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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. :P
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In that case, they'd better name every single ship and character seen in Mos Eisley. :P
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"manual suit seals and environmental controls"
and beneath it
"notice white electrical tape holding together stormtrooper costume"
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New update: Lost in the Desert
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I'm interested in what they say about the Outrider taking off from the planet.
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It'll probably be nothing more than pointing it out and saying that it was added for the Special Edition.
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I think he means in-universe info. What it was doing in Mos Eisley at the time.
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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. :wink:

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! :P
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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
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Update on the OS: Visual Guide Chapter 7: Land of the Jawas
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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.
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Whoa, has that yellow hangar scrubber droid been there all along? I thought I saw one, but it was only made for TPM. :shock:
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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.
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So the Jawa sandcrawler has a steam-powered nuclear fusion engine? What? :lol:
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I think that's been in SW lore for some time now, still is wtf. :D
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Well, todays nuclear engines are "steam-powered", also... from a certain point of view.
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Go with what works, I guess. Their use on the sandcrawlers could have been due to a significant cost and reliability factor.
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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?
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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.
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Maybe the Jawas managed to get that bubble cold fusion thing to work? :)
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andrewgpaul wrote:Maybe the Jawas managed to get that bubble cold fusion thing to work? :)
Corellians, you mean. :P
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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?
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Man, did they forget to put up Chapter 8? Or was last week just really long for me? :?
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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?
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Balrog wrote:Hopefully this isn't too bad a necro,
It's okay; the thing would bve updated soon probably
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