big APUs like on the Boeing 777 have actually two methods of starting: They have both an air-driven and an electric driven starter motor. The method of operation is as follows: When the APU is started with the engines off, electrical power from battery or ground connection is used. After the flight, the APU will be restarted before the main engines are turned off. In that case, the APU will be started by the air-driven motor rather than the electric motor, with pressurized air supplied by the still-running main engines.

So a transportable APU serves this function so that you don't have to use the craft's APU is don't want too, need too, or can't.

 

[Mara Jade's Father]

But Luke doesn't need one to get off Dagobah or Tatooine. And Han had something similar hooked up to the Falcon in docking bay 94. Given the extreme energy density of Star Wars fuels and power cells, and the enormous radiator panels the Imperial fighters have to blow off waste energy, which the larger Rebel craft don't have... My theory for ages has been coolant hoses.

If it serves a function of a transportable APU, you don't need one to take off. It is handy for things like preflight checks or inspections or maintenance when you don't need/want to use the craft's actual power. The only time I can recall needing a transportable APU for take off is if there was a maintenance issue with the craft and it's internal APU was not working. The transportable APU sort of works like jumpstarting a car to get it started.

 

[Inquisitor Peregrinus]

View attachment 1005448 Does anyone know more about the “TIE droid”’or Zuckuss droid on Bespin? Are there any other reference pictures of them?

I know the IG-88 dressing that set was originally to be the same bounty hunter from the Executor. He and Boba were going to have a fight on Cloud City over Han. That got scrapped, due largely to the Boba costume intended for use in the film going missing during a publicity tour before it would be needed on set. That one had the practical-effect flamethrower. The final ESB Boba costume was a last-minute-thrown-together thing. But I still vastly prefer it over PP2 or ROTJ.

Given that, I could see the droid in right foreground being intended as a wrecked 4-LOM, maybe...

The one in left foreground I've had a pet notion of being an obsoleted Imperial pilot droid that had been being used either on Cloud City and just got worn out, or was used as a pilot/partner by one or another of the bounty hunter droids and got caught in the crossfire.

I have a feeling none of them had been there longer than a day. The Ughnaughts seem pretty efficient in melting down scrap droids. They weren't wasting any time on Threepio.

 

[Mara Jade's Father]

...That got scrapped...

Literally!

 

[BipeFlyer]

So, I saw "The Ewok Adventure" mentioned in another thread and so I dug mine out. I thought it might be fun to post my Star Wars movie collection.

This is what I have on VHS, DVD and Blu-Ray. I also have digital copies of the despecialized editions and the Christmas special. What ones do you guys have?

Dang, I missed one. I thought I had another VHS box set somewhere too.

 

[frosty]

that's a fine collection, looks great,

 

[Joek3rr]

So, I saw "The Ewok Adventure" mentioned in another thread and so I dug mine out. I thought it might be fun to post my Star Wars movie collection.

This is what I have on VHS, DVD and Blu-Ray. I also have digital copies of the despecialized editions and the Christmas special. What ones do you guys have?View attachment 1006120
Dang, I missed one. I thought I had another VHS box set somewhere too.
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Beautiful collection!

I have the Special Editions on and TPM on VHS. And 1-9, R1, and Solo on digital.

Also for anyone who has their movies on digital, look up Movies Anywhere. It allows you to watch movies you may have bought from another provider. It's pretty awsome.

 

[Inquisitor Peregrinus]

I'm fifteen hundred miles from home right now, so I can't post pics of my actual stuff, but...

I also have-ish the gatefold trilogy box you show upper-left. My mom has it now after I upgraded to the widescreen VHS box set (blue box, hologram sticker of the Hildebrandt movie poster, the three movies, the From Star Wars to Jedi doc, and an abridged version of the Creative Impulse book). Then I got the ILM Definitive Edition laserdisc set. Then I got the widescreen Special Edition box set. Have the Prequels and the Ewok movies on DVD. Have a bootleg of the Holiday Special. Have TFA on 3D BluRay. Have the Rogue One and Solo SteelBook. Have TLJ on regular Bluesy.

Special mention here for Shadows of the Empire. I have every medium the metastory was released through except the console game. Even though, of all the EU content, that's one I'm fine consigning to "it never happened" overwritten-ness, it's still a fun sidebar, and feels as legitimately Star Wars as the Prequels or Splinter of the Mind's Eye.

And a postscript that I have Adywan's take on the ANH Special Edition, want his version of ESB, and am looking forward to the rest. And am also ongoingly on the hunt for the Japanese laserdisc collector's set, being the best transfer of the OOT.

 

[Halliwax]

I always though those hoses on the xwings and falcon had the same purpose as this