That reminds me of Toy story3 so much that I started remembering the whole movie when I read your post

And I myself haven't even seen it yet lol...

Well, favorite toys, killer?

I really never got into toys that much. I dont imagine stories and battles and stuff like that. I am more of a sports fan who has jerseys and basketball stuff. I have a bad imagination when it comes to playing.

After all, who needs a toy when he has a football?

lego is a great toy for kids.
I had loads of lego

All i ever saw in a lego was a block, not a big Skyscraper

I must admit though, I always wondered what it would be like to set up an ARMY MAN war with someone.

Oh yeah, LEGO is awesome...I used to try and make fortresses with them, or races and then stick a LEGO driver guy in there (complete with helmet of course, safety first lol)...

Though the fun in LEGO is always taking them apart and putting them back together, so my races had a lot of "crashes," but they always fixed the ships...in time for another crash ;)

Obiwanobiwan, I got lego for Christmas once. I never played with them. However, the idea of brutally killing them and replacing their heads with red blocks sounds fun

^
your namesake is making more and more sense, sir...

When I was in kindergarten, our classroom used to have this set of toys that were composed of a bunch of plastic pipes, funnels and other different parts. The point was to build some sort of structure and then drop a marble in the top and watch it make it's way down your contraption. It could keep me occupied for hours, even today.

Sorry but replace my final "it's" with "its".

I find it hard to believe you think the prequels killed off star wars since you've called yourself obiwan not ben?

Those Marble runs & lego - great stuff.
But yes, sport's the way to go. Don't care what, just the more active the better :D

Legos #1, Girder and Panels #2 (you could build some cool buildings and they were in the hotwheels/HO scale), GI Joe (the original 13" dude) with hovercraft #3, Erector Set #4.

tinker toys

@figle

Ben was referred to as Obiwan by a number of people in the Original Star Wars.

The new Star Wars were a cluster fuck to the extreme. SWI-III and the new Indiana Jones makes it clear that it is the people that worked for Lucas, not Lucas himself that were the real visionaries. We're lucky that Lucas made the original SW before they had fancy CGI, or those would have probably sucked balls, too.

Oh, and I loved Transformers as a kid (still do, actually).

Ah! Tinker Toys. I forgot about them. I also loved Lincoln Logs.

Oh and...

"Help me, Obi-Wan! Your our only hope!" as recorded by Princess Leia onboard the rebel blockade runner, Tantive IV in Star Wars (I refuse to say "A New Hope").

"I haven't gone by the name of Obi-Wan since, oh, before you were born." Obi-Wan Kenobi to Luke at Kenobi home in Star Wars.

I spent many a joyful hour with my beloved paint chips.

Were they from a really old house with lead paint? That would explain a lot. :-P

@Abge - Disagree there. The CGI company Lucas founded is now VERY successful: Pixar

While Pixar was a spinoff of Lucasfilms, I think he means the crappy CGI that was done in the prequels, which was not done by Pixar as they had already been bought by Jobs in 1986.

I know, my point was that if he'd had better CG at the time he'd have had Pixar doing it and it would have been great.
They weren't exactly a spinoff, they were part of it

@figle

Uh, what? We saw what happened when Lucas had access to CGI with Star Wars and it was a disaster. I don't see how Pixar has anything to dow with this.

Right, Pixar was bought (under a different name) by Jobs, then later got the name Pixar. So I guess it wasn't technically a spin off, but Lucas never owned a company or a division with the name Pixar, which is what I meant by a spin off.

Presumably, Renderman would have been used for them all and we would have had better CGI effects than ILM was able to do. But one thing to consider is that Lucas was blending the CGI with live action footage where as Pixar now renders everything in the scene. When you are doing full computer animation, everything blends seemlessly because it is all rendered at once. When you render on top of live action, or with the intent to cut in as a scene in a live action, you have more of a challenge making everything photo realistic.

@abgemacht - that was after he sold off what was to become Pixar to Apple/Jobs. He no longer had access to the Renderman engine.

That is true, and I think everyone would agree Pixar movies are far from photo-realistic :P

I dont think most people would agree that CGI was the reason the new star war movies sucked balls, I'd go with the lack of a good script , actors,pacing and most importantly a sense of humour.

@sean

And who is to blame for all of those things? George Lucas. Here's my take on the situation:

Lucas is a very imaginative person, for sure. But, he's more interested in seeing his crazy creatures on the big screen than actually telling a good story. Now, with the Original Star Wars, he was so involved in the special effects, which were very costly and time-consuming, that he had to rely on others for a lot of the story. Furthermore, many action scenes were simply two hard to make wicked cool, because of the CGI limitations. That's how we get the amazing (but simply by today's standards) scenes in the originals, such as Obiwan vs Vader and Yoda.

Now that computers allow Lucas to put anything that pops into his head on the silver screen, the moves became a cluster-fuck of meaningless animation. For instance, the scene where all those children have lightsabers. It was stupid. It added nothing to the story and completely broken cannon. Lucas just wanted an excuse to see kids playing with lightsabers.

You sure? It certainly adds to the story - showing how he's turned and his mind has been corrupted...

oh yeah lmao i used to have these star wars walkie-talkies

the added feature was being able to press a few buttons that broadcast a clip from the first star wars. so now i have a bunch of those sound-bites in my head.... all from the death star attack scene. so when that scene comes on now, i can't help but laugh as my neurons fire when i hear the oh-so familiar bits:

"watch it you got one on your tail"

"great shot kid that was one in a million" (where i learned term "one in a million" btw)

etc

lol

@figle

Sorry, but I again I don't follow.

@Thucydides: I had the same set!

The children & light-sabres bit. The fact he kills off the children is an unsubtle way of showing all demographics in the audience that his personality has changed.

Not that one, the one where the children are just standing around like idiots with their sabers 2 feet from each other. It was in I or II, not III.

Oh right, don't remember that so probably 2 - slept through most of it

lol onar... nice

Oh yeah, those plastic lightsabers, I still have a couple of those collecting dust in my closet...lol...

And I picked Obi-Wan over Ben because as a kid I always liked the smartest and wisest characters, so Han Solo (and later Captain Kirk) were cool, but Obi-Wan (and later Spock and Picard and Data...Chekov's smart, too, just eccentric, and that was an is my other big thing, so he works lol) was the wise old mentor, so he was awesome...you only saw Yoda in two of the three movies, and he wasn't in ROTJ much and only got to talk with Luke and Obi-Wan, I loved Obi because he was wise AND got to go on the adventure...

And "Obi-Wan" over "Ben Kenobi" because Ben was sort of his "in hiding" name as a hermit, whereas "Obi-Wan" was his "wizard name," to use my kid-terminology again...I mean, it sounds all cool and wise and wizardy, it goes with "Merlin" or "Gandalf" or even "Dumbledore" (though that was more a thing in my teen years than true childhood, and I loved Star Wars and love Star Trek more than I loved Harry's tale, but still love it and want to see the new movie), so "Obi-Wan" fits in better there, not just "Ben."



You know what else I loved were those Nerf/foam disc shooters.

I still remember those things, I had this sort of rifle/shotgun (if you can call a purple and green, cock-and-pump-near-the-purple-barrel thing a rifle or a shotgun) and it came with eight suction/Nerf "bullets." And then besides that I remember a couple of disc shooters I had, and I can't describe it but there was just such a perfect feel pulling the trigger on it with the discs, it wasn't hard to push or squishy or springy, it wasn't all hard-core or easy, just a fun disc shooter to annoy the hell out of my mother and sister with...

;)

(Though btw I'm thinking of changing my name since I haven't even watched Wars in years and I always watch Trek or Sherlock Holmes or House...should I change it, you think, or is my name as distinct as figlesquidge, seriously, that is such a fun name to say and so memorable, NEVER change that name...) ;)

idk. i dont think you can actually change your name anyway... so the point is moot methinks

Unless you're going to change it to Siof as Kleenex, keep it the way it is.

I changed my name. Or shouldn't I tell people that as they will remember my old one.......

Don't worry, we remember. Yours, however, was a special case, as your stupid choice of a name was hurting you in-game.

Is that SSReichsfuhrer I see?