Official Episode 3 Clone/Stormtrooper image (Mild Spoilers)

Clone Sergeant · Post by **Clone Sergeant** » 2004-01-26 11:39pm

Link

I like the visor. It appears to be a separate attachment or flip down sight like one on the Mandalorian helmet. Opinions?

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2004-01-27 12:08am

Does this mean that they're going to have non-CGI troopers?

KhyronTheBackstabber · Post by **KhyronTheBackstabber** » 2004-01-27 12:11am

That's cool; they look more storm trooper like.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-01-27 12:14am

Except for the visor thing, yeah.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-01-27 12:15am

Personally don't like the visor, and hope that it's just for specific roles such as pilots.

Clone Sergeant · Post by **Clone Sergeant** » 2004-01-27 12:15am

neoolong wrote:Does this mean that they're going to have non-CGI troopers?

Rick McCallum has stated in the past that all the clones will be CG effects. Plus, that shot looks CG to me.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-01-27 12:17am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Personally don't like the visor, and hope that it's just for specific roles such as pilots.

Seconded.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2004-01-27 12:56am

Clone Sergeant wrote:
neoolong wrote:Does this mean that they're going to have non-CGI troopers?
Rick McCallum has stated in the past that all the clones will be CG effects. Plus, that shot looks CG to me.

Looks like a mockup to me.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-01-27 01:08am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Personally don't like the visor, and hope that it's just for specific roles such as pilots.

I'm with you, makes him look pretty fucking stupid.

Omega-13 · Post by **Omega-13** » 2004-01-27 01:21am

it might help them see through all that sand and grit that was cooked up on geonosis....
they might have had trouble

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-01-27 01:23am

Clone and Stormtrooper optics eliminate obcurities caused by dust, etc...

Doesn't help the fact that it looks like an add-on, and conflicts with the aesthetics of the helmet.

Omega-13 · Post by **Omega-13** » 2004-01-27 01:25am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Clone and Stormtrooper optics eliminate obcurities caused by dust, etc...

Doesn't help the fact that it looks like an add-on, and conflicts with the aesthetics of the helmet.

I don't actually mind that little tid bit, what bothers me is that all of them are CGI,
thats what I miss about the original SW, u knew it was real, this is bleh, fake

Clone Sergeant · Post by **Clone Sergeant** » 2004-01-27 01:27am

They merely may be a set of compact electro-binoculars that are easier to carry around than the large ones we saw them using on Geonosis.

Omega-13 · Post by **Omega-13** » 2004-01-27 01:29am

You know what i'd like to see, the stormtroopoer armour actually coming in HANDY for once

instead of them getting shredded and blown apart,
i'd like to see debris bouncing harmlessly off them,

even the stormtrooper fighting Han in ROTJ got beat,

c'mon!

Post by **Vympel** » 2004-01-27 03:59am

It's obviously an add-on, it's not meant to be there permanently. Good to see the grimace is back.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-01-27 04:02am

Omega-13 wrote:You know what i'd like to see, the stormtroopoer armour actually coming in HANDY for once

instead of them getting shredded and blown apart,
i'd like to see debris bouncing harmlessly off them,

even the stormtrooper fighting Han in ROTJ got beat,

c'mon!

The stormtrooper fighting Han in RotJ got beat because he was a stormtrooper fighting Han. Main character shields are better than wimpy stormtrooper armor. Especially wimpy scout armor.

Post by **Vympel** » 2004-01-27 05:28am

Looks like the guys who made Republic Commando new about the new Clonetrooper for a while- they look just like that.

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2004-01-27 06:28am

I've seen that vizor before .... where was it?

Bingo, here it is

Previos version of the vizor

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2004-01-27 08:49am

The trooper helmet looks like a nice transistionary version between that of the clonetroopers and the OT stromtroopers.

zombie84 · Post by **zombie84** » 2004-01-27 10:25am

To be honest the new trooper doesnt do much for me. It looks exactly the same as the clonetrooper except for those fat tubes along the bottom of the mask. Interesting i guess. Its a great transition to the final stormtroopers, which i'm sure we'll see in last moments of the film, but its nothing to get excited about.

And that visor is definitly an attachment/flipdown thing. Looks like some kind of nightvision/spacecraft attachment or something.

Crazy Goji · Post by **Crazy Goji** » 2004-01-27 10:30am

Man, it's too much of a combination of Stormtrooper and Clonetrooper. It looks like they slapped the top of the Clone Helmet onto the botton of the Stormie's. I would have gone for more of one look than the other instead of just making a combination of the two.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2004-01-27 10:39am

Crazy Goji wrote:Man, it's too much of a combination of Stormtrooper and Clonetrooper. It looks like they slapped the top of the Clone Helmet onto the botton of the Stormie's. I would have gone for more of one look than the other instead of just making a combination of the two.

Well if thats how they`ll link both trilogy,then i would not be surprise to see a fucked up tie fighter.

Tribun · Post by **Tribun** » 2004-01-27 10:43am

Well, I have a book with concept art for Episode IV here, and that modell that is seen on the cover is nothing new. It was seen in a concept art for a possible stormtrooper helmet.

So it is nothing new, the concept is over 20 years old.....

Crazedwraith · Post by **Crazedwraith** » 2004-01-27 12:06pm

What im wondering is why is this here? And not in the sticky?

zombie84 · Post by **zombie84** » 2004-01-27 02:26pm

its not considered a spoiler if its officially released, and on the front cover of the official magazine no less. I'd say it deserves its own thread.

Anyway, its really the only way to morph from the clonetrooper to the stormtrooper--if it still looks like the clonetrooper then theres been no change and its pointless and if it looks too much like the stromtrooper then theres no gradual change and its pointless. Combining the two is really the only option. Actually, though its hard to tell from the pic, the armor may have been changed as well--it looks like its the stormtrooper armor.