--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 138 STAR WARS Ref: E5J00017 Date: 05/12/97 From: DANIEL LOWE Time: 11:14pm \/To: TONY PATON (Read 0 times) Subj: - Star Wars: A New Hope * On 10 May 97 13:07:00, TONY PATON said to DANIEL LOWE "Star Wars: A New Hope" Hi TONY DL> and it was hope that, these people would drag other people DL> (usually parents, older siblings) to the cinemas to spend DL> more money. TP> You've got no idea! :-) People who have seen them before are now TP> taking their kids so they can experience them as they did! TP> Obviously you were too young to remember them! That is what I mean ... it is really for the next generation ... For the younies ... I would say i was too yong ... can only rememeber one part of it ... Thanx for your time. Cya l8r. ... DL, Sydney, Oz ... NetMail : 3:712/526 ... Email : Dani00@hotmail.com TagLine Below (Ignore it) ... If it was any more difficult, it'd be impossible! --- FMailX 1.22 * Origin: The Shonky BBS - MULTILINE - +61-2-9547-2643 (3:712/526) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 138 STAR WARS Ref: E5J00018 Date: 05/12/97 From: DANIEL LOWE Time: 11:14pm \/To: TONY PATON (Read 0 times) Subj: - Stormtrooper Info * On 10 May 97 13:07:00, TONY PATON said to DANIEL LOWE "Stormtrooper Info" Hi TONY DL> Not sure if this is in the new edition or not, but wasn't DL> Luke friend, Briggs (???) in trainning to become a DL> storm trooper (or such ?). TP> Your off the planet! Why would he do that? Let me repharsed that ... he went into the training thing ... wasn't fully corrupted yet ... But he left ... not sure of my source ... TP> Yes I'm sorry but that is. Ask yourself why Biggs would join the TP> Imperials? He didn't want to. They where still consider good (when he first joined) remeber The Emperor didn't really take over everything until the beginning of the SW:ANH. It takes time for news to travel. TP> You call us non novel readers illiterate! Actually I've read a few TP> but didn't like them. Thanx for your time. Cya l8r. ... DL, Sydney, Oz ... NetMail : 3:712/526 ... Email : Dani00@hotmail.com TagLine Below (Ignore it) ... Might as well face it, you're addicted to love. --- FMailX 1.22 * Origin: The Shonky BBS - MULTILINE - +61-2-9547-2643 (3:712/526) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 138 STAR WARS Ref: E5J00019 Date: 05/13/97 From: DANIEL LOWE Time: 12:06am \/To: DAVID BEAVER (Read 0 times) Subj: - "Hutt" not race or ti * On 08 May 97 18:49:00, David Beaver said to Daniel Lowe ""Hutt" not race or ti" Hi David DL> Species of what race then ? DL> You forgot to one of the questions. DB> Well, I never thought of that or do you mean "Race of what species?" DB> But, my answer to that is I don't know. Actually, what I said was DB> something out of the Star Wars RPG book. There was a small caption DB> somewhere saying that there is a difference in the terms "race" and DB> "species". As like this, we are the Human species called homo sapiens DB> and we have my races. Woops, need more caffine ! Oh well, alls well that ends welll :) Thanx for your time. Cya l8r. ... DL, Sydney, Oz ... NetMail : 3:712/526 ... Email : Dani00@hotmail.com TagLine Below (Ignore it) ... Guy: Walk? * Crow: No, there's a motorcycle in my pants --- FMailX 1.22 * Origin: The Shonky BBS - MULTILINE - +61-2-9547-2643 (3:712/526) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 138 STAR WARS Ref: E5J00020 Date: 05/13/97 From: DANIEL LOWE Time: 12:23am \/To: JAWI KUN (Read 0 times) Subj: - SW BOOKS * On 10 May 97 18:40:00, Jawi Kun said to Daniel Lowe "SW BOOKS" Hi Jawi JK> They change heaps of things around... such as... The sun crusher.. JK> Admiral Daala.. Luke Skywalkers body being dead... etc.. Now do u c JK> why it all changes? I am now reading 'Ambush at Corellia' It is MUCH JK> betta than the Jedi Academy trilogy.. But I dont hate Jedi Academy JK> trilogy either... The reason being caus I love anything 2 do with JK> SW.... I don't see them as changes, but as additions ... I mean it didn't change anything ... most of these events happened outside the scope of the movie. Thanx for your time. Cya l8r. ... DL, Sydney, Oz ... NetMail : 3:712/526 ... Email : Dani00@hotmail.com TagLine Below (Ignore it) ... And if I come again I will receive you unto myself! --- FMailX 1.22 * Origin: The Shonky BBS - MULTILINE - +61-2-9547-2643 (3:712/526) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 138 STAR WARS Ref: E5J00021 Date: 05/14/97 From: CRAIG GOLDSMITH Time: 03:42pm \/To: GUS KOSMOPOULOS (Read 0 times) Subj: Ewoks -=< Quoting Gus Kosmo >=- Hi Gus, GK> CG> I am new to this Echo but have a query... My friend has informed GK> CG> me that Ewoks where orignally intended to be Wookies but when it GK> CG> came to filming the moive it was changed..... GK> well, at the beginning of the rereleased Star Wars trilogy, i'm GK> pretty sure that in the interview before Return of the Jedi, he GK> mentions that they were originally going to be wookies. Not sure GK> about everythign else.. thanks i wasn't sure but atleast some one had heard something about it. any suggestions about why it was changed? cya l8r goldie Y.S. C. Goldsmith Goldie@Material_Defenders. Descent not a game, a Lifestyle!! ... I tried to contain myself, but I escaped! --- FMail/386 1.20 * Origin: CYBER-NET-X BBS Broulee, NSW +61-44-715407 (3:625/160) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 138 STAR WARS Ref: E5J00022 Date: 05/14/97 From: CRAIG GOLDSMITH Time: 03:53pm \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: pause Hi Everyone, -=< Please pause for the singing of Happy Birthday >=- Today the 14/5/97 is G. Lucas' 53rd B'Day! Thanks Lucas for such great movies and all the other stuff that sprung from it! cya Goldie Goldie@Material_Defenders Descent not a GAME a LIFESTYLE!!! ... We look at Danger and Laugh Our Heads Off!!! --- FMail/386 1.20 * Origin: CYBER-NET-X BBS Broulee, NSW +61-44-715407 (3:625/160) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 138 STAR WARS Ref: E5J00023 Date: 05/14/97 From: STEVE JARON Time: 03:36pm \/To: DANIEL LOWE (Read 0 times) Subj: Novels -> Replying to Spankee on 13 Apr 97 11:17:07 -> Who was talking to Carey Teranishi about "Novels" -> -> Hi Spankee -> -> Sp> All you people talk about is the movies!! Don' you read the -> books? Sp> They are much better. -> -> No, it would seem that they are all non-literates here ... -> they must all have speech-to-text install on all their -> machines ! -> -> Anyways, which book did you like best ? -> Have you read the one with the Star Crusher in it ? -> Imagaine having a whole fleet of does ... or better still, -> a super star destroyer made from it ! -> -> Thanx for your time. -> Cya l8r. -> -> -> ... DL, Sydney, Oz -> ... NetMail : 3:712/526 -> ... Email : Dani00@hotmail.com -> -> -> TagLine Below (Ignore it) -> ... Anarchists of the world-- UNITE!! -> --- FMailX 1.22 -> * Origin: The Shonky BBS - MULTILINE - +61-2-9547-2643 (3:712/526) Personally I liked the Jedi Acadamy trilogy the best, but actually now that I think about it I liked them all equally, even htough I still have about 5 or 6 more to read -Steve --- Platinum Xpress/Wildcat! v1.2N * Origin: Frank's Place*Pittsburgh, PA*(412)422-8246*28.8 (1:129/311) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 138 STAR WARS Ref: E5J00024 Date: 05/14/97 From: STEVE JARON Time: 03:37pm \/To: SCOTT CYR (Read 0 times) Subj: Novels -> DL> Replying to Spankee on 13 Apr 97 11:17:07 -> DL> Who was talking to Carey Teranishi about "Novels" -> DL> -> DL> Hi Spankee -> -> Sp> All you people talk about is the movies!! Don' you read the book -> Sp> They are much better. -> DL> -> DL> No, it would seem that they are all non-literates here ... -> DL> they must all have speech-to-text install on all their -> DL> machines ! -> -> i happen to take offense at that statement... i am quite an -> intelligent person and enjoy reading very much... as i am sure the -> majority of the people here are. the very point that the movies get -> more discussion than the books should suggest some things to you... -> -> 1. the star wars novels are, in the grand scheme of literature, very -> poorly written. they have their merits and some are actually not as -> bad as all the rest (courtship, zahn's trilogy, shadows)... the rest, -> in my opinion, while they may be interesting to star wars fans (and -> therefore instant bestsellers no matter how bad) they have little if -> no lasting cultural value. a star wars novel, twenty years from now -> will not be remembered, let alone be held up with great classics. -> the star wars movies, on the other hand is already a classic, and -> twenty years from now will be even more so. -> -> 2. there is much more to discuss about the movies. there are subtle -> plot twists and characterizations that twenty years later are still -> interesting enough to discuss. there are errors, oopsies and the -> like which are fun to argue. the star wars universe, as a complex -> work of art, allows many different interpretations and beliefs -> which allows for argumentation and disagreement, whithout which i -> have come to believe this place would be very boring. -> -> i'm sorry if i have gone off on a tangent here, but ignorance REALLY -> bothers me. so please THINK before youo type. -> -> scott -> -> -> ... UTINNI! -> --- Blue Wave/386 v2.30 [NR] -> * Origin: LSD iNFoSyS : "Where boys fear to tread..." (1:323/140) I dont think it was a matter of ignorance but more of a matter of opinion -Steve --- Platinum Xpress/Wildcat! v1.2N * Origin: Frank's Place*Pittsburgh, PA*(412)422-8246*28.8 (1:129/311) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 138 STAR WARS Ref: E5J00025 Date: 05/14/97 From: JOSH WATKO Time: 04:17pm \/To: ALL (Read 2 times) Subj: Ghost Kenobi Coupon Hey all. Today I got my second Ben Kenobi in the mail and I got the Cantina Diorama coupon, so if anybody is still waiting for one, you may get one!-\/\/ --- Platinum Xpress/Wildcat! v1.2N * Origin: Frank's Place*Pittsburgh, PA*(412)422-8246*28.8 (1:129/311) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 138 STAR WARS Ref: E5J00026 Date: 05/14/97 From: SCOTT CYR Time: 02:31pm \/To: BRUNO ROSENTHAL (Read 0 times) Subj: Imperial stormtroopers BR>> However, it's described to be an anti-blaster armor in the BR>> SW Technical Journal #2. If that's true, yes, it's not very BR>> efficient. SC> well, i'm not sure how much stock i's put into the tech SC> mannuals... i think they are good for what they are, but they BR> I found these books during a past visit in Canada. I'd never saw them BR> in France (even in French language). That was pretty interesting BR> anyway. But like yu, I don't know the confidence one may have in the BR> contents. Anyway, they seem to be LucasFilms Ltd. approved so it may BR> be a proof of reliability. Who knows ? i have all three of the tech mannuals, and while i agree that they are quite interesting (i'm an architecture major, so i tend to think visually) they do seem to have some inconsistancies and some screw ups... i think #2 also says that ties are entered from the back, when they are actually entered from the top, the engines are in the back. and just because they're lucasfilm doesn't mean they're 100%. scott ... "lord of battle, i pray on bended knee conquest by --- Blue Wave/386 v2.30 [NR] * Origin: LSD iNFoSyS : "Where boys fear to tread..." (1:323/140)