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Gnome de plume posted:kind of weird seeing a mural of the characters looking exactly like they did in the cartoon in the middle of a bunch of live action scenes I mean... Sabine is an artist, so who looks like what at least has an explanation (Heck Rebels itself could very well be the story as she remembers it, especially since she was the one narrating the epilogue) There's a new Lego Ghost set that includes Jacen Syndulla, who's sporting a new look as well  (That at least can be slightly rationalized as Sabine colored his hair; here's hoping they at least remember that his ears are green)
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I kind of wonder how much of the scale is actually borne out by the models.
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tbh I think the scale is directly derived from the models. We know an X-wing is X(heh) meters long based on the size of the pilot, and when we see it next to the Star Destroyer it's Y% of its length, therefore the length of the Star Destroyer is blah blah blah and that's what goes in Incredible Cross Sections. The problem is that model makers only care (correctly, tbf) about what looks good on screen and the sourcebook writers can only start their work after the model makers are already done so it's not like they can go back and say "hey this is a little weird, any changes to be made here?" What the witers probably should have done though is say "well it looks exactly like an ISD so unless there's something in the text saying it's bigger, it's just gonna be the same size as an ISD because that's the logical assumption to make, and anyone who busts out the measuring tape next to their TV is gonna be annoyed with us for other reasons anyway." The ultimate problem maker though is JJ and whoever originally decided to sign off on the superweapons looking exactly like ISDs in the first place, because setting aside all the scale issues, holy loving poo poo that was the absolute least creative choice they could have possibly made. Everything else is directly downstream from that dumb decision
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Yeah it was pretty tragically hilarious how the ffg dogfighting tabletop game just gave up on the new trilogy giving them anything to work with after ep VIII.
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Vinylshadow posted:(That at least can be slightly rationalized as Sabine colored his hair; here's hoping they at least remember that his ears are green) It was always odd they decided what a human/Twi'lek hybrid would look like was 'have green ears, I guess.'
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ninjahedgehog posted:My favorite is the stupid superlaser ISD from Rise of Skywalker, which is completely identical in every single way to the OT version except for the dumb penis laser and that fact that, for some absolutely inexplicable reason, it's like 2.5x the volume. The practical reason for that IIRC is that because the plot was developed so late, to save time they had to basically reuse the CGI model from Rogue One with minimal changes, hence why all of a sudden the design from thirty years earlier with a penis laser is there. (In my headcanon, the penis laser is an upscaled version of the one designed for Lord Nyax). That of course only shunts the problem to the overall development of the movie. The funny thing is, the Eclipse from Dark Empire (explicitly named as such in the draft script) was going to be in the Colin Treverrow version of Episode IX which didn't feature a resurrected Palpatine, and the concept art even used the Dark Empire design directly. https://imgur.com/a/fbZFcbC
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Dawgstar posted:It was always odd they decided what a human/Twi'lek hybrid would look like was 'have green ears, I guess.' In the opposition direction from the previous human/toilet hybrids from TCW which keep the head tails but have notably less angular facial proportions. Jacen looks like an elf.
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Ceebees posted:Yeah it was pretty tragically hilarious how the ffg dogfighting tabletop game just gave up on the new trilogy giving them anything to work with after ep VIII. ....they didn't tho? Like the resistance ywing and tie whisper are from 9 and while published by AMG, we're clearly designed by ffg
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ninjahedgehog posted:tbh I think the scale is directly derived from the models. We know an X-wing is X(heh) meters long based on the size of the pilot, and when we see it next to the Star Destroyer it's Y% of its length, therefore the length of the Star Destroyer is blah blah blah and that's what goes in Incredible Cross Sections.
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My favorite Star Wars ship is the Moldy Crow. (Or the HWK-290 light freighter if you want to get Wookipedia about it.)
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https://twitter.com/SCentralized/status/1679360205589565440?t=bB9KY5RdGVtsR_c8Jyed1Q&s=19I don't know if imbedded tweets are still hosed posted:Dave Filoni says that #Ahsoka is not loosely adapting the Thrawn Trilogy, as many fans have surmised, but is in fact an adaptation of The Glove of Darth Vader. it is a dumb joke I fell for ScottyJSno fucked around with this message at 12:56 on Jul 13, 2023 |
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Jul 13, 2023 12:54
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Ahsoka’s lekku are hiding a third eye in back.
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Jul 13, 2023 13:48
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Would certainly build nicely off Gideon's Mofference scene
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ScottyJSno posted:https://twitter.com/SCentralized/status/1679360205589565440?t=bB9KY5RdGVtsR_c8Jyed1Q&s=19 This is the first time I've seen that cover since I was six, did they seriously get Drew Struzan for a D-tier Star Wars children's book?
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Rochallor posted:This is the first time I've seen that cover since I was six, did they seriously get Drew Struzan for a D-tier Star Wars children's book?
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Jul 14, 2023 02:57
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He did almost all of the Bantam covers outside of the Thrawn Trilogy and a few others. There’s some quote from him about how much he enjoyed doing Shadows of the Empire.
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Jul 14, 2023 05:29
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Want to hear someone say Dark Greetings at least once in a Star wars and they should hire a big name actor just for that line
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Gnome de plume posted:Want to hear someone say Dark Greetings at least once in a Star wars Flashback with Werner Herzog.
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Rochallor posted:This is the first time I've seen that cover since I was six, did they seriously get Drew Struzan for a D-tier Star Wars children's book? Yup, and it got weirder. 
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thrawn527 posted:Yup, and it got weirder. Ah, yes, the 'sometimes Hutts have hair, I guess' bit.
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Not sure if that was from the authors, the interior illustrator, or Struzan. The latter seems the least likely source to me.
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every horrible book having a nice cover was one of the best parts of bantam. del ray really lowered the bar
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Casimir Radon posted:Not sure if that was from the authors, the interior illustrator, or Struzan. The latter seems the least likely source to me. He was created by Paul and Hollace Davids, so probably the result of author fiat (and the hair's explained as a genetic throwback and caused him to be considered impure by other Hutts)
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The placement of Leia's shoulder made me think he was also wearing a little beret and now I'm disappointed he's not.
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Radio! posted:The placement of Leia's shoulder made me think he was also wearing a little beret and now I'm disappointed he's not. Ha, amazing. Jazerus posted:every horrible book having a nice cover was one of the best parts of bantam. del ray really lowered the bar It's true, Struzan knocked it out of the park for some terrible books. Even if he was limited to the actor's likenesses in the OT.   Like, I can tell you the exact scene Han's face is taken from in the Crystal Star cover. Same for Leia in Children of the Jedi.
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Radio! posted:The placement of Leia's shoulder made me think he was also wearing a little beret and now I'm disappointed he's not. I'm sorry, Leia is only to have two different hairstyles and is not allowed to wear a hat.
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ScottyJSno posted:https://twitter.com/SCentralized/status/1679360205589565440?t=bB9KY5RdGVtsR_c8Jyed1Q&s=19 i mean id watch that if it was done completle straight as a continuation of Andor. like its hosed up realistic facism and all its horrors and suddenly 3 eyes shows up in his punk jacket and hissa show up saying "dark greetings" and you just see all the ISB officers just roll their eyes.
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Leia gets a hat, or the helmet from ROTJ, in the paperback version of The Courtship of Princess Leia. The hardcover cover is different for some reason. Both are Struzan covers.  It’s the only book I can think of where the hardcover and paperback have different covers.
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Jul 14, 2023 20:37
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Is the Han in the hardcover one from Blade Runner?
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Lord Hydronium posted:Is the Han in the hardcover one from Blade Runner? Yeah I've never been sure about that one. His hair is definitely not Han. Which is weird, because it doesn't match what I've read about the contract, which is, "Must look like they did in the OT." I actually wonder if that's why they changed it for the paperback. Someone said, "Wtf is that? We can't do that."
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I wonder if they thought they’d get smacked for likeness issues, or maybe they did.
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Looks less like Han and Leia and more like Rick Deckard and Princess Vespa.
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Wolverton had an interview where he said he was told by a Lucasfilm Books person that Carrie Fisher got a copy of the book because she liked how good Leia’s boobs looked on the cover.
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God, she was a treasure, wasn't she I'm on a road trip so I'm listening to a bunch of AMCA, and they brought up this clip of Carrie Fisher presenting the Emmy award for the Clone Wars. It's just great.
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Arc Hammer posted:Looks less like Han and Leia and more like Rick Deckard and Princess Vespa. I was thinking Indiana Jones when he's not on adventures and Leia looking a bit like Sarah in Labrinth during the ballroom dream sequence.
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thrawn527 posted:Yeah I've never been sure about that one. His hair is definitely not Han. Which is weird, because it doesn't match what I've read about the contract, which is, "Must look like they did in the OT." This came up in a Discord conversation recently and we did in fact find a promo image for Blade Runner that is pretty much a match: 
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Cross-Section posted:This came up in a Discord conversation recently and we did in fact find a promo image for Blade Runner that is pretty much a match: Yup, that's it. Well done.
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Rochallor posted:God, she was a treasure, wasn't she https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/28/opinions/carrie-fisher-penn-jillette/index.html That's Penn Jillette Talking about Carrie Fisher right after she died... Telling a story about Carrie Fisher at the Porn Awards
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Carrie was such an icon, there are times where I feel I’ve read every funny Carrie Fisher story there is, and then another one pops up, and I’m laughing/crying again.
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Happy 20th anniversary to Knights of the Old Republic. Feels like it was just the 20th anniversary to Heir to the Empire!
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