Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Pre-release)
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astroboy
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What Is the 3? I've never noticed that version ?
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It's one of the miscellaneous Star Destroyer models at the Battle of Endor in ROTJ, usually called the "multi-module" tower in Star Destroyer nerd circles, for all the sticky-outy windowed modules in addition to the bridge. It's most visible in the film as the one that has the burning TIE Fighter plow into it:
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AAAHH!! i get it now! yes! thank you for taking the time and explaining this to me, i really appreciate it! i never noticed that!
Well I didn't know that! Thanks! :lol
astroboy
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ghostryder
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Star Wars: Rogue One Character Names, New Images and More - spoilers:
http://www.slashfilm.com/rogue-one-character-names/
http://www.slashfilm.com/rogue-one-character-names/
matty matt
Sr Member
Wow, that's a lot of info.
Something had to be revealed eventually . In comparison to the amount of info we had on TFA at roughly the same time from release last year I think even Darth Vader and Director Krennic would be proud of just how little has actually leaked so far.
astroboy
Master Member
Who the hell is designing ships these days?
I don't think I've liked anything since the viper mk 2.
Pretty much everything new in TFA was garbage. And those two ships are awful. They look like they were designed by a kid with lego.
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G W Zipper
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I could grow to like the new TIE, in a different context. Not flying around the original Death Star. And did anybody else start humming the theme to Buck Rogers upon seeing the new rebel fighter?
I did really like the updated X wings in TFA an awful lot but the rest of the new vehicles were mostly disappointing. I can just live with the trooper landing craft, but it really needed to be better than a WWII boat with engines tacked on.
Instead of coming up with a single distinct ORIGINAL design for the fighters and craft what they appear to be doing is combining just noticeable elements of the others in an effort to imitate the style of the OT but it ends up looking horribly weaker. Hence with this new rebel craft you have the four engine cans of an X wing, what looks like the front of a Y wing crossed with a snowspeeder , the mandibles from the jedi craft in ROTS (or more Buck Rogers as mentioned!!!!). Even if they just took those round cans off the rebel craft and replaced them with angled blocked engines with stubby wings extending out from the mandibles that would improve them hugely. Streamline it like a fighter!!!!!
It rather looks like something a kid would doddle in his notebook whilst bored out of his mind (or as you say built from lego). And that half a Tie Interceptor!!!!! It simply destroys everything that is elegant and beautiful about that model whilst making the design lineage of the Ties look odd. They should have left it well alone with the original Tie or something less refined like the original McQuarrie illustration. Really there are some stunning sci fi illustrators out there who do brilliant spacecraft design work for a huge variety of media but the stuff we are seeing here is worse than the prequels and that hurts to say.
Sales for these new designs as either well loved toys or collectables is going to take a hit and a half.
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doctorDWwho
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Man-oh-man this looks amazing!!! Except the scout trooper.And the rebel on the far left reminds me of Rocket
Looks more like the Empire illegally shrunk a wookie to me!!!
cayman shen
Master Member
My god it's all so beautiful!!! LOVE the TIE. It bugged me that TFA used old TIEs with different paint :/
doctorDWwho
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That TIE looks like it should be used more like an airplane rather than in space
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