Star Wars Celebration Iv: Concept R2-d2 & C-3po Star Wars Celebration Iv: Concept R2-d2 & C-3po
Customer Review: Alternate Realities can be fun, or, How Star Wars “might have been”
Back in the early 80′s my brother bought a Ralph Mcquarrie “Star Wars” “Portfolio” with “Letterbox” style pre-production paintings for the “first” “Star Wars” film. I remember how my imagination ran wild with the “alternate” versions of all the main characters. I espescially dug the Luke vs. Darth Vader painting where Vader had this very wolf-like mask where the top helmet was much more Samuri looking and the mouth grill came out like the snout of a wolf (an Luke looked cool with the oxygen mask too).
The Stormtroopers looked cooler too, and they had lightsabers! and shields!
And the painting of the two droids was cool because R2 looked much more expressive and functional, and 3PO looked just like the robot from “Metropolis”.
Anyway, someone, somewhere, had the brilliant idea to actually make action figures based on these early pre-production paintings by McQuarrie!
I’ve managed to purchase the first 8 of the 12 thus far (Stormtrooper, Boba Fett, Luke, C-3PO and R2-D2, Chewbacca, & Ben Kenobi and Yoda) and look forward to the final 4 (Leia Starkiller [back when "Luke" might have been a chick!], Han [George Lucas] Solo, Snowtrooper, and the one I’ve been wanting since around 1980: McQuarrie Darth Vader!).
Bottom line, amazing sculpts, genius idea, a must have for die-hard SW fans!
BAGHDAD (AP) Iraq will not forcibly expel members of an Iranian opposition group living north of Baghdad, but the the group is not wanted and the government has urged them to leave the country voluntarily, an Iraqi spokesman said Saturday. The comments by government spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh
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Danville, Calif., welcoming back Hudson River pilot Chesley Sullenberger as a hometown hero – Minneapolis Star Tribune
DANVILLE, Calif. – Friends and neighbors of the pilot who safely landed a crippled jetliner in New York’s Hudson River planned to give him a hero’s homecoming on Saturday. The mayor and other officials were preparing to greet US Airways Pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and his family with a
Source: www.startribune.com
Not very good, but they did very good with the resource they had. I say yes.
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