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The Return of Chewbacca

Posted by timothy on from the ready-for-his-closeup dept.

BrunoC writes "It's official! Peter Mayhew is going to play everyone's favorite wookie once again: Chewbacca is returning in Episode III, currently in pre-production phase. Peter says (quoted from StarWars.com) "I'm delighted to return as Chewbacca, I think his re-appearance in this film is a fitting way to tie the whole saga together, especially for Wookiee fans." Woa! Just for the records: Artoo and C-3PO will be there too! You can read the official annoucement here, at StarWars.com."

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  1. Re:My God, the spoilers! by Imperial+Tacohead · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's not a minor spoiler, either. I mean, I hardly obsess over this sort of thing, but given that Chewey is one of the most beloved characters in all of Star Wars, I really think this would have gone over better as a surprise.

  2. from what I heard... by newsdee · · Score: 4, Interesting

    c) Hey. Don't complain. Could have been Ewoks...

    The Ewoks were supposed to be Wookies originally. But then some genius thought they would sell more dolls if they were all small and cute and annoying. So there you go, they just had to flip the name... ee-wok... wok-ee... :-)

    With a little bit of mental exercise you can ignore what your eyes see and imagine it's the planet of the Wookies all right.
    Use the force, wook. :-)

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    The ENIAC Demo Competition
  3. Re:Total of people in the Star Wars Universe: 26 by NanoGator · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "How does everyone keep running into eachother? This galaxy of Lucas' is pretty tiny. Is Wedge going to run around in Episode III and introduce himself to everyone? "

    The theory I came up with is that the galaxy in Star Wars is VERY tiny, as "The Galaxy is on Orion's Belt" tiny. Not only does this explain why going from system to system is like going down to the store for a beer, it also explains how the Millineum Falcon can travel around various star systems with it's light-speed drive down.

    The movies make a HELL of a lot more sense with this understanding.

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    "Derp de derp."
  4. Re:Big freaking deal by bahamat · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The classic exmaple is a star destroyer vs. the enterprise.

    And the SD would "win" if they fought at any reasonable range

    Actually, this is not true. Star Destroyers use lasers for weaponry (well, turbo-lasers but lasers nonetheless). May I quote some dialog from the TNG episode The Outrageous Okona:

    Worf: They're locking lasers.
    Riker: Lasers? That won't even penetrate the hull.
    Picard: Well, shields up anyway, we wouldn't want them to think we aren't taking them seriously.

    So a SD with all of it's thousands of lasers might do enough damage to scratch the NCC-1701-D registry right off. The best hope would be simply ramming, either with all those TIEs or just the SD itself, but unless the Enterprise was incapacitated first it would easily move out of the way being a smaller more manuverable ship.