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From: joshuali@sal-sun43.usc.edu (Joshua Ling)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Star Wars Radio Series Available?
Date: 2 Sep 1992 15:28:43 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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In article <1992Sep2.034807.21476@access.usask.ca> julie@skatter.usask.ca writes:
>From article <1992Sep1.201647.1@ossenu.astro.nwu.edu>, by terman@ossenu.astro.nwu.edu:
>> Awhile ago, NPR broadcasted a radio series version of Star Wars and The Empire
>> Strikes Back (perhaps they also did Return of the Jedi).  Does anyone know if
>> this is avaible on tape/cd?
>> 
>> Jim Terman
>> 
>> terman@ossenu.astro.nwu.edu
>
>	
>	I just bought something called "The Story of Star Wars, the complete
>album on cassette"  with music and dialogue from the Motion picture.  It came
>with a "souvenir photo book."  I also got a similar thing with ESB and also
>one with the "Rebel Mission to Ord Mantell" which, of course had no photos  ;)
>	Could this be a similar thing?

That's something different.

Back to the radio...those tapes are not available now. They will be within
the next year.

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From: v113np2v@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (George D Emmons)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Canon...the Official Word from Lucasfilm.
Date: 28 Aug 92 00:38:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Aug27.173319.2489@udel.edu>, lim@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Julie Lim) writes...
>	(gr) Well, at least it does let everyone off the hook about the
>various inconsistencies (Coruscant/Byss, Luke's age, etc.). But it's *still*
    There is no inconsistency between Coruscant and Byss. Coruscant
was the Imperial Throneworld. That's where Our Heroes (tm) are
in the beginning of issue #1. Byss is the Emperor's "Summer Home".
Read the back of Issue #2 again.
                                     George...
"I want more than your kisses."
From: MHART00@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU (mason hart)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Empire / RotJ scripts ?
Date: 30 Aug 92 02:24:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: RICEVM1.1685212D28.MHART00
Organization: Rice University

Can anyone post the scripts for Empire or Jedi?  Star Wars has been
up two or three times already, but I haven't seen the others.
 
-- mason
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From: goose@camelot.bradley.edu (Bradley Riley)
Subject: New Release
Organization: Bradley University
Distribution: usa
Date:  2 Sep 92 18:14:33 GMT


Ok, there has been alot of talk about the release of the 1,2, and 3 movies.
I don't know if this is really a new subject.  I heard rumors back as far
as three years.  This may have been to the popularity of SWRPG.  But, I would
have to say that I am also baffled by the insurgence of SW media (books, comics,
and other forms of media)  Could this be a lead up to movie releases??  I would
say that by 1996, knowing how fads come and go, that the Star Wars will be
burned out.  So try this idea
	Release of SW III in 1996, SW II in 1995, and SW I in 1994.
I believe that time line may be better than 1993.  Or I think we should
just get used to waiting.  Lord knows I have been waiting forever.
The "suggested" release times may give Mr. Lucas time to switch over from YI
and start the finish of SW i,ii,iii.  And don't forget when he accepted his 
award, he said something to this effect.  My first part in movie making is
over and I'm looking foward to the second part. (I didnt quote him because
I can't be exact)
So I have a suggestion.  Let's just wait and have patience.

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and live at peace with our hearts
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From: joshuali@aludra.usc.edu (Joshua Ling)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Falcon In Tractor Beam
Date: 28 Aug 92 16:54:26 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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There is no evedence that the Stardestroyer used a tractor beam to dock with
the Blockade Runner in the first place. They may have damaged it enough to 
simply pull it in to the dock with a docking tractor beam.

-joshuali@usc.edu
From: sfd@neuromancer.metaphor.com (Scott Drellishak)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: I've been wondering about this for ages...
Date: 27 Aug 92 23:28:16
Organization: Metaphor Computer Systems
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In-reply-to: morrow@fnalo.fnal.gov's message of Thu, 27 Aug 1992 23:14:52 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.171452.1@fnalo.fnal.gov> morrow@fnalo.fnal.gov (Super-Turtle Jimmy Elmo) writes:
>In article <66945@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt6543a@prism.gatech.EDU (Eric F. House ) writes:
>> In article <1992Aug26.172128.22260@news.media.mit.edu> tsmaster@media.mit.edu (David LeCompte) writes:
>>>What's the moon going to
>>>do? The lack of planetary gravity isn't going to cause it to go skitting
>>>off at any high speed.
>>>
>> 
>> Actually, yes it is.  It is currently moving around Yavin at some orbital
>> velocity.
>
>	   No, it's not.  It'll basically go into Yavin's orbit around
>the Sun; you remember, much larger object, glows brightly?  It'll be
>a little more eccentric, perhaps, and the light/dark cycle will
>probably change dramatically, but it'll stay in orbit happy as a
>clam.

This is true.  Let's do some figuring, based on Jupiter and Ganymede,
just to get some round, order-of-magnitude or so number of orbital
velocity.  Now, Jupiter circles the sun every 4329 days, in an orbit
whose radius (assuming it's nearly circular (which it is)) is about
4.84e8 miles.  This means it's orbital velocity is about

	(4.84e8 mi) * 2 * pi / 4329 days

which is about 8.13 miles/second.  The similarly fudged orbital
velocity of Ganymede is about 6.94 miles/second.  So, the orbital
velocity of a moon of a gas giant like Jupiter can be about the same
as the orbital velocity of the gas giant around it's star.  In other
words, there may very well be a point in Yavin's fourth moon's orbit
when a well-placed blast from the Death Star could drop the moon into
the star (or close enough).

Unless you believe, as I do, that blowing up a gas giant takes much,
much more energy (think of the astoundingly deeper gravity well -- you
have to give most of the planet an escape velocity of about 40
miles/second) than blowing up Alderaan.
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From: yyrkoon@lucky.engin.umich.edu (Jeffrey Jon Kabbe )
Subject: Re: Darth Vader's name
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 15:55:56 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Originator: yyrkoon@lucky.engin.umich.edu


I do belive that the Sith were supposed to be some sort of "little vader"
organization of force using wimps. I know that none of the movies support 
this idea and contradict it in places but, that's what I heard.

Jeffrey Kabbe
Univerist of Michigan.
Go BLUE!
yyrkoon@engin.umich.edu
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From: dragon@camelot.bradley.edu (Matthew Korth)
Subject: canon
Organization: Bradley University
Date: 30 Aug 92 18:18:59 GMT

Well, I thought I'd gotten away from all the discussions about what
was "canon" when I stopped reading the Star Trek newsgroups (except
for alt.startrek.creative).  Apparently, I was wrong.  People, can we
*please* just enjoy _Star_Wars_ and its spinoffs without these endless
arguments over what actually happened?

--
*** Matt Korth *** dragon@camelot.bradley.edu *** dragon@buhub.bradley.edu ***
		    Honor those the dragons heed,
		    In thought and favor, word and deed.
		    Worlds are lost or worlds are saved
		    From those dangers dragon-braved.
					--_Dragonflight_
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From: tsv@dbrus.Unify.Com (Tim Vannaman)
Subject: Re: Empire - cut scenes?
Organization: /usr/lib/news/organization
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 20:10:07 GMT

In article <l9srbbINNa2h@aludra.usc.edu> joshuali@aludra.usc.edu (Joshua Ling) writes:
>In article <BtpDIL.5yL@well.sf.ca.us> rchao@well.sf.ca.us (Robert Chao) writes:
>>
>>Does anyone know of any scenes for Empire Strikes Back that were filmed
>>but not used?
>>From SW we have a scene of Biggs near the end that was cut, and for
>>ROTJ, a sandstorm. But I've never heard of any cut scenes to ESB.
>
>There are at least 2 that I know of:
>
>Shot of the Wampa dragging Luke accross the snow to his lair.
>
>Threepio ripping down a "Danger: Wild Tauntauns" sign while being chased
>to the Falcon in Hoth. 
>

How does a person get ahold of these cut scenes?

Tim.
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From: queue@banach.WPI.EDU (Rob Roy)
Subject: Re: Luke in the Rancor pit
Keywords: ROTJ Luke Rancor
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 22:28:22 GMT


In article <1992Sep1.160704.21334@pyra.co.uk> XXX@pyra.co.uk CHANGE THIS TO YOUR NAME writes:
>
>Folks,
>
>Replying  to Olli who asked a question concerning Luke in the Rancor pit in
>ROTJ  :  he is correct in that this takes place in the novelisation but not
>in the film.  As to whether this piece was filmed and subsequently cut, I'm
>afraid I don't know.
>


In the Return of the Jedi StoryBook there is a picture of Luke gripping
onto the grate above the Rancor. This Might be where Olli remembers seeing 
it from. My guess is that it probably was filmed but cut out. Can anyone 
confirm this? 


>For those of you who want to know what happens in the novelisation :-
>
>1.  Luke and Gamorrean Guard fall into Rancor pit.
>2.  Rancor makes hors d'oeuvres of Gamorrean Guard.
>3.  Rancor advances upon Luke thinking "Aha, entrees !"
>4.  Luke jumps over Rancor - a distance of some 8 metres if memory serves -
>    to hang from a grating over the pit.
>5.  Two  Jawas smash Luke's knuckles with weapon butts forcing him to  fall
>    once more into the pit.
>6.  The action continues much as in the film ...
>
>Apologies  if  my memory isn't that good.  As to whether this is "canon"  -
>well,  that's  sump'n  else !  I find my dictionary's definition  of  canon
>makes this sort of discussion rather academic.
>
>Well folks, that's all I know on this one. Any further ideas ?
>
>All the best everyone,
>
>Hugh.
>-----

Rob

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From: beh10@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Barry Holsinger)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Update to Falcon In Tractor Beam
Date: 27 Aug 92 18:36:12 GMT
Reply-To: beh10@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Barry Holsinger)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <66974@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0754b@prism.gatech.EDU (John Richard Deyonke) writes:
>
>
>  I'd be willing to say West End made a mistake in their
>layout of the MF.  But that would be too easy.  Plus, I still
>think that after reading the log, the first thing the Imperials do 
>is check the status (or existence) of the MF's escape pods.  Of course,
>the Imperials are dumb, but I don't think they're that dumb.
>More thoughts wanted...
>
>
>Jay
>

Han doesn't seem like the type of pilot who would normally keep a log, IMO.
("Lesee, here... oh-six hundred, picked up a load of hot moisture
vaporators from Klagg the Scorpion Man.  Seven-thirty, made it past
Imperial Blockade with Rebel spies...")   ;-)

I say the "escape pod and log" were set up that way by Solo for the
express purpose of deception. 

--
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From: rnmg1200@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (A Lady and her Walrus)
Subject: Re: From Star Wars to Jedi ....
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 12:32:30 GMT

In article <1992Aug29.111635.22669@nic.funet.fi> tapio@nic.funet.fi (Tapio Keih{nen) writes:
>In article <BtqpIJ.529@news.cso.uiuc.edu> rnmg1200@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (A Lady and her Walrus) writes:
>
>>If there's going to be a new movie,
>>you can bet Lucas will have trailers in the theaters by Christmas.  Unless
>>he's releasing it for _next_ Christmas, in which case we'll probably see
>>them in the spring of '93, but maybe sooner than that.  You can't tell
>>me Lucas won't at least _hype_ the damn thing for all it's worth; after
>>the media blitz of the first three movies, and the Indy flicks, it's a safe
>>bet he'd milk it for all it's worth in advertising and tie-ins.
>>
>I wouldn't put my money on that... think what happened with the
>Halloween (I don't remember the sequel number) movie - no-one knew
>about it until about two weeks before the premiere.

And nobody cared two days after. :)

>Halloweens are
>pretty popular among those horror movie fans although its nothing like
>Star Wars.

I wouldn't call them popular....the folks I know prefer a good Wes Craven
movie or a decent adaptation of Clive Barker.  And you are quite correct.
The media attention surrounding Halloween and the bucks somebody could 
make off of selling the news of a new sequel to the media is nothing like
Star Wars.  

The Walrus


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From: AVRK90@waccvm.corp.mot.com (Kevin Cox)
Subject: Re: '78 STAR WARS Special
Organization: Motorola
Date: 27 Aug 1992 22:20:26 MST

I'm interested in getting/finding/purchasing (whatever!) a video tape
of the Star Wars Holiday Special also!  I've got a copy of it on audio
tape, but that just doesn't cut it.  If anyone has any info on it, please
let me know too!  Thanks....

Kevin

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From: cad214@ccsun.strath.ac.uk ("P.Craig")
Subject: Re: Carrie's Baby
Organization: University of Strathclyde
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:27:37 GMT

As far as I know, Carrie Fisher's baby was due in mid September sometime, I only
know this cause I read an interview with her mother Debbie Reynolds, who was
saying how pleased she was. All the best to her anyway!!!!!!!!
-- 

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From: quale@saavik.cs.wisc.edu (Douglas E. Quale)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: question + ROTJ FLAME
Date: 27 Aug 92 05:22:14 GMT
Organization: Undergraduate Projects Lab, UW Madison

In article <1992Aug26.164100.10016@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> tlg4@po.CWRU.Edu (TJ Goldstein) writes:
>
>Yes, it was directed by Irvin Kershner, and there were a lot of problems.
>He was not realy an adventure-type director.  He was more of a person-
>type director.  He wasn't really in the spirit of the thing, either.
>(This is evidenced by the fact that he tried to sue Lucas to get his
>name in the traditional spot -- at the end of the opening credits --
>as mandated by the Director's Guild of America.  Can you imagine what
>that would have been like?  
>

This is not correct.  The DGA sued Lucas, Kershner was not informed or
involved.  Lucas paid a $25K fine, and the DGA kept all of it -- Kershner
didn't get a penny.  I believe that Lucas resigned from the DGA in disgust.

I think your attack on Irvin Kershner is unfounded.  Your facts are wrong
and TESB is by far the best directed and most stylishly executed film of
the trilogy.
-- 
Doug Quale
quale@saavik.cs.wisc.edu
From: TJS107@psuvm.psu.edu (Sime)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Action Figures and such
Date: 29 Aug 92 19:56:04 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

For those of you looking for SW toys, there is a hobby store in Orlando, FL
which has a vast amount of SW stuff.
I believe the store is called Intergalactic, and it is located on one of the
larger routes thru Orlando.

I myself picked up an Admiral Ackbar figure for $6,(not in the original package
, however) but I love the old fishhead so it was worth it.

The prices are pretty steep, but if you want any kind of SW stuff, from figures
 to playsets to trading cards, they got it there.

Sime
From: meg5184@hertz.njit.edu (Starman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: brand new letterboxed A.N.H. laserdisc for sale soon
Date: 26 Aug 92 12:39:42 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Aug25.192609.4605@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> aa595@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dan Duvall) writes:
>
>I'll be getting an extra copy of Star Wars on laserdisc (the
>letterboxed version) in the near future. If anyone wants to buy 
>it, let me know: I'm asking $50, postpaid. I should have it in roughly
>2-3 weeks.
>
>It'll be brand new in its original shrink wrap.
>

Please watch your message titles. It sounded like a new PRESSING was
coming from Image soon. Not to mention that with the Columbia Laser Disc
Club offer you can get it for $1, I don't think people are going to be
too keen about spending $50 for a USED one. A local LD store recently
sold NEW ones on sale for $45.

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From: gt0754b@prism.gatech.EDU (John Richard Deyonke)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: I've been wondering about this for ages...
Keywords: Operating Costs
Date: 26 Aug 92 04:48:07 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

>In article <1992Aug25.145403.17711@gucis.cit.gu.edu.au> svenema@gucis.cit.gu.edu.au (Sven Venema) writes:
>> 1. The death star can blow planets away
>> 2. There is a planet between the death star and the moon
>>
>> 3. Why not blow the planet away instead of wasting time circling it?
>>    It's not as if the Empire cares about planets or people anyway...

Maybe Yavin was of some value to the Empire for mining etc.
  Also, think of how much it must cost the Empire to run the Death Star 
much less how much it must cost each time you fire that sucker.
Kind of like the costs for our lowly Nuclear Aircraft Carriers.  SO
why would you waste all that money, fuel and energy to blow up the
planet Yavin?  Certainly since the rebels are caught and can't 
evacuate, an  extra half hour to go around Yavin to the 4th moon
couldn't hurt.  How's that sound?

Jay

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From: gt6543a@prism.gatech.EDU (Eric F. House)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Darth Vader's name
Date: 3 Sep 92 12:11:07 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In article <1992Sep3.012548.2075@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> gfm@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (George Francis McBay) writes:
>	In a way you are both right.  I doubt that "Darth Vader" could be 
>literally translated from one or two languages.

Well, as I have said before, "Vader" is the word for Father in either Dutch or
Finnish, I forget which.  The word "Darth", I don't know.  But Vader is
"literally translated".  Now whether Lucas actually did that intentionally, or
if he just made up something that sounded close, and one language happened to
match, I can't say.  I think it is a bit much of a coincidence, but only Lucas
can say for sure.



-- 
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Internet: eric@cc.gatech.edu
From: mcclaine@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Casey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Update to Falcon In Tractor Beam
Date: 29 Aug 92 02:08:45 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <1992Aug28.041410.10215@leland.Stanford.EDU> mohr@leland.Stanford.EDU (Paul William Mohr) writes:
>In article <1992Aug28.012328.4841@u.washington.edu> mcclaine@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Casey) writes:
>
>
>>	By the way, LONG before the Sourcebook was created, official 
>>	Star Wars literature (Star Wars Sketchbook, I think) did mention
>>	that the front claw on the Falcon IS for loading cargo.  So don't
>>	guffaw the Sourcebook too soonly!  After all, the Falcon is first
>> 	and foremost, a Correllian cargo ship!
>
>  You're right about the reported purpose of the front claw on the Falcon,
>but mistaken as to what the earlier people were complaining about.  The
>problem is that in the RPG Sourcebook, the cargo bay is in the BACK of the
>Falcon, so the pincers are nowhere near the cargo bay in the diagram produced
>by West End Games.  They were just saying that WEG was wrong.
>

	Good point.  However, I fail to see how that claw could have 
	been used by any sense to actually LOAD cargo onto the Falcon
	anyway.  I think, instead of it being used to load the Falcon,
	the claws are used to latch onto a large piece of space cargo
	and tow it or load it onto a larger vessel or something.  The
	cargo bay, as far as I know, IS in the back of the ship (surrounding
	the turret ladder and underneath the floor for smuggling) as
	long as the diagram gives enough room back there for those
	incredibly oversize engines.
	
	The claw is so big and lacks any manipulator arms (as far as I 
	know) so it could not be used for anything small that could be loaded
	onto the Falcon's not-so-big cargo bay.  Perhaps the towing
	vessel idea is a more reasonable one.


	_/_/_/_/   _/_/_/_/   _/_/_/   	Han:  "I knew you were going to say
	_/     _/  _/       _/     _/          that, old fool."
	_/     _/  _/       _/              
	_/_/_/_/   _/_/_/   _/            
	_/   _/    _/       _/          Ben:  "Who's more foolish, the fool
	_/    _/   _/       _/     _/          or the fool who follows him?"
	_/     _/  _/_/_/_/   _/_/_/      
	Robert E. Casey  (mcclaine@milton.u.washington.edu)
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From: mcclaine@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Casey)
Subject: Re: I've been wondering about this for ages...
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 22:07:15 GMT

In article <BtLoq8.Izy@news.cso.uiuc.edu> sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter) writes:
>svenema@gucis.cit.gu.edu.au (Sven Venema) writes:
>
>>I don't know if anyone else has ever thought about this (you probably have,
>>but what the hell it bugs me... :)), but I keep wondering about the bit in
>>Star Wars where the death star is approaching the moon with the rebel base
>>on it.
>

	...and essentially why the DS does not destroy Yavin so that it
	is out of the way to destroy the moon with the Rebel base.

	Easy:  The Imperials were cocky.


	Aside from this.  I believe that the superlaser destroys a planet
	by penetrating to the core of the planet and causing a disruption
	that causes the planet to explode from the inside out.


	_/_/_/_/   _/_/_/_/   _/_/_/   	Troi:  "Worf, what exactly is that band
	_/     _/  _/       _/     _/   that you wear on your uniform?"
	_/     _/  _/       _/              
	_/_/_/_/   _/_/_/   _/            
	_/   _/    _/       _/          Worf:  "It's a Klingon flea collar." 
	_/    _/   _/       _/     _/      
	_/     _/  _/_/_/_/   _/_/_/      
	Robert E. Casey  (mcclaine@milton.u.washington.edu)