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    11/25/09

    In reply to Family Guy's Empire Spoof Brings Us Mesh Shirted Stormtroopers
    My favorite character, Consuela, is back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ^_^
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    Image of Traveshamockery Traveshamockery
    11/25/09

    @ZaxxonQ.com: "We need more Lemon Pledge."
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    Image of ZaxxonQ.com ZaxxonQ.com
    11/25/09

    @Traveshamockery: "Noooooooo..."
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    Image of Daveinva Daveinva
    11/24/09

    In reply to Untold Adventures: The Complete History Of Tie-In Novels
    Somewhat surprised at the absence of one of the great tie-in novel series of all time: the Battletech books. VERY symbiotic, and canon to both the RPG and the computer games.
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    Image of Daveinva Daveinva
    11/24/09

    @Daveinva: Oh, also, another -tech: the Robotech novels, in particular the "Jack McKinney" ones.

    For some stupid reason, they were always very divisive among the fans, but I thought they were excellent, especially once they got to the Sentinels books (which were MUCH better IMO than Carl Macek's goofy story-sketch he had for that ill-fated series).
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    Image of Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/24/09

    In reply to Family Guy's Empire Spoof Brings Us Mesh Shirted Stormtroopers
    I shall now go back doing empire stuff.
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    Image of se7a7n7 se7a7n7
    11/24/09

    In reply to Family Guy's Empire Spoof Brings Us Mesh Shirted Stormtroopers
    Snow Speeders can not fly in space.

    Am I wrong?
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    11/24/09

    In reply to Family Guy's Empire Spoof Brings Us Mesh Shirted Stormtroopers
    The first one wasn't that great. It was an animated shot-for-shot remake with a few lame jokes.
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    Image of StormtrooprDave StormtrooprDave
    11/24/09

    @Bill-Lee: I agree. I hope they put some funny jokes in this time rather than just drawing over the original footage and expecting us to laugh.
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    11/24/09

    In reply to Family Guy's Empire Spoof Brings Us Mesh Shirted Stormtroopers
    Where's Meg?
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    Image of dumanue dumanue
    11/24/09

    @LittleDragon: she's probably one of the hutts...
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/24/09

    @LittleDragon: She's one of the Ugnaughts at Cloud City..
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    11/24/09

    In reply to Family Guy's Empire Spoof Brings Us Mesh Shirted Stormtroopers
    YES YES YES!!! I own the first one and I pre-ordered this many moons ago. Thank balls its here! According to the Seth interview, they are doing all 6 films..which should be epic!

    I bet my left and my right that Chicken-Fett and Solo-peter have one epic fight across space!
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    Image of Daveinva Daveinva
    11/24/09

    In reply to Family Guy's Empire Spoof Brings Us Mesh Shirted Stormtroopers
    I know, I know-- it's always fashionable to bust on Family Guy.

    But I like it, I still chuckle, and this looks fun.

    SO THERE!
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/24/09

    @Daveinva: speaking of busting on family guy the fact that the title screen cap is one of a half naked man and the author of this post is meredith is not lost on me.
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/24/09

    @Daveinva: I'll fess up. I can't stand
    Family Guy, but this thing made me chuckle a couple times. Though not as much as the Robot Chicken ones... which are pretty much the same people I guess.
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    Image of Davio Davio
    11/24/09

    In reply to Family Guy's Empire Spoof Brings Us Mesh Shirted Stormtroopers
    Spolier alert!I am your father!
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/24/09

    In reply to Family Guy's Empire Spoof Brings Us Mesh Shirted Stormtroopers
    i'm sure the actual 'atat bruised shin' scene is longer than this entire clip.
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    Image of acrobatic rabbit acrobatic rabbit
    11/24/09

    @tetracycloide: classic. never fails to make me laugh.
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    Image of Demonbird Demonbird
    11/24/09

    In reply to Untold Adventures: The Complete History Of Tie-In Novels
    I personally think it is time for a Star Wars novel reboot, and that new writers should be given a try at the universe.

    The novels anymore are just
    "What can we take away from the main cast, without killing any original cast, to create more drama?"
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    Image of Burke Burke
    11/24/09

    @Demonbird: Ummm... they have killed original cast already.

    Still, other than the whole Killiks/Joiner debacle (those were painful to read), I've rather enjoyed the extension of the franchise in a logical path that the novels have taken since Zahn's original trilogy.

    The focus is getting more and more onto the next generation of characters, including Ben Skywlaker and Jaina Solo, plus a number of other characters introduced into the mix from various sources: Corran & Mirax Horn and their kids, Jag Fel, Chief of State Daala, etc
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    Image of Demonbird Demonbird
    11/24/09

    @Burke:
    I've enjoyed them too, but there is definitely a lot that could be done if a newgroup was allowed to take a swing at the franchise.

    Also, Chewbacca was ultimately expendable, and is the only one to die out of all the books.

    Currently, Luke, Leia, and Han still have a very big role in the stories being told, despite their age, and if that's what people want, elt them do a reboot.

    Hell, even Boba Fett still gets notice.



    #speakup
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    Image of Xicer Xicer
    11/24/09

    @Demonbird: A reboot is highly unlikely. People have talked about this before and the general consensus has been against a reboot. People have spent too much time and money on the current universe that starting it all over would just make people very angry. Plus Del Rey doesn't seem to be thinking in that direction at all so it's not likely to happen.

    I would however like the focus to shift away from the movie characters. Del Rey keeps using the argument of '60 is the new 40' but that's just lazy IMO. However we are getting more standalones focusing on minor characters, like the upcoming novel Crosscurrent which takes place shortly after Legacy of the Force and focuses on Jaden Korr, a video game character and Jedi Knight of the younger generation.
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    Image of Demonbird Demonbird
    11/24/09

    @Xicer:
    I have no idea what Del Ray is going to do after they advance the story another 10-15 years. Besides having at least two massive galactic conflicts during that time.

    #speakup
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    Image of Adam Whitehead Adam Whitehead
    11/25/09

    @Demonbird: The have nodded in this direction in the LEGACY comics, which I suspect they may start tying in the novels with. They moved the timeline 100 years further into the future and basically just said all the regular characters are now dead but not specified the circumstances under which they died, and the story just continues with new characters. It's as close as a reboot as you can get without doing an acutal remake (KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC does a similar thing in the earlier time period). But I believe Lucas has ruled out remakes of the original movies or anything like that.
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    Image of Demonbird Demonbird
    11/25/09

    @Adam Whitehead:
    It's far from the same, and as much a reboot as any of the standalone novels or comics were.

    Oh well. I've read most all of the books and comics, but I think it would be really itneresting to see a new group of authors take a stab at the series.

    #speakup
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    11/24/09

    In reply to Untold Adventures: The Complete History Of Tie-In Novels
    What I want to know is what's up with Sulu's porno stache?
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    11/24/09

    In reply to Untold Adventures: The Complete History Of Tie-In Novels
    Ah, the Brian Daley Han Solo books. A great, pulpy read.
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    Image of whormongr whormongr
    11/24/09

    @Wookie1972: the solo books are okay- the lando books ruled- vuffi raa is still one of my favorite characters in the star wars universe, plus lando was cool and all in empire/jedi but he is way cooler in the preceding and post jedi novels
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    11/25/09

    @whormongr: I'll have to check them out, although are they even still in print?
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    11/24/09

    In reply to Untold Adventures: The Complete History Of Tie-In Novels
    Great post. Also an interesting iteration of this nutty phenomenon: screenplay adaptations. Guess who wrote the novelization of "The Abyss?" Orson Scott Card, for chrissakes! Guess who turned the Philip K. Dick short story-turned-screenplay back into prose for a novel-length version of "Total Recall?" None other than Piers Anthony. Does anyone else have one of these to add?
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    Image of Monty Ashley Monty Ashley
    11/24/09

    @Perhaps Not: The novelization of THX 1138 is by Ben Bova, of all people.
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    11/24/09

    @Monty Ashley: Dude, great one.
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    Image of Adam Whitehead Adam Whitehead
    11/25/09

    @Perhaps Not: Christopher Priest adapted the Cronenberg movie EXISTENZ. Matthew Stover did the novel of REVENGE OF THE SITH (which got better reviews than the actual movie).
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    11/24/09

    In reply to Untold Adventures: The Complete History Of Tie-In Novels
    i have a bunch of those james blish star trek paperbacks in my library.
    great article as well.
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