Chuey

That GM does not seem happy with that Dom behind him.

GM & Rick Dom

LOL, that was great! I loved the "humorous" outtakes at the end (especially When Ramjet lands on something he shouldn't!)..

btw, that was "Six-shot" who sent the message... Bruticus was playing with an abacus it looks like.

Even the Macross-version of Jetfire makes it into the movie!

I think that was the Autobot combiner Technobot, Computron, using the abacus.

do these replicas come with a vibrating motor so the sw geeks don't have to humm when they swing those around?

Master Replicas FX sabers have sound and light effects. Also a web business called Lightech Industries also offers sabers with sould modules.

It's using the BF1942 engine, isn't it? 

And for some reason, that picture with the guys in costume playing it cracks me up. 

I would be the knuckle head in the biker scout outfit playing Battlefronts. I belong to a costume group called the 501st Legion, who has chapters all over the world. We dress up as the villians from the Star Wars films for media and service events.

The Bay Area chapter and my group from the Sacramento dressed up for a Lucas Arts media promotions for video game press. The funny thing is that all of us were hesitant to play the game at first as we did not want to be unprofessional (ie we were there to work and not fool around). However, Lucas Arts staff and reporters thought it would be cool to have those in costumes play out the characters in the video game. Along with event for Lucas Arts, our group also did a little play acting for an Electric Playground piece. Check out the following links.

Lucas Arts Star Wars Battlefront media preview

Electric Playground and Lucasarts video shoot

"Battlefront" segment on Electric Playground

What happened to the original X-wings used on the movie set?

I would sadly have to concur with B-52 GUNNER that the X-wings, Y-wings and other large scale props were probably scrapped due to space and cost considerations.

I think if they couldn't get J.E.J. for the TV Vader, Sisco from DS9 would be a cool intermediate version....

I've always thought his voice was cool and vader-esque...

Funny that you mention that. Brock Peters, who played Avery Brooks's TV dad in DS9 along with Adm. Cartwright in Star Trek IV and IV, also did the voice of Darth Vader for the National Public Radio's versions of the Original Trilogy.

I played it at a Lucas Arts media promotion. When I played it on a PC and PS2, there were in third person mode.

So, it seems we're going to see a SW TV series...

http://www.theforce.net/holonet/index.shtml#24770

...Oh, and listen to Hamill's audio clip about it, toward the end... It seems we may just see 7, 8, and 9....

Actually, Hamill's comments relate to the plot ideas of George Lucas from about 20 years ago. Hints suggest that the two TV projects to possibly be released sometime in 2006 may relate to storylines between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope.

Best of luck to your project. At the last San Diego Comic Con, I saw a guy with a 1:1 scale R2D2 that he homebuilt himself too. It was fully remote control. He had al the color changing lights and what not. Like the red/blue eye changes colors intermitently and the rectangular lights on the head changed lights too. The chest stripes (the horizontal ones opened on command. Everything fromt eh head turning and the whistling was remote control. And the best part was that the top stripe was a front loading cd deck. (from car) And inside he had an entir sound system. The lower stripe revealed a audio deck display. then as it played music he made R2 dance. the funny thing was that he would make R2 drive around the dealer floor while kicking back with the remote in a messenger bag and make R2 run into people or follow people.

In fact, a group of costumers also used that R2 in their masqerade sketch to win in some categories for Comic-con's 2004 masquerade.

WOW.. judging by the size of that helmet on the X-Wing's nose, it looks a little small, but very nice... maybe it's just the wings being open that's fooling me.  should be about 42 feet long if it's full scale.

Btw, if you've ever read the X-Wing series of novels (#5 Wraith Squadron and #6 Iron Fist to be specific), one of the pilots made some modifications to his personal R2 that follow right along with that lightsaber launcher, but is a much more useful feature in real life.  He had it so that if he called his droid and gave him the command "Cold One" he'd launch a chilled drink out through that same port.  Would be fun to rig something like that up with a voice command module, and try it out at parties.

The X-wings in question are about 3/4 the size of the ones used in the films. Essentially, a child could sit in one comfortabley. The Rocky Mountain Fan Force and the 501st Legion - Mountain Garrison restored an x-wing used for Celebration 1 in time for Comic-con 2004. This item will also be used at Star Wars Celebration 3.

X-Wing on display at Star Wars Pavillion at Comic-con 2004

X-wings used in Yavin IV set for A New Hope

Now if you want large, check this Tantive IV and three different scales of AT-ATs.

Tantive IV in scale with 3 3/3" figures

AT-ATs in scale with 3 3/4" figures

Full scale snowspeeder and large size AT-AT

AT-AT on display at Florida's Disney World

Thanks for sharing. Actually, what you have shown reminds me of Roughnecks: Starship Troopers, the animated series. While it borrows from the film, I thought it proved a better written adaptation.

Damn! Those Star Wars ones are cool. I want them.

There is always eBay. Believe me, I have tried.

as i recall these are usually a 7-11 exclusive or something.  and they've done these things for the star wars prequels as well as a ton of other things.  but this is also the second or third time they've done this with gundam over the last several years.  its not all bad as an idea, but its also not great, no matter which franchise they're doing it for.

As mentioned, Pepsi has done this for other movies like the Star Wars films. Depending on advertising interest by a company, Gundam is simply one of a few lincensees.

Since the White Queen was the head mistress over Generation X and she is a seasoned instructor now at the Xavier Institute, I would expect her to be played by an older actress like Famke Janssen played Jean Grey. In fact, Janssen played a therapist in Nip/Tuck and I think actress Joely Richardson who plays Julia McNamara, wife of one of the plastic surgens, would be a good choice.

Finola Hughes played her in the ill-fated Fox 1996 TV movie, Generation X.

Tired of your work. Never. Keep it coming. When I can afford it, I want to go to you on working on my 1/48 VF-1S Focker.

I thought I remember reading a few months ago that McFarlane was going to be making Colonial Marine figures, but IIRC they would be smaller than 12". Can't remember where I read it tho.

Graham

You're thinking of McFarlane Toy's Colonial Marine Hicks figure. While not 12", it will be a very detailed figure.

Interesting the Space Zero seems to be a hybrid of the Cosmo Zero and Cosmo Jaguar.

Space Zero

Cosmo Zero

Cosmo Jaguar

I shall call this "The Real Thunderbirds"

All true . In fact if they wanted to make a comedy, they should have still used puppets.