Clone OPatra

Well well… Lucas has said in interviews that all the EU stuff is nice, but he doesn't care about it at all. That makes situations like this quite sticky. The good thing is that a lot of EU stuff doesn't really touch the main films at all, so it's safe. Now, if Lucas decides to bring in Thrawn and mess with him, that would suck, but it isn't going to happen. Lucas being stupid with characters that he did have a hand in creating is ok I suppose, but you can always choose what you want. Lucas killing off a character in his TV show doesn't stop a comic series from being good, if it was to begin with. I don't like it much either, but the death of a pretty insignificant Jedi doesn't bother me that much. At least it was well done, enough. There were some stupid things about this episode: the rescue from the Republic was far too easy. Also, did anybody else see the Republic Venators start to blow up, and then in the next shot the Jedi board the Venators and they all fly happily away? That was very odd… And what about the line "We haven't seen action like this since the Old Republic." I thought that this whole show is in the Old Republic; what Old Republic are they talking about? The Sith wars? They wouldn't have been alive anyway.

That is just somebody's speculations; it's not a source at all. Don't worry about it.

Yes, I can! But also, how did Stargate get to be one of the choices? Oh well, I'll just leave it there for now, even though it's not in the title. (Subtitle time?)

Hmm, it was the Leia hair that fooled me. It did not look like the old piece at first glance, but now that I have one in front of me I see that I was, clearly, mistaken. Sorry about that. Carry on, nothing to see here.

Chucker, what I want to know is how the heck did you get the 2011 Falcon?

At long last I come to the last one of the batch that I shot a couple of weeks ago. It's time to start thinking of new material, I suppose! Zev's Glasses

Oh come on, that's a bit harsh. I have those "limited edition" original film DVDs, and there's nothing so wrong with the quality. I have all of the films on VHS too, and they are significantly worse for a number of reasons (my most hated of which being the "modified to fit your TV"). The sound isn't quite as good as the remastered versions, but at the same time there's nothing wrong with it. Also, you're only going to get the "everywhere" letterboxing if you watch it on a 4:3 screen; on a wide monitor (which are becoming more and more common these days, anyway), there isn't a problem. I don't see where the hate is coming from.

Hello, I'd like to be in again of course. Same as always: Clone with Irina Spalko hair.

So what? Did we hear him speak, I don't think so. His voice has only ever been heard on CW, so that the only way to judge his "nationality."

I agree that the ARCs do care for each other, but the Commanders clearly don't really care about anybody, which is good in my mind.

Plo Koon isn't anything in particular, just kind of garbled and stentorian sounding. He's basically American-sounding, though.

Yes, this is a new official trend for instructions and stickers, and we should see it on all of the 2011 sets from this point forward. There was a LEGO press release, or perhaps interview, that mentioned that LEGO would now start doing this to avoid the rampant crumpled sticker and instructions problem.

I don't think that they did. For the rest of the episode, they sort of gave Five some detached-feeling body language, which worked pretty well to show how he was feeling without him taking off his helmet. This episode actually had a lot of just characters looking at each other, which was a pretty new thing to do for this show. I like the way they did Echo's death for a number of reasons: firstly, they finally killed somebody with a larger amount of screentime, and many people had been wanting; secondly, it showed how the Clones (rightfully) don't really care that much about each other. Commander Cody does not really care about anything at all; he's a Clone, he does what he's supposed to do. You might think, how can the Clones in EpIII just turn on their Jedi that they've worked with so closely for three years? But it makes perfect sense, and the way they had Cody handle Echo's death shows it perfectly. The Clones are just apathetic, they do whatever they're supposed to do.

Not only that, but Christopher Lee (who played the live-action Dooku) played Dracula and other assorted vampires in several films. Nice one! Here's another one about something odd in the first wave of Episode I sets… In the Hood And I suppose LEGO really thinks young Obi-Wan in a hood is iconic, since only once out of the four sets he will have been in this summer has he had hair.

Well, yes, in fact I need to wear glasses to watch any movie. It's called not 20-20 vision. The real problem I see with these 3D Star Wars releases is that they're digitally 3D-ized after the fact. I've seen several 3D movies over the past year, and the ones that are worthwhile are those that are shot in 3D. The ones that were digitally converted are just lame. I admit that 3D can actually add something to some film, but only if the film was created that way.

Wow, I haven't posted one in a while. Well, why not make fun of some old-timey figures some more (although this one is still applicable today, sadly). Chestless Han (I noticed I made an anachronistic error in the above comic. Can you spot it?)

Good thing it's not a contest. When that Anakin face came out, there was a lot of talk about it looking like Homer Simpson. I think that talk was right on target, the mouth is very Simpsons-esque. And "D'oh!" is, of course, Homer's tagline. The name of the comic "Pulling a Homer" comes from the fifth episode of Simpsons Season 3, although what the phrase actually means in the context of the episode doesn't have that much to do with what's going on in my comic. If you knew nothing about the Simpsons, you probably wouldn't get this one.

What happens when Anakin forgets his lightsaber again? Pulling a Homer

Uh… sorry if I'm just daft, but who's Mr. Plinkett? And, no matter who he is, you shouldn't let him or anyone else make you feel one way or the other about your view on a film. It's whatever you like.

Jango's Surprise

Can we just stop this nonsensical talk now? It's been established that this "rumor" has absolutely no merit whatsoever, so all subsequent discussion of it has just turned into wishlists for Harry Potter sets, either this year or next. There's a different topic for that. This topic is for discussing actual 2011 sets. Let's please try to keep it to that.

By recolored you must mean custom-colored, since that hair piece is not available in black. Lovely customs Tin7. Now you've made me want to see John Travolta from the first Punisher movie in minifigure form!

Clutch Powers is not a new LEGO product. Clutch Powers is barely a LEGO product at all; it's just a film. It came out last year, when Indy was still available, and it was probably just an addition to a preexisting blurb in the first place. Spongebob is of course going to return; the other two are not. Perhaps when the new films in each of those series come out we might get some new sets, but I wouldn't count on it. This blurb signifies nothing.

Well, I did do one that was almost the same Masked, but that doesn't matter. Not every one can be original. And now, a little more cross-theme madness, this time with a theme that's not even licensed! Soccer Player

Why is this topic called CW vs. OT? It seems a bit more PT vs. OT, or PT/CW vs. OT at this point. Hmm… a change in topic title perhaps? Anyhow, let me explain why I think that Episode I is very relevant to the whole thing, in a way: It boils down to Qui-Gon being a stuck-up idiot. Honestly, if it wasn't for Qui-Gon, the rest of the saga couldn't exist. How so? Well, Qui-Gon is the one who set Anakin up to be a Jedi in the first place. The Council is basically against it, Obi-Wan is against, Padme is against it, but there's Qui-Gon standing with his own opinion and pressuring everybody else into doing what he wants. He's so self-centered that he even wants to go against Jedi protocol and train Anakin himself! The only reason the Jedi end up letting Anakin be trained is out of sympathy for Qui-Gon getting killed by some weird Sith-like character that makes them all afraid because they didn't even sense his existence. Anakin never really changed much. He was an annoying, self-centered kid who ended up getting very lucky to cross paths with an egotistical Jedi who would want to help him hone his powers. He was never really fit to be a Jedi in the first place, so him killing everyone and becoming a maniac in EpIII isn't so far-fetched. That's why the OT is better. It's kind of hard to have a trilogy (PT) where the main character whose story it is happens to be a big annoying jerk. The main character in the OT (Luke) might start out as a whiny kid, but he's still a good guy who grows up, and you can root for that.