Carmine Infantino's endlessly morphing & shifting hardware on classic Marvel both annoyed & fascinated me as a kid, but he did compensate by drawing a sexy Leia.
Maybe it's my TV, but when they stood next to each other Biggs was clearly taller than Luke, perhaps not a whole head but close. That scene with all three where Luke stands between Biggs and Gold Leader?I think Biggs actor Garrick Hagon and Mark Hamill are approximately the same height, though...
I get what you are saying. An individual carded TVC Y-Wing pilot would be cool.there was 1 in that tru multy pack , but never in TVC or Kenner 1980s timeframe
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I wonder why the resemblance is so bad in the early comics. Okay, there were no VCRs but I'm sure enough images from the films were around to get at least the basic form of the main ships right? It got a lot better later, even within the original Marvel run. (And then worse again. And then it was cancelled.)
Artistic license is my guess but it could be all of the above.
FYI, the link for one of the pilot packs don't work. it takes you to the wrong one, forget which one it is though. Just be warned.I get what you are saying. An individual carded TVC Y-Wing pilot would be cool.
BTW, thanks for the link as well. I need it for some inventory work I'm doing and could not find that pack in the archive.
I had ordered a bunch from them many years ago, and even back then it took a long time to get the order filled.
The one one the left has a coquettish raised eyebrow, as if to say "Pick me!"
Multi-stable perception is a hell of a thing.
I know what you mean, but IMDB claims that Hagon is the same height as Hamill - 5'9"/1.75m.
From your lips to Hasbro's ears...
Yeah. they probably didn't have as much time to research the details as young T.J. Burnside here did, circa 1977:
Normally, the original art is drawn at a larger size and then resized for the standard comic book pages. This works well as many comics prove.
Are you calling the Hoojibs cheesy? Seriously though, that first couple of years they didn’t have much for reference like we do now. No way to pause the VCR back then either since it hadn’t been released. The Star Destroyers had minimal screen time, with the underside getting the most of it. I can forgive a sloppy Star Destroyer before Empire came out.
I wonder about how easily you could 3D print the joints - preferrably in a way that the displayed ship doesn't crash down when the joint becomes loose. The rods themselves should be easy to obtain and cut to length, they don't seem to contain a length adjustment mechanism (and are probably so cheap and easy to store that you could just make a dozen of different length to spare). The top ball needs to be soft and made from a material that doesn't interact with the ship's plastic. The lower joints however need to be adjustable in two axes and hold the ship's weight even with the additional force of the rod working as a lever, and the adjustment needs to be fine enough to pose the ship appropriately.
No, I totally unironically loved the Hoojibs, and even made some from modeling clay (although they came out to look terrible; I'm a horrible polymer clay sculptor). The Hoojibs came into play even before RotJ during a time when AFAIR the drawings were pretty good.
Nothing you say can make me like that. Nothing.
Hmm. Is that a prototype? The cannon looks weird. Like it's made out of part of a broken ball point pen. Is that how they looked in the comic? Memory is fuzzy. Also some pretty pronounced 3D print lines, which modern 3D printers have gotten a lot better at eliminating.
Interesting, seems her flight suit is actually quite form fitting enough to see the curves and slenderness of a woman. Especially the arms. Though maybe she opted for that aesthetic over hiding her body in an unsightly bag.Yeah. they probably didn't have as much time to research the details as young T.J. Burnside here did, circa 1977:
That post doesn't sound creepy at all.
In case some people aren't in the know, that photo is from 1977, and the girl was 16 yrs old. Wasn't easy to get a ton of costume reference back then. Props to that woman, who is in her 60's now, for using what little reference she had available to her at the time.
Dunno, man. A lot of generalizing in that post. Also, the female pilots in ROTJ didn't have tight, form-fitting flight suits. Does that mean George shifted into "prude patrol" mode half way through the film?
Think you missed my point, but that's okay. Moving on...
I remember pretty much wearing out the Planet of the Hoojibs Read-Along book/vinyl disc.
Going back to the "harassed artists" point, it's probably easier to produce art on a deadline if you don't have to worry too much about the readers being able to read the moods of your new major antagonist species.
He's got nothing on Lando's Captain Harlock cosplay.
Is it really necessary to start white-knighting over the observation that Miss Burnside seemingly adapted her flightsuit to highlight her figure?That post doesn't sound creepy at all.
He's not wrong, though. Our modern-day puritans would probably suffer a coronary conclusion just from flipping through the pages of a 1970s-era Sears catalogue and seeing the kind of clothing that women were wearing then.
