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Subject: What's the latest in Star Wars?
From: tyrone@kiwi.gen.nz (Tyrone McGurk)
Date: 15 Dec 92 08:15:40 GMT
Reply-To: tyrone@kiwi.gen.nz (Tyrone McGurk)
Organization: Household UNIX, Auckland, New Zealand

Hi I'm a new reader of this news group so I am not to sure what has been
happening in the Star Wars World. I use to really be into the Trilogy but
in New Zealand I feel everyone has lost interest in the topic as it's old
and History.

Can someone inform me to what is the latest in Star Wars, 
eg Comics that have been published since RotJ,
sequel books,
etc.

Also does anyone know where I can by Star Wars Figures, to allow me to 
finish off my collection.

Thankyou for your help

Tyrone

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From: abaker@jarthur.claremont.edu (The Evil One)
Subject: Re: Trivia Question
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:45:45 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.155608.22155@ra.msstate.edu> paul@pj.tmc.edu (Thorongil) writes:
>
>How many times is the line :
>
>"I've got a bad feeling about this"
>
>said in the movies and by whom?

I do believe it appears six times.  Twice in ANH once by Luke and once by Han.
Once in ESB,  by Leia.  And three times in ROTJ by C3PO, Han, and Leia.
I got my information from the archive.  Its in the quotes list.  Why doesn't 
someone come up with some really hard questions?

The Evil One
From: mwd3@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew W. Dempsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Delta Source and Suggestion
Date: 15 Dec 1992 01:27:47 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: mwd3@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew W. Dempsey)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, hatcher@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Donald L.C. Blewett) says:

>
>Well, I must admit, you got me.  I never even considered that Delta Source 
>could be a TREE.  (I'm an animal racist from way back.) I still think it's
>Winter, but if you're right, feel free to give me the big "I told you so."
>
>I also have an amusing SW figure fatality story.  Two of my first figures 
>where Darth Vader and Ben Kenobi.  I palyed with those toys so much, that 
>both their heads fell off!  I was really upset by this, but decided to make
>the most of it.  Several weeks later, my evil friends introduced me to the
>joys of parachuting your toys, so I made parachutes for my decapitated heros.
>Well, one day while at school, Darth got caught in a tree!  He hung there
>for several weeks until, I swear, the tree got hit by lightning.  All I ever
>found was his arm that didn't hold the lightsaber.


    Would you believe my sister bit the heads off of all of mine?  I had 
almost all of them too. Now the only intact one I still have is that very
same Ben Kenobi.         
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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 00:43:40 EST
From: <GPS108@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Toy Memories/Movie Memories (was Memories/FTP Thanks)

No kidding about the wet R2D2!
My first encounter wh Star Wars toys was with the Landspeeder, original Luke,
C3PO, and R2D2.  These were my brother's toys which I played with long before
I saw my first SW movie (which was ROTJ,btw).  Anyway, they used to be
considered "bathtub" toys and always lay beside the tub with a pile of other
fisher-price type toys.  I have no memory of a non-water-damadged R2!

And rather than the weapons and the capes, the first thing to go on my figures
would be those little lightsaber tips that Luke, Ben, and Darth had.  I
challenge anybody to find a figure they played with that actually kept those
little things.  What were they supposed to be anyway?  I don't see any part of
a lightsaber comparable to that in the movies.  I guess that's why I never
really mourned the passing of those on my figures.

                                                  ---Eric
From: hummell+@pitt.edu (Andrew G Hummell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: ..last hope. No there is another one.
Date: 15 Dec 92 11:20:35 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <Bz03t9.6v4@news.cso.uiuc.edu> sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter) writes:
>
>Yoda must have foreseen that Leia would escape Cloud City anyway, so she
>wasn't in any real danger.
>
>Another theory (to which I do not personally subscribe) is that Yoda was
>merely employing a "bird in the hand" philosophy: he felt it was more
>important to keep Luke safely on Dagobah than to risk both Luke's life
>and Leia's by sending him to Cloud City.
>
>                                   --Steve Stelter
>                                     sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu 
The only problem with this argument is what would have happened to Leia
when the Falcon was captured trying to escape Bespin?  Nobody knew that
the Hyperdrive was disconnected.  If it hadn't been for R2 (who was on
Dagobah with Luke), the MF would have been easily captured by Vader's
ship.

Andy

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From: gp2001@andy.bgsu.edu (Greg Pallenik)
Subject: Re: C3PO's silver leg...?
Followup-To: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Organization: Bowling Green State University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 07:59:14 GMT

I would think that someone as prim and prper as 3PO would want his silver
leg replaced (or painted) as soon as possible, so that he looks "just
right".  At least that's the way his character seemed to me.

But there is no mention of him wanting to paint his leg.  You would think
that, especially in ANH after his oil bath or whatever it was, he would
have mentioned something to Luke about it.  Don't flame me, I was just
wondering.  I'm also wondering how something as overtly disfusting as
peanut butter and bananas could  taste so good...

Greg
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From: knights@IASTATE.EDU (Andrew H Combites)
Subject: Re: What a battle!!
Reply-To: knights@IASTATE.EDU (Andrew H Combites)
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 06:16:11 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.005736.1@nickel.laurentian.ca>,
s1400070@nickel.laurentian.ca writes:
>      Okay, here goes.  If you put the starwars guys up against the new 
> generation Star Trek guys and threw in a sideline where the Battle Star
> Galactica Guys arrived on the scene, Who do you think would win?
> 
>                                            John
> 
What if all of the above took on da Bears?  What if they took on Ditka?

Later,
Andy Combites
Iowa State University
From: wallace@cs.widener.edu (Dennis Wallace)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Star Destroyer question
Date: 14 Dec 1992 20:02:15 -0500
Organization: Widener University CS Department, Chester PA
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Perhaps the larger bays are drydocks for building and repairing other
ships (including SD) while in transit? Just a thought...

	DW

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From: ss@wpi.WPI.EDU (Scott Streeter)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Imperial Shuttles
Date: 14 Dec 92 07:44:34
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
	<1992Dec11.214338.18542@wheaton.wheaton.edu>
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In-reply-to: nnhill@david.wheaton.edu's message of Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:43:38 GMT


nnhill> It still seems odd to me (though not unbelievable) for
nnhill> shuttles to be hyperspace-capable....

Well since X-wing (actually all Rebel fighters) have hyperspace
capability, equiping the shuttle would seem reasonable. It was also
fully armed too. If you notice (easier seen on the model kit) there
are laser turrets on the front, and back. Carrying top level personel
like the Emperor and Vader would demand the Shuttle to take on
offensive and defensive tactics, if attacked.

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From: 4224_5201@uwovax.uwo.ca (John LaRocque)
Subject: Re: New Star Wars Movies
Organization: University of Western Ont, London
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 16:26:00 GMT

In article <barnabas.2uoj@terapin.com>, barnabas@terapin.com (Colin Smith) writes:
> Are there going to be any more Star Wars movies? With all this new Movie
> technology, George Lucas could have a field day with sepcial effects... Is this
> a FAQ?

I stopped waiting for new movies about two years after ROTJ. Believe me,
new movies will be coming, but not after massive marketing blitzes and
the release of new novels, comic books or other Star Wars merchandise
(like, the Star Wars radio show). That is called testing the market. You
and I and thousands of others may want a return of Star Wars, but only
a massive campaign to revive the happy childhood memories (of most of us)
could renew interest in STAR WARS. (oh yeah, Star Wars games on NES)

How many Star Wars fans have turned to Star Trek because of no movies?
Quite a lot. Star Wars will never really die. But its fans may turn
elsewhere when their thirst for more movies is not quenched.

( BTW I loved last weeks ST:TNG. Just when I though things were getting
really bad, they give us an exciting two-parter)

Take care, interest is moving forward on this. The often reported date
in this group is a new movie by 1997, the first trilogy to be made
back-to-back like Back to the Future II and III, and based on some of
the money saving but expensive looking techniques used in the Young
Indiana Jones Chronicles. All in all, the future is looking up for 
Star Wars. (and beware of the dark side)
-- 

John P. LaRocque
vader@uwo.ca
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario


"Urk..urk..."
"Apology accepted, Captain Needa", Darth Vader
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From: ssquier@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Sean Alan Squier)
Subject: Re: Darth Vader's voice
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 09:47:08 GMT

In article <1gro39INN7qi@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> cottoncp@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Chad P Cotton) writes:
>In article <AKHIL.92Dec16142423@stokes.ae.utexas.edu>  
>akhil@stokes.ae.utexas.edu (Akhil Vidwans) writes:
>> 
>> Has anyone noticed how DV's voice ( courtesy JEJ )
>> changes during the course of the triology? 
>
>	This may also be due to Mr. Earl Jones becoming used to being the  
>voice of ol' Darth (what a strange name, what might it infer?).  I have  
>done a few productions myself, non-professional, and I could tell that as  
>I became accustomed to playing my role that the style of my character  
>changed.
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Chad P. Cotton				|  "I want to know God's thoughts;
>Class 1995				|     the rest are details."
>Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology	|		- Albert Einstein
>Terre Haute, IN				|

I think we got the point the first 5 times..Did anyone else's site get
6 copies of this?  At least it was short! =-)


Sean Squier
(Future CEO - The Walt Disney Company)
ssquier@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
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From: meierdalepau@bvc.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: "why don't all you star wars fans get a life" thread
Date: 12 Dec 92 22:39:20 CST
Organization: Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, IA

	Oops--almost forgot:

Warwick W. Davis--Televised versions of C.S. Lewis' books "Prince Caspian" 
and "Voyage of the Dawn Treader" (BBC)

Dale Meier
From: caine@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dark Lord of the Sith)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Do Vader know Yoda?
Date: 14 Dec 92 18:20:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.Bz9HLt.6zJ
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

>	Have you noticed that Vader doesn't seem to know that Yoda exist,
>as each time Vader 'congratulate' Luke for his use of the force, he complete
>the phrase with 'Obi-Wan tought you well' (or something along those lines
>as I mostly saw the trilogy in french). From memory, it seems to me that Vader
>never referenced Yoda as the teacher of Luke; why? Yoda is supposed to be
>a 'big' player in the Jedi thing, no?

Read the books "Heir To The Empire" and "Dark Force Rising".  A very good
explanation of this (why Vader never sensed Yoda).  As for Vader always
crediting Obi-Wan: I suppose it could be said that Obi-Wan is the one respon-
sible for getting Luke trained in the first place (remember Hoth?).  Although
Yoda did the actual training, it was Ben who convinced BOTH of them that it
was necessary.  Ben was always present in some way (The Force) during the 
training of Young Skywalker.

Caine Schneider
caine@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
caine@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu
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From: qtm2w@Virginia.EDU ("Quinn T. McCord")
Subject: IG-88
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:03:14 GMT


	Some people have written on this net about how neat
IG-88 looked.  Actually, I thought he was kind of spindly, but
he *did* have a really neat machine-gun like laser rifle.
Nevertheless, I think the concept of the character really makes
no sense.  I mean, would a droid really make a good bounty
hunter?  He'd have no human intuition to go on, and he
certainly wouldn't have any way to make "contacts" like human
bounty hunters could.  I read somewhere that his owners "rent"
him out for bounty hunting, but I sure wouldn't pay.  I'd even
hire out those hideous insect-like ones before him.

						-Quinn
From: evans@ece.arizona.edu (Glen Evans)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: ftp site
Date: 21 Dec 92 05:55:12 GMT
Reply-To: evans@ece.arizona.edu (Glen Evans)
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering


Does anyone know of an ftp site
for .ps or .gif files?
From: ST201714@brownvm.brown.edu (L. Eduardo Romo III)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Memories/FTP Thanks
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 02:04:05 EST
Organization: Brown University - Providence, Rhode Island  USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: brownvm.brown.edu
News-Software: BNN via BNN_POST v1.0 beta

I would just like to give a belated Thank You to all the people eho emailed me
with solutions to my problem of downloading from wpi.wpi.edu.  To solve the pro
blem, I used FETCH, andwas on my way to reading enjoyment (I did "get" ROTJ in
the wrong format though, but I'll correct it tomorrow).

Now, people have been posting their most memorable scenes, and this may have be
en mentioned already, but here goes:

The rebel Blockade Runner is under attack, and the rebels prepare to defend the
mselves from being boarded.  After an intense battle with high pitched laser fi
re and fast-paced music, a deep tone rumbles onto the screen.  As the smoke cle
ars (and the dead bodies as well), a lonely black figure emerges from the smoke
 to become movie history.  I was roughly five years old when I saw the movie
for the first time, and I will never forget seeing Darth Vader for the first ti
me.  I was terrified, yet VERY excited.  The music, cinematography, and artisti
c work all combind to make an impression on me that I will NEVER forget.

As for fun with the toys, I can't remember doinganything to damage my figures,
but I hada knw3ack for always losing darth VAder.  I think I lost four or five
of them.  To this day, I can't rememebr where they could have gone.  But it may
 pay off.  To prevent me from crying to my Mom whenever I couldn't find him, sh
e went out and bought a couple of "extras" in case if it happened again, and sh
e be ready.  Anyways, I still have one or two unopened.  So my collection of mi
nt figures was on the way before I even realized it.

                                Hasta Luego,

                                          L. Eduardo Romo III
                                          st201714@brownvm.brown.edu
From: cottoncp@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Chad P Cotton)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Darth Vader's voice
Date: 18 Dec 1992 05:23:56 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department at Rose-Hulman
Reply-To: cottoncp@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Chad P Cotton)
NNTP-Posting-Host: o233-04.nextwork.rose-hulman.edu

In article <AKHIL.92Dec16142423@stokes.ae.utexas.edu>  
akhil@stokes.ae.utexas.edu (Akhil Vidwans) writes:
> 
> Has anyone noticed how DV's voice ( courtesy JEJ )
> changes during the course of the triology? 

	This may also be due to Mr. Earl Jones becoming used to being the  
voice of ol' Darth (what a strange name, what might it infer?).  I have  
done a few productions myself, non-professional, and I could tell that as  
I became accustomed to playing my role that the style of my character  
changed.

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Chad P. Cotton				|  "I want to know God's thoughts;
Class 1995				|     the rest are details."
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology	|		- Albert Einstein
Terre Haute, IN				|
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 11:50:06 MST
From: julie@alaska.et.byu.edu (Julie Gritton)
Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Democrat Presidnts and Star Wars
Reply-To: julie@bones.et.byu.edu
	<1992Dec14.224545.21146@muddcs.claremont.edu>
	<1992Dec15.003908.4904@midway.uchicago.edu>
	<BzADqo.DLH@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>

I have to agree about the boredom...what a stupid thread!

"You could use a good kiss!"		JULIE
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From: paul@pj.tmc.edu (Thorongil)
Subject: Re: Ben Kenobi's lightsabre
Organization: Mississippi State University ERC
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 14:35:57 GMT

This is stupid.  Come on folks, think about it.  If lightsabers are
powered by the force and the reason Ben's lightsaber dimmed was 
because he was losing, then Luke's lightsaber should have gone dimmed
in ESB and Vader's in ROTJ.  Unless I'm blind, neither lightsaber
dimmed. 

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From: gandalf@wpi.WPI.EDU (James Michael Sambrook)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Thrawn & Pellaeon
Date: 18 Dec 1992 16:29:33 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Summary: Occam's Razor...


>	Actually, Holmes never said that in any of the stories.  However,
>Thrawn could say before one of his explanations that once all the impossible
>has been eliminated, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
>truth.


This saying is actually called Occam's Razor.  Of course, it was originated by
one of Spock's ancestors (OK...so it's a cross post...but hey...he said it! :^)
And for those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about...go see Star Trek
VI...it's a great movie, and a wonderful way to procrastinate!!!

			James "I REALLY hate finals!" Sambrook...

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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 15:14:00 MST
From: julie@alaska.et.byu.edu (Julie Gritton)
Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Luke Gone Down Hill?
Reply-To: julie@bones.et.byu.edu
	<1gnstnINNrqi@rave.larc.nasa.gov>
Distribution: world

Ah, but as he was quite youthful when he made Star Wars, he squandered
quite a bit of his money, enough, so I've heard, to keep him in debt
even after Jedi.  (I mean, someone had to buy that expensive car that
he wrapped around a pole...)  Mark Hamill is not one of Hollywood's
most well-to-do actors.  I think he does what he can after being
stereotyped as Luke Skywalker.  And I think he's much too good to be
stuck in some of the dumb films he's done.

"You could use a good kiss!"		JULIE
From: ss@wpi.WPI.EDU (Scott Streeter)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Archive List
Date: 16 Dec 1992 13:39:24 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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/Scripts 
	Contains scripts, fan written material, and parodies.
	SW:ANH_Script.Z - Star Wars: A New Hope script (Contains some scenes
        	           not in the movie).
	SW:TESB_Script.Z - Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back script.
	Jedi_Shooting_Script.Z - Star Wars: Revenge of the Jedi. (Early script
        	                 treatment. Some scenes differ from the movie).
	SW:FotR.Z - Fall of the Republic (fan written story treatment).
	Arcadia.Z - Fan written story treatment.
	Bane_of_the_Jedi.Z - unofficial story treatment.
	DEC_Wars.Z - Star Wars parody.
	jedistrm.Z - Jedi Storm (fan written story treatment).
	HonorOfTheEmpire.Z - Star Wars meets Star Trek:TNG story.
	IMPDOM.Z - Star Wars meets Star Trek:TNG story.
/Pictures
	Directory containing pictures in GIF and JPG and EPS formats.
/MacSounds
	Directory containing souds for Mac's.
/toys
	Contains lists of various Star Wars toys, models, games, and RPG.
	SW-RPG.Z - List of role playing game material.
	SWdiecast.Z - List of Die cast toys.
	SWgames.Z - List of various games (board, elecronic, etc...)
	SWactionsets.Z - List of action play sets.
	SWfigures.Z - List of action figures.
	SWmodels.Z - List of model kits.
comic_list.Z - List of all know comic material.
SWvideo.Z - List of Star Wars related videos.
SWbooks.Z - List of Star Wars related books.
StarWarsFAQ.Z - Freqently Asked Questions list, version 2.10 11/22/92
SkywalkingArticles.Z - Articles from the book Skywalking.
Quote_List.Z - List of memorable quotes.
IML_List.Z - List of movies ILM have worked on.
TimothyZahn_Interview.Z - Interview with the author of the new Star Wars books.
TimothyZahn_Interview2.Z - Another interview with Timothy Zahn.
Tom_Veitch_Post.Z - A posting off the net from Tom Veitch (Dark Empire writer).
TimeMag_article.Z - Article from Time Magazine (1980).
Topps_cards.Z - List of the Topps collectors cards (American sets only).
Vader_Character.Z - Character assessment of Darth Vader.
letterbox.Z - List of observations comparing LBX to P&S.
trooper.Z - Some intresting information about Stormtroopers.
HarrisonFord.filmlist.Z - List of all movies with Harrison Ford.
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