New Feature on the OS: Episode IV Visual Guide

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2007-05-15 02:13am

000 wrote:Pablo said that ANH contains a year's worth of material.

In other words, they're gonna stretch it out for as long as they can.

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2007-05-15 02:21am

In that case, they'd better name every single ship and character seen in Mos Eisley. :P

Kane Starkiller · Post by **Kane Starkiller** » 2007-05-16 08:14am

"manual suit seals and environmental controls"
and beneath it
"notice white electrical tape holding together stormtrooper costume"

Damn you for breaking my suspension of disbelief.

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2007-05-22 12:24am

New update: Lost in the Desert

Chris OFarrell · Post by **Chris OFarrell** » 2007-05-22 02:35am

I'm interested in what they say about the Outrider taking off from the planet.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2007-05-22 02:51am

It'll probably be nothing more than pointing it out and saying that it was added for the Special Edition.

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2007-05-22 06:12am

I think he means in-universe info. What it was doing in Mos Eisley at the time.

Darth Culator · Post by **Darth Culator** » 2007-05-26 07:15am

VT-16 wrote:I think he means in-universe info. What it was doing in Mos Eisley at the time.

There's a little restaurant in Mos Eisley that serves the best Coronet-style deep-dish pizza in the quadrant.

What I'm wondering is how much the vaunted Holocron and/or their "extensive research" is going to help with the inevitable continuity errors that these new names and tech details will create. And how much they're going to depend on fan research to keep them straight. One example I find suspicious:

April 30: http://www.starwars.com/episode-iv/expl ... episode-iv

May 4: http://starwars.wikia.com/index.php?tit ... id=1310190

May 7: http://www.starwars.com/episode-iv/expl ... episode-iv

Nice work, Pablo!

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2007-05-26 07:50am

This reminds me of the time I found a KDY daughter company building Jabba's Khetanna (according to The Bounty Hunter trilogy), thus making Ubrikkian Industries and all its subsidiaries a subsidiary of Kuat Drive Yards. :P

Coronet-style deep-dish pizza

Hold the eyeballs! ;)

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2007-05-31 12:13am

Update on the OS: Visual Guide Chapter 7: Land of the Jawas

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2007-05-31 12:58am

And only now do I realise that they're following the DVD chapter stops for each update. In that case, it'll take quite a bit less time to go through the whole movie (still about a year, though, since there are 50 chapters) then I previously thought.

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2007-05-31 02:55am

Whoa, has that yellow hangar scrubber droid been there all along? I thought I saw one, but it was only made for TPM.

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2007-06-01 08:57am

Darth Culator wrote:<snip stuff about inconsistant corvette engine names>

The first picture just calls them "CEC high output sublight engines" whereas the second picture calls them "Girodyne blah blah blah engines" ... couldn't Girodyne be a brand name owned by the Corellian Engineering Corporation? I mean, one person could point to a car on the street and say that it is a "DaimlerChrysler vehicle" and another person could point to the same car and say that it is a "Dodge Magnum" and they could both be correct.

Dooey Jo · Post by **Dooey Jo** » 2007-06-01 11:38am

So the Jawa sandcrawler has a steam-powered nuclear fusion engine? What?

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2007-06-01 12:20pm

I think that's been in SW lore for some time now, still is wtf.

nightmare · Post by **nightmare** » 2007-06-02 01:19pm

Well, todays nuclear engines are "steam-powered", also... from a certain point of view.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2007-06-02 04:37pm

Go with what works, I guess. Their use on the sandcrawlers could have been due to a significant cost and reliability factor.

Dooey Jo · Post by **Dooey Jo** » 2007-06-02 05:16pm

The thing is, if it had been a fusion-powered steam engine, that would have sort of made sense; they use fusion power to create steam and use the steam to drive an engine. But a steam-powered fusion engine... what is that even supposed to be?

Darth Culator · Post by **Darth Culator** » 2007-06-02 10:28pm

Robert Treder wrote:The first picture just calls them "CEC high output sublight engines" whereas the second picture calls them "Girodyne blah blah blah engines" ... couldn't Girodyne be a brand name owned by the Corellian Engineering Corporation? I mean, one person could point to a car on the street and say that it is a "DaimlerChrysler vehicle" and another person could point to the same car and say that it is a "Dodge Magnum" and they could both be correct.

Well that's the rationalization we've adopted, but we all know it was an error to begin with.

Dooey Jo wrote:The thing is, if it had been a fusion-powered steam engine, that would have sort of made sense; they use fusion power to create steam and use the steam to drive an engine. But a steam-powered fusion engine... what is that even supposed to be?

Just pretend it isn't bass-ackward and move on. There are more important issues to worry about.

andrewgpaul · Post by **andrewgpaul** » 2007-06-03 07:22am

Maybe the Jawas managed to get that bubble cold fusion thing to work?

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2007-06-03 03:39pm

andrewgpaul wrote:Maybe the Jawas managed to get that bubble cold fusion thing to work?

Corellians, you mean.

Balrog · Post by **Balrog** » 2007-06-08 01:33am

Hopefully this isn't too bad a necro, but does anyone else find it annoying how often they repeat the same info over and over? And not just the obscure stuff, how many times does 3PO's vocabulator need to be pointed out? I mean, is someone really going to mistake it for something other then his mouth?

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2007-06-11 02:46pm

Man, did they forget to put up Chapter 8? Or was last week just really long for me?

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2007-06-11 03:30pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Man, did they forget to put up Chapter 8? Or was last week just really long for me?

No, there wasn't any update last week. Hopefully there'll be two chapters up this week.

EDIT: And no update today either.

Hyperspace is a ripoff now that they quit with the only features I was interested in (the Photoreceptor and the Galactic Gallery) but now this? Have they lost interest?

Warsie · Post by **Warsie** » 2007-06-12 11:34am

Balrog wrote:Hopefully this isn't too bad a necro,

It's okay; the thing would bve updated soon probably