A Long Time Ago......

[Cody Nelson Aho]

Hey Soundwave (why can’t I remember your real name). We shouldn’t talk about Star Wars in messages; it makes me feel like we’re ashamed to talk about it in public.

So here is a place for all to talk about it and bring up questions…..

Ya, I had a brain fart about the IG-88; the one in the show was an IG-86. They just all make me think of 88

Aurra Sing; one of the best and most know Jedi Hunters. Better than Grievous (she lives to die another day).
For some reason it wont upload a pic for her but here is a link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jDmsKgSrsHo/SV4oEIgOYgI/AAAAAAAAAG4/RwmAY...


Also if anyone has a question about Star Wars; bring it up I would be more than happy to talk about it.

[Lobsterdeth]

No one is better than Grievous, he just got nerfed by Lucas' faggotry.

:( :( :(

[Cody Nelson Aho]

No I know that that was part of him looking bad (F- Georgey), but of all the Bounty Hunnters, she was the one who hunted Jedi with a passion.

Also that Grievous was fated to die any ways; he was a pawn in someones plan. Sing was a bit too but she survived it.

But Grievous did have a great back story (if you haven't looked it up; do so). After the movie I couldn't get "what was he before?" out of my mind.

Kaleesh (race); Qymaen jai Sheelal (name)

[Jer]

Grievous? Seriously man, cover up your dangling bag of guts better so Kenobi will have a harder time taking you out.

[drew ernst]

whats up R2Dickface!? jk

whats chewbacca's home planet

[Cody Nelson Aho]

Kashyyyk

[Jer]

What ever happened to Chewie's wife and kid (was his name Lumpy)? Last I heard of them was from the awesome Star Wars Holiday Special.

[Cody Nelson Aho]

HAAAAAA that thing; and don't forget his dad. I think they died in the clone war or dark times; didn't really care about what happend to them.

[Jer]

No man, the Holiday Special happened between New Hope and Empire. So Chewie was screwing around with Solo fighting with the rebels while his family was waiting for him back home. Did they ever bring them up in any of the comics/books/etc in the expanded universe?

God, I think of how crazy hyped all the kids in grade school were leading up to that Holiday Special. The next day at school everybody was like WTF was that?

Although everyone liked Boba Fett in that cartoon in the Special. Man, talk about a great character that was totally trashed by over-exposure. In the years between Empire and Jedi, Fett was the man -- I can't convey how cool he was. Take all the cool characters everyone cares about now and put that love into a single character. Everybody wanted to play Fett when the kids played Star Wars.

Then came Jedi and he goes out like a total chump. He would have been much better off just saying his couple lines in Empire, looking like a total badass in his Clint Eastwood Man-With-No-Name poncho, snagging Solo in his awesome spaceship and just dropping him off at Jabba's. If we never saw him again, he would still be the epitome of awesome. Now, he is lame thanks to his punk death and all the fricking backstory in the new trilogy. I'm going to stop my rant without even touching on the horror of the new trilogy....

[Soundwave 84]

Meh, Fett is overated. He's like Halo, it awesome, but everyone loves it to the exlcusion of everything else.

Bossk, IG-88, 4-LOM, Zuckass, and especially Dengar are execellent bounty hunters with very good backstories, but no one even rembers them.:(

[Jer]

Dude, my boy was playing with my old IG-88 and Dengar action figures this very morning. They are not forgotten! (although they are pretty beat up at this point)

I think it is hard for folks who weren't there in 1980 to imagine what Star Wars was like then. The expanded universe was really tiny and us kids would kill for every little new thing. There was a Marvel comic, a Sunday paper comic-strip, a couple books and then there were the action figures. You didn't have the frickin backstory of every last tiny character -- you could actually imagine their stories for yourselves.

I wonder how kids play with action figures nowadays, they can get all kinds of crazy background on the characters, not much is left to the imagination. Back in the day, we knew his name was Boba Fett, he was part of a group called Mandalorians that had fought in the clone wars and that was it.

Ahh, Star Wars memories...
I remember walking across town to go to the mall in because they were showing the original Star Wars in 1982 on this thing called a "video tape" on the first big screen projection TV. This thing was setup in the middle of the mall and just played on a loop all day long. No idea how many times we all watched it that summer.

[Soundwave 84]

Ahh Jer! I just realized I haven't seen you post in a while!

Yeah, I have all the books that detail the droids, weapons,and vehicles of the Star Wars era.
The bounty hunter anthology I read was awesome. Fett got no backstory, he was just a Madalorian raised hunter that lived to snatch bounties. The badass even survived the Sarlacc! He blew his way out with some kinda thermal detenator.

[Cody Nelson Aho]

well I don't think the Holiday Special was Cannon.

think about it... Imp controlled planet, Wookies are slaves; would they leave two behind.

It may be in the time line but I still think it was a fun little who-the-hell-cares thing.

But to answer your question: no they have not said anything about the family (only Lowbacca; Chewy's nephew)