Random minifig of the day: sw0944

That's my best friend's favorite SW character. Not entirely sure what that says about my friend...

@The_Chosen_1 said:
"*shudder*

Those Rebel pilot helmets were so bad. Alas, the new stormtrooper ones aren’t much better. I wish we could go back to the old mold on those too."

I liked those Rebel helmets. Stormtroopers' too.

Time to Darklight it up!

(Yes that's an actual line he says in LSW The Skywalker Saga)

Loved this set helmets idk I liked them alright

These helmets were actually useful for making anyone into a rebel pilot, not being dependent on a special head. Family guy Stormtroopers have no such silver lining.

LEGO Star Wars is always truly cursed to go down the worst timeline, isn't it?

If all the rebel pilots have individual helmet designs like that, does that mean at some point Biggs sat down at some point and painstakingly painted that checkerboard pattern on himself?

@TheOtherMike said:
" @Murdoch17 said:
" @Maxbricks14 said:
"Biggs Darklighter pilot of a starfighter."

I read that in Freddie mercury's voice, like in Bohemian Rhapsody when he sings the line "I'm just a poor boy from a poor family". Thus, the only thing left to do is:

"I'm Biggs Darklighter pilot of a starfighter
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Easy come easy go, will you let me go?
Darth Vader
No, we will not let you go (let him go)
Darth Vader
We will not let you go (let him go)
Darth Vader
We will not let you go (let me go)
Will not let you go (let me go)
Will not let you go (never, never, never, never let me go)
No, no, no, no, no, no, no...""

"Mama, just shot a TIE
Put my lasers through its hull
While their charge was set to full
Mama, the fight had just begun
But now Darth Vader's blown my ship away...""

It's just like shooting womp rats back home. (Darth Vader voice)

@Norikins said:
"These helmets were actually useful for making anyone into a rebel pilot, not being dependent on a special head. Family guy Stormtroopers have no such silver lining.

LEGO Star Wars is always truly cursed to go down the worst timeline, isn't it?"

Back in 1999 we had classic smileys for Rebel Pilot heads :D

Glad that for once Lego was willing to revert back to the old version. Wish they had done that with the stormtroopers

@Harmonious_Building said:
"His cousin, Smalls Lightdarker, preferred to support the Rebellion via vigorous activism and fundraising instead. "

You're killing me Smalls!

@transamman6585 said:
" @Harmonious_Building said:
"His cousin, Smalls Lightdarker, preferred to support the Rebellion via vigorous activism and fundraising instead. "

You're killing me Smalls!"

Classic. ;)

I did kinda like these helmets back when they released. They were different, and a little weird, but they weren’t bad. Looking back at them, I still feel the same. I just wish they had retired the Stormtrooper helmet, too, because I hate those. The older ones fit so well, but the current ones do not. It would have been fine to do unique ones for some Stormtroopers (just like what they did for the Mimban trooper), but the basic one with that helmet? No.

@ecleme11 said:
" @Brickalili said:
"If all the rebel pilots have individual helmet designs like that, does that mean at some point Biggs sat down at some point and painstakingly painted that checkerboard pattern on himself? "

Well you've got to kill time somehow on those long hyperspace flights"

Now I’m imagining all Rebel Alliance ships having separate storage decks for Munitions, Fuel, Rations and Art Supplies

@TheOtherMike said:
" @PurpleDave said:" @Brickalili said:"If all the rebel pilots have individual helmet designs like that, does that mean at some point Biggs sat down at some point and painstakingly painted that checkerboard pattern on himself?"

While some may have done that, it's probably not always the pilots themselves who do the helmet art. If there's a skilled artist in your wing, you'd probably ask them to do your helmet art for you. And it might not even be a pilot who does it. Maybe it's a mechanic, or an ordnance loader with the best skills."

Like how, for the nose art on WWII planes, the pilots or crews would find a skilled artist and ask them to do it."

Exactly. One guy usually did all the art for the entire squadron.

@Formendacil said:
" @Harmonious_Building said:
"His cousin, Smalls Lightdarker, preferred to support the Rebellion via vigorous activism and fundraising instead. "

This is, I know, is a post about flipping all the words in Biggs's name to their opposites... but my mind went immediately to Biggs's actual [pre-Disney canon] cousin, Gavin Darklighter, who... er... preferred to support the Rebellion exactly the same way as Biggs."

Minus the dying part, that is, since Gavin went on to have a long and healthy career with the New Republic military, eventually making Admiral, and still being alive and well as of the end of Legacy of the Force some fourty-plus years after Biggs' death.

(Came here to make a reference to Gavin honestly, so thanks for giving me the opening for it! xD)

Fun Final Fantasy Fact: Biggs, sometimes spelled as "Vicks", also pops up in a surprising amount of Square-Enix productions, often alongside Wedge.

https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Biggs_and_Wedge

I don't know how much love they're getting inside of the SW-fandom, but they've become beloved staples outside of it.

I've kinda always had a soft spot for Biggs, honestly. People love to rag on the Special Editions - and not without reason in several cases - but I feel like the addition of Biggs back into the Yavin IV base scene, so that we could learn about his pre-movie friendship with Luke and thus give his death moment more weight than 'just another unknown rebel pilot' was a solid move. Especially since Biggs had already been name-dropped early in the movie ("That's what you said when Biggs and Tank left"), so it strengthens the connection between that offhand mention and this guy in the battle who we would otherwise know nothing about.

I dunno, I may be biased a little because ANH is the only Star Wars that I never saw the pre-Special-Edition version of, but I honestly can't imagine the movie without that scene.

@ThatBionicleGuy said:
"I've kinda always had a soft spot for Biggs, honestly. People love to rag on the Special Editions - and not without reason in several cases - but I feel like the addition of Biggs back into the Yavin IV base scene, so that we could learn about his pre-movie friendship with Luke and thus give his death moment more weight than 'just another unknown rebel pilot' was a solid move. Especially since Biggs had already been name-dropped early in the movie ("That's what you said when Biggs and Tank left"), so it strengthens the connection between that offhand mention and this guy in the battle who we would otherwise know nothing about.

I dunno, I may be biased a little because ANH is the only Star Wars that I never saw the pre-Special-Edition version of, but I honestly can't imagine the movie without that scene."

I have a love-hate thing with the Special Editions. I love certain things (like the scene you mentioned, replacing "Yub Nub" with "Victory Celebration," and switching out Boba Fett's voice), but despise other things (CGI animals that look unbelievably fake, Sebulba in Jabba's Palace, Darth Vader yelling "NO!!!", etc.).

So yeah, I like parts of them, and I don't hate them as much as some people, but I can still recognize the parts where they fell short.

@Brickalili said:
"If all the rebel pilots have individual helmet designs like that, does that mean at some point Biggs sat down at some point and painstakingly painted that checkerboard pattern on himself? "

He probably asked Sabine. ;)

@ThatBionicleGuy said:
"(Came here to make a reference to Gavin honestly, so thanks for giving me the opening for it! xD)"

Here on Yavin, we stan Gavin!

@BabuBrick said:
" @Brickalili said:
"If all the rebel pilots have individual helmet designs like that, does that mean at some point Biggs sat down at some point and painstakingly painted that checkerboard pattern on himself? "

He probably asked Sabine. ;)"

I think that's possible... The Ghost and Hera were at Yavin 4 at the time of Rogue One, so Sabine could have been there too, unless there's something I'm unaware of.

I'm still flabbergasted by how Lego stopped producing these beautiful rebel helmets after only a single appearance, and yet they continue to make the oversized Imperial Chin-Trooper helmets to this day. Complete and utter fumble in my opinion.

@560heliport said:
" @BabuBrick said:
" @Brickalili said:
"If all the rebel pilots have individual helmet designs like that, does that mean at some point Biggs sat down at some point and painstakingly painted that checkerboard pattern on himself? "

He probably asked Sabine. ;)"

I think that's possible... The Ghost and Hera were at Yavin 4 at the time of Rogue One, so Sabine could have been there too, unless there's something I'm unaware of."

Exactly what I was thinking.

@CapnRex101 said:
" @BabuBrick said:
" @ThatBionicleGuy said:
"I've kinda always had a soft spot for Biggs, honestly. People love to rag on the Special Editions - and not without reason in several cases - but I feel like the addition of Biggs back into the Yavin IV base scene, so that we could learn about his pre-movie friendship with Luke and thus give his death moment more weight than 'just another unknown rebel pilot' was a solid move. Especially since Biggs had already been name-dropped early in the movie ("That's what you said when Biggs and Tank left"), so it strengthens the connection between that offhand mention and this guy in the battle who we would otherwise know nothing about.

I dunno, I may be biased a little because ANH is the only Star Wars that I never saw the pre-Special-Edition version of, but I honestly can't imagine the movie without that scene."

I have a love-hate thing with the Special Editions. I love certain things (like the scene you mentioned, replacing "Yub Nub" with "Victory Celebration," and switching out Boba Fett's voice), but despise other things (CGI animals that look unbelievably fake, Sebulba in Jabba's Palace, Darth Vader yelling "NO!!!", etc.).

So yeah, I like parts of them, and I don't hate them as much as some people, but I can still recognize the parts where they fell short."

While on the topic, I honestly think the worst moment in the whole of Star Wars happens in the A New Hope Special Edition: Han treading on Jabba's tail."

Yes!! I hate that scene. It only gets worse at the end: "Jabba, you're a wonderful human being." That line alone was reason enough for it to be left on the cutting room floor.

My least favorite change in the Special Efitions was in Empire. On Dagonah, when the swamp monster spits out R2-D2, and Luke says, "You were lucky to get out of there." Originally he says, "You're lucky you don't taste very good." I loved that line, and I think if that happened in reality, you might well say something funny like that.

And Han shot first.

@BabuBrick said:
"I have a love-hate thing with the Special Editions. I love certain things (like the scene you mentioned, replacing "Yub Nub" with "Victory Celebration," and switching out Boba Fett's voice), but despise other things (CGI animals that look unbelievably fake, Sebulba in Jabba's Palace, Darth Vader yelling "NO!!!", etc.). "

Out of all the changes, adding in Vader's RotS "noooo" to Jedi is the one I absolutely most dislike. The whole climax of the Luke-Vader arc in Jedi is possibly my favourite part of the OT, and the idea of changing that moment - especially to add in something that was already memetically much derided - rubs me the wrong way SO much. It doesn't even make sense... in my understanding, for a "Big No" to work at all it needs to be an *immediate* reaction to something; but Vader has been watching Palpatine execute his son and clearly internally warring with himself over what to do before finally acting, so the context feels super-wrong for it.

I'm just glad that was a later change; so as someone whose only copy of the movies is the 2004 DVD set, from before that change was made, I can pretend that at least that one never happened xDD;

@CapnRex101 said:
"While on the topic, I honestly think the worst moment in the whole of Star Wars happens in the A New Hope Special Edition: Han treading on Jabba's tail."

As someone who found that moment hilarious as a kid... I do have to agree that it kinda ruins any persentation of Jabba as a threat. Granted, I saw Jedi first, so I already knew that he would be portrayed as a serious threat later on; but for someone watching the movies in order I can definitely see how that would make a joke out of him that could make it hard to take him seriously in Jedi.

@560heliport said:
"My least favorite change in the Special Efitions was in Empire. On Dagonah, when the swamp monster spits out R2-D2, and Luke says, "You were lucky to get out of there." Originally he says, "You're lucky you don't taste very good." I loved that line, and I think if that happened in reality, you might well say something funny like that.

And Han shot first."

It took me so long to realise they'd even made that change, I'd got so used to the "lucky you don't taste very good" version that I legitimately still subconsciously heard that when watching the Special Edition; it was only when I saw someone call that out online I had to go back and check my DVD and found that it actually had the altered line...! That one's such a weird change; some of the other alterations I can at least see what the aim was even if it didn't really work in execution, but this one I legitimately don't get why it was done.

-

All that said, there ARE Special Edition changes that I do like a lot - the Biggs scene; Victory Celebration being a better musical finale; ESB Palpatine being adjusted to match the other movies; Oola's extra moments in the Rancor pit - so it's swings and roundabouts to me basically. Even if there ever were to be a Fan-Preferred Edition to be made, I don't know that there'd ever be a consensus on which changes to keep and which ones to lose...

So why exactly was there such a negative reaction to this element? Was it just people not wanting something new?

With the Stormtrooper, I get the negative reaction (which seemingly has had no effect... unlike this element) because it looks monsterously oversized but here the addition of the visor seems like a good choice and there appears to be more defined printing space.

@Crux said:
"Fun Final Fantasy Fact: Biggs, sometimes spelled as "Vicks", also pops up in a surprising amount of Square-Enix productions, often alongside Wedge.

https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Biggs_and_Wedge

I don't know how much love they're getting inside of the SW-fandom, but they've become beloved staples outside of it."

They also showed up in Chrono Trigger, as part of a game at the Millennial Fair.

@BabuBrick said:" @Brickalili said:"If all the rebel pilots have individual helmet designs like that, does that mean at some point Biggs sat down at some point and painstakingly painted that checkerboard pattern on himself? "

He probably asked Sabine. ;)"

Not colorful enough for that.

@CapnRex101 said:"While on the topic, I honestly think the worst moment in the whole of Star Wars happens in the A New Hope Special Edition: Han treading on Jabba's tail."

I know that in the original footage, Harrison Ford was walking around a human being, so they had to account for that somehow, but yeah, there were better ways to do that.

" @TheOtherMike said:
@BabuBrick said:" @Brickalili said:"If all the rebel pilots have individual helmet designs like that, does that mean at some point Biggs sat down at some point and painstakingly painted that checkerboard pattern on himself? "

He probably asked Sabine. ;)"

Not colorful enough for that."

Sabine paints a Stormtrooper helmet for Kanan in the Purrgil episode from Season 2 (titled "The Call"), which wasn't very colorful; it was all browns and blacks.

@560heliport said:
"My least favorite change in the Special Editions was in Empire. On Dagobah, when the swamp monster spits out R2-D2, and Luke says, "You were lucky to get out of there." Originally he says, "You're lucky you don't taste very good." I loved that line, and I think if that happened in reality, you might well say something funny like that."

I know! Why would they change that line?

@ThatBionicleGuy : I 100% agree!