the crimes of george lucas ('90s on)

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.

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

http://let-the-wookie-win.com/images/20120906211506_annie%20arbogast.jpg

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jizz

it's such a shame that Bollux didn't produce jizz

Gender

Masculine programming[3]

i swear we've had this entire conversation before

I think I bring up Bollux every couple of months so probably yeah

naw, i meant the sy snootles / lapti nek / star wiki / jizz progression
the saddest of progressions

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

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.

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.

from the soundtrack album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqeGtCtDVqs

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.

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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

My buddy named his stoner rock band Blue Snaggletooth:

https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=105410702837250

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_

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

They have a USS Flagg at this place near my house: http://bigfunbigfun.com/

Ha; my ex-gf strongly recommended I visit there last time I got sent to Cleveland. Didn't get the chance to make it down, tho.

I had one of the cardboard UK death stars as a kid! It was so rad - it had a tunnel you could throw your figures down, into the trash compactor...

Switching gears a little but, I had one of these things. Cool because it had nothing to do with the movie.

http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/5361/8439313_2.jpg?v=8CB24FA57116B70

little bit. Anyway, there were a few other similar one-man ships called mini-rigs.

should just re-name this thread "arrested development"

Shakey turned into Dr. Morbius so gradually, we hardly even noticed.

would he prefer it if we just sat around wishing Lucas were dead?

I wonder if previous generations got all "man when I was a kid I had this one stick I used to play with, it was the coolest thing" as they aged

George Washington wouldn't shut up about his favorite ax from childhood

Some people reminisced about the stick, some people prefered to walk around with the stick firmly planted up their wizened asses.

oh HELLO

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=41928

xxp yeah no baby boomers definitely were never a target market for having their own childhoods sold back to them, that is a thing that never happened.

As io9.com pointed out the other day, all this talk of unaltered Original Trilogy Blu-Rays is just talk, since Fox owns the worldwide distribution rights to Star Wars in perpetuity, and to the other five movies through 2020.

Yeah, but as also pointed out elsewhere, Fox could stand to strike a deal that would make them bucketloads of money. I think it'll still happen sooner rather than later, there is way too much money to be made for it not to.

yeah with Lucas' petty ego out of the way the $$$ will win out

i really hope osmeone writes a good article or oral history or wahtever about g-luc's decision to sell off star wars

that would def be good reading, but surely it all comes down to '$$$$ + tired of being yelled at by nerds'

afaik he'd said that if his black WWII fighter squadron movie failed he was done w movies. (It failed).

TBF, he did not try to make it good, so he was clearly looking for a way out the whole time.

yeah there could v well have been some subconscious self-sabotage there, it is kind of his overall m.o.

such a massively insecure dude

all of his terrible ideas were just cries for help

darth booger or whatever from the cartoons et al

i wanna know the moment he went from i am the mastermind and god of this complex universe and i will be overseeing it and all its technical innovatiosn for decades to come to "ah fuck it"

I mean, $4 billion

Bob Iger probably gave him a call and was like "our stock is up ever since we started this Marvel thing and we're looking for more bankable franchises, how's $4 billion for the whole kit and caboodle sound to you"

s1ocki otm

i know it was a lot of money but dude was already loaded, there had to be some sort of large shift in his consciousness

"Those ILX guys sure are mean to me. I'm getting off this boat."

(PS frogbs is George Lucas)

maybe he realized this stuff was just kinda fucking stupid?

you guys know i wasnt specifically asking YOU for your insights on this matter

Well Lucas should be along any minute