apparently red and green are the hardest colours for the brain to process together, so those two light sabers against each other..... I don't know, are confusing or something
I'd go for Darth Maul's dual ended lightsaber, but I'd probably slide through myself trying to twirl it.
"I'm for it so we can put Nuclear power plants up there, and then beam the power back to earth on a laser beam." ~ Whidden
Yeah, the only people who ever get on target with blasters are Han and Leia.
Haven't you ever seen then in storm trooper training?
The walk in, get their blasters and fire at cardboard cutouts of Luke.
When they miss 10 shots in a row, you know they're ready for battle.
"I'm for it so we can put Nuclear power plants up there, and then beam the power back to earth on a laser beam." ~ Whidden
I like how if a storm trooper, or droid, or any man or woman is hit by blaster fire, they go straight down, no if's and's or butt's.
However, when Leia gets hit by blaster fire, it singes her shoulder and she is "wounded", and still is able to take out the storm trooper who shot her, because he wants to take her and Han "alive".
Which, in hindsight, the guy is a clone of Jango Fett, geneticly dumbed down, so that kinda works.
So that's the problem... Jango Fett was just a naturally bad shot...
Well, at least George Lucas got one continuity detail right
What do Laser Blasters actually do? Do they burn... or what? I mean, the fact that they can be deflected by a light saber, suggests to me, that they're tangible bullets of some sort.
*walks off to find a nerd to explain the inner workings of the laser blaster and get a blue print of the millenium falcon*
"I'm for it so we can put Nuclear power plants up there, and then beam the power back to earth on a laser beam." ~ Whidden
We need a nerd in this forum to explain the details to us "normal" fellers.
My own personal, non-nerd explanation:
A blaster is a hyped up energy laser, that is somehow slowed way way down, cause as we know from laser pointers, the speed of light is almost instant.
These blasters energy pulses move even slower than a conventional bullet, cause we can see them move toward the victim.
I would guess it's plasma energy, which is star trek speak for "energy energy".
Ok, I'm dying here, where is a nerd when you need one. Mabye Mahesh could come in here, or Shadow Stalker.
As for light sabers, there seems to be techno things that only Jedi can make. (Yoda said only a jedi could erase the planet from the archieves)
Only Jedi can make light sabers.
It makes me wonder if the force is neeeded on some level to make their technology work, or if they just have secret info.
I always thought that the light saber had some force like energy in it, that's why Obi Wan limps in Episode 4 (Old Ben).
Like, no medicine could heal him up from a light saber blast.
However, my theory has giant gaping holes in it. Because both Vader and his SON luke got their hands lopped off from a light saber and both got cybornetic replacements.
So, maybe Obi Wan limps because after episode 3, he has to book it to TaTooine in a hurry after his battles with Annie. And has no access to health care in the desert.
Or maybe he limped because Sir Alec Guiness was old and tired when he filmed Star Wars.
Oh impressive, but I was hoping to find out how the hyper-drive module worked But I guess I'll wait until that mail order catalogue gets back to me with my 79 cent working model.
I don't have many Star Wars models and such I do have one of the original R2D2 figures, I think. Probably not from the first movie, but one of the second or third series models... gotta mean something
(I liked R2D2 because he reminded me of a robot in a cartoon series I liked, and I couldn't find a toy for that character... being around 5 years old, I didn't care about there being a difference)
Okay, so we're agreed. Laser blasters hurt, light sabers also hurt. Good good, we're getting nerdier by the minute.
"I'm for it so we can put Nuclear power plants up there, and then beam the power back to earth on a laser beam." ~ Whidden
well, we might be nerds, but we are not Uber-nerds.
We don't dress up and go to movie premiers as Star Wars characters.
Oh man, I have a windows movie, mucho megabytes, that has Triumph the insult comic dog from Conan, ragging on a bunch of Star Wars nerds at a movie premier.
I can't send it to you, it's too big, but I bet if you did a search on the net, you could find it. It's is funny stuff.
My favorite is "Troops" if you get a chance to see that. Set on Tatooine in the period between Luke leaving home and coming back to find his aunt and uncle dead very amusing
"I'm for it so we can put Nuclear power plants up there, and then beam the power back to earth on a laser beam." ~ Whidden
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I do have one of the original R2D2 figures, I think. Probably not from the first movie, but one of the second or third series models... gotta mean something 
