May the 4th be with you…
… and Artoo has CLAWED feet
Spaceballs will always hold special memories with me; I watched it at the PX movie theater at Fort Knox the first weekend I reported for active duty in July 1987.
I read those same books in the 70’s as well. The cover art for Splinter of the Mind’s Eye is awesome. As for when did Star Wars occur - the title “A Long Time Ago In A Galaxy Far, Far Away” pretty well explains that. I never related it to Earth at all except some of the expressions they used in the script. “What a piece of junk”! sounds very Earthlike. Or how about 'Control, control, you must learn control". I think my wife says that to me quite a bit!
I just have to chip in, here. In the Star Wars EU, humans have no “known” home world, and just showed up on the city- world Coruscant 100,000 years before the events of “A New Hope”. I’m a bit of a geek, so I’ve read just about every book written. The only reference to calendar years are that the cycle of years is based off Coruscant’s orbit, and Coruscant is a bit further out from its sun than Earth. One novel, ‘Millenium Falcon’ mentions that the Falcon is a rebuilt Yt-1300 that was built in’18, and was about 60 years old when Han acquired her, so that puts ‘A New Hope’ in approx. '78. ( note, the novel doesn’t specify what, if any digits come before the last two digits of the year, but it doesn’t much matter, since another novel specifies that the calendar under which the Falcon was built was based off the founding of the Republic, which was 4000 years before ‘ANH’, and was changed to count years from the founding of the Empire after the Empire overthrew the Republic).
Whew, sorry for being long- winded, but I’m a nerd.
On a side note, I don’t think ( and this just my fan theory, here) , that it is a galaxy far, far, away. If you align the Star Wars galaxy and the Milky Way, you’ll find that Earth could easily sit within a section of uncharted space called the Unknown Regions. Food for thought, or wishful thinking from a fan boy?
Klik
Well, we all build little plastic model kits so, we could all be considered geeks by those who don’t. It’s all in fun and I don’t think Lucas had real Earth time in mind, but that’s just my guess.
When I was a kid when Star Wars originally came out, I really thought that despite the “long time ago” that it actually occurred in the distant future, long after man has traveled to the stars, colonized planets, met alien species, and for all intents and purposes, rule the alien cultures. I figured that’s why the humans speak English and aliens speak alien (like Greedo, Chewie, Jabba).
Well have a look at this original pre release trailer… I still remember seeing this back then and being totally blown away by it…
Never…
And the first filming X-Wing miniature was Blue Leader, with blue markings. ILM had to abandon the blue markings as it was playing havoc with the blue screen behind it. They tried filming it but the markings left holes in the ship. They then had to switched over to the red markings.
Great tread I figured that all this happened possibly millions of years ago and from all the galaxy’s we can see with Hubble just pick one and I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t be wrong, it just makes me wonder where we’ll be if we don’t get annihilated by a meteor or destroy ourselves in a million years or so and if the human race does survive will the life then be similar to the Star Wars universe ? makes one wonder. Karl
I always assume in several thousand years our civilization will fall and another new world will start anew. This civilization will find our historical documents and decide that we descended from a race of Jedi. There will be those worshiping and training to become Jedi to prepare for the Revenge of the Sith.
Another group of devil worshipers will be praying to the moon thinking it is the Death Star.
Well apparently in the late '70s to mid '80s from the Atari VCS 2600 (maybe Palpatine would have won if had spent more money on a better flight simulator for his pilots than an Atari 2600 and less on his massively expensive Death Stars…)
And the place seemed to have been Japan (so Atican was an even better pervert than I thought?)
I have the Han crashing on Earth then being found by Indy as a Comic.
We stand a better chance getting bombarded by Alien warships than getting hit by a Asteroid. Every 2-3 weeks I sometimes see what looks like a exploding Fusion core in the night sky maybe there are actual ship to ship battles going on up there.