Star Wars talk

hopefully the shows will be cool.
That bit about the OC - thats just stupid.

[QUOTE=Maddetchke Malorkus]The Star Wars toys were sophisticated and detailed compared to other action figures and playsets of the time. They sold every single character and piece from all the movies. You could buy the entire Mos Eisley Cantina, with the band members and everything.[/QUOTE]

yeah...

I have liek 80 figures and probably 10 vheciles and 5 creatures...

I feeel so alone.

Haha.. to be 10 again.

I sold all mine to buy a guitar I never play. And I never did get the new Rancor with realistic skin.

[QUOTE=Earthbound]I sold all mine to buy a guitar I never play. And I never did get the new Rancor with realistic skin. :([/QUOTE]

I still have all mine. I cant let them go.

[url=http://www.moonsgalaxy.com/images/tienda/fpotf2/b_rancor.jpg]*sigh*[/url]

[QUOTE=Earthbound][url=http://www.moonsgalaxy.com/images/tienda/fpotf2/b_rancor.jpg]*sigh*[/url][/QUOTE]

I never had a rancor.

I do have a dewback... that thignt he storm troppers ride on the backs on at the beginning of A New Hope. And a ronto.. some creature jawas ride... and Jabba The Hutt.. and a Tauntaun.. the thign tyhey ride on on Hoth... the ice planet.

I have like 5 differnt kidns of strom troopers too:

The snow trooper
The scout trooper
The regular storm trooper
The sand trooper
The dewback riding storm trooper

And I have the AT ST driver

The death star gunner

The tie fighter pilot

Boba Fett

The Emprorer

Dengar

Bossk

The Imperial Royal Gaurd

A Sand Person

A gammoreean Guard (thos ebig guys from jabbas palace)

Greedo

The Guy who gets hsi arm cut of fin the cantina

The rancor pit master

Bib Fortuna (the snake headed guy)

the list goes on and on...

[QUOTE=Fiberoptic Jesus]I dont get why people line up. Cant you still see it at midnight if you book tickets?

Like I did...
[IMG]http://img260.echo.cx/img260/9756/scansmall7as.jpg[/IMG]

I dont get it. Do all american theaters only have door sales or something?

PS: I'll be seing it 7 hours before any american... and on an imax screen :D[/QUOTE]
anyone have an answer to this?

I love The OC.

[QUOTE=MockyMockins]
The Guy who gets hsi arm cut of fin the cantina
.[/QUOTE]
hes an aqualash. Cant remember his name though and its annoying. His species is special because lightsabers dont cauterize their wounds as they do to anyone else, hence the bloody arm stump.

i still have all mine too. i collected mostly micro machines though, but i do a fair number of action figures too. Im hoping to sell them and make a decent sum in a few yrs when it comes time to make my thesis film.

Thesis film?

[QUOTE=sacredchao23]hes an aqualash. Cant remember his name though and its annoying. His species is special because lightsabers dont cauterize their wounds as they do to anyone else, hence the bloody arm stump.[QUOTE]

That's Ponda Baba.

My brother won this contest a few years back for having the second largest Star Wars action figure/battle ship/odd star wars animal thing figure collection in the Southwest. Not to mention a 200 dollar light saber from Sharper Image. (my moms ex boyfriend got it for him)

He's obsessed.

I got us tickets for opening night at an I-Max-esque theatre. Him and i are dressing up, I as Queen Amidala or Princess Leia and him as Obi Wan.

Yup. I'm 'essided'.

[QUOTE=wenknee][
That's Ponda Baba.[/QUOTE]

RIght! Thanks.

[QUOTE=MockyMockins]
Thesis film?
[/QUOTE]

Im a film student. To get my MFA, i have to make a short film. Itll cost around 10 grand.

[QUOTE=Fiberoptic Jesus]anyone have an answer to this?[/QUOTE]
Yesh, i did preordered for midnight as well.

a girl at my work said she could get me a ticket for 5.50. I had to think about it a minute to figure out what id be doing the next day (chuck'll be in my area. Yeah!) and so she felt like she was forcing it on me for some reason so she didnt get it yet. NOw i just have to hope she still can.

[QUOTE=walkingcontradiction]Yesh, i did preordered for midnight as well.[/QUOTE]
I mean why do people line up rather than just book?
You'll be seeing it at the same time.

[QUOTE=Fiberoptic Jesus]I mean why do people line up rather than just book?
You'll be seeing it at the same time.[/QUOTE]
It doesn't make much sense to me either. Are they trying to be the first one through the door? Where do they pee? Where do they shit? If they have to shit, do they lose their place in line? Why wouldn't the other people just yoink their place in line? What do they eat?

This lining up thing sounds somewhat fun, though. I once read a story in GamePro(Video Game Magazine) about some editor who waited in line all night to buy a Playstation 1 or something. It was very entertaining.

[QUOTE=MockyMockins]I still have all mine. I cant let them go.[/QUOTE]
Dude, I still have all mine too, there're like appendage I can't cut off. There're worn to the bone though. Did you say you don't have rancor? I think I had three. want one? I think I'll stumble on them since I've been moving and all the old shit from the past floods out. I think he's missing an arm but he still could kick my ass.

[url]http://www.rebelscum.com/toys2005/501stgroup1.jpg[/url]

I wanna go see it with these guys. Would make for an interesting evening.

did you see that bai ling visited star wars geeks?

it pays to be a geek!

[QUOTE=FuzzBusta][url]http://www.rebelscum.com/toys2005/501stgroup1.jpg[/url]

I wanna go see it with these guys. Would make for an interesting evening.[/QUOTE]
Holy shit! Hell yeah! I want to dress up like Anakin after he's been knocked in lava--all crispy and what not.

[QUOTE=Dr.Jekyll&Mr.Hyde]Holy shit! Hell yeah! I want to dress up like Anakin after he's been knocked in lava--all crispy and what not.[/QUOTE]
OOHH me too!!!

but not a crispy Anakin....

I don't know who I would dress up as, I'd wanna be a Han Solo but it just wouldn't work... *sigh*

i could rock the Leia buns for sure....

[URL=http://www.starwars.com/community/event/celebration/f20050419/20050419_picview/img/73.jpg]Scene from next Star Wars.[/URL]

[QUOTE=Smartazboy][URL=http://www.starwars.com/community/event/celebration/f20050419/20050419_picview/img/73.jpg]Scene from next Star Wars.[/URL][/QUOTE]
*Sigh*

only from you would i expect this.

haha

awesome.

[QUOTE=walkingcontradiction]*Sigh*

only from you would i expect this.

haha[/QUOTE]
You like it.

*Christopher Walken voice*

Fast...ship? It's the...ship that...made the Kessel run in...less than...12 parsecs...she's fast enough...for YOU...OLD man...that sucked, I'm sorry...

Episode III has the esteem of being endorsed by notable fringe celebrity and Fanboy, Kevin Smith. [url]http://viewaskew.com/news/sith/[/url] I kind of hope Kevin Smith gets hit by a bus. I don't care for him. He's gotten farther on less talent than most anyone in Hollywood.

So, I learned that It was revealed that the force can be measured, and the "amount" of force a jedi can control is based on how much "meta-chlorians" (or something like that) they have. I always thought of the force as something more spiritual - not something Parkaboy would have come up with. What is with the ridiculous "chosen one" BS attributed to Aniken.... Why, why do they all have to be "chosen ones?" Why is that necessary? Why build him up as the most awesome jedi ever because of genetics? Why not skill or desire? This would make his transistion to the Dark Side more plausible--his ambition. Why can't his father have been some drunk Corellian cruising through Hoth on a drunken binge? Always with the chosen one this, half human son of a god that. Why cant the person who becomes the Once and Future High King of Fuck-What-All just be some jerk off the street who stumbles into the position through sheer coincidence? It works well enough for Presidential candidates, why not heroic characters?

That's what I've always liked about Beowulf. Beowulf and Luke worked for what they accomplished (serious ass kicking, monster spoils and the advent of a Free Republic). Anakin just had some "meta-wassimajiggers" in his blood stream. What if he hadn't been such a golden child? What if he had been more of an active participant in the underworld in which he was being brought up? (think the kids in City of God or at least Oliver Twist) This would have made his climb to Jedi status all the more heroic Did they even establish that Anakin "was a good man once?"

They didn't have to establish that he was a good man - we knew what was going to eventually happen - he'd turn to the dark side, but I don't think that he falls very far -- Yoda sensed it from the beginning, "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you." The Jedi council also sensed that there was a little something wrong with him and didn't even want him to be trained. The only reason that he was trained was because Qui-Gon made Obi Wan promise to do it...and I guess there's some sort of Jedi code that you can't break a promise to another Jedi?

In Ep 1, they also say that he is the one that will 'bring balance to the force' - and he does do this ... eventually, but I don't think that Anakin is the chosen one -- I think it's Luke. (But that's just my opinion of the whole thing -- because Anakin eventually makes the dark side stronger).

I thought the blood testing was kind of silly. They (meaning Jedi) are supposed to have a greater sense of everything - and yet they need to develop a blood test to prove that they are right?

As far as his mother and her 'spontaneous pregnancy' goes -- who knows that she was telling the truth. Maybe his father [I]was[/I] some drunken Corellian and she was just telling telling Qui-Gon that because she wanted him to get Anakin out of there. But I always thought Sidious was his father...and had set everything up.

I've been resisting posting in this thread because I could go on and on...and now I've done it...
I heard about Kevin Smith's review -- it kind of makes me think that the new one isn't going to be as bad as Ep 1 and 2, but I just saw them as 'set-ups' for Ep 3 -- either way -- my kids are going to love the new one, so I guess that's all that matters. But I do hope that it doesn't suck because that would really piss me off after waiting all these years to see the ending (I did like the previews, though) ...

I hate the whole chosen one thing also. I think its a horrid cliche that should be avoided unless your making a movie about jesus or something. Its a crutch used when the writer is to lazy to make a character important through some other more interesting means.

Ive never minded the midachlorians. Dont know why, maybe cuz ive known about them since like 5th grade (they are talked about in some of the books) so i just got used to the idea.

The preview looks pretty kick ass. I hope lucas gains enough talent to pull this off, then fade into oblivion.

[QUOTE]They didn't have to establish that he was a good man - we knew what was going to eventually happen [/QUOTE]

I think it would have been better if he was a street urchin who pulled himself up through ambition and skill and strong will to become, to be a Jedi, then to have that become his fatal flaw. Then it would also go along with the whole theme of the empire rotting from the inside, and even the most noble of Jedis can fall to the dark side.

You should have been the writer for the new ones, cuz like a good idea to me.

Lucas should have went the extra distance for making the first film and made Anakin the exact duplicate of Peter Pan. Nothing beats the Pan! And it would be heart breaking to watch the kid grow up to be a pirate only to have the Lost Boys kill him to balance the island/force.

[QUOTE=UbikRex]Lucas should have went the extra distance for making the first film and made Anakin the exact duplicate of Peter Pan. Nothing beats the Pan! And it would be heart breaking to watch the kid grow up to be a pirate only to have the Lost Boys kill him to balance the island/force.[/QUOTE]

You mean he'd turn out like [URL=http://www.pixyland.org/peterpan/]this guy[/URL]?

[QUOTE=Undertow]You mean he'd turn out like [URL=http://www.pixyland.org/peterpan/]this guy[/URL]?[/QUOTE]

That isn't dark that is just sad.

[QUOTE=UbikRex]Lucas should have went the extra distance for making the first film and made Anakin the exact duplicate of Peter Pan. Nothing beats the Pan! And it would be heart breaking to watch the kid grow up to be a pirate only to have the Lost Boys kill him to balance the island/force.[/QUOTE]

I LOVE IT!

Now make me hate it.

[QUOTE=UbikRex]That isn't dark that is just sad.[/QUOTE]

He's pretty happy, quite gay in that way. Did you see him on Conan O'Brian? He's a legend.

[QUOTE=Maddetchke Malorkus]I LOVE IT!

Now make me hate it.[/QUOTE]

As the adult pirate he is played by Kevin Costner.

[QUOTE=Maddetchke Malorkus]He's pretty happy, quite gay in that way. Did you see him on Conan O'Brian? He's a legend.[/QUOTE]

Sadly, I haven't watched Televison nor C-Dog in quite some time. I have been watching television as of late to catch the playoffs though.

[QUOTE=UbikRex]As the adult pirate he is played by Kevin Costner.[/QUOTE]

Wow, I really do hate it.

I found a toy store that sells tons and tons of old Star Wars merchandise for chump change. Some of it is pretty rare stuff too. It's begging to be taken advantage of.

*Not just Star Wars either. Ninja Turtles, Ghostbusters, ET, it's all there!

[QUOTE=UbikRex]Sadly, I haven't watched Televison nor C-Dog in quite some time. I have been watching television as of late to catch the playoffs though.[/QUOTE]
how is that sad, man? you've been liberated!

That's cool - do they have a website?
I have a Darth Vader (the 12" figure) that was my ex-husband's when he was a kid -- it's on a shelf in my living room.

No, it's like a little mom and pop operation hidden away inside the lobby of this office building. It looks like they rufused to sell out and the office had to be developed around this brightly coloured little shop, which I think is oddly fascinating.

I've got my eye on the Rancor and the Jabba the Hutt. I've wanted those since I was five.

Well that's cool! I love old toys. I have a bunch of Barbies at my parents house, but I didn't take very good care of them...haircuts, etc. I got both of my boys the new 12" Anakin that changes in to Darth Vader and tried to talk at least one of them into not opening the package -- just opening one of them and saving the other. That only lasted a week.

[QUOTE=alex cassun]how is that sad, man? you've been liberated![/QUOTE]

Well I would only want to catch a show or two throughout an entire weekm mostly Scrubs and Arrested Development

[QUOTE=UbikRex]Well I would only want to catch a show or two throughout an entire weekm mostly Scrubs and Arrested Development[/QUOTE]

Just AD for me. Although I could download them.

[QUOTE=wenknee]Well that's cool! I love old toys. I have a bunch of Barbies at my parents house, but I didn't take very good care of them...haircuts, etc. I got both of my boys the new 12" Anakin that changes in to Darth Vader and tried to talk at least one of them into not opening the package -- just opening one of them and saving the other. That only lasted a week.[/QUOTE]

I find it impossible to leave the boxes unopened. The smell of the plastic is far too good to be sealed away for eternity.

this is neither here nor there but i felt compelled to mention my recent sale of all my old g i joes on eBay brought me a hefty 1,200 samolions