Star Wars 7 shit talk

Oh my god, those model photos. Those are amazing. The unfinished Death Star! The detailing on the speeder bikes!

Somehow it never occurred to me that the models had electronics in them, like they couldn't just easily add all the lights and whatnot later

the Death Star model is mind boggling

Tarkin's first name is Wilhuff?

I thought it was Moff until last week.

Moff is his title.

if Lucas had written a Grand Moff Mhuff into the storyline it wouldn't have surprised me though

Always thought it was weird that there was no Grand Moff Tarkin action figure (at least, not in 1977-83).

generic "Imperial Commander," whom I used in many universes: G.I. Joe, Transformers, etc.

How high a rank is Grand Moff anyway, and are there also Petit Moffs?

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

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

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Under-Moff

Moff Fett

moffe

I wanted to bring that up, but it's 77

not that I really give a shit

Moff Mon Mothma

Would a Sith lord who was also a Moff be a Moff Darth or a Darth Moff?

Moff Filk Milks Bink's Drinks

Sith neophytes sitting around coming up with badass Sith names must be very similar to black metal kids.

I once read a book about Darth Plagueis. It was terrible.

Generally the expanded universe stuff published before TPM came out are okay

Like the Timothy Zahn books from upthread

I'd stay the hell away after anything published after 2000 unless it was by an author established to have Done Good Work for the canon

yeah well none of it's canon now so might as well burn the lot

I'd stay the hell away after anything published after 2000 unless it was by an author established to have Done Good Work for the canon

The Rise of Darth Vader, the only one I've read, wasn't bad as far as slash fic goes.

Yeah, the Timothy Zahn books were good, and I enjoyed that Bounty Hunters collection. The Plagueis one was from a couple years ago, really put me off reading any more EU books.

basically the only thing I can remember from the Zahn trilogy is that they made a clone called Luuke

Grand Admiral Thrawn would view your DeviantArt account and then use that to figure out how to beat you

My favorites are the short story collections that fill in the backstories of all the characters who basically only existed to sell action figures. IIRC, the one centered around Jabba's palace revealed that most of the background dudes had their brains harvested and placed in robotic spider bodies.

A Mofference was a secret conference held by the Imperial Central Committee of Grand Moffs in the secluded Mofference room of their Moffship.

Come on now.

That reminds me, back in the 90s, pre-TPM, I had this really elaborate screen saver package thing that had all these nutso, in-depth things to play around with. Like you could pull up a screen shot from the cantina sequence and click on all the characters and it would give some in-depth bio about them. Thought it was really cool at the time, but for the like of me I can't remember what it was called.

Mofference = the Shriner's Convention of the Star Wars universe

that's mofful!

oh shit, wait, here it is!

story I remember from Jabba's Palace is the one about the "snot vampire"

was written in an annoying stream of consciousness style iirc

Uh, I believe you're actually talking about the Dannik Jerriko story from Tales From The Mos Eisley Cantina.

I think. I dunno. WGAF.

hey i lost track of this thread, but DJP if you're still reading i want to encourage you to watch the redlettermedia reviews despite the fact that they're not mst3k (and yes despite the terrible misogyny)

the biggest eye-opener for me was how he lays out in excruciating detail the physical limitations of filming everything on a green screen sound stage to the point that no one ever moves anywhere at a speed above a light trot

I know I read Shadows of the Empire, the Rogue Squadron books, I, Jedi, the Jedi Academy books, and the Bounty Hunters collection where IG-88 is secretly the MOST IMPORTANT CHARACTER EVAR. That's it I swear.

Yeah that IG-88 story was great. My wife bought our three year old this Star Wars counting book and for the '7' page it shows the bounty hunters (plus a couple from the stupid prequels). IG-88 is his favorite, followed by Zuckuss.

"It doesn't matter if this story is ridiculous and way disproportionate to the importance of this character, as long as it doesn't contradict existing canon."

what's the story with this guy

http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130219044712/starwars/images/1/1d/Bossk.png

i was always a dengar fan, because for some reason every kid had to have a favorite weird looking bounty hunter who showed up for one scene

Dengar is the dude with the head cast, right? I remember reading he was Corellian too.

i bought his trading card off ebay using actual money

Bossk! He was the second action figure I got, after, er, Hammerhead.

as long as it doesn't contradict existing canon. as long as we can find enough margins and empty space in the existing canon to force it to cohere."

Hammerhead and Walrus Man and Power Droid were the three action figures I basically integrated into very universe for the next six years.

Always thought Bossk looked like an x-wing pilot.

Christmas, 1980, I received my first ever Star Wars toys. A bit behind others itt, I'm sure, but I was 4 at that point.

http://a.dilcdn.com/bl/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/01/DVSD2-400x253.jpeg
http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/5361/8439222_1.jpg?v=8CB24FA53CC2B80

that star destroyer toy is kind of a weird experiment in scale/perpsective

Er, it just represents a small part of the craft, no? Though they seem to have amalgamated the command deck and Vader's chill out pad.