Redesign Rant..... by chrisisall

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Redesign Rant.....

POSTED BY: CHRISISALL
UPDATED: Wednesday, June 2, 2010 16:41
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010 3:50 PM

WhyTF redesign perfection????

They effed with the Corvette, the Mustang & the Charger, but, okay though, they're just cars (now ugly ones).

But WHY redesign Enterprise??

TMP-E had some really good aspects to it. So does the so-called JJ "FuglyPrise" IMO. But a COMPLETE redesign???

Look at the redesign of Serenity from TV to movie- slight variations, sleeker lines, but not DIFFERENT ones.

Or the Viper from original BSG to the Moore one. Again, same lines, minor but cool changes (except that they frakkin' stopped USING them in the stupid new show!!!!).

Those two examples aside, I have to give a great big fat D- to the fools that graduated design school that think iconic images can be made "better!!!!"

Hey, let's redesign the Millenium Falcon... or the X-Wing!

Or the Jupiter 2!!
Oh, yeah, they already screwed that one to the wall, eh?

I'm all out of bubblegum here, my friends!

Thoughts?

The engineering Chrisisall

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Tuesday, June 1, 2010 6:58 PM

RAHLMACLAREN

"Damn yokels, can't even tell a transport ship ain't got no guns on it." - Jayne Cobb

Quote:
chrisisall wrote:
Hey, let's redesign the Millenium Falcon... or the X-Wing!

They DID redesign an new "old" Y-Wing.

And I severely dislike it.

This is NOT a Y-Wing.

THIS is a Y-wing!

Gorramit!

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Wednesday, June 2, 2010 4:25 AM

CYBERSNARK

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Hey, let's redesign the Millenium Falcon... or the X-Wing!

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

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Wednesday, June 2, 2010 5:08 AM

PIZMOBEACH

... fully loaded, safety off...

I think it's an honor for the designheads to create a new version. They aren't erasing the old, tired, worn out, creaky, bucket of bolts, garbage scow..

.. that was the enterprise, they're enjoying the challenge and the opportunity to add to the legacy.
AND, old things are usually dumped onto the waste heap - it's what we do!

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Wednesday, June 2, 2010 7:23 AM

CHRISISALL

My phaser is set to kill...

The laughing Chrisisall

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Wednesday, June 2, 2010 7:25 AM

CHRISISALL

Quote:
Originally posted by Cybersnark:

Well. There's something you don't see every day.
Luckily.

The laughing Chrisisall

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Wednesday, June 2, 2010 10:35 AM

CYBERSNARK

They wouldn't be very stealthy if you saw them everyday, now would they?

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Wednesday, June 2, 2010 2:03 PM

RAHLMACLAREN

"Damn yokels, can't even tell a transport ship ain't got no guns on it." - Jayne Cobb

I like how the OT Y-Wing wings look a bit like those of a Firefly.

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Wednesday, June 2, 2010 3:09 PM

OPTIMUS1998

Quote:
Originally posted by RahlMaclaren:
Quote:
chrisisall wrote:
Hey, let's redesign the Millenium Falcon... or the X-Wing!

They DID redesign an new "old" Y-Wing.

And I severely dislike it.

This is NOT a Y-Wing.

THIS is a Y-wing!

Gorramit!
y

now, i remember reading(before the "new" trilogy was even under pre-production) in either a "tech spec" book, or in one of the post ROTJ Novels, somewhere semi-official anyway( as we know unless george lucas wrote it himself, it's not cannon, and can change at his whimsy)

that the "sleeker" y-wing is the way they were originally designed to look,(in universe, not at ILM), the look we are more familiar with (from ANH, ESB, ROTJ) was b/c of repair techs who grew tired of removing all those panels/plates in order to repair stuff. ( pulls part off, don't need that, throws aside)

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Wednesday, June 2, 2010 3:29 PM

CHRISISALL

Being not as severe a fan of the Y-Wing as the X-Wing, I have to say, whatever.

The laughing Chrisisall

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Wednesday, June 2, 2010 4:33 PM

CYBERSNARK

It was established way back in the 80s in the West-End RPG sourcebooks. Cracken's Rebel Operatives (I recently had to sift through my collection to look something up and came across it). Apparently the Rebel tech who came up with the idea was an undercover field intelligence agent (c. the Battle of Hoth).

(Possibly he may have been the one to "liberate" the Y-Wings from whatever museum they'd been stashed in since the Clone Wars.)

And the Y-Wing is a pretty cool ship. It just doesn't get as much press 'cause it's not as agile as the X-Wing or as fast as the A-Wing, but in the right hands, it's still a surprisingly capable dogfighter. I've taken out squadrons of eyeballs in a beat up pig.

It's still a damn sight better than that fire-magnet Ackbar calls a B-Wing.

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Wednesday, June 2, 2010 4:35 PM

CHRISISALL

*Fanwank Alert*

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Wednesday, June 2, 2010 4:41 PM

RAHLMACLAREN

"Damn yokels, can't even tell a transport ship ain't got no guns on it." - Jayne Cobb

Quote:
Originally posted by OPTIMUS1998

now, i remember reading(before the "new" trilogy was even under pre-production) in either a "tech spec" book, or in one of the post ROTJ Novels, somewhere semi-official anyway( as we know unless george lucas wrote it himself, it's not cannon, and can change at his whimsy)

Last time I checked, Lucas wasn't above amending his own past art.

Quote:
that the "sleeker" y-wing is the way they were originally designed to look,(in universe, not at ILM), the look we are more familiar with (from ANH, ESB, ROTJ) was b/c of repair techs who grew tired of removing all those panels/plates in order to repair stuff. ( pulls part off, don't need that, throws aside)

Yes, I read all the BTL-B concept stuff at wookiepedia. Doesn't mean I have to like it. (This IS a rant thread, after all)

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Being not as severe a fan of the Y-Wing as the X-Wing, I have to say, whatever.

The laughing Chrisisall

*bombs CisAll into Y-wing submission*

It is pointless to resist.

ETA*

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