Lit Lit's Galactic Travel Guide and Planets discussion

edit: Originally, these posts discussed IU art as seen in Disney merchandise. It was suggested to split these posts out of the Propaganda thread into its own thread about planets in Star Wars.

This is different than the astrography thread -- it's not about mapping, but visualizing and traveling to these planets, as suggested by the below-referenced travel images. Certain folks at Lit are well-known to have interests in certain planets, so this is a good place for them to share their thoughts and for all of us to muse on the varied and fascinating planet designs seen in the galaxy far far away


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So this isn't propaganda, but it's in-universe style art and it'll give us something to talk about for now. In addition to IU propaganda, I just like IU art in general -- like IU advertisements we see in the background of TCW and Rebels, or IU tourism posters (really, tourism posters are fun in real life as well as SW).

And I just saw a bunch were released last year as Disney pins, and they're fantastic. Fan made ones are great and all, but I love the official ones.

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You can guess which one is my favorite

 

...okay this is weird, apparently Disney also had an EU-heavy set of pins a couple of years ago too.

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Not to turn a thread about the propaganda book into a Disney pins thread, but the notion of Disney having a bunch of EU worlds on pins is flooring me right now. These are from 5 years ago -- pre-sale of Lucasfilm, and of course pre-reboot. So it's even crazier that Disney would bother with EU stuff, because back then they usually licensed the most mainstream stuff. Huh.

Empress Teta and Kuat and Berchest and many more? There were like 32 of these apparently. I like that the Kuat one even has the ring of KDY!

 

The revived Star Tours had EU references on the planetary weather display, which I posted at the time -- primarily Zahn and KJA references -- but the merch is new to me. Pretty neat.

 

Aw, that's a little disappointing. I figured Mon Cal would have cool details like Kuat!

What? I'm just saying, it's easily the best one by far.

 

Or even better, a floating city!

 

Just on the tagline alone, I think that one is my second favorite. And the tagline is still accurate: the Massassi Temples are indeed still canon. So... history does come alive!

While I think the Naboo one is quite lovely, there's little question that Coruscant is the best one of these by far. It's true that I like both planets so it's usually more of a toss-up, but design-wise this has got to me my favorite Coruscant travel poster design. Most of the other ones are so uninspired.

 

Monument Plaza, the Manarai (restaurant), and Umatu alone would be a whole day of stuff to do.

Column Commons? Coco Town? Skydome Botanical Gardens? Hologram Fun Zone? The polar skiing resorts? The Galactic Museum? The Galaxies Opera? Then there's all the night life, all the restaurants -- imagine everything you could do at New York City, Paris, London, DC, LA, Shanghai, Rome -- any international city. Museums and galleries abound. Balls, dances, clubs, all of those things too.

Imagine the people watching. The cafés. You could hobknob with the rich, or go slumming. Or go visit the slums that slummers think are too slummy. There are academies and embassies. Parks and libraries.

I mean, use your imagination. Coruscant would have everything, even aside from the immense amount of actually named stuff it had in the EU.

 

Suppose under normal circumstances I would have went on at length with a Coruscanti travelogue, but the idea that there wouldn't be anything to do on Coruscant left me aghast and appalled.

 

I can easily split the posts off into a thread actually -- there's probably plenty to talk about various planets, etc. Do folks agree?

 

Alright, let's do it! Why not? It's a good point that certain of us are very associated with certain SW planets and would happily take folks on a tour of the interesting sights, etc.