"Your sad devotion to that ancient religion ..... which ruled the galaxy like 20 years ago"
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 18 April 2013 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
they just finished empire
woot woot
― Hockey Drunk (kingfish), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 03:39 (eleven years ago) link
http://kotaku.com/how-lucasarts-fell-apart-1401731043
Kind of enlightening story about how LucasArts the game company fell apart and had multiple amazing-sounding projects fail, mainly due to GL constantly changing his mind.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 27 September 2013 15:11 (ten years ago) link
Take the case of "Star Wars GTA," for example. During the early days of the 1313 project, some top staff at LucasArts wanted it to be an open-world, Grand Theft Auto-style Star Wars game set on Coruscant, according to two people familiar with that project. It was a fantasy for many on the team, and the thought is enticing—who wouldn’t want to explore and cause mayhem in a world full of seedy bounty hunters and Star Wars crime families?Looking at their contemporaries at Rockstar and Ubisoft, LucasArts staffers plotted out how many people it would take to build a game like that—hundreds—and how much money it’d cost—millions. That was too much of a risk for the executives at LucasFilm, sources say.
Looking at their contemporaries at Rockstar and Ubisoft, LucasArts staffers plotted out how many people it would take to build a game like that—hundreds—and how much money it’d cost—millions. That was too much of a risk for the executives at LucasFilm, sources say.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 27 September 2013 15:13 (ten years ago) link
a star wars vii is really being made? that's ... horrifying.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Sunday, 6 April 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
That's more the crimes of the current owners of the George Lucas intellectual property collection.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 6 April 2014 16:59 (ten years ago) link
Star Wars 7 shit talk
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 7 April 2014 02:09 (ten years ago) link
Motormouth & Killpower),
― a pretty interesting week for the common man living in limerick village (soref), Monday, 7 April 2014 02:30 (ten years ago) link
um, didn't mean to post that, sorry
― a pretty interesting week for the common man living in limerick village (soref), Monday, 7 April 2014 02:31 (ten years ago) link
but during a meeting with Star Wars creator George Lucas, he presented a new vision for the Darth Maul title. According to Game Informer, Lucas wanted a "buddy cop-like experience" with Darth Maul and Darth Talon — a Sith Lady separated by more than 170 years of Star Wars fiction from Maul — teaming up as friends.
http://www.polygon.com/2014/4/8/5595156/report-lucasarts-canceled-darth-maul-game-star-wars-red-fly-studio
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 11 April 2014 04:03 (ten years ago) link
On ITV1? I stopped after there were two 5 minute breaks within the first half hour.
― so says surgeon snoball (snoball), Saturday, November 21, 2009 6:40 PM (4 years ago)
They're showing TESB on ITV1 right now. Earlier I caught the bit where Han has just come back from his patrol. Then I watched the second half of Iron Man on Channel 4, which was also replete with commercials but not too bad. Just switched back to TESB and Luke is still taking out walkers on Hoth.
― I only listen to Vantablack Metal (snoball), Saturday, 16 August 2014 21:25 (nine years ago) link
Rumor going around that Disney is going to release the original, unaltered, trilogy on Blu Ray.
― oblique blasphemies (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 16 August 2014 21:41 (nine years ago) link
that news directed me to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHfLX_TMduY
looks interesting/promising. has anybody seen these versions?
― when i die, show no pity. send my soul to juggalo city (art), Saturday, 16 August 2014 21:56 (nine years ago) link
I still hold GL blocked re-issuing the originals due to his ex-wife's credit on(and royalties from) them
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Sunday, 17 August 2014 02:01 (nine years ago) link
holy shiz that looks amazing.
― piscesx, Sunday, 17 August 2014 11:14 (nine years ago) link
That's pretty cool, but also seems a little like the cinematic equivalent of those foreskin restoration guys.
― oblique blasphemies (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 17 August 2014 11:41 (nine years ago) link
despecialized versions are really great. It feels like you're watching star wars, an effect the bds cunningly avoid.
― DISMISSED AS CHANCE (NotEnough), Sunday, 17 August 2014 14:28 (nine years ago) link
They're showing TESB on ITV1 right now.
We got pulled into this last night (and it was a pleasure), but some really really horribly placed breaks, more and more towards the end.
― woof, Sunday, 17 August 2014 15:06 (nine years ago) link
despecialized versions are what you are looking for, if you are looking for them. stuff in there a 90s kid like me only dimly remembered from extreme childhood: the puppety emperor-face in darth vader's holographic conferwnce room (it's lawrence kasdan's wife, or leigh brackett, or someone, i forget); the elusive budget wampa; jabba's throne room without that fucking fucking fucking song. download these and ignore the blu-rays; it is morally unjustifiable to pay for star wars in 2014.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 17 August 2014 16:21 (nine years ago) link
the orange vaseline "force field" underneath the landspeeder (obscuring the wheels)
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 17 August 2014 16:23 (nine years ago) link
getting rid of the weird fusion number in favour of that fucking fucking fucking song may have been the worst aesthetic misstep among lucas' million aesthetic missteps
― Merdeyeux, Sunday, 17 August 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
sounds poll-worthy
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 17 August 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
the part where the rudimentary 90s-cgi alien vamp shoves her stalked lips in the camera lens: surprised they didn't re-release this bullshit in 3D
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 17 August 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
http://www.vfxhq.com/1997/stills/sw/jedi/joh1.gif
http://www.vfxhq.com/1997/stills/sw/jedi/sy1.gif
TS
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 17 August 2014 17:00 (nine years ago) link
good christ i'd never seen that newer jabba song until now bc i avoided that version of the movie like the plague. wow...
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Sunday, 17 August 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiDRgDmXGi4
so glad i never saw this on the big screen, there is no way it would have ended without thrown popcorn or worse
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 17 August 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
lol, this is news to me too; this was actually in the rereleased version?what horrors they have put upon sy snootlesfor reference for you youngshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_Kj98hIb58
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 17 August 2014 19:29 (nine years ago) link
See I can dig the space clavinet and that bass synth fill at 0:38 in
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Sunday, 17 August 2014 19:36 (nine years ago) link
Also, looking back, I think it's kinda neat and really weird that they made action figures for a crime boss' band:
http://theswca.com/images-toys/figuretoys/rebo-front.jpg
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Sunday, 17 August 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
as a child, i bought that. i think my action figure collection on the star wars end was first luke, boba fett, darth vader (without his head, due to a venetian blinds cord hanging episode), these guys, greedo, squidface... and that mighta been it.
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 17 August 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
Googling around for info on the instrumentation of the original track, I found this:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-Surprisingly-Strange-Story-of-Lapti-Nek/topic/14770/
Reprinting two stories from Crawdaddy about the original song, which involves a Meco remix, a dude from Toto trying to issue the single as a 12", and multiple vocal tracks recorded by both an inhouse sound engineer and also a professional musician who Lucas may or may not have been hooking up with around the time of his divorce.
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Sunday, 17 August 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
the Cantina music is obviously much better known but listening to it with fresh ears it's charmingly weird, I wonder if there was a Sun Ra fan on the team who decided that big band IN SPACE was a good idea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaPf-MRKITg
― Merdeyeux, Sunday, 17 August 2014 19:55 (nine years ago) link
wow at this:
One thing led to another, and Arbogast was given the chore of creating "Lapti Nek" for Sy Snootles. She made up the "Huttese" lyrics by spilling pieces of Scrabble and Perquacky on her kitchen table in East Oakland, and picking them up at random."They wanted a sound that was a cross between Captain Crunch and Olive Oyl and a parrot stuck in an elephant's trunk. I figured I could handle that," Annie told me."Now the song's very big. They made a video of it for MTV," she said. What she's earned has enabled her to buy a new Toyota.Arbogast's steam-engine singing voice is one thing. When she talks she's shy like a farm girl, blushing and self-conscious. At our meeting in a cold backroom at Berkeley Square she was wearing her rock and roll costume - a metal junkyard over a mini-dress that would raise eyebrows even in the Tenderloin."I'm not really a punker," she said, a little blush in her painted eyes. She tore the filter off a Winston and lit it like a sailor in the wind."I been with this band Smear for seven months now. I don't know what you call our music, exactly. Somebody said it was modern rock, or acid power pop. I don't really want to be a computer tech all my life. I think my future's in music.
"They wanted a sound that was a cross between Captain Crunch and Olive Oyl and a parrot stuck in an elephant's trunk. I figured I could handle that," Annie told me.
"Now the song's very big. They made a video of it for MTV," she said. What she's earned has enabled her to buy a new Toyota.
Arbogast's steam-engine singing voice is one thing. When she talks she's shy like a farm girl, blushing and self-conscious. At our meeting in a cold backroom at Berkeley Square she was wearing her rock and roll costume - a metal junkyard over a mini-dress that would raise eyebrows even in the Tenderloin.
"I'm not really a punker," she said, a little blush in her painted eyes. She tore the filter off a Winston and lit it like a sailor in the wind.
"I been with this band Smear for seven months now. I don't know what you call our music, exactly. Somebody said it was modern rock, or acid power pop. I don't really want to be a computer tech all my life. I think my future's in music.
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 17 August 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link
The liner notes of the OT soundtrack box set go into that, about how they wanted a cosmic Benny Goodman song.
Also, found this, which had an insane amount of detail, including the original and translated lyrics:
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lapti_Nek
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Sunday, 17 August 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
http://let-the-wookie-win.com/images/20120906211506_annie%20arbogast.jpg
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 17 August 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jizz
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 17 August 2014 20:05 (nine years ago) link
it's such a shame that Bollux didn't produce jizz
― Merdeyeux, Sunday, 17 August 2014 20:08 (nine years ago) link
Gender
Masculine programming[3]
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 17 August 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
i swear we've had this entire conversation before
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 17 August 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
I think I bring up Bollux every couple of months so probably yeah
― Merdeyeux, Sunday, 17 August 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link
naw, i meant the sy snootles / lapti nek / star wiki / jizz progressionthe saddest of progressions
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 17 August 2014 20:27 (nine years ago) link
The ROTJ toy line was definitely the coolest of the original set of movie figures (not counting the Power of the Force toys). First film's were way too flimsy and cheap-feeling, which really hobbled Vader, Luke and Obi-Wan particularly. Empire had the badass Imperial Walkers but how many kids actually had those? But by Jedi the basic figures had gotten fuller and heavier, and there were all these great ones - Bib Fortuna, the Gamorrean troll guy, the Emperor and his red guard, Leia with bounty-hunter mask, so cool. Shame about all the Ewoks though.
I love how you would seriously need a whole display case just to handle all variants of Luke Skywalker: http://www.jedibusiness.com/star-wars-figures.aspx?type=name&typeName=Luke%20Skywalker
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 17 August 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
holy grail for nine year old me was a basement-sized super star destroyer, which tbqf i never actually saw, i just invented it in my head. i wanted it to come with a spaceship dock below it large enough to hold a star destroyer, which in itself would have a dock large enough to hold a senator's escape shuttle.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Sunday, 17 August 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
The story goes that when the Kenner toy designers were making the prototype figures, the only visual resource they had for the character Snaggletooth was a grainy, black-and-white photograph of the character's head. With so little to go on, the Kenner employees did their best and just made up the rest, making a figure of a blue suited, average human height creature from a character that actually wore red and was about 3 feet tall. The figure was quickly scrapped and never seen again, making it possibly the rarest Star Wars action figure on the market.
http://actionfigures.about.com/od/historyofactionfigures/tp/top_5_starwars.htm
gotta love the haphazardness of that early merchandising.
― piscesx, Sunday, 17 August 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
from the soundtrack album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqeGtCtDVqs
― i was a downy lad, and twee (stevie), Sunday, 17 August 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Sunday, August 17, 2014 4:50 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
closest cousin, the awesome GI JOE Defiant, with a space shuttle base that launches a shuttle that can fold out to become a sort of building-like playset, and which is host to...another shuttle:
http://www.planetdiecast.com/hwdphotos/originals/12130/1173/defiant.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 17 August 2014 23:05 (nine years ago) link
My buddy named his stoner rock band Blue Snaggletooth:
https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=105410702837250
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Monday, 18 August 2014 02:08 (nine years ago) link
Also, I always thought the USS Flagg was the end-all/be-all of 80s action figure toys, as that thing was like 7.5 feet long
http://www.timidfutures.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/gijoe-uss-flagg-aircraft-carrier.jpg
Fun/dumb fact: the set was based on the aircraft carrier used in _The Final Countdown_
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Monday, 18 August 2014 02:18 (nine years ago) link
Also, on a related note, I scored an original FX-7 in great condition for $3 from a local consignment store:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/s640x640/1621788_10152257103346596_8544268108627425152_n.jpg?oh=bf1dc3da1f95d0766e90a8e228b54ac0&oe=545FE731&__gda__=1417510900_7a83575bdfaca484daa6cc30f48f2fac
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Monday, 18 August 2014 02:24 (nine years ago) link
They have a USS Flagg at this place near my house: http://bigfunbigfun.com/
― Welcome to my spooooooky carnival! Hope I don't... blow your mind! (Phil D.), Monday, 18 August 2014 02:28 (nine years ago) link