A middle-aged nerd from the UK. I like films and write about them, sometimes for Film Stories or my blog.

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  • Didn’t they update that scene twice? The first Special Edition release and then updated the Jabba CGI a second time for another release. (The Blu-ray’s? I’m not sure)

    It’s all a bit moot anyway as everything in the “new” Jabba scene is almost a repeat of what was said in the Greedo encounter a few scenes earlier.

    And they forced in Boba Fett which was cool at the time but just seems out of place now.





  • Didn’t Blu-ray win because it was basically neck and neck with the amount of studios backing HD-DVD vs Blu-ray. I think everyone was waiting to see what the final studio would pick (off the top of my head it was either Fox or Warner Bros).

    Sony paid said studio basically a massive multi $m bribe to pick Blu-ray (to help promote their new console, the Playstation 3) which they duly did and that format was declared the winner.

    HD-DVD would’ve been great as the winner as the specifications don’t include any form of region protection. But blurays hold more data and therefore allows for better quality encodes.
















  • I loved my many Xbox360s! Either the build quality was poor or I was just very unlucky.

    I went through at least five machines I think. It started on day one where I got home and started playing Just Cause 2 but the machine kept locking up after 20 minutes of playing.

    Two machines suffered from the red ring of death and another had the DVD drive go bad.

    However, I have great memories of playing Battlefield Bad Company 2, especially when I got my 5.1 surround sound system.

    Was that the game that also had the Vietnam DLC? Love that too.





  • I was a massive Star Wars fan but the prequels dampened my spirit a bit.

    Force Awakens, which is basically Star Wars Greatest Hits album, I really enjoyed but episodes 8 and 9 disappointed.

    It felt like, well it shows, they had no plan for the trilogy. Abrams makes up a story and then Rian Johnson has to figure out how to continue it etc.

    Then we all thought that Mandalorian was going to be the coolest TV show ever and then they introduced Grogu. You obviously can’t expect Disney to pander to 40 something year old nerds exclusively but I can’t deny it was disappointing.

    Obi-Wan show was a story that didn’t really need to exist and felt like fan pleasing.

    Boba Fett was fan pleasing onto a whole new level and then turned into Mando season 2.5.

    I couldn’t get into Ashoka, the Acolyte was really disappointing and Skeleton Crew was basically Star Wars Goonies but was really enjoyable.

    I’m hoping the Ryan Gosling film turns out to be good. I wish wish we had the Rogue Squadron film as well.

    More content set in the Star Wars universe that isn’t connected to stories we’ve already had please.








  • That’s a classic awesome set. I only ever had two technic sets. The first was the smaller version of what you have, so the only technic ability was steering. Then later I got a fork lift track that used air pneumatics to operate the lifting forks at the front.

    Then I got annoyed as my mum chucked it all in the big box my other “normal” Lego was in, and I wanted to keep them separate.

    However, I remember using those really long single stud red beams to build the chassis for an ECTO1 I built. They were often the base for my larger builds.