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Frequently Asked Questions List (FAQ-L)
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Version 2.20 - 12/07/92
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Introduction =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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This is the Frequently Asked Questions List (FAQL) for the newsgroup
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rec.arts.sf.starwars. The purpose of a FAQL is to compile authoritative
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answers to many commonly asked questions so that the group will not be
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cluttered with repetitive requests for the same information. This list
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will be posted to rec.arts.sf.starwars on a bi-monthly basis. Please read
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it before posting to see if your question has already been answered!
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The rec.arts.sf.starwars FAQL is currently being maintained by me -
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Christopher Wolf. Many others have also contributed to the information
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contained in this list and I have tried to credit them in the text. If
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you have any suggestions for corrections, modifications or additions to
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the list please e-mail them to me at "chris@alchemy.tn.cornell.edu".
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If you have a question which you think should be added to the list it
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would be greatly appreciated if you could also provide the answer (with
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source references!).
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Thanks and May the Force be With You... Always.
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- cwolf
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Table of Contents =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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Question: Topic:
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001 Why is Star Wars titled Episode IV?
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002 Were there scenes cut from SW after its release?
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003 Was RotJ originally titled _Revenge_ of the Jedi?
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004 Do scripts exist for the other trilogies? Will they
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ever be made into films?
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005 Did Lucas "borrow" ideas from other films?
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006 What/where is the "Fall of the Republic" script?
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007 What other Star Wars novels exist?
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008 What about adaptations to other media? (comics, radio)
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009 What sources are canon in the Star Wars universe?
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010 Are the Star Wars toys/action figures valuable?
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011 What is Hardware Wars?
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012 How can I contact the LucasFilm fan club?
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013 Where is the infamous tennis shoe in RotJ?
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014 Why are there yellow boxes surrounding TIEs?
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015 What other fx-mistakes/bloopers are there?
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016 Why did Han Solo say parsecs?
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017 How did the Falcon get to Bespin?
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018 What are the clone wars?
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019 How can I participate in a Star Wars MUD?
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020 How can I get Star Wars material in electronic form?
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021 How old is Yoda?
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022 Why does Vader's TIE fighter look different from the rest?
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Revision History -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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1.00 - 04/16/92 Original release.
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1.10 - 04/30/92 Fixed major mistake in answer to the parsecs question.
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Inserted separate question dealing with the "canon"
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issue. Added additional info to many other questions.
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(novels & bloopers questions in particular)
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2.00 - 09/02/92 Sorry it took so long for an update but I was away
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for most of the summer. Minor additions to questions
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005, 008, 013, 014 and 015. Major changes to question
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007 providing references to Erik Olson's Star Wars
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bibliography. Question 019 with info about the Star
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Wars MUD has been added. Question 020 with info
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about obtaining copies of the Star Wars script added.
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2.10 - 11/22/92 Modified question 020 to reflect wpi ftp archive.
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Minor changes to many other questions.
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2.20 - 12/07/92 Added questions 021-022; fixed a few spelling errors.
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Q 001: Why does it say Episode IV in the scroll-text at the beginning
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of Star Wars, Episode V in The Empire Strikes Back and Episode
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VI in Return of the Jedi? Did the Episode IV sub-head appear
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in the original theatrical release or was it added at a later
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date?
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Answer: The Star Wars saga as originally conceived by Lucas was much
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too large to be made into a single film or even a single
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trilogy so Lucas structured his ideas into three trilogies.
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He decided to make the middle trilogy (Episodes IV, V and VI)
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first because he believed it had the greatest chance of being
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a theatrical success.
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An interesting point is that apparently the "Chapter IV: A
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New Hope" sub-title did not appear in the original theatrical
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release of Star Wars (SW - 1976). According to
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pockrand@cs.umn.edu (Mitch Pockrandt) (and others):
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"Episode IV: A New Hope" appeared on the opening trailer
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at the _second_ theatrical release. (I think this was during
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1979, but I'm not sure at the moment.) During the initial
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release, which ran from May 1977 through at least March 1978
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(in Kansas City anyway) there never was a mention of an
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episode number.
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Empire Strikes Back (ESB - 1980) was always sub-titled Chapter V
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and Return of the Jedi (ROTJ - 1983) was always sub-titled
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Chapter VI.
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(Note: the name of the first FILM is Star Wars - the name of the
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CHAPTER is "A New Hope" In Empire Strikes Back and Return of
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the Jedi the film name and chapter names just happen to be
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the same. All the films together are collectively referred to
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as the Star Wars saga.)
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Q 002: Were there scenes cut from Star Wars after its original theatrical
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release? I seem to remember a reunion scene on Tatooine between
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Luke and his friend Biggs on leave from the academy?
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Answer: This scene never appeared in any theatrical release of Star Wars.
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The scene is described in the novelization of Star Wars and
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apparently was even filmed since images from it appear in the Star
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Wars picture-book adaptation. Perhaps is why so many people (me
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included) swore that they remember seeing the scene at one time.
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Also there was apparently a scene in the Rebel hangar which was
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filmed but not included where Red Leader speaks to Luke about
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having met Anakin Skywalker and what a great pilot he was.
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Another scene that was originally intended for Star Wars was an
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encounter between Han Solo and Jabba the Hutt at the spaceport on
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Tatooine. The scene was partially filmed but never finished
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because Lucas was disatisfied with his options for portraying
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Jabba due to budget, FX technology and story constraints.
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Partial unfinished footage of this scene can be found on the VHS
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video titled From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga.
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Also there may have been some additional minor dialog in the
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original release of Star Wars. When the StormTroopers are chasing
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Han & Chewie through the Death Star corridors in the original
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release they first say "Close the blast doors, close the blast
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doors!" and when they get trapped on the wrong side of the door
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they then say "Open the blast doors, open the blast doors!" In
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the VHS version the "Close the blast door" line is not audible.
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Q 003: Wan't Return of the Jedi originally titled Revenge of the Jedi?
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Why was it changed?
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Answer: Up until shortly before it was released ROTJ was indeed titled
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Revenge of the Jedi and some promotional materials (movie posters,
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patches etc.) were printed with that title. Materials saying
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Revenge of the Jedi are now collector's items. There are two
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explanations commonly given for why the title was changed:
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1) Revenge isn't very Jedi-like. 2) The studio wanted to avoid
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confusion with Star Trek II which was due to be released at
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about the same time and was originally titled Vengeance of Kahn.
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Q 004: Does Lucas have scripts/stories already written for the other
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episodes in the saga? Will he ever make them into films?
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Answer: No one knows for sure how much development Lucas had done on the
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plots/scripts for the other trilogies at the time Star Wars was
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released. Some people believe that Lucas has scripts for ALL the
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films locked away in a vault someplace. Most people believe
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that he has lots of story ideas and possibly preliminary
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treatments for the films but not complete scripts.
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After Return of the Jedi, Lucas stated he would not make any
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more Star Wars films - he needed a creative break and had other
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projects going he wanted to concentrate on. Recently however
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Lucas has changed his mind and has publically stated that he will
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soon be starting work on new Star Wars films. The next films
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to be produced will be Episodes I to III of the saga. They
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will all be filmed simultaneously and will be released in
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consecutive years sometime before the year 2000. No one is sure
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of the exact release dates and to the best of our knowledge
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Lucas has not started actual work on the films yet.
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Episodes I to III are expected to take place about 20 years
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before Star Wars. The plot is expected to concern the fall of
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the Old Republic, the rise to power of the Emperor, the Clone
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Wars and the exploits of Ben Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker.
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No plans are currently being made to produce Episodes VII to
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IX. Apparently these episodes as conceived by Lucas take
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place about 20 years after ROTJ and would also involve a new
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set of actors and characters (the descendants of the original
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heros?). Lucas has stated many times that the only characters
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which would appear in all 9 episodes are the droids R2-D2 and
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C-3PO.
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Q 005: Isn't Star Wars a rip-off of a Japanese film called The Hidden
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Fortress or <insert your favorite film here>?
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Answer: elwin@ai.mit.edu (Lee Campbell) writes:
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It's pretty clear there *is* a connection between 'Star Wars'
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and a Japanese film called 'The Hidden Fortress' made by Akira
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(spelling?) Kurosawa. Not that SW is a copy of THF, just that
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THF was *one* of the inspirations for SW. [In] this Japanese
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epic, a lord has been defeated, his empire overrun, but his
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daughter the princess is still free. Some samurai and
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retainers are trying to bring her back across a hostile land
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to another lord's domain where she will be safe. If it is
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true that 'The Hidden Fortress' was an inspiration for 'Star
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Wars' than all Lucas borrowed was the idea of a princess,
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loyal retainers, and a hostile land.
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Also, some people who have seen both films say that there are
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also similarities in the dialog, film-making techniques, camera
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angles etc.
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To answer the more general question about parallels between
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Star Wars and other films (in this case Wizard of Oz)
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teri@sdd.hp.com (Teri) writes:
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I think it is not so much that plots were ripped off but that
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both movies express the ancient archetype of the hero who goes
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on a quest. In this sense they are very similar. The "plot"
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is really an old, old one that goes back to the first
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storytelling days of man. The hero is usually aided by
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supernatural forces against perilous dangers and ultimate
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evils. Joseph Campbell (comparative religion/mythology) has a
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lot to say about archetypes like this. See "The Hero of a
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Thousand Faces," or some such. This theme appears across many
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cultures and many different times. You might argue that the
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Indiana Jones series partook of this as well. Or "Clash of
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the Titans," a greek myth brought to the screen.
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Steve (sdt8s@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU) adds:
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I would add that one of George Lucas's original plots for Star
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Wars is even more remarkably similar to Hidden Fortress than is
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Star Wars as it was released. For a complete synopsis of this
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original story see Dale Pollock's 1983 biography of George
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Lucas, Skywalking. Star Wars, if made using this plot, might
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well have been open to a lawsuit by the authors of Hidden
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Fortress; the only point of divergence is that Star Wars occurs
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in outer space.
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Q 006: I've heard of a movie script that is supposedly for Episode III
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of the Star Wars saga? Is it real? Where can I get a copy?
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Answer: It is entitled Fall of the Republic and is not a complete script
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but more of a plot outline. It is generallly agreed that it
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was NOT written by Lucas or anyone with inside knowledge and
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therefore should be treated purely as speculative fiction.
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See question 020 for instructions on obtaining this.
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Q 007: What novels have been created that are set in the Star Wars
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universe? Are these official (canon) or not?
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Answer: The official novelizations of the movies are:
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Star Wars by George Lucas (with help from Alan Dean Foster)
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Empire Strikes Back by Donald F. Glut
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Return of the Jedi by James Kahn
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There are also several official picture-book adaptations of each
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of the movies. Additionally many other authors have written
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books set in the Star Wars universe with the permission of
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LucasArts. The most recent such works are a cycle of three
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novels by Timothy Zahn which are set after Return of the Jedi.
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These novels are considered canon but are NOT episodes VII, VIII,
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and IX of the Star Wars movies.
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Erik Olson (olsone@rpi.edu) is maintaining a fairly complete
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bibliography of Star Wars related books. Erik writes:
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What follows is an imperfect bibliography of Star Wars books.
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It's neither exhaustive nor consistently selective, and I
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wanted primarily to create an index of story material outside
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the movies. Thrown in for good measure are some movie
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adaptations and non-fiction.
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There are a lot of children's books, especially of the Ewok
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and pop-up persuasion, and I have included these, except for
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partial movie books.
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One title that is missing is a sister book to The Maverick
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Moon ("Renegade Robot" comes to mind but I can't be sure)--
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both are children's reading but curiosities nonetheless.
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Another notable book was The Force of Star Wars, a
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fundamentalist perspective that is perhaps even dorkier than
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Lucas' Eastern mysticism. I have only listed what I could
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verify. Thanks to dra.com for its Library of Congress
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facility, and UTCAT.
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I would appreciate being filled in on any items that I might
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have overlooked, or could not verify. I did not include the
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3rd Daley book or the Lando books on purpose. Maybe someone
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can locate them in an online catalog somewhere-- that would be
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ideal.
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The short form of Erik's bibliography is:
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Star Wars Short Index
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1976 Star wars: from the adventures of Luke Skywalker: a novel
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by George Lucas
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1977 Star Wars v.1 (Marvel Comics Group)
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1978 Splinter of the mind's eye: from TALS / Alan Dean Foster
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1979 The Maverick moon / illustrated by Walter Wright
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1979 The Wookiee storybook / ill. by Patricia Wynne (Wookie Holiday)
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1979 Han Solo's revenge: from TALS / Brian Daley
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1979 Han Solo at Stars' End: from TALS / Daley
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1980 The Empire strikes back storybook / Steneman, Shep
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1980 SPFX--The empire strikes back (48 min. documentary)
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1980 The Empire strikes back sketchbook
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1982 The Jedi master's quizbook / Rusty Miller
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1983 Return of the Jedi / Levy, Elizabeth
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1983 The Art of Return of the Jedi (with movie script by Kasdan/Lucas)
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1984 The Ewoks' hang-gliding adventure
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1985 The Ewoks and the lost children (The Ewok Adventure)
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1985 Ewoks v.1 (Marvel Comics Group)
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1986 Droids v.1 (Marvel Comics Group)
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1986 The ring, the witch, and the crystal (The Battle for Endor)
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1987 Star Wars--the first ten years--storybook trilogy
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1991 Heir to the empire / Timothy Zahn
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1991 Dark Empire (limited series) (Dark Horse Comics)
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1992 Dark force rising / Timothy Zahn
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For a longer listing (including complete card catalog references,
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descriptipons etc. for each work) or to make contributions to this
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list please write to Erik directly at olsone@rpi.edu.
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Thanks Erik!!!
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Q008: Has the Star Wars series been adapted to any other form of media?
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Answer: There are two comic book series. The first series was by Marvel
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Comics and started with an adaptation of Star Wars and continued
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on past the end of ROTJ for a total of 107 issues. Marvel also did
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official comic adaptations of Empire Strikes Back and Return of the
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Jedi as limitted series. A new limitted series (6 issues) of Star
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Wars: Dark Empire comics was recently produced bi-monthly by Dark
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Horse Comics. They are consistent with Zahn's novels but take
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place at a later date. These also are NOT Episodes VII to IX of
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the Star Wars saga. Dark Horse has announced plans to produce
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additional series set in the Star Wars Universe.
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Andy (hummel@vms.cis.pitt.edu) adds:
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In addition to the 107 issues of the Marvel comic, Marvel
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published 3 Annuals and at least two paperbacks (the paperbacks
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may have been reprints of UK Star Wars comics or from the
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newspaper strip, but they were not part of the 107 issue run).
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Of the 107 issues, numbers 1-6 adapted Star Wars, and numbers
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39-42 adapt ESB. RotJ was a 4 issue mini-series.
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The Star Wars newspaper strip has been reprinted in a 3-volume
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hardbound set by Russ Cochran Publishing (I think).
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Later this year, Dark Horse Comics will be publishing "Star Wars
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Classics" which will reprint the newspaper strip in a slightly
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edited form with some new artwork.
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There is a Star Wars role playing game produced by West End
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Games. They produce a lot of supplemental source books for
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the game containing tons of interesting info about the
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characters/history/technology of the Star Wars universe.
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The materials in this game have been declared canon by
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LucasArts.
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National Public Radio also did radio broadcast adaptations of
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Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back. At least some of the
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actors from the films (Mark Hamill and a few others) also did
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the readings for the radio adaptation. You may be able to
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purchase copies directly from NPR.
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There were a couple of made for TV specials too including
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The Star Wars Holiday Special (involving Chewie visitting
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his family on the Wookie home planet) and two shows about
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Ewoks: The Ewok Adventure: Caravan of Courage, and The Ewoks:
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Battle for Endor. There was also a saturday morning Ewok &
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Droids cartoon.
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Several Star Wars computer games also exist. There were
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several coin-op arcade games and ports of these games to
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various computers and consoles. Most recently, a new
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computer game called X-Wing is in the works. It uses realistic
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3d-graphics to allow the player to simulate flying X-Wing, Y-Wing
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and A-Wing fighters in missions against the Empire. The IBM
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version is expected to be released in December 1992 and there are
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rumors of an Amiga port to be released at a later date.
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Q 009: What sources are considered "canon" (official) in the Star
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Wars universe?
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Answer: Of course the movies produced by LucasFilm and the novelizations
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of the movies are "canon".
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There is a great debate over which other sources are considered
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cannon. For instance, Scavenger (kogutt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU)
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writes:
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According to LucasFilm: The Zahn Novels, Dark Empire, and
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the RPG are all official canon. Also the upcoming young a
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adult series and any other comics that Dark Horse puts out.
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However, LucasArts has also stated that future Star-Wars films
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may invalidate material contained in the Zahn novels and
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other sources.
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My advice is to ignore the entire debate over what is "canon"
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and what is not - form your own interpration of the Star Wars
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universe based on the source material YOU enjoy and don't worry
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about what is "official" and what is not.
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Q 010: Are the action figures/toys worth anything as collectors items?
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Answer: Most of the action figures/toys are not all that rare and not
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worth anything. I have heard some stories that certain rare
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figures and toys (which were produced only in certain countries
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or only for a limitted time or only in limitted quantites) are
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extremely valuable and sought after by collectors. Unopened
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action figures and figures from special limited edition 3-packs
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may be worth something. Die cast miniature tie-bomber toys are
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also supposed to be valuable. There is a Boba Fett figure which
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has a jet pack which launches a spring loaded missile which is
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extremely rare and valuable. Yak face figures are also supposed to
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be rare. Another rare figure is the original release of Luke
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which came with a lightsaber made from two interlocking sliding
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pieces.
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Q 011: What is Hardware Wars?
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Answer: Hardware Wars is a very short, very funny, very low budget
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parody of Star Wars.
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Q 012: How can I contact the LucasFilm fan club?
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Answer: Write to:
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The Lucasfilm Fan Club
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P.O. Box 111000
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Aurora, CO 80011
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USA
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Q 013: Is it true that a tennis shoe appears in one of the space battle
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scenes in ROTJ? If so where?
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Answer: Despite the claims of several people to have found the infamous
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tennis shoe in several different frames examination of these
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frames on high-end video equipment has always resulted in the
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conclusion that no shoe was actually in those frames. The rumor
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of a tennis shoe in Return of the Jedi still persists but
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apparently noone has managed to locate it yet.
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Q 014: Why do the TIE fighters in the VHS versions of ROTJ have very
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faint hazy yellow boxes surrounding them?
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Answer: Its an artifact of the special effects process used to matte the
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space-ships. This happens to be more visible on home VHS-TV
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set-ups than it is in the movie theatre. Josh Rochester,
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joshua@lclark.edu, offers the following explanation for this:
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In your FAQ list, you mention that the Matte Lines are highly
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visible on VHS. This is not so much a feature/limitation of
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VHS, but rather that most people have their TV sets adjusted
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poorly. Playing with the brightness and contrast knobs
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(different names on some TVs) can eliminate the visible matte
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lines (with the side-effects that outer space starts looking
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black--really black, not splotchy dark-gray, and that other
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colors show up more vividly.) The only problem is that you need
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to watch in a darkened room.
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Q 015: What other editting/special-fx bloopers appear in the films?
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Answer: Lots. In Star Wars, when Uncle Owen is purchasing the droids after
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the red R2 unit blows its motivator they decide to purchase R2D2.
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When the camera pans back to R2D2 you can still see the red unit
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standing behind R2D2 although this shouldn't be since the red unit
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is supposed to be next to Luke. Later, on Tatooine during dinner
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with his aunt and uncle Luke picks up a glass in one hand. A few
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frames later it has magically switched to his other hand. Later,
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when Vader and Tarkin are having a discussion in the conference
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room Vader's voice and hand-gestures are obviously out of synch.
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(He talks and THEN the gestures follow about 2 seconds later.)
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Also, when the Stormtroopers are raiding the communications post
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overlooking the landing bay where Artoo and Threepio are hiding the
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trooper on the right hits his head on the door as he enters. During
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saber duel between Vader and Kenobi, in some frames they forgot to
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colorize Kenobi's saber (use single frame advance to see this clearly).
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In Empire Strikes Back on Hoth when the speeders are out looking for
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Han and Luke you can see through the ships in several scenes.
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Anytime they are shown from above skimming along the ground at low
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altitudes, the terrain below can be seen with the image of the
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speeder imposed over it. [Thanks to djb1@kepler.unh.edu, David
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Blezard for this contribution.] And davest@sequent.com, David
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Stewart, writes: One thing I notice is that Darth Vader's noisy
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breathing is often out of synch with his speaking. ie, he sounds
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like he is breathing in and out in the middle of continuous
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||
speaches without a break. An example which comes to mind is in
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ESB when Han is being tortured in the cloud city by imperials,
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Vader's dialog with Lando is totally out of synch with his
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||
breathing.
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||
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In Return of the Jedi during the scene in Jabba's palace, the
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dancer with the twin head-tails falls out of her costume for
|
||
several frames right before Jabba opens the trap door dropping her
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into the pit. (You probably need a single frame VCR to see this.)
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During the space battle at the end when all those TIE fighters
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||
swoop past the Falcon two can actually be seen to fly through(!)
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the Falcon and can still be seen as translucent images even after
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they should have been obscured by the Falcon. Also, the star-field
|
||
imagery visible behind the Emperor in the throne room is not
|
||
logically consistent from shot to shot - the stars get reset back
|
||
to their original positions at the start of every shot it seems.
|
||
In the throne room scenes there is a dark-blotch that looks like
|
||
bad touch-up work consistently visible on the left of the Emperor's
|
||
face near the shadows of his hood.
|
||
|
||
Q 016: Why does Han Solo say that the Millenium Falcon made the Kessel
|
||
Run in under 12 parsecs when parsecs are a unit of distance
|
||
instead of time?
|
||
|
||
Answer: There are several possible explanations: 1) Lucas didn't know what
|
||
he was talking about and thought parsecs are a unit of time.
|
||
2) Lucas knew that parsecs are a unit of distance but wrote the
|
||
line that way intentionally to show that Han was just blowing smoke
|
||
to try and impress Ben & Luke. 3) During the oddities of
|
||
hyperspace travel time and distance are interchangeable. 4) Han
|
||
was boasting that he had discovered a new physically shorter route
|
||
to make the Kessel Run.
|
||
|
||
Q 017: In ESB, after their escape from the Star Destroyer Fleet the
|
||
Falcon's hyperdrive is still not working. How do they make it
|
||
to Bespin and how long does it take?
|
||
|
||
Answer: There are two possible answers: 1) According to the Star Wars
|
||
role-playing game most ships have a back-up hyperdrive which
|
||
can be used in emergencies. It is slower than normal hyperdrives,
|
||
has a shorter range, is more easily tracked and is only good for
|
||
a few uses. It takes a while to switch to back-up which is why
|
||
Han couldn't use it escape the Star Destroyers. 2) The time
|
||
interval between the Falcon's escape from the Imperial fleet and
|
||
its arrival at Bespin is a lot longer than it originally appears
|
||
to be. (1 & 2 are not necessarily mutually exclusive) This also
|
||
allows sufficient time for Luke's training on Dagobah to occur.
|
||
|
||
According to someone who's name I accidentally deleted:
|
||
|
||
I figure it takes at least one year for Luke's training and
|
||
for the Falcon to get to Bespin. In Star Wars, Han says that
|
||
the Millennium Falcon can "make it to point five past
|
||
lightspeed". I take this to mean that the Falcon has a top
|
||
speed of 1.5c without using hyperdrive. Interstellar
|
||
distances are usually between 2 and 5 lightyears (Alpha
|
||
Centauri is 4.3 lyrs away from the sun). That could mean it
|
||
would take anywhere from one to three years assuming a
|
||
galactic star density similar to ours.
|
||
|
||
Q 018: What are the Clone Wars?
|
||
|
||
Answer: No one knows for sure. All that is known is that they were fought
|
||
around the time of the fall of the Old Republic and that Ben
|
||
Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker fought in them. It is generally
|
||
believed that these wars had something to do with the Emperor's
|
||
ascendancy to power and extermination of the Jedi. A common (but
|
||
unsubstantiated) claim is that the war was between the Jedi and
|
||
genetically cloned soldiers created by the Emperor - who later
|
||
became known as Stormtroopers.
|
||
|
||
Q 019: How can I participate in a Star Wars MUD?
|
||
|
||
Answer: First for those of you who don't know what a MUD is it stands
|
||
for Multi User Dungeon and is a multi-player online interactive
|
||
role-playing game. The Star Wars MUD described below allows
|
||
you to role-play a character in the Star Wars universe.
|
||
|
||
Thanks to Steven Parks (nudnik@camelot.bradley.edu) for the
|
||
following info:
|
||
|
||
This MUD is in the Netherlands. For a good proportion of
|
||
the world, this is long-distance. Be nice to the world,
|
||
the phone companies, and yourselves and don't abuse our
|
||
MUD-ding priviledges.
|
||
|
||
This is a MUD. You will have to telnet to the location
|
||
and connect to a specific port ("telnet <location> <port>").
|
||
The location and port is <duteca4.et.tudelft.nl 8888>,
|
||
or, as i understand for a better connection or something,
|
||
use the IP numbers: <130.161.144.22 8888>. Once connection is
|
||
complete, you will be asked for a name, which you can choose to
|
||
be an alias. Then you will enter a password, to be repeated
|
||
for verification. (On my first time, a lot of information
|
||
passed the screen, and I wasn't ready to pause to read it all.
|
||
this shouldn't happen to _you_ now... =)
|
||
|
||
As I previously stated, this is a MUD; but not just any MUD,
|
||
such as a social MUD. This is an LP-MUD, which means you start
|
||
at the beginning and continue until you win... ...or die
|
||
trying, I guess. The object is to become a jedi, running around
|
||
and using the force. You _can_ save your position, therefore
|
||
allowing you to return at a later time.
|
||
|
||
Q 020: How can I obtain Star Wars material in electronic form?
|
||
|
||
Answer: There is an anonymous FTP site archive at wpi.wpi.edu for all
|
||
sorts of Star Wars material in electronic form. The site contains
|
||
the complete scripts to Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back and Return
|
||
of the Jedi as well as the fake Fall of the Republic script. The
|
||
site also has lots of other fan fiction, text files containing
|
||
factual information and interviews, image files in a variety of
|
||
formats and other miscellaneous Star Wars related files. I want
|
||
to say a big THANK YOU to the maintainers of this archive!
|
||
|
||
If you need help with FTP or with decompressing or viewing the
|
||
files on the archive ask your local guru or system adminstrator.
|
||
Please do NOT send e-mail to me or post to the rec.arts.sf.starwars
|
||
group asking for help with FTP or unpacking files on the archive
|
||
- thanks!
|
||
|
||
Q 021: How old is Yoda? As I recall, he stated he was 800 in Empire
|
||
Strikes Back but 900 in Return of the Jedi.
|
||
|
||
Answer: In Empire, his actual words are "For 800 years have I trained Jedi."
|
||
The only thing this tells us about his age is that he is over 800
|
||
years old. In Jedi he has a line that says "When 900 years old you
|
||
reach, look as good you will not."
|
||
|
||
Some trading cards released after Empire list Yoda's age as 973.
|
||
While this is not an official source, note that it is not
|
||
inconsistent with what is said in the movie, since he never comes
|
||
right out and says he is EXACTLY 900 years old.
|
||
|
||
Q 022: Why does Darth Vader's TIE fighter look different from the others?
|
||
What are those other TIE fighters that look like his in Empire and
|
||
Jedi?
|
||
|
||
Answer: While this is never discussed in the films, various other sources,
|
||
such as the MPC model kits and the rolepaying game sourcebooks, tell
|
||
us that Darth Vader's TIE fighter was a prototype model, the bent-
|
||
wing design providing better solar collection capabilities than the
|
||
regular straight-wing design. Two other types of TIE fighters
|
||
appear in the last two movies using the bent-wing design. In the
|
||
asteriod sequence in Empire, there are vessels called TIE bombers,
|
||
which look very similar to Vader's TIE except that they have two
|
||
pods between the solar panels. In the final space battle in Jedi,
|
||
vessels known as TIE interceptors appear. These have the bent wings
|
||
and a single pod, but the wings have large cut-outs down the front
|
||
to provide greater visibility.
|
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