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Author Topic: "Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous" & "Lord of War" by Abel & Joe (SWI #86)
Halagad_Ventor  1278 posts
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Date Posted: 10/31/05 11:14am Subject: RE: "The Story of General Grievous" to be in Star Wars Insider #86.
CooperTFN posted:
An appropriate analogy would be Lobot riding a big-ass version of his headband thingy. Or perhaps numerous regular-sized duplicates that had been assembled, Lego-like, into a vehicle.
laugh

Actually, wouldn't a more appropriate transformer comparison be to say that Lobot was his headband thingy?

Kudzu posted:
I always did think, ever since seeing Episode I, that Lobot's headband implant thing was shaped an awful lot like Darth Maul's speederbike. thinking
So Darth Maul was riding Lobot's thingy?

This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them!

Incidentally, has anyone kept up a subscription to Lego Magazine? I had one a few years ago that I let expire, but they frequently had little apocryphal Star Wars comics using actually Lego figures. Wondering if they're still doing that.

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Date Posted: 10/31/05 12:02pm Subject: RE: "The Story of General Grievous" to be in Star Wars Insider #86.
My little brother still gets them. I sometimes get to read them before they turn into thousands of little shreds of paper strewn about his bedroom. Yes, they do still occasionally run little Star Wars Lego comics, there was even the Revenge of the Brick Star Wars LEGO short movie. Obviously, none of them could ever count as more than Infinities, but they are somewhat entertaining. I love how they had Anakin and Obi-Wan leave the Battle of Coruscant to defend Kashyyyk.

 

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Date Posted: 10/31/05 12:08pm Subject: RE: "The Story of General Grievous" to be in Star Wars Insider #86.
Yeah, I used to get those. I probably threw most of them out.

Which is a shame, because I remember that one issue had an AT-PT variant in it. Probably not canon, but it is official and it would be a good obscure reference.

thinking

Don't like the Grievy Transformer? Then how about his awesome hover board, with disk firing action!



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Halagad_Ventor  1278 posts
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Date Posted: 10/31/05 12:11pm Subject: RE: "The Story of General Grievous" to be in Star Wars Insider #86.
It looks like the things the centurions in the He-Man movie flew around on.

 

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Date Posted: 10/31/05 12:18pm Subject: RE: "The Story of General Grievous" to be in Star Wars Insider #86. - Date Edited: 10/31/05 12:21pm (2 edits total) Edited By: Rogue_Follower
Maybe.

Its not nearly as awesome as Yoda's Senate Attack Pod, though. silly



Custom built for the Hiromi delegation, perhaps. wink However, nothing can explain why an Old Republic anything has the Rebel symbol on it... thinking


And you caught me before I could edit in a reference to the drumdroid over at TOS. whistling



 
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Halagad_Ventor  1278 posts
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Date Posted: 10/31/05 12:36pm Subject: RE: "The Story of General Grievous" to be in Star Wars Insider #86.
Rogue_Follower posted:
However, nothing can explain why an Old Republic anything has the Rebel symbol on it... thinking
You've forgotten your history, young padawan. IIRC, the symbol of the Alliance to Restore the Republic is based on an Old Republic symbol.

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Date Posted: 10/31/05 12:59pm Subject: RE: "The Story of General Grievous" to be in Star Wars Insider #86.
Not forgetting that, but I didn' think it was identical.




This reminds me of something... Did you know that Rules of Engagement makes a retcon for the Dark Forces extra lives? It mentions that "Redbirds" (Rebel symbols) are given for injuries in the line of duty (akin to Purple Hearts.) mischief

 
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Date Posted: 10/31/05 6:00pm Subject: RE: "The Story of General Grievous" to be in Star Wars Insider #86.
Abel posted:
Actually, wouldn't a more appropriate transformer comparison be to say that Lobot was his headband thingy?

The droid body isn't Grievous itself, it's just what's holding onto his squishy little alien parts.

 

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Barriss_Coffee  5733 posts
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Date Posted: 10/31/05 6:42pm Subject: RE: "The Story of General Grievous" to be in Star Wars Insider #86.
Not to butt in on this exceedinly intriguing Lobot conversation (I understand Lobot's just one of those endlessly fascinating chaps....), but I have a question concerning this Greievous bio...


Is there any chance that fans might -- just might -- be given a clear view of the Good General's face, in a picture accompanying this story? Perhaps one before he donned The Mask and not purposefully blurry? I mean, Grievous is everywhere today... as a toy, a transformer, on posters, on my potato chip bag... but his actual FACE is a mystery! Will we ever see the Kaleesh behind the mask???

 

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Date Posted: 10/31/05 6:58pm Subject: RE: "The Story of General Grievous" to be in Star Wars Insider #86. - Date Edited: 10/31/05 6:59pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Rogue_Follower
[i]>>>Will we ever see the Kaleesh behind the mask???

 
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Barriss_Coffee  5733 posts
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Date Posted: 10/31/05 7:24pm Subject: RE: "The Story of General Grievous" to be in Star Wars Insider #86.
Supposedly GG's mask is based off that of a Krath war droid's. The Krath were a cult started by Aleema Keto and were seen in the old "Tales of the Jedi" comics. I can't really see much of a resemblence between them and GG's mask, though... I think Darth Nihilus of KOTORII had the Krath thing going there, but I'm not sure that was intentional.

 

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Date Posted: 10/31/05 7:31pm Subject: RE: "The Story of General Grievous" to be in Star Wars Insider #86.

Rogue_Follower Any chance of a scan?

 

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Date Posted: 10/31/05 7:48pm Subject: RE: "The Story of General Grievous" to be in Star Wars Insider #86. - Date Edited: 10/31/05 7:54pm (3 edits total) Edited By: Rogue_Follower
Sorry, but I didn't bring any of my collection with me to college. sad cry

The Krath War Droids are seen in the Essential Guide to Droids, and they do have a passing resemblance to Teh General. I forget their original source, but I'm pretty sure its one of the TotJ comics.

Here's a low-quality fan colored version based on the EGtD illustration: War Droid, about half way down.

 
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Barriss_Coffee  5733 posts
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Date Posted: 10/31/05 8:10pm Subject: RE: "The Story of General Grievous" to be in Star Wars Insider #86.
Thanks, Rogue! I never saw that picture before. That's not what they looked like in the comics, though. Well... maybe a little. Kind of.

 

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Date Posted: 10/31/05 8:15pm Subject: RE: "The Story of General Grievous" to be in Star Wars Insider #86.
The one in the EGtD is much better, as is the schematic, but I couldn't find any better pics. These droids are the ones that attack the Jedi meeting in one of the comics (Freedon Nadd Uprising maybe?)

 
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