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system: You are Chris Malone, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Star Wars message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Kristoffer Larsson about "End music in ROTJ:SE".

They wrote:
KL> Really? The CD:s are very expensive here in Sweden; do you think
KL> they are worth buying or is there to little new music to justify
KL> the buy? I already have the 4 CD version of the soundtrack.
KL> E-mail: d95-kla@nada.kth.se, kris-lar@dsv.su.se
KL> WWW: http://www.nada.kth.se/~d95-kla

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assistant: Greetings,
The Special Edition CDs are indeed expensive and they do hurt
a Uni student's pocket a little. (ouch!) Regarding the content
of the discs:
Off the top-of-my-head Star Wars has only about 10 minutes (if
that) extra music than the 4CD set. But you do get the 5 raw
takes of the Main Title -- interesting stuff indeed.
ESB has about 20 minutes of unreleased stuff.
Jedi has the most -- around 50 minutes of unreleased stuff.
Including the new Jedi Rocks song and the new Victory
Celebration.
In my opinion, if money is tight, probably get them in
reverse order, ie. Jedi, ESB then Star Wars.
The sound quality is superior to that of the 4CD set
but some ESB cues have been re-mixed (God knows why).
Anyway, I hope that's answered some of your questions
Whilst you're into visiting Web sites why not try my
*NEW* one at
   http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Lot/9045/index.html
I have my SW:SE sountrack review at this site. You may
be interested...
Cheers,
Chris Malone
(malone@ist.flinders.edu.au)
system: You are Brion Lienhart, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Star Wars message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Daniel Lowe about "- Stormtrooper Info".

They wrote:
BL> In case you hadn't noticed the Academy that Luke wants to transmit his
BL> application to is the Imperial Military Academy. He wanted to go so
BL> that he coudl become a pilot, like Biggs. Most of the Rebel military
BL> have defected from the Imperials.
-DL>
-DL>Yes, this is what I was talking about.
-DL>Where did you get this info ?

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assistant: On Sat May 17, Daniel Lowe said to Brion Lienhart:
It's in the movie. Luke wanted to go and transmit his application to "The
Academy". Do you think you could go down to the post office and send off a
letter to Rebel Military Academy, 100 Mon Mothma Lane, Yavin 4? Therefore it
must be the Imperial Military Academy. Biggs went there first, but he's not
flying for the rebels, so he must have defected, unless he was a deep cover
Imperial spy, but then he would have acted like he defected anyway.
system: You are Brion Lienhart, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Star Wars message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Andy Myers about "PALPATINE".

They wrote:
-AM>Which book was this? I must have missed it, because I've seen several
-AM>referances to Palpatine's clone, but haven't read about it. If you
-AM>could tell me the book and author, I'd be really grateful, because
-AM>then I could go to Borders and order it.

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assistant: On Thu May 22, Andy Myers said to Chigbo Ikejiani:
Dark Empire and Dark Empire II comic books. The first one and I'm pretty sure
the second one got printed in collected editions which should still be
available. However, I'd reccomend giving it a miss. IMO, it was the stupidest
idea that any of the SW writers have had yet.
system: You are John Mathis, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Star Wars message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to John Snyder about "PALPATINE".

They wrote:
-> sorry, pal. in the Zahn trilogy, the Emperor was ressurected. :/

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assistant: Which book of the trilogy would that be?  I am just about to finish the
second book so I assume it's in the third but I don't see how that would
fit the story.
ps don't tell me what happens... please :-)
john
system: You are John Bodin, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Star Wars message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Andrew Shearwood about "Re: Inter - Fido web page".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting John Bodin to All <=-
JB> I have an old URL to the Inter - Fido web page.  Does anybody know if
JB> this page is still active at a new URL?
JB> I am most interested in the list of upcoming novels that it had.
JB> If anybody can tell me where to just get this list (current version) I
JB> would be just as happy.
AS> Apparently Mike Farnham left Star Wars fandom for good and shut the
AS> page down! 'Twas taking up too much of his time and money. Matt Schulz,
AS> do you have any more info on this?
AS> Andrew.

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assistant: Practicing by shooting womprats, Andrew
felt was ready for the Empire.
Thank you for the info apparently he has also left AOL which is where the
page was based since the emial address he had is also no longer valid.
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system: You are Luc Vendette, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Star Wars message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Steven Lei about "Palpatine".

They wrote:
> 0AREA:STARWARS
>  AM> Which book was this? I must have missed it, because I've seen several
>  AM> referances to Palpatine's clone, but haven't read about it. If you
>  AM> could tell  me the book and author, I'd be really grateful, because
>  AM> then I could go to  Borders and order it.
> Okay... I think Palpatine was resurected in the chapter that Admiral Daala
> was captain of her Super Star Destroyer!??  If that's the case, then I
> that the book is one of the books by Stern (did he write one?)??  Can't
> remember now... it's been about a year since.
>                         Steven Lei

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assistant: Re: PALPATINE
hink
The Emperor was first resurected in the comic book series Dark Empire an Dark
Empire II. The following novels mentions the events that occured in those
stories. I suggest you read those stories they are quite exciting.
system: You are Eugen Woiwod, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Star Wars message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Steven Lei about "everyone else".

They wrote:
SL> Hi there.
SL>          Just out of curiosity, what happened to any or all of the cast/
SL> characters of Star Wars (all three) after the third filming (ROTJ)?
SL> All I know is that Harrison Ford continued major on the movie screens
SL> after
SL> that...  any others you can fill in?

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assistant: |*****************|Steven Lei wrote:
While Eugen was busy fighting Darth Vader :), Steven Lei wrote..
|*************************************|
On Mark Hamil's Official webpage on the internet, he's got a section there
that shows everything he's done after ROTJ. Mostly it's voice acting, doing
voices for several cartoon characters in various cartoon's, some voice
acting for a computer game or two I think, and some other stuff. As for the
rest of them, im not sure what they've done after ROTJ.
Internet: ewoiwod@infomatch.com
WWW: http://www.infomatch.com/~ewoiwod/startrek.html
WWW: http://www.infomatch.com/~ewoiwod/european.html
... "Oh my! Imperials ! RUNAWAY RUNAaaa...SZAAAAP...thunk"
system: You are John Rakich, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Star Wars message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Phillip Sponbiel about "Re: ROTJ:SE".

They wrote:
PS>But that screws me most! Stormtroopers can't be so stupid. Ewoks
PS>beat them, farmoboys beat them, ... only the stupid rebels on
PS>Tantive IV didn't beat them. :-)
PS>So I didn't mind our heros not being shot down... (was this
PS>correct english?) but the Ewoks are definatly *not* our heros.
PS>They were made heros by being so cute... Lucas couldn't let them
PS>die... the 6-year old children might have cried.
PS>So if the Ewoks wouldn't be that cute... I think hundreds of them
PS>would have died.
PS>PS>> And only one Ewok dies (at that point I'm always happy).

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assistant: That was one of the main themes of the film, the battle of idologies.
That he mighty technologically superior Empire lost to the weaker common
folk in antiquated tech. Just look and the theme of the Force vs.
Technology.
The Ewoks were the extreme example of a low-tech society (so what if
they were also created for marketing purposes). Lucas even maked
references to  why the Endor battle was done with them as the final
example of how the meek can overthrough the mighty.
You have to assume that many more died off camera.
 * SLMR 2.1a * "Try not. Do, do. Or do not. There is no try" -- Yoda
system: You are John Rakich, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Star Wars message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Steven Van Impe about "Rotj".

They wrote:
SVI>TP> Fett with the little touch on the girls chin was cool.
SVI>It was excellent. Completely Fett. Cool, seemingly emotionless.
SVI>TP> Was Fett always behind Jabba when Luke was running around?
SVI>No, I don't think he was. Very good blue screen job.

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assistant: No. I really didn't like that whole "new" Fett sequence in Jabba's
palace mainly since they just re-used the nod shot over and over.
 * SLMR 2.1a * The Emperor is coming here?...we shall double our efforts
system: You are John Rakich, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Star Wars message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to John Snyder about "New/Old SW".

They wrote:
JS>baloney. they redid the wampa sequence, and that was hardly any trouble
JS>at all! they perfectly blended the old scenes with new ones. there would
JS>have been no probem in making the same move with the rancor sequence. i
JS>can only assume it was laziness.

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assistant: That's just it they had the chance to re-do the wampa scene from scratch
since the scenes with the wampa did not include Luke for extended
scenes. All they did in that situation was edit in new shots of the
Wampa.
In the case of the Rancor the whole sequence would have tobe redone and
that would be very hard to accomplish to have it still fit into the
film. To reshoot it would be impossible since Hamil is noticably older,
using old footage is also impossible since it's been too long. A CGI
rancor would look good but how would you redo the Luke overlay ? If they
did the same thing as the Wampa scene (ie. shooting new scenes and
editing them in) that would be too noticabl since most/all of the scenes
are superimposed/bluescreen shots of both the Rancor and Luke.
It's not laziness but a choice to preserve the intgrity of the film.
 * SLMR 2.1a * "Impressive... most impressive." - Vader
system: You are John Rakich, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Star Wars message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Steven Lei about "everyone else".

They wrote:
SL>         Just out of curiosity, what happened to any or all of the cast/
SL>characters of Star Wars (all three) after the third filming (ROTJ)?
SL>All I know is that Harrison Ford continued major on the movie screens
SL>that...  any others you can fill in?

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assistant: fter
Well...Mark Hamil never really made it into the major acting league
since he was too recognizable as Luke Skywalker. He has done many small
scale films (ie. Guyver) and voice characterizations for animated series
(ie. The Joker on Batman, The Hobgoblin on Spider-Man) and he has
written a Dark Horse comic series called "Black Pearl"
Carrie Fisher went on to do some other films and got married(for
awhile) to Paul Simon, but she has become on of Hollywood's leading
"script doctors". She might even be hired to work on the prequels.
I hope this helped.
 * SLMR 2.1a * STAR WARS FIDONET ECHO...Massing near Sullust...
system: You are John Rakich, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Star Wars message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to John Snyder about "Palpatine".

They wrote:
JS>sorry, pal. in the Zahn trilogy, the Emperor was ressurected. :/

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assistant: Nope, since in the SW Universe timeline the Zahn trilogy is at least a
year before the Dark Empire novels. In reality Palpatine's clone has
been alive for many years but he is not mentioned in the Zahn novels and
his past/existance is only retconned in Dark Empire.
 * SLMR 2.1a * "Oh, switch off." - C-3PO
system: You are John Rakich, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Star Wars message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Chris Malone about "End music in ROTJ:SE".

They wrote:
CM>The Special Edition CDs are indeed expensive and they do hurt
CM>a Uni student's pocket a little. (ouch!) Regarding the content
CM>of the discs:
CM>In my opinion, if money is tight, probably get them in
CM>reverse order, ie. Jedi, ESB then Star Wars.
CM>The sound quality is superior to that of the 4CD set
CM>but some ESB cues have been re-mixed (God knows why).

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assistant: When they were released it was one of the times that I felt truly
blessed for working in a music store.
Atually I'd recommend geting them in proper order. It's harder to get a
deluxe version of ANH, while there is a huge glut of ROTJ deluxe
editions avaliable.
 * SLMR 2.1a * "Open yourself to the force you must" -- Yoda
system: You are John Rakich, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Star Wars message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Jos�-Gabriel Sato Folatr about "Cool magizine".

They wrote:
JSF>So I'm now repiying to John, is that wrong?
JSF> TP>> 6. And I thought they smelled bad on the outside...
JSF> -->> Han from ROTJ
JSF>Nope! Han from TESB! On Ice Planet Hoth, talking about a tauntaun...
JSF> TP>> 8. What could possibly have come over Master Luke?
JSF> -->> C3P0 from ANH
JSF>C3Po is correct but it was in ROTJ after R2D2 had displayed the message
JSF>Jabba where Luke gives the droids to Jabba as a gift... :)

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assistant: Nope.
ARRRGHHH! I meant TESB!
o
I wasn't sure about that one.
 * SLMR 2.1a * STAR WARS FIDONET ECHO...Letting the Wookiee win...
system: You are John Rakich, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Star Wars message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "SWSE:Stand-Up's.".

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assistant: Not that I want to sell it, or that I'm some sort of money greedy leech,
but I recently aqquired a sealed SW:ANH lobby stand-up (the huge 6ft
long one with all the cut-outs of the characters). And I was wondering
if anyone knows how much they are potentially going for.
I'm trying to assess my personal ollection of memorabelia for insurance
reasons.
Thanks.
 * SLMR 2.1a * Is Darth Vader YOUR father, too?
system: You are Steven Lei, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Star Wars message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Joe Mason about "Re: Imperial Stormtrooper".

They wrote:
-> -> JM> (Or so the summary I read says.  I still haven't been able to
-> -> download JM> the actual script.) Hey Joe, I downloaded the script
-> -> StarKiller a while ago... from the internet.  I can't remember the
-> -> address, but I was at a friend's house. It's 130 pages... that's t
-> -> problem with sending the entire script. Any other solutions?  Do y
-> -> have an E-mail account?
->
-> I know the address - that's what I was talking about when I mentioned
-> the script.  The first time I tried to download it, my connection
-> screwed up so I couldn't get it.  I just haven't had a chance to go
-> back yet.
->
-> The address is - ACK! The address is GONE!  That'll teach me to leave
-> stuff on little scraps of paper beside the computer... Well, I can
-> find it again, it was the first page that came up on a Lycos search
-> for "Ralph McQuarrie".

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assistant: Uh... okay.  No problem.
                             Steven Lei
system: You are Steven Lei, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Star Wars message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Michael Ardill about "Re: Tie and xwing.".

They wrote:
TP> I know xwing is just before the start of ANH and then it ends
TP> at the destruction of the first DS.
MA> I've never spent long enought on the game to get that far :(  You
MA> couldn't send me a savegame for the Death Star bit (or a code if
MA> there's one)?

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assistant: I've got a pilot who's gotten through Tour 3.  I don't know if it will attach
files on here, but if it can I'll send it to you.  If that fails, then do
you have an E-mail account?  If you do, respond through E-mail:
SpewMuffin@juno.com
Make sure that you say that you needed that pilot file so I know what to do.
Just helping a fellow pilot here.
                                Steven Lei
... Is my alias SpewMuffin or DunKirk??? or is it both?
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system: You are Dorothy Ferris, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Star Wars message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "checking".

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assistant: Hi,
Just checking to see if there is a problem with my mail feed or if this is a
slow traffic or dead echo.
Sorry for being off topic.  But please respond.
Dot
... Keyboard is locked - Press F1 to resume...
system: You are Dan Howell, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Star Wars message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Daniel Lowe about "Re: - AT-AT NO SHIELD".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Daniel Lowe to Dan Howell <=-
DL> @MSGID: 3:712/526.0 33834a3e
DL> * On 15 May 97  20:08:00, Dan Howell said to Daniel Lowe
DL> "- AT-AT NO SHIELD"
DL> Hi Dan
DL> Does this mean that you can only use it *in* an atmosphere (sp) ?
DH> No, anything in the atmosphere or any ship that comes close enough to
DH> the   planet.
DL>
DL> But the ship that was hit with the ion-canon (in the movie),
DL> was no where near the atmosphere.

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assistant: Yes it was.  When the gun fires, we see rebel ships leaving the atmosphere
with the ion bolts flying by them and hitting the star destroyer.  Then the
rebels fly right by the disabled star destroyer...
If you don't agree, watch it again.  The star destroyer is not that far from
the planet...
... "I find your lack of faith disturbing."
system: You are Dan Howell, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Star Wars message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Steven Lei about "Re: - AT-AT NO SHIELD".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Steven Lei to Dan Howell <=-
-=> Quoting Dan Howell to Daniel Lowe <=-
-=> Quoting Daniel Lowe to Dan Howell <=-
DL> Hi Dan
DH> Well according to the RPG, if I remember correctly, the Ion-Cannon is
DH> an  Atmospheric weapon only, secondly it takes a long time to cvtere up
DL> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
DL> Does this mean that you can only use it *in* an atmosphere (sp) ?
DH>
DH> No, anything in the atmosphere or any ship that comes close enough to
DH> the   planet.
SL> just atmospheric?  I thought it would not work in the atmosphere.
SL> Charging takes nearly forever, I know that... because of such a current
SL> in order to disable all the electronic equipment??
SL> Steven Lei

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assistant: Well,  I would say upper atmosphere.  It would probably not be able to hit a
low flying speeder.  I don't believe it has that great of a range outside of
the planet because the rebels would have started firing at the Star
Destroyers the minute they entered the Hoth system...
... "Laugh it up, Fuzzball."
system: You are Joe Mason, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Star Wars message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Kristoffer Larsson about "ROTJ:SE".

They wrote:
KL> JM> I beg to differ - Children of the Jedi was great, except that
KL> JM> one of Splinter of the Mind's Eye is also a pretty good book,
KL> JM> except of course The Anderson books, however, are horrible.
KL> JM> They AREN'T worth reading.
KL>Well, obviously we have different taste when it comes to books. :) I
KL>still think CotJ and SotME are some of the worst, if not the worst,
KL>books I have ever read. The Anderson books are good, but not very
KL>Star Wars-ish.

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assistant: "ROTJ:SE", declared Kristoffer Larsson from the Vogon ship:
:-) Yep, there are definitely a lot of different opinions out there.  I
just wanted to make sure that the person who was being advised didn't
think that everyone had the same opinion.
Joe
� CMPQwk 1.42 9550 �Originality is the art of concealing your source.
system: You are Joe Mason, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Star Wars message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Steven Van Impe about "Hutts".

They wrote:
SV>VH>> scene, chopped out, with jabba in it had him played by a human (
SV>DB> To correct you, for Jabba being human originally, he wasn't.
SV>... "Jabba, you are a wonderful human being" - Han Solo

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assistant: "Hutts", declared Steven Van from the Vogon ship:
That line was used as a joke in the Special Edition.  Since there are
sketches of an alien Jabba right from the start, obviously if the alien
Jabba was used it would have been used as a joke in the original too.
Was it actually in the script?  It sounds to me like Harrison Ford might
have ad-libbed it like he did with "I know".
Joe
� CMPQwk 1.42 9550 �Originality is the art of concealing your source.
system: You are Michael Lee, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Star Wars message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Charlie Thompson about "Re: Characters".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Charlie Thompson from a message to Jayson Milstead. <=-
CT>    Jayson wrote this stuff all over Charlie  CT>  i always thought
CT> that they should have been wookies, do you know why  JM> they   CT>
CT> werent?  JM> Money! =)
JM> Vahalla the god
CT>  whats that suposed to mean? after the success of the first 2 they
CT> had plenty  of money for jedi. and im sure it would be alot easier to
CT> higher tall people  than finding a bunch of miggets.

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assistant: Because George Lucas said that he wanted the wookie's to be a race of very
ruged warriors who couldnt fly ships... then because George still wanted
a race like that very primative, and he invented the Ewoks..
l8r
...Mike... ...Isix@igalaxy.net...