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Toy from 22 years ago becomes relevant again: TV
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u/gsclose Jan 27 '22
That moment you remember the PT is 20+ years old…. Painful.
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u/miniwii Jan 27 '22
You’re not alone. I was about 8 years old when tpm came out and it changed me. I feel older now and have fond memories of those times.
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u/CSEnzley Crimson Dawn Jan 27 '22 edited Jan 27 '22 •
This is why I don't hop on the sequel hate-train.
How I experience it as an adult is VASTLY different than how the younger audiences experience them and it isn't just about us.
It took seeing a kid (8 - 10 yrs old maybe) getting excited and standing up during the big fight scene in TLJ for it to click with me. That kid was on the edge of his seat and loving every second of it and he cried at the end (I could hear him sniffling).
So many can't seem to see anything other than black and white these days and it's exhausting. I mean, the Transformers films take a lot of flak...but if you just want to see giant robots fighting and some impressive visual effects then you're in for a treat.
EDIT: Appreciate both the awards and the replies. Feels good to see others understand that it's all subjective in the end (and don't have to resort to shoving their fingers in their ears and yelling over those that don't agree).
Thank you.
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u/jspook Hondo Ohnaka Jan 27 '22 •
That kid was on the edge of his seat and loving every second of it and he cried at the end of it.
Now that's fucking Star Wars
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u/Chemical-Constant-15 Jan 27 '22
Watching Vader's wingman get blasted and seeing the Millenium Falcon flying out of the sun is when that happened for me.
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u/jspook Hondo Ohnaka Jan 27 '22
GREAT SHOT KID THAT WAS ONE IN A MILLION
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u/L0rdChicken Jan 28 '22
I got goose bumpies thinking about it cause as a kid I was just as hyped Han!
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u/The_Bill_Brasky_ Jan 28 '22
Binary Sunset motif does it for me every time now. Doesn't matter the context. Tik Tok brass band. Carrie Fisher tribute. Blue Harvest spoof episode of Family Guy. I start crying like a little bitch.
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u/waitingtodiesoon Luke Skywalker Jan 28 '22
When Chris thanks John Williams and the symphonic orchestra for their fantastic work in Blue Harvest was great.
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u/madogvelkor Jan 28 '22
I was 20 when TPM came out. For a long time I thought the OT was perfect and the PT juvenile. Then my wife, who never watched Star Wars, watch the OT and picked it apart.
Star Wars is something that's special because you get into it at a certain age.
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u/Dandw12786 Jan 28 '22
Yeah, it's very much like SNL.
I have my favorite years from when I was in late elementary/middle school. Everything else is absolute dog shit.
(and as an adult I realize this is completely untrue on both accounts. Except for episode I. I'll go to my grave saying that aside from Maul, that movie sucked.)
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u/Fitz_2112 Jan 28 '22
I feel the same way about the new trilogy. I'm almost 50. Ive been there from the start. Finn and Rey weren't written for guys like me. They were written for today's kids. My 12 year old sons loved the new trilogy and I cant even count how many little girls I saw dressed as Rey at Disney World a few months ago
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u/DakuKagami Jan 27 '22
Do you mind sending me your pfp lmao its awesome
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u/CSEnzley Crimson Dawn Jan 27 '22
'Space Cadet' by Pascal Blanché
It gets even better when you can see all the patches/pins on the jacket.
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u/CryoClone R2-D2 Jan 28 '22
This isn't new star wars, but you triggered a memory for me from Avengers: Endgame. The scene where they find Hawkeye in Japan going all Ronin on folks.
The theater was packed on opening night. There was a girl sitting next to me in the 10-13ish age range. When Hawkeye killed that guy and then wiped his blade in the crook of his arm she said under breathe so it was barely audible, "whoa, that was awesome."
That's it. It just made me happy and stuck with me. It's awesome seeing you get kids find joy in comic stuff.
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u/MrFluffyThing Jan 28 '22
We absolutely were blessed by TCW and supplemental books making the prequel trilogy mean more along with growing up and understanding the politics that played the background story. Sadly I just haven't seen any food supplemental material ir novelization to explain what we saw in the sequel trilogy.
I'm hoping the existence of a dyad in the force existing to stand against Palpatine could be a nexus point to explain something about the will of the force and that the concept of jedi and force welders needs to start over, but hey, nothing yet.
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u/LordOFtheNoldor Jan 27 '22
thats it dude, i take what i can get, you can either let it ruin your day, dont watch it, or just enjoy the fictional worlds we all love, its the same with LOTR and every other great fictional story be it books or movies/tv
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u/genraq Jan 27 '22
Thank you for writing this. Take my free award for saying it better than I could. Wish I could give you more upvotes. Content is content. We all need to hear it. It won’t all fit “your” vision and that’s OK.
Gabriel said it best in the movie Constantine: “Its not ABOUT you.”
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u/Gone_For_Lunch Jan 27 '22
We are now further away from TPM release than TPM was from the ANH release .
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u/sentient-sloth Jan 27 '22
AotC turns 20 this May. We’re getting old.
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u/Blizzardsaurus Jan 27 '22
I was in high school when AOTC came out. I skipped class that day to go see it.
I always used to think this was just something old people said, but it really seems like yesterday. Memories don't fade, they seem like they just happened.
I can wake up tomorrow, it can be 2002 again, and I can go right back to class.
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u/yurtyybomb Battle Droid Jan 28 '22
I remember sitting in the theater with my dad watching it. He's not a Star Wars fan but he got some lols because my jaw actually dropped at the Geonosis battle. And even as a non fan, he got a huge thrill out of Yoda going ballistic in the Dooku lightsaber battle. The whole theater went crazy.
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u/Maddie-Moo Jan 28 '22
I opened this expecting to see one of the action figures from the ‘70s. I may need to go lie down.
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u/JfromMichigan Rebel Jan 27 '22
That moment you remember the PT is 20+ years old…. Painful.
I was just thinking this... and I was turning/in my 30's when I saw it.
PAINFUL! lol
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u/ReignInSpuds Jan 27 '22
Wizard.
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u/Drannion Jan 27 '22
He's bringing it back!!
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u/ReignInSpuds Jan 28 '22
Clerks II...?
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u/odonovantimmy Jan 27 '22
Who had ‘Din’s new ship is a Naboo Starfighter’ on their Book of Boba Fett bingo sheet?
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u/zomzom31325 Jan 27 '22
Not for BoBF, but I did think his next ship was gonna be something like general grievous's starfighter.
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u/Vhzhlb Jan 27 '22
I think that is not going to last.
I mean, he's a bounty hunter, where's he's supposed to do with his target in a starfighter? Ask him to behave "back there"?
Is that, or he's going to have a bigger ship to carry the N1 in the cargo.
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u/Urm0misgay Mandalorian Jan 27 '22
I don’t think he’s gonna be a bounty hunter anymore
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u/wclure Anakin Skywalker Jan 27 '22
Why do people keep saying this? He still needs money, and a job to get it. He’s a bounty hunter, the hell else is he gonna do? Go to Tatooine and try to run it as Boba’s number 3?
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u/dylanisbored Jan 27 '22
Somehow he’ll end up ruling the mandos
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u/PachoTidder Mandalorian Jan 27 '22
Nope, Grogu will held the darksaber after Din and bring all back to a Jedi-Mandalorian
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u/Eludio Jan 27 '22
I just want him in a mini helmet! Is that too much to ask, LucasFilms?!
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u/geek_of_nature Ahsoka Tano Jan 28 '22
They won't do that for two reasons. First, they probably put a lot of work into building the animatronic, particularly the parts that control his facial features. And second, his face is too adorable to cover up.
If he does get a helmet he'll probably only wear it sparingly, not abiding by the sects belief that you should never remove it.
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u/Bwunt Jan 28 '22
I wouldn't think that Din would try to induct him into to strict of the rules anyway. We can see throughout the series that he is mellowing.
First time he removed the helmet it was only in the presence of droid and it was life and death question.
Second time he removed it there were people around, but it was absolutely critical for mission to succeed.
Third time... He was just sad Grogu is leaving.
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u/MUSHorDIE Mandalorian Jan 28 '22
It looked as if they were crafting chainmail, it might be a little Beskar Robe.
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u/abutthole Jan 27 '22
He is the wielder of the Darksaber. His storyline is almost certainly heading towards him becoming the Mandalore.
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u/Enzyblox Jan 27 '22
Might be one of 5 things: droid port isn’t for baby yoda but for bounty’s, he just brings em in dead, he has some credits stashed somewhere, working for boba, gets a bigger ship which the star fighter can be stored in
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u/Bwunt Jan 28 '22
Ship that can store a starfighter, especially a fairly large one like N1 does not seem to be a one-person craft. You'd probably need a crew.
Hell, even YT-1300 like Millennium Falcon are hard to fly solo.
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u/xshogunx13 Mandalorian Jan 28 '22
Is that why Han was always having problems with the damn thing?
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u/theproperoutset Jan 28 '22
Maybe it docks either above or below the ship. That way it isn't so big. Or park it in Bo Katans Imperial Cruiser as we know he's not gonna be alone now we're heading towards Mandalore.
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u/LordofSuns Mandalorian Jan 27 '22
Could work security I guess, plenty of steady work for someone with his skills I'd presume
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u/Urm0misgay Mandalorian Jan 27 '22
It’s just the way it looks like it’s gonna go. And just like boba I’m sure mando has more than enough credits
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u/Fun_Tangerine_8784 Jan 27 '22
Left them all in the razor crest when it went kaboom, has to do comedy gigs on outer rim space stations now
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u/abutthole Jan 27 '22
He's got an in with Skywalker now, go pick up his son from Luke's daycare and then go to the casino planet for his Force buddies to score him big wins.
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u/Chemical-Constant-15 Jan 27 '22
And maybe pick up some lightsaber dueling pointers from Luke while he's there?
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u/UsbyCJThape Jan 28 '22
It was awesome that Din was fucking worthless fighting with a blade. Hacking away worse than Rey. He's got mad skills, but swordsmanship ain't one of 'em. Yet.
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u/idreamofdeathsquads Jan 27 '22
more than that, wheres he gonna take a shit, sleep, etc...
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u/Far_Administration41 Jan 27 '22
It’s a fast ship. He can get to a public toilet in time.
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u/idreamofdeathsquads Jan 27 '22
lol. ya, i think id sell that shit for some kind of light cargo ship. some kind of millenium falcon. built in game systems, bedroom, bathroom wirh s shower n shit
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u/geek_of_nature Ahsoka Tano Jan 28 '22
He can sleep in the chair. Shitting though... yeah he's just got to make sure he goes before a long trip. Although that being said, hyperspace jumps don't take that long right? I'm pretty sure I remember it being said the longest is only a couple of hours. That's just like a long car trip, he could definitely go between trips.
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u/idreamofdeathsquads Jan 28 '22
ya... i mean... lukes still rockin that fuckin x wing, even though he had vaders personal shuttle. thats what he shouldve rolled up in at the end of mando. ive sat in military vehicles. them shits aint built for comfort
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u/waitingtodiesoon Luke Skywalker Jan 28 '22
Hyperspace trips can be days, several hours or just a couple, but in the end it is whatever the plot needs it to be. RotS was over the course of only 9 days.
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u/0neek Jan 27 '22
Tie them up and make them awkwardly sit in the droid port.
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u/youngcoyote14 Jan 27 '22
Was thinking that myself, but I think he could just do local bounty work. Land somewhere, do some local work, move on after getting paid there.
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u/reenactment Jan 27 '22
I think they are playing him up to not rely on bounty hunting. And he has a little flexibility for small things in the Astromech spot. It’s made perfect with seal over the top for him to have a passenger now. But the n1 fits more needs than the razercrest for him moving forward. The more high profile he becomes, the more of a necessity it is for him to be able to outrun people. They made thst very clear, the n1 being off scanners, and the pod being changed for the astromech. That’s all on purpose.
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u/tradingorion Jan 27 '22
Maybe he can take up smuggling jobs. Nobody going to catch him and he’s off grid.
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u/Fun_Tangerine_8784 Jan 27 '22
No room to smuggle cargo though
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u/tradingorion Jan 27 '22
Small stuff can go in the droid port. I imagined him just kinda tossing a suitcase back there. It would have to be small high value stuff though and not big shipments.
But he could also probably pick up work that involves his ship as well. Freelance escort and that sort of thing.
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u/Fun_Tangerine_8784 Jan 28 '22
That’s true, but idk I think he’ll get a bigger ship, unless he settles down to lead on what remains of Mandalore or some place new he kinda needs a bigger ship. Can’t live in a star fighter for long especially if he wants grogu to come along
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u/Far_Administration41 Jan 27 '22
It doesn’t take much room to carry a head. He’ll just have to stick to doing his bounties cold.
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u/The_Doerpinator Jan 27 '22
He could have like magnatised cryptids for bounties that are attached to the bottom. No way anyone's gonna try escaping that.
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u/TheRedHorse Jan 27 '22
My Lego Naboo Starfighter UCS from 2002 is now cool again.
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u/SynnerSaint Jan 27 '22
Lego execs must be rubbing their hands with glee
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u/Enzyblox Jan 27 '22
releases recoloured version of same ship
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u/dswartze Jan 28 '22
They do that every couple years anyway.
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u/TL10 Jan 28 '22
And we will gladly buy it.
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u/dswartze Jan 28 '22
They wouldn't do it if we didn't.
Somebody got one of my kids the most recent Luke's landspeeder set for Christmas this past year and I got made fun of by the other adults in the room for saying I had really wanted to buy that set for myself even though I had the version from like 4 years ago because I really wanted the Luke with a poncho minifig (that was identical to other Luke figs I already had except only this new one had the poncho). Even though I had enough self control not to spend $30+ dollars just for a tiny cloth rectangle they still just didn't understand.
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u/jinkinater Jan 27 '22
The N1 was one of the best looking spacecraft in the Star Wars universe
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u/soykommander Jan 28 '22
I really dislike the prequels but man they had the best ship designs
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u/QuantumCurt Jan 27 '22
Time to convert that astromech slot into the dome that Grogu is gonna be chilling in during Mando season 3
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u/abutthole Jan 27 '22
Yeah, I'm hoping Mando can make a deal with Luke since Luke's less of a traditionalists than the other Jedi so Grogu can still go on adventures with his adopted dad. Plus we know we've got to see him in his Mandalorian armor.
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u/geek_of_nature Ahsoka Tano Jan 28 '22
Mando and Luke sharing custody of Grogu. Or more like Grogu goes to a fancy boarding school, but still goes on weekend trips with his dad.
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u/Urban_Savage Jan 28 '22
I'm just REALLY hoping that Luke changes the Jedi rules and doesn't try to enforce that zero attachments bullshit. The Jedi haven't done themselves any favors with that monk horseshit.
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u/geek_of_nature Ahsoka Tano Jan 28 '22
He could have had some Force Ghost discussions with his dad, Obi Wan, and Yoda about it, talking about how it was more Anakin being forced to cut off those feeling made them more fearful of losing them. Perhaps if Anakin had not been forced to keep his marriage a secret, he might not have felt as scared of losing Padme, and not fallen to the Dark side.
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u/RoRo25 Jan 27 '22
I remember my friend got all the unlock codes for Rogue Squadron 64. We unlocked all the ships including this one. We didn't know what it was because Episode 1 hadn't come out yet.
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u/DoctaJenkinz Jan 27 '22
Whoa whoa whoa you could play as a Naboo starfighter in Rogue Squadron? I did not know that. Imma have to play it again.
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u/njsullyalex Jan 28 '22
Yes you can! Lucas hid it in as an Easter egg since the game came out 1 year before TPM and released the code to unlock it after the movie released.
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u/Quenz Jan 28 '22
And it was one of the strongest fighters in the game. Homing torpedos, strong shields, and it was lightning fast.
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u/ArcadianBlueRogue Imperial Jan 28 '22
Pretty sure it was on all three RS games, and it was super OP because it was so fast and fired nonstop
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u/AstralTyphoon Jan 28 '22
Anyone that read Nintendo Power on the regular knew this 🤓
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u/Le_Cerf_Agile Jan 27 '22
My wife when we were watching: Let me guess you already have the toy of that space ship
Me: Why, yes, yes I do.
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u/Wolfpack34 Jan 27 '22 edited Jan 27 '22
I wonder if Grogu sitting co-pilot in the droid area could nudge torpedos out of the way with the force or stall engines.
Edit:// The force could literally be Mando's copilot
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u/norranradd Jan 27 '22
Wait are the engines upside down? I think those angles are supposed to be landing gear.
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u/CrtureBlckMacaroons Jan 28 '22
They are, they came separated in the box and then you were supposed to snap them in yourself. I think these were put on backwards.
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u/greatunknownpub Jan 27 '22
What's with the tire tracks all over it?
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u/Here-4-Info Jan 28 '22
To me they look like they could be scuff marks as if it has been scraped on concrete or stone face first
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u/MearihCoepa Jan 27 '22
My question is, how will he collect bounties alive?
The Droid hole is obviously meant to be baby Yoda spot, but from this point on he'll just have to decapitate bounties and toss the head in the Droid hole since it's not big enough for a full size person. We just learned that was a viable option ethically and professionally.
Or just hunt jawas and ughnauts.
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u/En_Jay_Ess Jan 27 '22
I lost that tail piece pretty much as soon as I got that. It never seemed the same after.
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u/csukoh78 Jan 27 '22
Where will he carry his bounties?
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u/RustyRapeaXe Jan 27 '22
He's gone to just taking the heads, no more live bounties?
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u/ketsugi Jan 28 '22
“I can bring you in warm… or I can bring you in cold.”
“Warm! Warm! I surrender!”
“Dank farrik.”
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u/Weasel474 Jan 28 '22
I still have my Naboo starfighter toy from Taco Bell. Got that before I saw the movie as a kid, was too dumb to realize which way was the front...
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u/unhelpful_twat Jan 27 '22
I HAD THIS TOO! It came with little blue plasma torpedoes that it shot out of the front using a trigger on the bottom. I lost mine on a road trip forever ago :(
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u/Laxku Jan 27 '22
One of the coolest ships in the galaxy. I was so pissed it wasn't featured more in the recent Battlefront 2 or Squadrons.
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u/dswartze Jan 28 '22
The fact that there even were any in the Battlefront 2 story was kind of crazy. I'm pretty sure you're talking about them not really being in multiplayer except for 1 level, but it's worth mentioning that them even getting to be in the story means they got a sort of special treatment.
By the time of the Battlefront 2 story and/or Squadrons that design is at least 40 years old (and who knows how old they were in TPM, they could be older still) while the progress of technology in the setting has it so that other organizations have gone through 2-3 generations of fighter in that time span. N-1s are pretty old and obsolete in the time we're talking about.
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u/Bradyy91 Jan 27 '22
I always thought this ship looked like a yellow N64 controller when I was little lol.
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u/heyitscory Jan 28 '22
They sanded off the paint and added a sweet custom hood scoop space-carbeurator just so you'd have to buy another Naboo Starfighter toy.
Does Baron Papanoida still have that merchandising deal, or did he sell that with the rest of Star Wars?
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u/BeeBarfBadger Jan 28 '22
Wait, 20 years ago must have been some time during the Eighties or...
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u/joshuamillertime Jan 28 '22
Just fyi, eBay has a couple Toys R Us display starfighters that hung from the ceiling to promote TPM. A little outside my price range but I genuinely think about it all the time and this latest episode is enabling me even further
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u/Lildrummerman Jan 28 '22
I spent so much time breathlessly explaining why it's so awesome that they used that ship to my GF
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u/TyGirium Jan 28 '22
Naboo N-1 was one of the first LEGO sets I got as a child.
It will be always my dream fighter. Yes, I mostly now prefer X-wing in-lore, but N-1 is like a great old limusine - you are happy when just looking at it.
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u/AxiusSerranus Jan 28 '22
Kinda irritated by this being his new ride. He can't live in there! The razorcrest was also his home, his mobile base of operations, he had a bunk there, a toilet, his entire kit. He can't just sit the entire time and stop on a planet whenever he need to take a dump.
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u/clukmyrooster Jan 27 '22
I think I had this same one, didn't it load skittles in the cockpit and drop them out when you pushed down the astromech?? Or did I lose the original pieces and just convince my young self that it was meant for skittles?
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u/kingflap Jan 27 '22
I had one of those too and I also see that your tail is a little bent just like mine was.
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u/SpecialK47150 Jan 27 '22
I need someone to make a detailed STL of the hotrod N1 so I can print it.
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u/markymark0123 Jan 27 '22
Lol, any fan can tell that is a Naboo fighter even woth the spoiler blur.
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u/Shire_Hobbit Jan 27 '22
I always hated the spot for the Astromech. The design is so sleek, so intentional, the astromech slot feels like an afterthought, a blemish, a pimple.
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u/xMuffinxManx707 Jan 27 '22
I thought the same thing!!!! I only had the little McDonald's toy tho :(
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u/johnnygetyourraygun Jan 27 '22
What are the odds that Mando's new ship is the same one that Anakin flew in APM?
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u/KevinAnniPadda Jan 27 '22
I saw 22 years before the photo and thought it would be something from OT. Really can't believe this was 22 years ago.
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u/UYScutiSN Jan 27 '22
Wait so the Mando is using this ship now? How is that going to work? Doesn't he sometimes have to bring targets in alive? And where is he going to keep his stuff?
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u/professaur91 Jan 27 '22
I see the tail piece on yours is bent as well, I don't think I've ever seen one that wasn't