Star Wars VII - The Force Awakens, on BluRay and Dvd April 5th, 2016

[Black Valkyrie]

Black X-Wing awesome.

[Jefuemon]

First Pixel From New ‘Star Wars’ Leaked

[myk]

El oh el...

[azrael]

El oh el...

It's ClickHole, from the makers of The Onion. In Buzzfeed-form.

[Jefuemon]

It's ClickHole, from the makers of The Onion. In Buzzfeed-form.

I tweeted the results from a ClickHole "quiz", and one of the people who follows me thought it was real. I really worry about some peoples' satire detection.

I posted that because, A. It's funny, and B. It really reminds me of true articles I keep seeing pop up about Ep 7. And just remember, we've still got over a year to go before release.

[reddsun1]

Hehe, sometimes the music really is critical to creating the whole atmosphere...

I LMAO at Chewbacca.

Edited September 17, 2014 by reddsun1

[Dobber]

That was great! Agreed....Chewies yells are hilarious!

Chris

[Kanedas Bike]

Hehe, sometimes the music really is critical to creating the whole atmosphere...

*snip*

I LMAO at Chewbacca.

That was great! Agreed....Chewies yells are hilarious!

Chris

Could you imagine if Chewie always sounded like that? LOL

-b.

[peter]

I laughed, haha! Co-workers think I'm wierd.

[Dobber]

I like his moans at the end too. Lol

Chris

[Roy Focker]

You should watch their Episode I, II & III dubs.

[electric indigo]

Play Arts Vader - I think this is how Vader would look if current generation concept designers had a go at the character. "We have HD, so we need to fill the screen with textures and stuff"

[Dobber]

The mask is also more angry looking. I like it.

Chris

[Mommar]

Vader is quite the thunder thighs now...

Also his shoulder pads are now miniature Iron Man shoulder pads from the Guardians books.

Edited September 18, 2014 by Mommar

[reddsun1]

Hehe, Chewie sounds more like Grendel, from that pervy R. Zemeckis Beowulf movie...

That Vader figure:

[anime52k8]

The mask is also more angry looking. I like it.

Chris

it's like half way between the screen mask and the McQuarrie mask. also, his lower legs look like they were recycled from one of their halo figures.

[hutch]

Falcon Flyby...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C7lUfVIOa4

And potshot at new batmobile...

Edited September 18, 2014 by hutch

[peter]

Woah. Nice little tease for Star Wars fans who are also Batman fans, but as someone who doesn't give two $hits about Batman and the entire franchise, the second half totally ruined it for me. Awesome start though.

[danth]

It's Halo Vader.

[Black Valkyrie]

Falcon Flyby...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C7lUfVIOa4

And potshot at new batmobile...

Thats Nolan`s Batmobile. I think there going to be unexpected surprise.

[renegadeleader1]

That batmobile is an example of a long running gag prop builders have done since the original trilogy and is an homage to the kitbashing roots.

Other examples:

Green army man hidden in the SSD Executor's hull

2nd Death Star has the NYC skyline hidden in it

Close Encounters alien ship has R2D2 on it

Starship Troopers Rodger Young has the Falcon attached to the back of the tower

[Dynaman]

Me, I hate it. It is one thing to be there and not shoved in my face but this was lame.

[Duke Togo]

Me, I hate it. It is one thing to be there and not shoved in my face but this was lame.

What was lame about it?

[electric indigo]

That batmobile is an example of a long running gag prop builders have done since the original trilogy and is an homage to the kitbashing roots.

Other examples:

Green army man hidden in the SSD Executor's hull

2nd Death Star has the NYC skyline hidden in it

Close Encounters alien ship has R2D2 on it

Starship Troopers Rodger Young has the Falcon attached to the back of the tower

See how much Macross/Robot3ch starred in "Aliens":

http://www.therpf.com/f9/greeblie-identification-needed-aliens-36203/

[Dynaman]

What was lame about it?

The "Look! Look! a 'hidden' item on the Falcon".

That and the fact (yup fact) that that version of the "batmobile" is an abomination.

[jenius]

These things seem trivial.

[anime52k8]

That and the fact (yup fact) that that version of the "batmobile" is an abomination.

I don't think you understand the definition of the world fact. You see, that's not a fact, that's a opinion, and no mater how strongly you feel about it, it's still an opinion.

[Scyla]

With all this Millennium Falcon talk I remembered that all I want out of Episode VII is a new Lego UCS Millennium Falcon.

[wm cheng]

With all this Millennium Falcon talk I remembered that all I want out of Episode VII is a new Lego UCS Millennium Falcon.

You and me both!!!

[Dynaman]

I don't think you understand the definition of the world fact. You see, that's not a fact, that's a opinion, and no mater how strongly you feel about it, it's still an opinion.

I know the definition of the word fact perfectly well, thank though!

[Mommar]

I know the definition of the word fact perfectly well, thank though!

No you don't.

Get over a minor hidden prop that's been revealed to you.

[peter]

More Star Wars please.

[SchizophrenicMC]

On the note of all the hyperspace stuff, the parsec line is in reference to the Falcon's fast hyperspace velocity allowing it to run closer to gravity wells (mass shadows in hyperspace terminology) and its high powered navicomputer being able to plot routes that run at the bleeding edge of where the Falcon's drives can take it, allowing it to make a shorter journey across the Maw than most vessels. The standard Kessel Run circa 0BBY is 18pc, but there are recorded shorter runs, as well as historic longer routes. As well, ".5 past lightspeed" refers to the hyperdrive class. The "past lightspeed" part just means "in hyperspace". The ".5" part means "It falls in the .5 class" along a classification system in which faster ships have a lower numerical rating, and Imperial-class Star Destroyers are rated to 1, with Class-12 backup hyperdrives. Each increment is exponentially faster than the last as I recall, and so the Class .5 hyperdrive suite on the Falcon makes it significantly faster than nearly all ships in the galaxy.

Coming back to JJ Abrams Strikes Back, I'm confident the spy shots aren't of the full-scale Falcon replica, but a dummy Falcon used for background and exterior shots. The full-scale replica is probably still in a sound stage with its far more expensive modeled interior.

[jenius]

I think Kevin Smith said that the full-scale Falcon interior doesn't have a full scale exterior.

[F-ZeroOne]

In the West End Games RPGs, starships had a hyperdrive "multiplier" which represented hyperspace speed; say you had a x1 multiplier hyperdrive, a one week hyper-journey took exactly that, one week. But with a x2 multiplier, it took exactly twice as long. The "Falcons" multiplier was "x.5"... sounds very similar to the outline above.

And I'm still pretty sure the whole parsec thing is because sci-fi writers have no sense of scale, or indeed, astronomical units.