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The Star Wars Alphabet Project

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the going-where-lucas-has-not dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A ship for every *other* letter in the alphabet. Jon Palmer is creating a Star Wars fighter out of LEGO for every letter in the alphabet (minus X,Y,B,A,E and V). He has about 5 to go. Check out the project on From Bricks to Bothans." I have to admit, some of these look even cooler than the ships created for the newer Star Wars movies.

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  1. Re:Wings In Space by sql*kitten · · Score: 3, Flamebait

    Star Wars is junk science fiction. It's really fantasy and religious myth. Mind you, it's all good fun, and the muppet characters like Yoda are cute.

    Star Wars fans have a peculiar attitude to the universe. George Lucas decided, probably after no more than a second's thought, to call an imaginary spaceship the "X-wing". Possibly the shape of it even came after he'd come up with the futuristic-sounding name. But the fans seized on it and decided that there must therefore be a spaceship for every other letter of the alphabet. It's like Lucas said "turbo" as in "turbo laser" because he just wanted a word that in the popular imagination meant "powerful", and he said "parsec" because he thought it sounded like a space-second and the fans obsessively retrofit details onto these tiny, trivial things to make them of vast importance. Ask a Star Wars fan about how Han Solo made a voyage in however many parsecs and prepare to boggle at the convoluted thought process behind the explanation.

    The reason I mention it is because I haven't seen this type of behavior in other sci-fi fans... Star Trek fans don't flesh out throwaway comments into things of vast significance in the Star Trek universe. Like, they didn't decided that because there was something called "dilithium" that there must also be "quadlithium", "pentalithium" and so on. Babylon 5 fans don't extrapolate the existance of the "Maxbari" from the "Minbari". But this is what Star Wars fans do!

  2. Re:Wings In Space by Zebbers · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    actually it's a question because of the FUCKING QUESTION MARK. He just misspelled or used the improper form of "you're". Big deal. Your an asshole. ;)

  3. O wing by Hognoxious · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The O wing is vewy dangewous; one of them bwought down the shuttle Chawwenger.

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