New Darth Vader Costume Revealed in upcoming DVDs

Decisions, decisions... by grub · 2004-04-20 02:46 · Score: 5, Funny

Ah crap, now I'm stumped.

Do I make a clone of Jay Maynard's cool TRON costume or of Darth's outfit? Our annual Sci Fi convention is next month and I don't want to wear my Vulcan Ears for the 24th time.

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Re:Decisions, decisions... by hoggoth · 2004-04-20 02:55 · Score: 5, Funny

> Jay Maynard's cool TRON costume

I think the real TRON would definitely wear a cup and a girdle as part of this costume.

I really didn't need to see Milton's nads.

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Re:Decisions, decisions... by 3.5+stripes · 2004-04-20 03:24 · Score: 4, Funny

Is it me, or does the new darth costume look like a guy with a white beard and glasses?

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Re:Decisions, decisions... by Jahf · 2004-04-20 03:44 · Score: 5, Funny

After ep1 and ep2 I think that picture is probably EXACTLY what I think of when I imagine a Sith Lord.

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Um, this is a story? by rbanzai · 2004-04-20 02:47 · Score: 5, Insightful

So eventually we will see what this story is talking about? Why don't we post the story when that actually happens?

Re:Um, this is a story? by mahdi13 · 2004-04-20 02:51 · Score: 4, Funny

Don't worry, it's only 4 months away before we can get a peak at the Darth Vader costume on the DVD release of A New Hope!

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Re:Um, this is a story? by stephanruby · 2004-04-20 07:15 · Score: 4, Funny

After an extensive search on Google, I found what the article was talking about.

image by Ty_Webb · 2004-04-20 02:48 · Score: 4, Funny

From the yahoo article: "The first three "Star Wars" films debut for the first time in digital format on Sept. 21."

So any bets on when an image file is leaked?

Re:image by Unknown+Kadath · 2004-04-20 02:59 · Score: 4, Funny

Seriously. Even if LucasArts does manage to keep it under wraps until the release, if it's not available by about 2:00 am on Sept. 21, I'm going to be very disappointed in all those slavering fanboys out there.

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Ob. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog quote. by weeboo0104 · 2004-04-20 02:49 · Score: 5, Funny

Said in regards to a guy in a Darth Vader Costume. "And which button do you press when you want your parents to come pick you up?"

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Just like another recent movie... by PTBNL · 2004-04-20 02:50 · Score: 5, Funny

Darth Vader makes his costume out of pajamas in order to win an amateur wrestling contest to win money to buy a car to impress a girl.

So there you go. Black pajamas with a motorcycle helmet.

Just one question? by ageoffri · 2004-04-20 02:51 · Score: 5, Insightful

Does Han Solo shoot first? If not then I will NOT even think about buying the DVD's. I can't stand revisionism especially when it is to make something more PC!

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Re:Just one question? by The+Ultimate+Fartkno · 2004-04-20 02:56 · Score: 5, Funny

> Does Han Solo shoot first?

Shoot what? You mean he doesn't point a walkie talkie at Greedo and run away?

I've been duped!
Re:Just one question? by grahams · 2004-04-20 03:05 · Score: 4, Informative

In the original film "Star Wars" (nowadays referred to as "Star Wars: A New Hope: Episode 4: The Magical Beginning of an Epic Space Quest thru Time"), there was a sequence in which Han Solo and a character named Greedo are having a discussion, in the Mos Eisley Cantina, regarding Solo's debt to Jabba the Hutt. At the end of this conversation shots are fired.

In the original version of the film, Han Solo shoots Greedo, but in the 1997 "Special Edition" re-release Lucas changed it so that Greedo shot first and Solo is simply defending himself.
Re:Just one question? by Palshife · 2004-04-20 03:06 · Score: 4, Informative

He's outlining the classic struggle that will divide families and destroy lives. Those that like the original Star Wars movies abhor the Special Edition releases because changes were made that completely changed the landscape of the movie.

The specific instance he's referring to is the scene in the Mos Eisley Cantina where Han is confronted by Greedo, the bounty hunter. During their conversation, Han draws his blaster under the table points it at Greedo. When he feels like he's got no other choice he fires, killing Greedo in cold blood.

In the special edition, Greedo fires the first shot, forcing Han to "retaliate" by killing Greedo in self-defense.

Down with SE.

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Re:Just one question? by pkey · 2004-04-20 03:06 · Score: 5, Insightful

In the original version of the Cantina scene, Han shoots Greedo under the table before Greedo shoots at him. In the ruined version of the Cantina scene, Greedo, an experienced bounty hunter shoots first and misses from all of 3 feet away. This was apparently done to make the scene more PC and not have a "hero" doing something underhanded, never mind the fact that the "hero" is supposed to be a smuggler and a scoundrel.
Re:Just one question? by WCityMike · 2004-04-20 03:09 · Score: 5, Insightful

"Does Han Solo shoot first? If not then I will NOT even think about buying the DVD's."

So you'll only think about buying the DVDs if he DOES shoot first? I'm not a moderator, but your comment makes no sense!

Most Star Wars fans know what I'm about to say -- it's not a particularly esoteric piece of knowledge: in the original trilogy, Han Solo shot first. Lucas altered this in the Special Edition so that Greedo shot first, because he felt that the original version made Han too "cold-blooded." Obligatory Google searches here and here.

Many Star Wars fans, including the poster to whom you responded, dislike Lucas' altering of Solo's actions, because they feel it came from a place of political correctness, wanting to make Solo less of an anti-hero and more of a hero.
Re:Just one question? by mgs1000 · 2004-04-20 03:17 · Score: 4, Funny

In the DVD version, Han will just declare bankruptcy, and Greedo takes him to court.
Re:Just one question? by Jahf · 2004-04-20 04:03 · Score: 5, Insightful

From the point of plot, I say yes.

Ok so let us magnify the scale here just a bit and see if the point becomes evident:

If Hamlet had killed Rosencrantz and Guildenstern after they had made an attack on him, rather than killing them because he knew that someone (Claudius) had told them to kill him then Hamlet would have been the righteous hero who prevailed in an upfront manner and there would have been no questions about it.

Instead he killed them through trickery and without -direct- evidence of their plans. Doing so made him the dark hero who was able to strike first when in jeopardy and left questions going long afterwards about whether he was "right" or whether he was presumptuous.

If you've seen the play (or Star Wars) more than once, then your questions are answered at the end. But for the first time viewer it lets you question for awhile the real motives behind the protagonist (and let's face it, Solo was at LEAST as much of a protagonist as Skywalker if you use the definition of change as the bases for a protagonist). It gives a much darker sheen to the movie.

It is specifically that darkness in the first three movies that have been obliterated so far in ep1 and ep2. There is no questioning of loyalties ... we KNOW who the bad guys are and who the good guys have been up through ep2. There is no "grey side" so far unless you count adolescent puberty ... which seems funny but is really sad because it shows that Lucas has, if not sold out, at least decided that his audience can't handle moral questions. Or theological ones ... midichlorians [sp?]? Bah. I am perfectly capable of deciding that Solo (or Hamlet) are in the end "good guys" without forcing them into the mold of the prototypical hero.

Do I equate Lucas and Shakespeare? No. But Star Wars has probably had a much more profound affect on most people today than Hamlet and if you disregard the endings of the 2 characters (actually you shouldn't, since all of Lucas' characters seem to get just deserts at the end except for Anakin's mother and a few extras ... he can't handle true tragedy) the situations are -very- similar.

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Neato! by Safety+Cap · 2004-04-20 02:51 · Score: 4, Insightful

We can buy the Box Set of the originals (4-6), then in a few years we can buy 1-3, and THEN we can buy them all again (master set 1-6, plus bonus-never-before-seen-scenes!).

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Also on the new Star Wars Oh-So-Special Edition... by artemis67 · 2004-04-20 02:51 · Score: 5, Funny

Alderaan shoots first.

Spoiler Alert! by Hanzie · 2004-04-20 02:52 · Score: 5, Funny

Don't bother reading the articles.

Just in case Yahoo news gets slashdotted, I've typed a plaintext mirror:

Newsflash! In movie 3 of the Starwars Hexology, Darth Vader will be seen wearing something different! Fashion Moguls can get an avanced look at cutting edge fashion for "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." by buying the DVD set.

George Lucas says:

"Our fans have been eagerly awaiting every morsel of `Episode III' as we divulge it. We're giving it to them piece by piece."

Talk about stringing it out for money. Lucas is the master.

Another highlight:

Also, experience how Hayden Christensen and Ewan McGregor have prepared for the epic lightsaber battle that has been anticipated for more than two decades: the climactic showdown between Anakin and Obi-Wan Kenobi.

SPOILER ALERT:
Of course, since Vader and Obi-Wan duke it out again in IV, the 'climactic showdown' will probably not end in the death of either character in III, unless Lucas has begun hiring script-writers from Star Trek TNG.

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They're going to make... by uberdave · 2004-04-20 02:52 · Score: 4, Funny

They're going to make Darth Vader look like George Lucas??

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Re:Trolling.....down the sewers of the strand with by Psiren · 2004-04-20 02:53 · Score: 4, Informative

Then turn off Star Wars stories in your /. preferences. Geez, the amount of whining that goes on here about Star Wars is amazing.

wait... by Spatula+Sam · 2004-04-20 02:58 · Score: 5, Funny

So this is the new vader costume? I'm skeptical.

Re:wait... by Deaden · 2004-04-20 03:00 · Score: 5, Funny

I'd say that captures the evil of the dark side very well.

Re:wait wait wait by welloy · 2004-04-20 03:03 · Score: 4, Interesting

exactly! how can this be a good thing? I've been hoping the ending of eIII would be anakin emergining from something like the meditation chamber on the star destroyer in empire fully cloaked in the Vader suit (the old vader suit), with swirling gas, a la the 'arena' lightsaber duel on bespin, parting for him to emerge, with no sound but his heavy breathing.

a new suit would really interrupt the mood.

Re:wait wait wait by G-funk · 2004-04-20 03:06 · Score: 4, Insightful

He announced that yonks ago... Like it was needed... New vader suit == twice as many vader toys to sell.

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Funny by cubicledrone · 2004-04-20 03:06 · Score: 4, Interesting

I just happened to be watching Attack of the Clones recently, and I noticed something. With the exception of Count Dooku and Mace Windu, most of the other actors look quite bored most of the time, and I can't figure out why.

One thing about the original is that people actually looked as if they were part of the movie. The only scene in Episode II where Obi-Wan is really emotional is when they are pursuing Dooku at the end of the movie.

It just appeared to be a series of storyboards and ideas instead of a cohesive story. The Clone War was cool, but somehow I wonder if it's really worth it to spend umpty millions to put 87 different kinds of laser blasting vehicles on the screen and vast horizons of rendered landscapes when the cantina scene in the original was more interesting.

There are no "Who's gonna fly it?" lines in the new trilogy.

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Promise me this by Dragon218 · 2004-04-20 03:08 · Score: 5, Funny

before I click on the article link...

There's no 'dangly parts' in spandex on that page... right?

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Re:Also on the new Star Wars Oh-So-Special Edition by DjMd · 2004-04-20 03:13 · Score: 5, Funny

Alderaan shoots first.
Don't be ridiculous.
But the empire does have evidence (well hints, ok just hunches) that Alderaan maybe have (thought about vaguely) Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Oh and the Death Star? Thats totally not a WMD...

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don't tell me by fleener · 2004-04-20 03:14 · Score: 5, Insightful

If Lucas shows us a Vader suit in Episode 3 that we haven't seen before, then we must assume the lame Episode 4 suit was an upgrade. This "new" suit had better be a clunky piece o' crap, for the sake of continuity.

Here's the news by cubicledrone · 2004-04-20 03:19 · Score: 4, Funny

Episode III will be a musical

There will be a stirring piano solo accompanying a soundless lightsaber battle between Anakin and Obi-Wan, followed by a spectacular soaring performance of the theme from Star Wars with the entire cast of the film singing the new never-before-heard lyrics as a galactic chorale.

Darth Vader will then sing a solo baritone as the credits roll.

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Let's just blow Empire Strikes Back, mmmkay? by the_skywise · 2004-04-20 03:33 · Score: 4, Insightful

If Lucas reveals that Anakin is Darth Vader in Episode 3, then there is *NO* suprise that Vader is Luke's father in Empire Strikes Back.

"Luke... *I* am your father"
"Yeah Dad, I saw that back in Episode 3"

I can only hope that Lucas has Anakin fall into the lava pit in one scene and then this new figure, Darth Vader mysteriously appears at the end of Episode 3. But no, Lucas has already said "We're going to get to see Anakin put the helmet on."

Which means the CORRECT viewing order for future generations of Star Wars fans MUST be... 4, 5, 6, and then 1,2 and 3. NOT in chronological order.

Or in the words of Comic-book guy... "Worst continuity, Ever!"

Re:Let's just blow Empire Strikes Back, mmmkay? by ArsSineArtificio · 2004-04-20 04:17 · Score: 4, Funny

Which means the CORRECT viewing order for future generations of Star Wars fans MUST be... 4, 5, 6, and then 1,2 and 3. NOT in chronological order.

Actually, the correct viewing order for future generations of Star Wars fans must be: 4, 5, 6.

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Lucasfilms purchases OSDN by Kakurenbo+Shogun · 2004-04-20 03:36 · Score: 4, Insightful

Lucasfilms and OSDN have just iced a deal that will give Lucasfilms majority ownership of all OSDN properties and full editorial control over Slashdot.

How else can you explain Slashdot participating in hyping a new Darth Vader costume by linking to a news story that doesn't have a picture of it? Come on guys! Don't waste my time posting the story till they're showing us a photo!

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Excited to see? by AyeRoxor! · 2004-04-20 03:49 · Score: 4, Funny

you should be excited to see the new Darth Vader costume on the upcoming Trilogy DVD set.

Yeah, I really fucking would. But your link just goes to some pictureless article. Nice.

More important stuff by UnknowingFool · 2004-04-20 04:02 · Score: 5, Funny

I know this may not be the most popular sentiment, but who really cares about how Vader will look like? What is important to me is whether we will actually see Natalie Portman naked and covered in grits.

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Civil Procedure, Star Wars Style by ArsSineArtificio · 2004-04-20 04:10 · Score: 4, Funny

In the DVD version, Han will just declare bankruptcy, and Greedo takes him to court.

GREEDO: I need somebody to give this subpoena to Solo's Wookee co-pilot.
BARTENDER: Hey! We don't serve their kind here!

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No deleted scenes? by blincoln · 2004-04-20 04:11 · Score: 4, Interesting

Is it just me, or was there a disturbing lack of deleted scenes being mentioned in that article?

When I buy the trilogy on DVD, I want the section from ANH with Biggs on Tatooine. I want the bits of the expanded snow monster things in the base on Hoth, and the shots of Lando on the outside of the Millennium Falcon rescuing Luke in ESB. I want the escape to the Falcon from Jabba's palace and the scenes on the *other* command ship at the battle of Endor in ROTJ.

Don't tell me you don't have them, Lucas, because I've seen them for sale on bootleg VHS tapes. If you can restore the Jabba scene in ANH, you can do those too.

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