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Wheat Loaf posted:I don't know, I like Jan Duursema's Star Wars art.   
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May 1, 2015 16:50
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To be fair, that Rebel pilot just looks kind of bland, not bad.
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Gaz-L posted:To be fair, that Rebel pilot just looks kind of bland, not bad. Look at the perspective on the eyes.
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Ensign_Ricky posted:It gets better. I spent over a month's allowances buying and trading for a whole line of Marvel trading cards by these guys in 1994, and a few 8x10" blowups. One of them had the Hulk shooting a Hulk-sized submachinegun. Teenagers do a lot of dumb things.
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Crowsbeak posted:I mean while you have to be a traditional fan to know who Mara Jade is, someone outside of the fandom could know who dash Rendar or Xixor is. No one outside of fandom knew who Rendar or Xixor were.
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The comic needs to bring back Chewbacca getting crushed by a moon, the most badass death in history
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Davros1 posted:No one outside of fandom knew who Rendar or Xixor were. Unless you owned the N64 game.
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Unless you owned the N64 game. But those characters didn't permeate through the public conscious like Vader or Chewbacca or Yoda. Or even Jar Jar. Unless they were already Star Wars fans, mentioning Prince Xixor to anyone would only draw blank looks.
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Davros1 posted:But those characters didn't permeate through the public conscious like Vader or Chewbacca or Yoda. Or even Jar Jar. Unless they were already Star Wars fans, mentioning Prince Xixor to anyone would only draw blank looks. You know, I'll grant that in part.
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Wasn't Prince Xizor brought up in Spaced or Clerks with the main characters talking about how stupid the pronunciation of his name was?
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Blind Sally posted:Wasn't Prince Xizor brought up in Spaced or Clerks with the main characters talking about how stupid the pronunciation of his name was? It'd have to have been Spaced, Clerks was way before he existed.
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Davros1 posted:But those characters didn't permeate through the public conscious like Vader or Chewbacca or Yoda. Or even Jar Jar. Unless they were already Star Wars fans, mentioning Prince Xixor to anyone would only draw blank looks. They had action figures at Wal-Mart and commercials for the Shadows N64 game on TV. I mean yeah it didn't become part of the enduring popular consciousness or anything, but the whole Shadows of the Empire "multimedia event" was A Thing you could semi-casually notice for like a year. Especially if you had kids or were a kid, not just a usenet-posting ubernerd.
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Davros1 posted:No one outside of fandom knew who Rendar or Xixor were. Yeah tell that to everyone who played Shadows of the Empire and owned a Dash Rendar action figure. as others mentioned it was a event with loving ads all over tv for it, kids talked about Shadows of the Empire. Kids who certainly didn't turn into loving nerds like your truly, so I would say it is much more well known than say Thrawn. Crowsbeak fucked around with this message at 18:25 on May 3, 2015 |
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It was the most well known EU thing but that's not saying much. The general populace knows about the movies and that's it. Sorry to say, but if you know anything more you're a nerd.
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rear end Catchcum posted:It was the most well known EU thing but that's not saying much. The general populace knows about the movies and that's it. Sorry to say, but if you know anything more you're a nerd. Yeah getting more action figures to play with and a hyped up n64 game when you were a kid didn't make one a star wars nerd. Seriously would you call someone who played Shadows of the empire and owned the action figures a nerd? Now knowing who Thrawn was made you a nerd. Crowsbeak fucked around with this message at 21:22 on May 3, 2015 |
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Crowsbeak posted:Yeah getting more action figures to paly with and a hyped up n64 game when you were a kid didn't amke one a star wars nerd. Seriously would you call someone who played Shadows of the empire and owned the action figures a nerd? Now knowing who Thrawn was made you a nerd. To be fair, Thrawn also had an action figure.
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Ensign_Ricky posted:To be fair, Thrawn also had an action figure. The ice cream maker guy from Cloud City got an action figure. 
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VirtualStranger posted:The ice cream maker guy from Cloud City got an action figure. Hey that ice cream maker is one of the approximately billion secret bits of technology and information necessary to take out the second Death Star.
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VirtualStranger posted:The ice cream maker guy from Cloud City got an action figure. I'll grant that, but at least he actually appeared in a film, even if it was only for a split second.
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Ensign_Ricky posted:To be fair, Thrawn also had an action figure. I don't think I ever saw an ad for him on TV. Now this I remember. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcdfK3DrJNQ Crowsbeak fucked around with this message at 21:27 on May 3, 2015 |
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May 3, 2015 21:23
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Yeah if you own Star Wars toys you're a nerd.
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rear end Catchcum posted:Yeah if you own Star Wars toys you're a nerd. If you post in a comic book forum, you're a nerd. 
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rear end Catchcum posted:Yeah if you own Star Wars toys you're a nerd. If you're eight and its 1997 then you're a kid.
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VirtualStranger posted:The ice cream maker guy from Cloud City got an action figure. I used to have a shitton of Star Wars comics and novels and was pretty much a completionist, but I recently purged my collection down to just the stuff I actually enjoy and would want to re-read in the future. Pretty much just the X-wing and the "Tales from..." books, and the X-wing, Boba Fett, and Tales of the Jedi comics.
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My dad is going to be redoing his attic this summer, we're excited to find the melted bits of plastic that were my Star Wars toys from the 1980s!
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Shadows of the Empire does not get mentioned in Spaced. Tim was a Playstation man. Also, I've always found Cam Kennedy's art in Dark Empire to be pretty cool.
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Gargamel Gibson posted:Also, I've always found Cam Kennedy's art in Dark Empire to be pretty cool.
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Gargamel Gibson posted:Also, I've always found Cam Kennedy's art in Dark Empire to be pretty cool. redbackground posted:It's the best. *twitching* You guys are *trying* to get a reaction out of me, aren't you?
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Soonmot posted:My dad is going to be redoing his attic this summer, we're excited to find the melted bits of plastic that were my Star Wars toys from the 1980s! Post pictures.
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I seriously only read canon stuff.
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The Outrider has been confirmed as canonical: http://ca.ign.com/articles/2015/04/30/shadows-of-the-empires-outrider-confirmed-as-star-wars-canon Whether or not Disney will extend that to Dash Rendar or any other Shadows-related material remains to be seen.
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Blind Sally posted:The Outrider has been confirmed as canonical: http://ca.ign.com/articles/2015/04/30/shadows-of-the-empires-outrider-confirmed-as-star-wars-canon "Hm, well, let's see. You've got... knockoff Han Solo and Rape Lizard. No, no thank you."
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Don't forget about Rude C-3PO and the Fem Bot from Austin Powers!
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Blind Sally posted:The Outrider has been confirmed as canonical: http://ca.ign.com/articles/2015/04/30/shadows-of-the-empires-outrider-confirmed-as-star-wars-canon ladies
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Davros1 posted:But those characters didn't permeate through the public conscious like Vader or Chewbacca or Yoda. Or even Jar Jar. Unless they were already Star Wars fans, mentioning Prince Xixor to anyone would only draw blank looks. Yeah, if you just namedrop him, but if you add "y'know, the bad guy from Shadows of the Empire on N64" they'll probably get it. The SW games have permeated nerd-dom outside of specific SW fandom pretty heavily- nerdy people who aren't SW spergs still tend to know who HK-47 or Kyle Katarn are (or at least "the robot from KOTOR" and "the Not Han from Jedi Knight"), and older ones will even recognize the TIE Fighter and X-Wing dudes (those were honestly a little before my time and the games are too clunky for me in 2015, so I can't remember their names). WeedlordGoku69 fucked around with this message at 20:25 on May 6, 2015 |
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No, dude, you just don't get how nerdy you and your circle are. No one but more than casual fans know who the gently caress you're talking about.
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Davros1 posted:Prince Xixor. LORD OF BUTT posted:"y'know, the bad guy from Shadows of the Empire on N64" As someone who posts on a comic book forum the fact this I can only answer "Who and what?" probably means nobody knows that guy.
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I am pretty sure most people if they heard the name would assume it is a Dune character, if they knew what Dune was.
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rear end Catchcum posted:No, dude, you just don't get how nerdy you and your circle are. No one but more than casual fans know who the gently caress you're talking about. to be clear, I'm talking about people who skew nerdy but aren't Wookieepedia editors, not outright non-nerds, no poo poo the latter group isn't gonna have a clue who they are.
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