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Snaggy Moderator 
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posted April 30, 2002 22:15
   
Just saw an Episode II preview, and in it R2D2 sticks out some rocket engines and flies!!! and for some reason, I am in shock. ----------- IP: Logged |
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MightyJoeSakic Geek 
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posted May 01, 2002 02:44
I hadn't thought about those in a long long time...... man those were fun. Spend all your afternoons sanding, gluing, painting.... Then on the weekend a trip to the park to see your creation *WHOOOSH!* up into the sky. I was all about those Estes rockets when I was in grade school, but then I got a TRS-80(21k of memory...lol). After that I gave up the rockets pretty quick....  ~Thom ------------------ IP: Logged |
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macadddikt18 BlabberMouth, the Next Generation.     
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posted May 01, 2002 05:28
what preveiw was this? was it one of the trailers on Apple's web site, or was it something else. I must see this flying thing. Nayt ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Atmosphere Geek Larva  
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posted May 01, 2002 08:50
I think it shows up in one of the TV commercials, but it can definitely be seen in trailer 4 "Clone War" from Apple's site at time 1:53. IP: Logged |
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ehwood Neat Newbie
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posted May 01, 2002 10:38
A friend and I saw it on TV as well. It's criminal of them to change R2D2. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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macadddikt18 BlabberMouth, the Next Generation.
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posted May 01, 2002 18:43
wow, that is spiffin' cool. I saw it today when i downloaded the trailer and watched it over and over. I missed it last time i saw the trailer. I guess i was just not paying that close of attention. nayt ------------------ IP: Logged |
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TheAnnoyedCockroach Assimilated
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posted May 01, 2002 18:51
I have to say, I'm not too sure about all of this "flying" business. But it makes sense if you think hard enough. I mean, how else did R2 get back into the X-wing on Dagobah?(I've thought this through, can you tell?). You just couldn't see him do it in the Origional Trilogy. So it's not really a change, it's more affirming what I have known for years. Now I feel all smart. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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pakratt Neat Newbie
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posted May 02, 2002 00:57
what do you mean how did he get back into the xwing on degobah? the force, obviously. if they're slinging around rocks and even lift the ship out of the mud, i'd sure hope they could lift a little rolling trash can up and stick it in a hole. maybe luke couldn't do it just because he had some self esteem problems but master yoda sure could. what's bothered me is, why is annakin to old to be trained as a jedi but luke isn't? i'm sure that's been explained somewhere but could someone enlighten me? IP: Logged |
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LifetimeTrekker Assimilated
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posted May 02, 2002 03:46
If he hadn't already survived to episode 4, I'd hope that rolling dustbin would take a swan dive from orbit. Oh, please, oh please let Jar-Jar have a miserable and degrading death! IP: Logged |
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EngrBohn Highlie 
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posted May 02, 2002 04:29
- pakratt - what's bothered me is, why is annakin to old to be trained as a jedi but luke isn't? i'm sure that's been explained somewhere but could someone enlighten me? But Yoda does complain that Luke is too old: - Yoda - Personally, I think it's Yoda's standard objection. He doesn't really believe it, but rather it's his version of a drill sergeant questioning whether a recruit has the potential to endure basic training. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Jidabug Super Geek 
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posted May 02, 2002 07:45
quote: I found myself wondering the same thing when we watched TESB the other night, but I figured that since Luke is the last chance for the Jedi to survive, that Yoda decided he couldn't be too picky. IP: Logged |
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FatGnome Super Geek
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posted May 02, 2002 10:36
R2D2 was actualy suposed to fly in the origianly movies but they didn't have time or the money to make it happen to Lucas' standards. So now he can make the R2 fly. I will find out what scenes he was suposed to fly in and get back to you on that by this evening I hope. In the SW universe you are not to be trained as a Jedi unless you were pretty much spotted at birth. So anyone over the age of say 2 is too old to start Jedi Training. Or at leaste that is how I have come to understand it. Ohh and not to give too much away but Luke falls to the dark side later in the books ... and then comes back to the light side. IP: Logged |
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Hikaru Super Geek
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posted May 02, 2002 12:52
*airhorns* driver : "hey Mr Lucas, where ya want me to park this Mac Truck?" Lucas : "just put it in one of those plot holes in the Star Wars scripts, the "Warsies"will never notice it" ------------------ IP: Logged |
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GVCarroll Single Celled Newbie 
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posted May 02, 2002 20:05
Sigh, I don't believe I remember this, I have entierly too much useless knowledge. Well, anyway... "The little droid beeped at Anakin cheerfully, then wandered over to the edge of the rampway to look at the traffic. In doing so, he leaned out too far and tumbled over. Anakin gasped, but a second later the astromech droid reappeared, boosted back onto the rampway by his onboard jets." -- Episode I novel, Terry Brooks. ~G IP: Logged |
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echidna_x Newbie Larva
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posted May 02, 2002 20:32
Speaking of Jar Jar, anybody care to know what happens to him? (spoiler under the line)
They make him a senator and teach him how to speak correctly. He sometimes gets excited and lapses into the meesa yousa crap but recovers. Continuing the Aftrican-American metaphor, I suppose. Promise ~Jay IP: Logged |
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Hikaru Super Geek
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posted May 04, 2002 00:55
I actually liked Jar Jar, at least he wasnt a rip off of my name ------------------ IP: Logged |
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mephisto Highlie
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posted May 04, 2002 06:34
quote: whats wrong with you man? You LIKE jarjar? ...... IP: Logged |
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mephisto Highlie
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posted May 04, 2002 06:50
quote: whats wrong with you man? You LIKE jarjar? ...... ------------------ IP: Logged |
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echidna_x Newbie Larva
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posted May 04, 2002 09:24
Jarjar = crap. Jarjar = ruined movie. Jarjar is to Star Wars what Scrappy Doo is to Scooby Doo. Something that was nice and had a good feel going, ruined for some dumbass characters antics. And young Anakin was crap too. IP: Logged |
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GraphicPower.com Neat Newbie
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posted May 04, 2002 09:30
quote: Snaggy, I was sooo into Estes rockets when I was a kid. We had rocket shoots at school and I got several of my friends into building rockets. When she was in high school (middle school maybe?) my daughter and I built a rocket together. It is now a decoration in her mother's living room. I got into the whole thing with doing the trig to calculate the altitude and I studied a whole bunch of aerodynamic stuff. I was watching something on the Discovery Science channel a few days ago that chonicled the rocket development work done by Goddard and Werner von Braun. I remember that I used to read articles by von Braun. I was interviewed by Prof. Jim Head at Brown University in Providence, RI for a position in a NASA funded project on planetary geology. (Jim Head used to be a scientist at the Goddard Space Center.) I was beat out of the job by a cartographer. I would have LOVED that job. IP: Logged |
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Weener-Cat Newbie Larva
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posted May 04, 2002 16:39
Lord Vader what is your command, I feel like taking the Executor out for a spin, Sir its not in its berth in the dock, oh, chec one of the plot holes in the script, I think I might have parked it there last night when I came in drunk. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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