ROTS Obi-wan and Anakin lightsaber Project (OWK preview on pg 11)
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...this is where I once again note that people get a little too obsessive about the props being redesigned for the PT. Lucas was always about moving forward and improving things, and he was never beholden to nostalgia or old technology, so rebuilding the OT sabers as streamlined custom designs for the PT only made sense.
Especially when you remember that they ONLY had to look good (and recognizable) onscreen. And they did the job.
Whereas Abrams put a lot of attention into building exact (or near-exact) replicas of OT props (like the Graflex), sets, and ships for the Disney movies. It's a fannish, outsider-looking-in perspective. He got the props correct in terms of obsessive nostalgia, but utterly botched the basics of storytelling, character, and plot logic.
Sure, it was nice to see a loving recreation of the Graflex, but its return made absolutely no sense.
Just curious but what other card varients are there?
Just the two. The standard style, and the one seen on a prop which was displayed many years ago, which the old Orbital Machining replica was subsequently based on.
Ah interesting, thank you
Ah interesting, thank you
I believe the alternate card was seen on a chromed rubber dummy prop, and has never been identified as having been used onscreen.
Completely agree. It’s one of the reasons I prefer the Skinnyflex over the Graflex.
Listen, I’m a lifelong worshipper of the Graflex, but the Skinnyflex is slimmer, sleeker, more ergonomic, and more logical as a futuristic sci-fi weapon. It makes total sense that they’d refine the design with the money and resources they had available, 30 years after the original film.
But I have room in my heart for both flavors/aesthetics. Although wires cross in my brain when I see the occasional comic book or novel cover depicting Luke holding the Skinnyflex.
Do we know that that prop was rubber? From the pictures I saw, it could have been chrome plated resin, just as easily.
I believe that Seth’s guidebook describes it as rubber, but you may well be right.
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There's a Behind The Scenes Documentary on one of the DVD's Episode I, II or III, where they show all kinds of lightsabers being made for the Prequels ... including a chromed one, which is then demonstrated by the propmaker to be bendable ... I can't recall if he mentions it to be rubber
Chaïm
Chaïm
It is indeed rubber, as seen at 5:02.There's a Behind The Scenes Documentary on one of the DVD's Episode I, II or III, where they show all kinds of lightsabers being made for the Prequels ... including a chromed one, which is then demonstrated by the propmaker to be bendable ... I can't recall if he mentions it to be rubber
Chaïm
Man these short documentaries were my childhood. Absolutely love these.
Him bending it is so cursed
But it makes me wonder, might that same one in the video be one of the Propstore Auctioned ones?
But it makes me wonder, might that same one in the video be one of the Propstore Auctioned ones?
Right. I wasn't doubting that rubber chrome stunts were made for production. I was just noting that there's not much to tell us that the C3 Anakin saber was rubber rather than resin. They generally look the same, unless the rubber/resin has begun to break down.
Also, I remember trying to figure out how the chrome rubber process worked, back then. And I think it was a spray-on coating (not actually plating) that is somewhat similar to Alclad or Molotow .
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Mind you, I wasn’t asserting that the C3 saber was a rubber stunt, but rather merely validating Chaim’s memory of a webdoc which featured a rubber stunt.
Would you consider doing a resin/rubber run of the hilt after, similar to what was done with the Dewy run?
No. Sorry.
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