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HemDazon90
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Mar '08
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4/18 3:23pm
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The ice cream guy was definatly sayin those damn imps aint gettin this an then he gets arrestead
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HemDazon90
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will this thread ever die?
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BigBoy29
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6/9 12:49am
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I think alot of younger fans don't understand why the character was important ...
He did not "carry" the movie like Jinn and Maul did in TPM, or like Luke did in ROTJ ...
But it's a small role executed to the T - unlike anything we got in the PT -
The Panaka thread (2 pages)died back in 3SA days ... the Ice cream Maker has way more respect among SW officiandos.
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Vortigern99
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6/9 8:32am
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Heck, I'm an older fan and I don't really get it. I never noticed the guy until I started reading this thread a few months ago. He's very amusing, and possibly deserves his own action figure, but come on! R5-D4 has a more compelling cameo than this dude. 
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TwiLekJedi
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6/9 8:47am
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isn't that Skippy? If so, he's got his own comic story. Surely, that's plenty of recognition.
What does ICMG get? 
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BigBoy29
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7/4 8:45pm
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Well I will being buying the Hood action figure next year, since he was not available as a kid.
And from what I've heard, if and when Lucas has a "Deluxe ESB" film with for 30th anniversary, I heard that there is more footage of Cloud City personnel evacuating - and perhaps footage of Ice Cream Maker taking the hard drive to be destroyed, or him removing the hard drive in a heroic manner.
That would be cool. The character has has some fleshing out to be done - hopefully they will do it.
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Vortigern99
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7/7 6:37pm
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^ ^ ^ That is a ridiculous request and I can only hope that you are kidding! This note-perfect film does not need even a fleeting shot of some no-name eighth-rung non-character "heroically" pulling some insignifcant hard drive that resembles an ice-cream maker free from its mooring circuitry.
On the other hand, if you were kidding, I totally agree! 
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BigBoy29
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7/9 1:53am
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Vortigern99 posted:
^ ^ ^ That is a ridiculous request and I can only hope that you are kidding! This note-perfect film does not need even a fleeting shot of some no-name eighth-rung non-character "heroically" pulling some insignifcant hard drive that resembles an ice-cream maker free from its mooring circuitry.
On the other hand, if you were kidding, I totally agree!
Wow Vort. That is tough talk about the character.
The big wig's at Kenner or whatever toy company would totally disagree with you - since they are making Hood for the 2009 ESB figures.
And if Kershner filmed some extra scenes with Ice Cream Maker in 1979, why not throw it in to the film?
Perhaps Ice Cream Maker:
<nervously frantic, trying to release the hard-drive from the mainframe>
"Eject damn you, eject!"
<secures the hard drive, gives Lando a thumb's up, and winks at the camera>
"I'll handle this, brother ..."
<smartly turns and starts running>
I think it would lend more urgency and tension to the Cloud City evacuation - something that is missing from your so-called "perfect film".
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Vortigern99
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7/9 8:26am
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Yes, and just look at the rush of JCCers coming to defend him from my unjustifiably harsh attacks.
/crickets/
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BigBoy29
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If the measure of a valid attack or point is based on the number of members that support you ..... ugh.
Vort - if anything, the fact that nobody dismisses the idea 'cept you, and besides you, the character has not been shortshrifted after my post, that would seem to me the onus is on you to "rally" the users against the proposed advancement of action figure and additional scenes.
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David_Skywalker01
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7/12 12:24pm
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BigBoy29 posted:
Well I will being buying the Hood action figure next year, since he was not available as a kid.
Yes! I would buy him!
Hey how about they put him in the Live-Action or Clone Wars series that would be cool.
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Vortigern99
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7/12 2:19pm
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BigBoy29 posted:
If the measure of a valid attack or point is based on the number of members that support you ..... ugh.
Vort - if anything, the fact that nobody dismisses the idea 'cept you, and besides you, the character has not been shortshrifted after my post, that would seem to me the onus is on you to "rally" the users against the proposed advancement of action figure and additional scenes.
Look, this is supposed to be a fun discussion. I even put a crazy-eyed face in my above post to let you know I'm in on the joke. Ice-Cream-Maker guy was voted most wanted action figure because it's funny and kitschy to do so, not because he represents a significant fan point of interest. If we're all "ha-ha wouldn't it be funny if ICMG had an extra scene in ESB" then I'm with you and I can explore the absurd ramifications of this proposal.
I might even suggest a brief, music-free scene in which ICMG, ensconced in a shadowy cubicle, is working silently, moodily on his little machine, when Lando's announcement comes over the PA warning of the Imperial take-over. ICMG's eyes widen as the score dramatically returns; ICMG pulls the machine free of its circuitry and flees out into the hallway, where he joins the hundreds of other fugitives. This is an imaginative exercise and I'm all for that! Soon we'll be able to re-create this scene with our Hasbro action figures! Any sort of fan-fiction or speculative play like this I think is essential to SW fanhood.
But... as far as actually, realistically putting this scene into the movie, which as far as I personally am concerned is a note-perfect cinematic masterpiece, then I will disagree with you to the end. Such an intrusion would throw off the timing, the pacing, the score, and the center of focus for the film, which of course is the plight of the protagonists, and to a lesser extent the antagonists -- NOT behind-the-scenes mini-biographies of random extras whom fans happen to find amusing. That is the proper province of Dark Horse comics, online fan fiction and action figure reenactments.
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_Sublime_Skywalker_
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7/12 8:21pm
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Vortigern99 posted:
I might even suggest a brief, music-free scene in which ICMG, ensconced in a shadowy cubicle, is working silently, moodily on his little machine, when Lando's announcement comes over the PA warning of the Imperial take-over. ICMG's eyes widen as the score dramatically returns; ICMG pulls the machine free of its circuitry and flees out into the hallway, where he joins the hundreds of other fugitives.
This would only work if ICMG was sitting ontop of his ice cream maker- first break of the day, sitting in the shadows puffing on a death stick. The intense music starts playing after Lando's announcement pushes him to jump off his ICM, stop on his death stick and mutter to himself "Can an ICMG never get a break 'round here" opening up his ICM to reveal the highest quality of repetative blasters. He then looks at the camera, endulging us with a serious nod of badassery as he starts pushing his ICM with his blaster stationed ontop of it.
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Vortigern99
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This just gets better and better! But why stop there? Why not follow ICMG as he continues to flee from Imperial forces?
ICMG turns a corner, away from Lando and the others -- and sees a small child sitting alone in the middle of a corridor, while STORMOTROOPERS rush up the hallway, oblivious to the kid's very existence. Dozens of white boots stomp closer and closer; the toddler bawls in their growing shadows; ICMG is powerless to help.
Suddenly, ICMG unfurls a line -- the ICM's black power cord! He loops it around the child's waist and hauls on it, yanking the kid free at the last possible instant!!!!
ICMG is now a hero. He picks up the toddler, which sobs in his arms as the 'Troopers march by, a crashing blur of white and black. ICMG shakes his head -- he cannot understand fascism -- and continues to run down the corridor, the child clutched close to his waist.
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_Sublime_Skywalker_
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Don't forget he also gains some points for giving the kid some ice cream to stop his aggrivating cries.
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