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Recently, the announcement of a new Battlestar Galactica movie has sparked an otherwise latent kernel of fandom in me, and apparently posting my microfig scale Battlestar earlier today wasn't enough to sate me. I came home from work and spent the (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) (URL) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Not bad at all! Those Star Wars pieces work well for this model! Um...What announcement? Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 7-Apr-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) an (...) work (...) The canopy is too big for the rest of the model, but otherwise, I'm quite happy with it. (...) On march 10, Glen Larson and Todd Moyer (the original writer/producer combo) announced that they would be producing a Battlestar (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) also, see the other article about richard hatch's beef with the larson/moyer announcement: (URL) g (25 years ago, 7-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) that George Takei had when he realized that being captain of the Excelsior didn't necessarily mean that he had a guaranteed career. Whan Larson started out filming Battlestar Galactica, he had a pretty good idea of what story he wanted to (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I agree, mostly, but I think Richard Hatch(1) has a certain amount of justification for being peeved - he's worked for *years* on a revival effort, producing books, building a promotional tape, inducing various toy/model companies to rerelease (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Galactica was the greatest TV serial that I remembered very well from my childhood...:-) Take a look at LeoCAD model gallery at (URL) for a larger scale (roughly technfig) Colonial Viper. Sorry about the main color but I don't have enough gray (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) I think hiring Hatch to reprise his role can only help. But we must know one thing: despite how much he's done to revive BG and even though he's part of the original cast, Hatch is merely a spokesperson type for Universal Pictures, which (...) (25 years ago, 9-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) If you ever want to see an amusing account of studios battling it out in court, the lawsuit that was leveled against BG by SW (or rather, Universal by 20 Century Fox) is a good one - there was about 4 rounds of countersuing, which reads very (...) (25 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) LOL I'd love to see that! Did they shoot spit wads too? (...) Yup. Cylons still need a heavily mechanized voice and bouncing eyeball too. I thought that was so cool the first time I saw it. (...) Did they also happen to think a daggit was some (...) (25 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) How many of them said, "Hey! You're X-Wing is missing a wing or two!" Steve (25 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Heh - nobody said that, but one of them did ask if it was an episode 1 model. James (URL) (25 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) <grin> I wouldn't be surprised! I hunted down the Q&D version in the BG FAQ (1): (URL)Hear hear! Fans are going to expect BG - centons, feldercarb, noise in space, (...) I was always a big fan of lightbulb head, personally (...) Nope, but if (...) (25 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) That's especially funny when you consider how derivitave SW is of Dune. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Dune the movie came out in 1984, though it can be argued that it has little resemblance to the book. OTOH, the book was written long before 1984. (Checking Amazon.com... 25th anniv. on 1996, so that puts first printing around 1971.) I'll take (...) (25 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) SW derivative of Dune? How so? SW:ANH released in 1977. Dune released in 1984. Did the original Dune book(s) go into SFX-like levels of visual detail? Or do you mean Tattooine? --Todd (25 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Steve (25 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) by (...) Yup. I'd actually forgotten that the "lawsuit that started it all" was in relation to BG until I found that article. James (URL)Steve (25 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Jeremy H. Sproat writes: <snipped Sw copies Dune examples> Actually, I think the same arguement (from below) can be made of the Dune/SW thing - the end products are quite different. Dune spends a lot of time on ecosystems & (...) (25 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) <snipped comparisions> Very interesting, Sproat. It almost makes me want to try reading Dune again. Notice I said "try". I never could seem to read Herbert. He always put me to sleep. Or worse, I would read a few paragraphs, then have to stop (...) (25 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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