EvilRocketeer
Master Member
yoda in episode 1 was soooo much cooler...he knew how to party


Apparently, 30 years before ESB, Yoda was a crack addict. Must have been an intervention before AotC.
I really hope we get the Yoda from AotC and RotS for the Bluray release. I thought it worked pretty well.
I thought i'd start a thread on the prequal yoda, what are your feelings on it? me, i thought it was awful, why change it? why use silicone, i think the most shocking thing i found was that Nick dudman had access to the original moulds for yoda from the ranch, and yet they still redone him from scratch, why not do a clay press out of those moulds, slightly change the look if they had to, then remake the puppet we all knew and loved.
Look at how many people have sculpted classic yoda on here, he's been done and redone, i myself sculpted the new version as a commision, but i haven't seen many other versions of the new yoda.
Its been years now, but still that has to be the most jarring thing for me from the phantom menace, have the years softened it for everyone else?.
i've heard rumblings that it'll be replaced with cg yoda for the 3d release, i'm glad if it happens
I for some reason always imagine TPM Yoda with a big white mustache. Don't know why... perhaps it was the lighting reflecting off his upper lip or something. In fact... having Yoda WITH a big fat mustache would have been freaking cool.
To me the prequel Yoda always looks angry. Like... angry is the new cool. I see it everywhere... that angry scowling look that doubles for cool and composed. In all honesty I don't think even the digital Yoda was that great.
Found this through google search - not so much the angry look, but more how the CGI version differs:
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As much as everyone loved the scenes where he kicked some sith butt, I didn't think it was very fitting to his character. He went from the tiny, unassuming, all-knowing monk creature to a cartoonish monkey flipping around and grunting. I just assumed from the OT that he was so wise and powerful in the force that he would have found other ways to deal with Palp. I guess I'm saying it eliminated the mystique.
Empire for best Yoda. For the sheer range of expression. For the look of authority and gravitas in the image posted above top, unapproached by anything in the PT.
The OT puppet - and the PM puppet for that matter - also had the more convincing skin. Yoda's cgi skin looks unreal in comparison. Makes him look like a moving painting or illustration, which is a problem with a lot of creature cgi. Plus, the animation, as so often, was infected with this cel animation floatiness in the face movements, while the scenes where Yoda flipped around were tragic, just tragic visual messes.
Oooooh, That is so true!!! I couldn´t have said it better.
CGI Creatures are nothing more than kind of better cartoons.
Why, if Yoda can jump around like an animal does he need a cane? That's what bothered me.\
Re:Phantom menace yoda, why did they change him?
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Originally Posted by alancastillo1
I so agree with this
I will never forget the adrenaline rush, open mouth, and ear to ear smile on my face when I saw the little fellow do his fight scene like a fit 18-year-old. To me, that really defined the character.
Would have been almost impossible to do with the puppet.
Priceless
It's funny. That almost ruined the character for me seeing him jumping around like a looney tunes character was really ridiculous.
Yoda to me is defined by pulling the X Wing out of the swamp on Degobah after he poetically explains the Force to Luke and it's limitless possibilities.
That scene shows the real power of the force more than being the Tazmanian Devil with a lightsaber.
And yes TPM Yoda looked like crap.
The Dinosaurs in Jurassic Park don't look like cartoons....