Star Wars 7 shit talk

The entire series starts with cutesy bullshit droids, they're kind of its thing.

I take it you are not an engineer by day xp

yeah Andrew I can't see how it would work without an axle connecting the upper and lower halves

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i know but

1 rollers moving in opposite direction of travel
2 gyroscope in ball

I don't think the ball is part of the droid fwiw

hurting you're all right but that post makes me want to kick you through a fishtank

GO PLAY OUTSIDE ALL OF YOU

occurred to me it could be a lil droid on top of a ball, sure

MacGyver never needed no gyroscope

that's what I was thinking, but then how does the droid stay on top like that. I mean it looks like its using it as a method of propulsion, but if it can just float on top of the ball and direct its motion well why have a ball at all

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do they even have soccer in the future/past

goole OTM

Yes, the future past does not have soccer anymore yet, no.

how do u even soccer in star wars

gyroscopes?

in the future they call it football

This thread is slowly working through everything already covered in the Red Letter Media series.

tbf we've done all this stuff in the crimes of george lucas thread many times over

We need to cycle through it every year like the Torah

oh I'm not suggesting we stop

this is our trade federation

It's like poetry

it's always may the fourth somewhere

We are no match for droidekas.

http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/luke-alderaan-places.jpg

ha that's amazing

of all the things posted on this thread, people not understanding how something could have a rolling base and relatively stationary top in a robot form made me the most exasperated

It's basically a hipster unicyclist droid.

Especially in a series full of hovering droids and vehicles which do not appear to be Force-controlled xp

haha yes, there is faster than light travel, vehicles and robots that hover around, but one plausible yet impractical balance-on-a-ball thing that looks funny, dunno, man

Maybe it's a pinata droid and the base is full of delicious space candy.

http://www.nature.com/news/playful-paradoxes-1.14046

I'm watching "Lost" for the first time because of this trailer. I suppose we are in for a more documentary-style Star Wars?

Kind of crazy that after 6 movies no one has yet explained what lightsabers are or how they are made in any of them.

Anyone watched this Ralph McQuarrie doc? It looks pretty good.

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

Episode Eight: The Saga of Sabermetrics

I thought of something

What if the vehicles we saw in the prequels were almost all atmosphere- and space-capable vehicles, so they had to have more aerodynamic exteriors and no stuff sticking off the outside like the Millenium Falcon had?

The x-wings are the multi-purpose tool of the rebellion so they have to be aerodynamic and work in both but are built less flashy because the rebels are broke. Other ships are repurposed transports or stuff like star destroyers that are meant to always be in space.

(No friction in space travel, shields help against friction on the ground)

M. Falcon seemed to fly okay around cloud city, kibblety bits and all.

not understanding how something could have a rolling base and relatively stationary top in a robot form made me the most exasperated

to be clear my issue is primarily with how the two parts are attached, cuz it doesnt look like there's an axle, it looks like the top part is just balanced on the bottom.

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

If its using repulsor lift (lol) then why bother with the ball

http://i.imgur.com/xa4Tkkd.png

The new droid that accompanies Daisy Ridley and John Boyega’s characters on their journey through JJ Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens is basically a ball with a small R2-D2 styled head. Inside the body of the droid, there is a weight on a pole. The weight is heavier than the head, which is constructed out of a light metal, allowing the head to always remain upright as the body rolls on the ground. The artist, Jason Ward, separated the sphere, as the official Lucasfilm concepts did, to show how the mechanisms work. However, the new droid does not do that in the film. An abundance of gadgets can be stored inside the droid, including many mechanisms and defenses. To allow the droid to operate functionally on screen as a puppet, the ball is allowed to role on two tracks that are either obscured or digitally removed.

There ya go

What's this droid's function supposed to be? It seems like it might work as an off-road one of these: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/MSE-6-series_repair_droid

imagine the top is a hat, with an inside rim filled with ball bearings

where does the hamster go

up yr butt

Lol