Star Wars: The Complete Saga (1977-2005)

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by chip75

One odd thing about AotC is why Fett 'out-sourced' his assassination mission of Padme to Zam Wesell. He had a rocket pack why not fly outside her window and shoot a missle at her? Was his pack just for getaways?

Zam Wesell is another pet peeve with me when she was on the run she should have grabbed Anakin's lightsabre and taken his form. How cool would a Jedi bar fight have been? Obi-Wan could have cut her arm off. Why make a green monster? No wonder she morphed into a hot chick....

Well I don't know that Jango would've survived a speeder chase into a bar anyway, with 2 Jedi on his tail he would've died a lot sooner in the movie and it would've thrown the entire story out of wonk.

[JamesKurtovich]

Originally Posted by chip75

One odd thing about AotC is why Fett 'out-sourced' his assassination mission of Padme to Zam Wesell. He had a rocket pack why not fly outside her window and shoot a missle at her? Was his pack just for getaways?

Zam Wesell is another pet peeve with me when she was on the run she should have grabbed Anakin's lightsabre and taken his form. How cool would a Jedi bar fight have been? Obi-Wan could have cut her arm off. Why make a green monster? No wonder she morphed into a hot chick....

Yeah, that part of the movie made little sense but a million complaints could be aimed toward the whole assassination plot.

And when Padme is leaving for Naboo, robots are floating outside her window that look exactly like the one used in her attempted assassination yet they're completely ignored.

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by JamesKurtovich

Yeah, that part of the movie made little sense.

And when Padme is leaving for Naboo, robots are floating outside her window that look exactly like the one used in her attempted assassination yet they're completely ignored.

Probably because the Jedi didn't sense anything malicious in those like the ones outside her bedroom when Wessel attacked. Not everything in movies has to make perfect sense.

[skylog]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

Boba Fett was a pre-release "preview" action figure character released prior to the premier of The Empire Strikes Back. You sent in some proof-of-purchase tabs from Kenner, you could get the mysterious new action figure. No one knew anything about him, but his mystique and cool factor shot up to rival that of any of the major SW figures.

That's where it started.

wasn't there also a version of the figure that had a shootable rocket?

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by Imrahil2001

You're right, it's a wasteland. You guys should both probably leave.

Why should we leave? We would miss the insighful and expert comments of the wanna be film makers if we did.

[chip75]

Originally Posted by Darth Anakin

Well I don't know that Jango would've survived a speeder chase into a bar anyway, with 2 Jedi on his tail he would've died a lot sooner in the movie and it would've thrown the entire story out of wonk.

They didn't exactly chase after him after he shot Wesell though did they? I love the way the plots tie us in knots it's all cause and effect, effect and cause....

[chip75]

Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl

Why should we leave? We would miss the insighful and expert comments of the wanna be film makers if we did.

Ken Watanabe is a member here as well?

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by skylog

wasn't there also a version of the figure that had a shootable rocket?

Can't confirm it, but when I was 10 years old, the rumour was that the first Boba figures could launch the missile on his back, but concerns over choking caused this version to be cancelled. I'm not an action figure guy, don't know if that's true, I can only tell you Boba Fett was a highly-promoted figure before Empire debuted.

[Beast]

Yep. The Boba Fett that was initially offered was supposed to have a missle firing feature.

Around that time, the Battlestar Galactica toys had come out, and a kid choked to death due to one of the missle firing features on the ships. So they scrapped the missle Fett at the last moment. Up until a couple years ago, I still had one in the mailer box with the letter that came with it detailing the change. There are a few prototypes floating around and such. The mail-away Fett offered now does have the feature.

[Johnathan223]

Star wars is the best

[Chris93ny]

yo are you guys watching ep 4 on spike

[Alpha]

Originally Posted by Chris93ny

yo are you guys watching ep 4 on spike

Yeah, lol. I watched III a few days ago too...twice.

Damn Spike!

[mrpink134]

Originally Posted by Beast

Yep. The Boba Fett that was initially offered was supposed to have a missle firing feature.

Around that time, the Battlestar Galactica toys had come out, and a kid choked to death due to one of the missle firing features on the ships. So they scrapped the missle Fett at the last moment. Up until a couple years ago, I still had one in the mailer box with the letter that came with it detailing the change. There are a few prototypes floating around and such. The mail-away Fett offered now does have the feature.

http://theswca.com/images-speci/mailaways/fett.html

[Chris93ny]

Originally Posted by Alpha

Yeah, lol. I watched III a few days ago too...twice.

Damn Spike!

lol same ep 4 looks great

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by Chris93ny

lol same ep 4 looks great

If you don't mind a 2.35:1 film being cropped to 1.78:1, which Spike does with all six.

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

Boba Fett was a pre-release "preview" action figure character released prior to the premier of The Empire Strikes Back. You sent in some proof-of-purchase tabs from Kenner, you could get the mysterious new action figure. No one knew anything about him, but his mystique and cool factor shot up to rival that of any of the major SW figures.

It was 4 proof of purchase tabs and after the Holiday Special we knew who he was. What we didn't know was that he was a major figure from Empire.

I got three of them. It took several months to finally get them and they came in a tiny unmarked white box in the late summer of 1979. No packaging, no stats, just a small insert explaining why the missile firing feature was disabled!

Originally Posted by skylog

wasn't there also a version of the figure that had a shootable rocket?

It was advertised in the promotion, but (as Beast noted) it was disabled and the only versions that did were unpainted prototypes.

Originally Posted by Beast

Around that time, the Battlestar Galactica toys had come out, and a kid choked to death due to one of the missle firing features on the ships. So they scrapped the missle Fett at the last moment. Up until a couple years ago, I still had one in the mailer box with the letter that came with it detailing the change. There are a few prototypes floating around and such. The mail-away Fett offered now does have the feature.

Exactly. I had one BSG toy (why my parents bought it instead of a Viper I'll never know) was some kind of "long range craft" with a viper nose, a long tanker body and a viper-like back with switchable engines. You could disconnect the front and attach it directly to the back, making a sort of "mini-viper". It shot a missile from the nose...the spring wore out pretty quick and the missile wouldn't launch anymore. I remember kids were pretty pissed when they eliminated the missile launching from the vipers & raiders.

I had a couple of the figures, including a lame Imperious Leader (Dammit Mom! I wanted Starbuck!), Muffit, and a Cylon Centurion. Mattel also had a similar promo like with Boba Fett where you could send in PoPs and get a *gold* (command) Centurion. For Christmas of 1978 I got a Cylon Raider model kit...my Dad was a master at putting model kits together but I didn't inherit a 100th of that ability (unless it was snap-together) so the kit went to pieces. My "Darth Vader's TIE Fighter" kit suffered an inglorious end as well.

Sigh. Haven't thought about this stuff in 30 years!

PS: +1 Internets to who can identify what that "long range" BSG ship was called.

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

If you don't mind a 2.35:1 film being cropped to 1.78:1, which Spike does with all six.

[Chris93ny]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

If you don't mind a 2.35:1 film being cropped to 1.78:1, which Spike does with all six.

it looks great but we all know the blu rays gonna be 100x better

[Duffy12]

Originally Posted by Chris93ny

yo are you guys watching ep 4 on spike

You betcha.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by PeterTHX

I just can't stand that about the Spike HD transfers. People get cut off on the sides and that is beyond acceptable.