Theres a dedicated fan called Adywan whose made his own special edition version of the trilogy tastefully adding more effects.
Here’s a clip from his version of the Hoth battle where he incorporates the side panel revealing troops inside. (Yes I know the aspect ratio is wrong, not my clip. 😁)
I really, really enjoyed this game. Being evil and gaining sith powers was so different and fun compared to other games at the time. The more evil you are in this game, the stronger you get in the force dark side.
I’m in the process of reading it now. Just finished the 1st book, Heir to the Empire yesterday. So far I’m really enjoying the series. The audiobook is wonderfully done.
One thing to notice about the upper B-wing is the iconic orange circles on the wings. The only B-wings to appear in RotJ actually don’t have these markings, and the scenes involving the prop with the orange circles must have been scrapped due to the difficulty in capturing the thin wings against a blue screen.
I never understood why these things are asymmetrical, aside from the rule of cool of course.
There is just no way this provides any kind of advantage or is necessitated by some design constraint. In fact, they could just rotate the cockpit gondola until the body is underneath or above. Pretty sure either way would be an improvement, if only to make it so the pilot is centered.
Disclaimer: Deep background reasons are usually written or fleshed out after the prop has been made.
There is just no way this provides any kind of advantage or is necessitated by some design constraint. In fact, they could just rotate the cockpit gondola until the body is underneath or above.
The did! The ship’s cockpit is in a rotating gyro mount. When the B-wings started their attack in ROTJ the cockpits were positioned on top of the ship.
The shorter s-foil wings stay flat on the body while not in attack mode and then fold into the cross shape for combat. The entire logic behind folding s-foil wings has been debated to death by nerds since the existence of X-Wings, but let’s just assume there is a rational reason for the folding and unfolding. With the wings folded flat, there isn’t a great spot to put the cockpit on the longer portion, and then the engines and big cooling system being near the center makes sense to me.
The Star Wars Essential Guide To Vehicles And Vessels does say that B-Wings are notoriously difficult to pilot, but that pilots who got good with them became very attached. The book also says that the gyro system for the cockpit allows the ship to do a lot of crazy maneuvers with it rotating around while not putting physical strain on the pilots, since the cockpit stays in place.
When I first saw the droids in commercials or posters, I kinda thought they would just sound like imperial probe droids, which would be much creepier. Even as a kid, I really hated the voice they gave them
Ahsoka was a meh for me. I didn’t hate it, but all the live action stuff of her has been really disappointing. Becoming a Jedi again just feels like wasted potential and cheapens the most interesting thing her character ever did.
I appreciate this take. There will always be a part of me that wishes they’d just recast the big three and start adapting from the Heir tothe Empire forward (live action Mara Jade please!) but I can still enjoy Luke popping up in Mando and wrecking everything in sight. I just wish they hadn’t sacrificed his arc to “better” Rey and Kylo’s. It’s pretty much forced Disney to either keep pushing in new directions (which I’ll settle for in lieu of EU adaptations) or add story beats to a character we already know is doomed. Like playing Morrowind after murdering a story NPC.
star_wars
Top
This magazine is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.