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HAHAHAHAHA That seriously is the best bust ever created.

I want a picture of that bust surfing on lava.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I want a picture of that bust barfing on lava.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link

(Have I ever disclosed that I've seen that bust in person at a comic book store? It's even more frightning than the picture would lead you to believe.)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I should note:

According the Brtish tabloid The Sun

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:54 (nineteen years ago) link

And you didn't buy it????

x-post

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link

That thing is EXPENSIVE! Plus my wife would murder me in my sleep by stuffing it down my throat.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link

That's why it has no arms, to ease forced swallowings inflicted on the morans who buy it.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link

It's expensive? The mind boggles.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link

There's a certain joy in not being a total fanboy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 20:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I am afeared of that statue. It reminds me of the cover to the second Prodigy album.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 20:35 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

http://calebband.org.uk/files/sw.gif

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 April 2006 04:29 (eighteen years ago) link

a film's essence summed up by an emoticon: truly we are living in the future

― latebloomer: someone's been drinking my youth! (latebloomer), Friday, 7 April 2006 04:36 (eighteen years ago) link

I rather like being here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

http://www.fungod.com/coppermine/displayimage.php?album=15&pos=334

the lost Biggs/toshi station/luke in gilligan hat scenes from ANH

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 19 June 2006 05:04 (seventeen years ago) link

>a film's essence summed up by an emoticon<

no, we're talking about 1977's Star Wars The emoticon is not worth a popcorn kernel left on the theatre floor.

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Monday, 19 June 2006 06:45 (seventeen years ago) link

the emoticon is better in that it actually made me feel something

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Monday, 19 June 2006 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgxPIkjG3J0

Strange Brew audio cut to Star Wars footage

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 05:50 (seventeen years ago) link

eight months pass...

Was the Death Star attack an inside job?

2) Why did Grand Moff Tarkin refuse to deploy the station’s large fleet of TIE Fighters until it was too late? Was he acting on orders from somebody to not shoot down the rebel attack force? If so, who, and why?
...
4) Why has there not been an investigation into allegations that Darth Vader, the second-ranking member of the Imperial Government, is in fact the father of the pilot who allegedly destroyed the Death Star?

5) Why did Lord Vader decide to break all protocols and personally pilot a lightly armored TIE Fighter? Conveniently, this placed Lord Vader outside of the Death Star when it was destroyed, where he was also conveniently able to escape from a large-sized rebel fleet that had just routed the Imperial forces. Why would Lord Vader, one of the highest ranking members of the Imperial Government, suddenly decide to fly away from the Death Star in the middle of a battle? Did he know something that the rest of the Imperial Navy didn’t?

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a certain joy in not being a total fanboy.

Ned Raggett (Ned) on Wednesday, May 19, 2004 3:20 PM (2 years ago)

so otm

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.websurdity.com/2007/02/28/uncomfortable-questions-was-the-death-star-attack-an-inside-job/

^^^^^
mega roffles

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I should repost my transcription of the lyrics from the theatrical edition Ewok victory song here huh

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

TOE ROCK
HE IS
MAAADE
OUT OF ROOOOCKS
HE IS
MADE OUTTA ROCKS
HE IS
MADE FROM ROOOOCKS
DOCTOR ROCKTOE ROCK! (toot toot)
DOCTOR ROCKTOE ROCK! (toot toot)
DOCTOR ROCKTOE ROOOOOOOCK

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Why was the rebel pilot who supposedly destroyed the Death Star reported to be on the Death Star days, maybe hours, prior to its destruction? Why was he allowed to escape, and why were several individuals dressed in Stormtrooper uniforms seen helping him?

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Ewok song lyrics OTM.

― chap, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link

George Lucas is a sad, sad man

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link

rewatching the old skool on DVD finally made me realize (similar to what Ned said somewhere about Ben Burtt's sound work) - there's a lot of sequences where the editing and combination of score, dialogue, special effects shots and sound design all together reach that level of mastery that makes it look so easy you don't notice. The trench run, the AT-ATs, and the speederbike chase are all still absolutely terrific, like bullitt/french connection class of How Do I Shot Some Intense Fucking Velocity In A Color Talkie.

TOMBOT on Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:30 (5 hours ago)
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so so otm and beautifully put. really i mean that.

MAN i'm going to watch the trilogy box this weekend i think.

― pisces, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link

what the hell's a Color Talkie

― Ste, Thursday, 8 March 2007 09:24 (seventeen years ago) link

i just watched the original trilogy on hbo. what the fuck is lucas' obsession with digitally inserting tiny, squeaking robots and tiny, squeaking animals being eating by larger, burping/farting animals? but the first three still hold up well, for me.

also - were r2 and chewbacca the secret leaders of the rebel alliance?

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, 8 March 2007 09:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I raved to my dad abt the bar full o'aliens and the mutant jazz, shortly after SW came out ? to prove to him that it was the BEST FILM EVER MADE (as I slightly inexplicably tht: I RAN all the way home after first saw it, so hyped wuz I, abt two-three miles ? I had not, admittedly, seen many films at that age). My dad demurred: and sed (re bar-of-aliens and jazz), "This is a very old idea."
But is he right or was he on crack? I can think of no occurrence of EITHER idea in SF prior to this, and these days I sometimes KNOW WHAT I'M'TALKING ABOUT!!

I think this scene was influenced (or at least predated) by a similar alien cantina scene in the French sci-fi comic Valerian, but I can't remember which particular book it was in.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 8 March 2007 09:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Lego Star Wars 2 arrived for my GC this morning!! Excited!!

― Sarah, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:26 (seventeen years ago) link

[image]http://www.websurdity.com/images/thepetbantha.jpg[image]

― stevie, Thursday, 8 March 2007 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.websurdity.com/images/thepetbantha.jpg

― stevie, Thursday, 8 March 2007 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Räkä räkä!

― Tuomas, Thursday, 8 March 2007 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I second one of the comments on that websurdity site:

#Spiritualized Says:

This needs a cheesy video on YouTube, using the Loose Change background music.

PLEASE somebody make one. Please?!

YES.

― Roz, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

[quote]also - were r2 and chewbacca the secret leaders of the rebel alliance?

haha: It is my contention that R2-D2 is the fulcrum upon which the plot of the entire saga pivots, and that this is made possible because R2-D2 is a direct instrument of the Force

― TOMBOT, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Personally I always was more comfortable with R2-D2 as an avatar of Krishna.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

scroll down for sub-pred-ship fanboy haw haws

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=66327

― TOMBOT, Friday, 9 March 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

http://www.peoplevsgeorge.com/

― latebloomer, Saturday, 16 February 2008 08:09 (sixteen years ago) link

Most certainly a dud in all ways possible.

― mehlt, Saturday, 16 February 2008 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link

This new film coming out: uh.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 16 February 2008 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link

ugly looking animation

― latebloomer, Saturday, 16 February 2008 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link

In the climax of Episode IV as Vader's TIE fighter zooms up behind Luke's X-Wing fighter, Vader feels out throug the Force and detects the power of his opponent. His first reaction is to shoot R2-D2.

Given that Vader is known to be unconcerned with his enemies carrying blasters or lightsabres as they confront him, isn't this a bit of an overreaction for a piece of hardware as humdrum as an astromech droid? Not if he is an instrument of the Force, and a power capable of reshaping the destinies of kings.

― Z S, Saturday, 16 February 2008 17:53 (sixteen years ago) link

five months pass...

Well, anyway:

“I am amazed at how it continues,” he said on his way into the afternoon screening following a quick photo shoot with members of the cast and crew. “It’s not something I expected to happen, and not something we spend a lot of time thinking about trying to expand. This was created because I wanted to stimulate kids' imaginations, inspire them to be creative and to think outside the box. I’m like the tar baby … I’ve gotten into the toy box and now I can’t get out.”

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 August 2008 19:31 (fifteen years ago) link

"I'm like the tar baby"

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 11 August 2008 19:48 (fifteen years ago) link

okay there are enough uses of that term that are unambiguously racist that we don't also need to also jump up and down and act all shrill about the ones that aren't

― HI DERE, Monday, 11 August 2008 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link

The 'toy box' thing is the more unsettling (but also more unsurprising) comment anyway.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 August 2008 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link

six months pass...

calista flockhart has never seen star wars.

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 14:35 (fifteen years ago) link

why do you think Ford was attracted to her?

― tuomasters at work (blueski), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 14:36 (fifteen years ago) link

Wonder if Ford's ever seen Ally McBeal.

― chap, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 15:14 (fifteen years ago) link

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