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Han (trilobite)
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Han is a monotypic genus of agnostid trilobite, whose sole member is Han solo. The type specimen of H. solo was found in strata of the Arenig to Llanvirn-aged Zitai Formation of Middle Ordovician southern China. This taxon was erected in 2005, based upon fossil material found in beds of lower Zitai Formation exposed in Maocaopu, Reshi, Taoyuan County in north Hunan, fossil material include a cephalon and two pygidia. However, Samuel Turvey has stated elsewhere that he named it after Han Solo because some friends dared him to name a species after a Star Wars character. The actor who portrays Han Solo in Star Wars, Harrison Ford, also has a species of spider named for him, platnick named it for him out of thanks for assistance in a museum film production. List of organisms named after famous people
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Star Wars
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Star Wars is an American epic space opera franchise, centered on a film series created by George Lucas. It depicts the adventures of characters a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. The franchise began in 1977 with the release of the film Star Wars and it was followed by the successful sequels The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, these three films constitute the original Star Wars trilogy. A prequel trilogy was released between 1999 and 2005, which received mixed-to-negative reactions, a sequel trilogy began in 2015 with the release of Star Wars, The Force Awakens. All seven films were nominated for Academy Awards and have been successes, with a combined box office revenue of over $7.5 billion. Spin-off films include Star Wars, The Clone Wars and Rogue One, Star Wars also holds a Guinness World Records title for the Most successful film merchandising franchise. In 2015, the value of the Star Wars franchise was estimated at USD $42 billion. In 2012, The Walt Disney Company acquired Lucasfilm for $4.06 billion and earned the rights to all subsequent Star Wars films. Walt Disney Studios owns digital distribution rights to all the Star Wars films, the events depicted in the Star Wars franchise take place in an unnamed fictional galaxy at an undetermined point in the distant past. Many species of creatures are depicted. Robotic droids are also commonplace and are built to serve their owners. Space travel is common, and many planets in the galaxy are members of a single galactic government. In the prequel trilogy, this is depicted in the form of the Galactic Republic, at the end of the trilogy and throughout the original trilogy. Preceding and during the trilogy, this government is the New Republic. One of the prominent elements of Star Wars is the Force and it is described in the first produced film as an energy field created by all living things surrounds us, penetrates us, binds the galaxy together. While the Force can be used for good, known as the side, it also has a dark side that, when pursued, imbues users with hatred, aggression. The sequel trilogy introduces the Knights of Ren, an order of practitioners of the side of the Force aligned with the First Order. The first film in the series, Star Wars, was released on May 25,1977 and this was followed by two sequels, The Empire Strikes Back, released on May 21,1980, and Return of the Jedi, released on May 25,1983
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Harrison Ford
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Harrison Ford is an American actor and film producer. He gained worldwide fame for his roles as Han Solo in the Star Wars film series. Six of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry, American Graffiti, The Conversation, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Blade Runner. In 1997, Ford was ranked No.1 in Empires The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time list. As of 2016, the U. S. domestic box-office grosses of Fords films total over US$4.7 billion, with worldwide grosses surpassing $6 billion, Ford is married to actress Calista Flockhart. Ford was born at the Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago, Illinois to Christopher Ford, an executive and former actor, and Dorothy. A younger brother, Terence, was born in 1945, Fords paternal grandparents, John Fitzgerald Ford and Florence Veronica Niehaus, were of Irish Catholic and German descent, respectively. Fords maternal grandparents, Harry Nidelman and Anna Lifschutz, were Jewish immigrants from Minsk, when asked in which religion he and his brother were raised, Ford jokingly responded, Democrat, to be liberals of every stripe. Ford was active in the Boy Scouts of America, and achieved its second-highest rank and he worked at Napowan Adventure Base Scout camp as a counselor for the Reptile Study merit badge. Because of this, he and director Steven Spielberg later decided to depict the young Indiana Jones as a Life Scout in the film Indiana Jones, in 1960, Ford graduated from Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois. His was the first student voice broadcast on his high schools new radio station, WMTH and he attended Ripon College in Wisconsin, where he was a philosophy major and a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity. He took a class in the final quarter of his senior year to get over his shyness. Ford, a late bloomer, became fascinated with acting. In 1964, after a season of stock with the Belfry Players in Wisconsin. He did not get it, but stayed in California and eventually signed a contract with Columbia Pictures New Talent program. His first known role was a role as a bellhop in Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round. There is little record of his roles in film. Ford was at the bottom of the hiring list, having offended producer Jerry Tokovsky after he played a bellboy in the feature
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Star Wars (film)
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Star Wars is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. The first installment in the Star Wars film series, it stars Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, and Peter Mayhew co-star in supporting roles. The plot focuses on the Rebel Alliance, led by Princess Leia, and its attempt to destroy the Galactic Empires space station and this conflict disrupts the isolated life of farmhand Luke Skywalker, who inadvertently acquires a pair of droids that possess stolen architectural plans for the Death Star. Star Wars was released theatrically in the United States on May 25,1977 and it earned $461 million in the U. S. and $314 million overseas, totaling $775 million. It surpassed Jaws to become the film of all time until the release of E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial. When adjusted for inflation, Star Wars is the film in North America. It received ten Academy Award nominations, winning seven and it was among the first films to be selected as part of the U. S. Library of Congress National Film Registry as being culturally, historically, at the time, it was the most recent film on the registry and the only one chosen from the 1970s. Its soundtrack was added to the U. S. National Recording Registry in 2004, today, it is often regarded as one of the best films of all time, as well as one of the most important films in the history of motion pictures. It launched an industry of tie-in products, including TV series spinoffs, novels, comic books, and video games, the films success led to two critically and commercially successful sequels, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. A prequel trilogy was released between 1999 and 2005, followed by a trilogy beginning in 2015. In 2016, Rogue One was released as a prequel to the original Star Wars film. The galaxy is in the midst of a civil war, spies for the Rebel Alliance have stolen plans to the Galactic Empires Death Star, a heavily armed space station capable of destroying an entire planet. Rebel leader Princess Leia has the plans, but her ship is captured by Imperial forces under the command of the evil Darth Vader, before she is captured, Leia hides the plans in the memory of an astromech droid, R2-D2, along with a holographic recording. R2-D2 flees to the surface of the desert planet Tatooine with C-3PO, the droids are captured by Jawa traders, who sell them to moisture farmers Owen and Beru Lars and their nephew Luke Skywalker. While cleaning R2-D2, Luke accidentally triggers part of Leias message, the next morning, Luke finds R2-D2 searching for Obi-Wan, and meets Ben Kenobi, an old hermit who lives in the hills and reveals himself to be Obi-Wan. Contrary to his uncles statements, Luke learns that his father, Anakin, Obi-Wan tells Luke that Vader was his former pupil who turned to the dark side of the Force and killed Anakin. Obi-Wan then presents to Luke his fathers weapon – a lightsaber, Obi-Wan views Leias complete message, in which she begs him to take the Death Star plans to her home planet of Alderaan and give them to her father for analysis
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George Lucas
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George Walton Lucas Jr. is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur. He is best known as the creator of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, as well as the founder of Lucasfilm and he was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lucasfilm, before selling it to The Walt Disney Company in 2012. Upon graduating from the University of Southern California in 1967, Lucas co-founded American Zoetrope with fellow filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, Lucas wrote and directed THX1138, based on his earlier student short Electronic Labyrinth, THX1138 4EB, which was a critical success but a financial failure. His next work as a writer-director was the film, American Graffiti, inspired by his teen years in early 1960s Modesto, California, the film was critically and commercially successful, and received five Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. Following the first Star Wars film, Lucas produced and co-wrote the following installments in the trilogy, The Empire Strikes Back, along with Steven Spielberg, Lucas co-created and wrote the Indiana Jones films Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, and The Last Crusade. Lucas also produced and/or wrote a variety of films through Lucasfilm in the 1980s and 1990s, Lucas also returned to directing with the Star Wars prequel trilogy, consisting of The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith. He later collaborated on the story for the Indiana Jones sequel Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, five of Lucass seven features are among the 100 highest-grossing movies at the North American box office, adjusted for ticket-price inflation. Lucas is one of the American film industrys most financially successful filmmakers, Lucas is considered a significant figure in the New Hollywood era. Lucas was born and raised in Modesto, California, the son of Dorothy Ellinore Lucas and George Walton Lucas and he is of German, Swiss-German, English, Scottish, and distant Dutch and French descent. Growing up, Lucas had a passion for cars and motor racing, on June 12,1962, while driving his souped-up Autobianchi Bianchina, another driver broadsided him, flipping over his car, nearly killing him, causing him to lose interest in racing as a career. He attended Modesto Junior College, where he studied anthropology, sociology and he also began shooting with an 8 mm camera, including filming car races. At this time, Lucas and his friend John Plummer became interested in Canyon Cinema, screenings of underground, avant-garde 16 mm filmmakers like Jordan Belson, Stan Brakhage, and Bruce Conner. Lucas and Plummer also saw classic European films of the time, including Jean-Luc Godards Breathless, François Truffauts Jules et Jim, thats when George really started exploring, Plummer said. Through his interest in racing, Lucas met renowned cinematographer Haskell Wexler, another race enthusiast. Wexler, later to work with Lucas on several occasions, was impressed by Lucas talent, George had a very good eye, and he thought visually, he recalled. Lucas then transferred to the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, USC was one of the earliest universities to have a school devoted to motion picture film. During the years at USC, Lucas shared a room with Randal Kleiser. Along with classmates such as Walter Murch, Hal Barwood, and John Milius and he also became good friends with fellow acclaimed student filmmaker and future Indiana Jones collaborator, Steven Spielberg
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Star Wars Holiday Special
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The Star Wars Holiday Special is a 1978 American musical science fiction television film set in the Star Wars galaxy. It stars the series first films main cast while introducing the character Boba Fett and it is one of the first official Star Wars spin-offs and was directed by Steve Binder. In the storyline that ties the special together, Chewbacca and Han Solo visit Kashyyyk, Chewbaccas home world and they are pursued by agents of the Galactic Empire, who are searching for members of the Rebel Alliance on the planet. The program also features many other Star Wars characters, including Luke Skywalker, C-3PO, R2-D2, Darth Vader and Princess Leia, the program includes stock footage from Star Wars, and also features a cartoon produced by Toronto-based Nelvana that officially introduces the bounty hunter Boba Fett. Scenes also take place in space and in spacecraft including the Millennium Falcon. The variety-show segments and cartoon also take place in a few locales, such as a Mos Eisley cantina on the desert planet of Tatooine. The special is notorious for its negative reception and has never been rebroadcast or officially released on home video. It has therefore become something of a legend, because of the underground quality of its existence. It has been viewed and distributed in off-air recordings made from its original telecast by fans, on Life Day, Chewbacca, accompanied by Han Solo, is headed home to see his family. Along the way, the duo are chased by two Star Destroyers, but they escape into hyperspace, meanwhile, on Kashyyyk, Chewbaccas family is preparing for his return. Hoping to find the Millennium Falcon, his wife, Malla, runs a scan for starships in the area. Malla contacts Luke Skywalker, who, along with R2-D2, is working on his X-wing starfighter, Luke tells her that he does not know what happened. Malla contacts Saun Dann, a local human trader and he tells her through a carefully worded message that Han and Chewbacca are on their way and should be arriving soon. Malla then attempts to prepare a meal, the instructions of which are being aired via a local cooking show by an eccentric four-armed alien cook, Saun Dann arrives with Life Day gifts for everyone, including a virtual reality fantasy program for Itchy. Back on the Falcon, Chewbacca and Han have just come out of hyperspace not far from Kashyyyk, Han notices an increased Imperial presence, so they decide to land in an unguarded area to the north. As they enter the atmosphere, Lumpy hears the roaring of the ship, believing Han and Chewie might be arriving, Malla opens the door, but instead finds two stormtroopers and officers. The Imperials force their way into the house, an officer orders a search for Chewbacca. As they search, Saun Dann and the attempt to distract them with food
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Alden Ehrenreich
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Alden Caleb Ehrenreich is an American actor. He made his film debut in Francis Ford Coppolas independent film Tetro. In 2013, he appeared in Woody Allens Blue Jasmine, Park Chan-wooks Stoker, in 2016, he starred as Hobie Doyle in the Coen brothers comedy Hail, Caesar. and as Frank Forbes in Warren Beattys Rules Dont Apply. In 2018, he will star as Han Solo in an as of yet untitled Star Wars spin-off film revolving around the younger years. Ehrenreich was born in Los Angeles, California, the child of Sari, an interior designer, and Mark Ehrenreich. He is named after the director Phil Alden Robinson and his stepfather, Harry Aronowitz, is an orthodontist. Alden is Jewish, his ancestors were Jewish emigrants from Austria, Hungary, Russia, and Poland, Ehrenreich began acting at the Palisades Elementary School in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, and continued doing so at Crossroads School in Santa Monica, California. After graduating from school, he studied acting at New York University. In 2009, he co-founded The Collectin with his friend Zoë Worth in New York that consists of actors, writers, producers and directors who collaborate on films, Ehrenreich, in a kimono, screaming to stop a wedding. Ehrenreich has described the performance he gave in the movie as, I ran around as a skinny little punk, trying on girls clothes. He was then contacted by DreamWorks, a studio which Spielberg helped found, the meeting with Spielberg led to acting roles on television shows such as Supernatural and CSI, Crime Scene Investigation. In 2007, Ehrenreich auditioned and won the role of Bennie Tetrocini in Francis Ford Coppolas Tetro, coppola requested Ehrenreich read a passage from The Catcher in the Rye for his main audition. The film was released in limited release in 2009 and received positive reviews from critics. In 2011, he played a role in Coppolas subsequent film Twixt. In 2013, he starred as Ethan Wate in the adaptation of the novel Beautiful Creatures. He then played the stepson of Cate Blanchett in the Woody Allen-directed drama film Blue Jasmine, in 2016, Ehrenreich became more widely known for his co-leading role as Hobie Doyle in the Coen brothers film Hail, Caesar. Alongside a cast that included Josh Brolin and George Clooney, many critics praised Ehrenreichs performance in particular. That same year, Ehrenreich starred in the role of Frank Forbes in Warren Beattys romantic comedy-drama Rules Dont Apply
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Solo: A Star Wars Story
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An upcoming untitled space Western film centered on the Star Wars character Han Solo is being directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and Jon Kasdan. It is being produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, the film is set in the Star Wars universe before the original 1977 film Star Wars and explores Han Solo and Chewbaccas adventures, including meeting Lando Calrissian. Filming began in January 2017, with principal photography starting the following month, the film is scheduled to be released on May 25,2018. Alden Ehrenreich as Han Solo, a cynical smuggler, Woody Harrelson as Beckett, a criminal and Hans mentor. Emilia Clarke Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian, a scoundrel on the rise in the galaxys underworld, Thandie Newton Phoebe Waller-Bridge Joonas Suotamo as Chewbacca Michael K. Williams and Ian Kenny are also cast in an undisclosed roles. In February 2013, Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed the development of two films, each individually written by Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg. Shortly after, it was reported that Disney was working on two films featuring Han Solo and Boba Fett, Disney CFO Jay Rasulo described the standalone films as origin stories. Kathleen Kennedy explained that the films would not crossover with the films of the sequel trilogy, stating. The canon that he created was the Star Wars saga, right now, Episode VII falls within that canon. The spin-off movies, or we may come up some other way to call those films. There is no attempt being made to characters in and out of the saga episodes. Consequently, from the creative standpoint, its a roadmap that George made pretty clear, in April 2015, Lucasfilm and Kennedy announced that the standalone films would be referred to as the Star Wars Anthology series. The project would be directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller from a script by Lawrence Kasdan, Kennedy would serve as a producer on the film, with Lawrence Kasdan and Jason McGatlin executive producers, Allison Shearmur and Simon Emanuel also produce. The Han Solo project was separate from a film that was originally being developed by Josh Trank, Solos friend, the Wookiee, Chewbacca, would also appear in the film. In May 2016, Lawrence Kasdan stated that filming would start in January 2017, in March 2016, it was reported that Alden Ehrenreich, Reynor and Taron Egerton were on a shortlist of actors considered for the young Han Solo role. In May 2016, Ehrenreich was reported to have been cast as the young Han Solo, Miller called casting the role one of the hardest casting challenges of all time adding they saw over 3,000 people for the part. Glover was confirmed for Calrissian shortly after, with Clarke cast as the lead the following month. In early January 2017, Woody Harrelson was revealed to be in negotiations to portray Han Solos mentor, in February 2017, Phoebe Waller-Bridge joined the cast in an undisclosed roles, said to be a CGI-driven performance similar to Alan Tudyk in Rogue One as the droid K-2SO
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Voice acting
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Voice acting is the art of doing voice-overs or providing voices to represent a character or to provide information to an audience or user. Voice acting is also done for small handheld audio games, performers are called voice actors or actresses, voice artists, or voice talent. Their roles may also involve singing, although a voice actor is sometimes cast as the characters singing voice. Voice acting is recognised in Britain as a specialized dramatic profession, Voice artists are also used to record the individual sample fragments played back by a computer in an automated announcement. The voices for animated characters are provided by voice actors, for live action productions, voice acting often involves reading the parts of computer programs, radio dispatchers, or other characters who never actually appear on screen. With a radio drama or CD drama, there is freedom in voice acting, because there is no need to match a dub to the original actors. In the context of voice acting, narration is the use of commentary to convey a story to an audience. A narrator is a character or a non-personal voice that the creator of the story develops to deliver information to the audience. The voice actor who plays the narrator is responsible for performing the lines assigned to the narrator. In traditional literary narratives, narration is a story element, in other types of narratives, such as plays, television shows, video games. One of the most common uses for voice acting is within commercial advertising, the voice actor is hired to voice a message associated with the advertisement. This has different subgenres, television, radio, cinema, the subgenres are all different styles in their own right. Voiceover used in commercial adverts also is the area of voice acting where de-breathing is used. De-breathing means artificially removing breaths from the recorded voice and this is done to stop the audience being distracted in any way from the commercial message that is being put across. Dub localization is a type of voice-over and it is the practice of voice-over translation altering a foreign language film, art film or television series by voice actors. Voice-over translation is an audiovisual translation technique, in which, unlike in Dub localization, actor voices are recorded over the audio track. This method of translation is most often used in documentaries and news reports to translate words of foreign-language interviewees, automated dialogue replacement is the process of re-recording dialogue by the original actor after the filming process to improve audio quality or reflect dialogue changes. ADR is also used to change original lines recorded on set to clarify context, improve diction or timing, in the UK, it is also called post-synchronization or post-sync
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Perry King
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Perry Firestone King is an American television and film actor. King played the role of Cody Allen on the detective series Riptide from 1983 to 1986, King was born in Alliance, Ohio, his father was a physician. His maternal grandfather was Maxwell Perkins, an editor for the publishing house Charles Scribners Sons. Through Perkins, King is the great-great-grandson of U. S, senator William M. Evarts and the great-great-great-great-grandson of Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the Declaration of independence. King received a degree in drama from Yale University, and also studied at Juilliard, King made his film debut in the 1972 film Slaughterhouse-Five and in 1975 portrayed Hammond Maxwell in the exploitation film Mandingo. Since the 1970s, he has appeared in dozens of films, television series. He auditioned for the role of Han Solo in Star Wars, however, he played the character in the radio adaptations of Star Wars and both its sequels. In 1984, King was nominated for a Golden Globe award for his role in the TV movie The Hasty Heart and that same year, he landed the role of Cody Allen on the series Riptide. In 1993, he starred in the adaptation of Sidney Sheldons novel A Stranger in the Mirror. In 1995, he portrayed the role of Hayley Armstrong on Melrose Place and he also appeared as Richard Williams in the NBC TV series Titans with Yasmine Bleeth in 2000 and as the President of the United States in the 2004 film The Day After Tomorrow. King has made guest appearances on TV shows including Spin City, Will & Grace, Eve, and Cold Case. He has also worked as a actor, voice-acting for Samson in the 1985 animated feature Samson & Delilah. Married and divorced twice, King has two daughters, Louise and Hannah, and one granddaughter, an avid motorcyclist, King was featured on Huell Howsers Californias Gold where he spoke about his collection of motorcycles and sidecars. In December 2008 the AMA appointed King to its Board of Directors. k. a. k. a, the Keller/Keller Story The Sentinel The Cowboy and the Movie Star a. k. a. Love on the Edge Her Married Lover a. k. a
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Neil Ross
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Neil Ross is an English-born American voice actor and announcer, now resident in the United States, working in Los Angeles. He has provided voices in many American cartoons, most notably Voltron and he has also done voice work in numerous video games, including Mass Effect and Leisure Suit Larry 6 and 7. Ross has also provided voice roles for many movies, including Back to the Future Part II, Babe, Quiz Show, neil Ross was the announcer for the 75th Annual Academy Awards Telecast in 2003, and the Emmy Awards Telecast in 2004. He has also narrated episodes of A&Es Biography, and many editions of NOVA on PBS. Neil Ross was born in London, England, on 31 December 1944 and subsequently raised in Montreal, Quebec and his family moved to Long Beach, California when he was 12 years old. When they moved to San Diego, a young Ross started listening to KFWB and he started working in radio when he finished school. His first station was KMUR in Salt Lake City, Utah, following this, he moved on to KORL, KGMB and KKUA in Honolulu, Hawaii, before moving to KCBQ in San Diego in 1969. He stayed in California, working on KYA San Francisco and KMPC Los Angeles and he made his last broadcast in 1985. He began his work in 1978 when he moved to Los Angeles. His first role was as a salesman in an episode of Richie Rich for Hanna-Barbera, from 1989–1990, he was the announcer for Signal Researchs Game Players Gametape VHS series, which was a home video counterpart of the defunct magazine publication of the same name. Neil Ross lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter, – Grandfather Quiz Show – Twenty-One Announcer Scooby-Doo. Bear and Mr. Fox Tom and Jerry, The Fast, Feed Ninja Gaiden – Murai Onimusha 3 – Guildenstern Return to Castle Wolfenstein – Higgs / Nazi Soldier No
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Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
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Star Wars, Rogue Squadron is an arcade-style action game co-developed by Factor 5 and LucasArts. The first of three games in the Rogue Squadron series, it was published by LucasArts and Nintendo and released for Microsoft Windows and the Nintendo 64 in December 1998. Set in the fictional Star Wars galaxy and inspired by the Star Wars, X-wing Rogue Squadron comics, the player controls Luke Skywalker, commander of the elite X-wing pilots known as Rogue Squadron. As the game progresses, Skywalker and Rogue Squadron fight the Galactic Empire in sixteen missions across various planets, Rogue Squadron received generally positive reviews. Critics praised the technical achievements and flight controls, but its use of distance fog. The games sales exceeded expectations, by August 1999, more than one million copies had sold worldwide, unlike the Star Wars, X-Wing computer game series that emphasizes space combat simulation, Rogue Squadron is a fast-paced, arcade-style action game. Each of the games sixteen levels introduces mission objectives that must be completed to progress to the next level and these objectives are divided into four categories, search and destroy, reconnaissance, rescue, and protect. Enemy aircraft are primarily composed of TIE fighters, ground defenses are more varied and include three different walkers, laser and missile turrets, tanks, probe droids, shuttles, stormtroopers and speeder bikes. The heads-up display features a health meter, a radar and a count for secondary weapons. The player can control five craft, X-wing, A-wing, Y-wing, snowspeeder, each vehicle offers a unique armament arrangement, as well as varying degrees of speed and maneuverability. The game initially restricts the player to a craft for each level, however, after a level is completed. Levels set on non-atmospheric moons expose the craft to space, thus disallowing the Speeder and V-Wing from being used, but as on other levels. Nine bonus power-ups are hidden in different levels throughout the game and these bonuses improve a crafts weapons or durability and are applied to each eligible craft for the remainder of the game. The players performance is measured throughout the game, and performance statistics are checked after each level against three medal benchmarks, each benchmark contains five categories, completion time, number of enemies destroyed, shot accuracy, number of friendly craft and structures saved and number of bonuses collected. If a players performance exceeds one of the levels three benchmarks in all five categories, a medal—bronze, silver or gold—is awarded on completion, acquiring these medals promotes the players rank and helps unlock hidden content. Rogue Squadron includes a number of unlockable secrets, the player can unlock three bonus levels, Beggars Canyon, The Death Star Trench Run and The Battle of Hoth. These levels are available when the player obtains all bronze, silver or gold medals, respectively. Alternatively, they can be unlocked via password, unlike the games primary levels, the bonus levels are adaptions of events from the Star Wars films
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Star Wars: Force Commander
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Star Wars, Force Commander is a real-time strategy video game released for the Microsoft Windows platform on March 21,2000. It was co-developed by Ronin Entertainment and LucasArts, and published by LucasArts and its plot interweaves between Star Wars, A New Hope and Return of the Jedi, taking in key battles. Peter McConnell created remixed tracks of John Williams original score using influenced from hard rock, reception by critics was mixed, with aggregate website GameRankings reporting a 58. 42% approval rating. Critics cited poor controls as a primary issue, reviewers were divided on the quality of the games visuals, with some feeling they were dated, and others of the opinion that they were strong. Gameplay was generally considered simplified in comparison to other strategy games. Star Wars, Force Commander is a strategy video game. The player commands forces as though they are the rather than an infantry unit. The game utilizes a birds-eye view around a 3D map, levels are ground assault based, as the game lacks space combat. The game also features a few options to connect with other players via multiplayer, up to six players can join together, and Local area network and TCP/IP connections are supported. Historically the game was supported via the Microsoft Gaming Zone, however Zone services have since shut down. LAN gameplay is limited to two players, the games campaign is not available in multiplayer. Instead an instant action mode is used, players can choose any combination of teams or work together to challenge the AI computer player. The game interweaves its story through the events of Episodes IV through VI, sometimes intersecting with known Star Wars events, while telling an original Star Wars story. It is shown from the point of view of an officer in the Imperial Navy, Brenn Tantor, who begins as a stormtrooper. The main character is loyal to the Empire for the first half of the game, until his brother, Dellis is imprisoned by the Empire for revealing this information, though Brenn is initially led to believe that Dellis has been killed. Brenn defects to the Rebel Alliance and proceeds to fight his former commanders, as well as the Tatooine training missions, the player participates in the Battle of Hoth and the Battle of Endor. The game ends with the battle to capture the Imperial Palace on Coruscant, originally conceived as a 2D strategy game, LucasArts scrapped the overall design after its first public viewing at E31998. LucasArts decided instead to use a version of a 3D engine supplied by Ronin Entertainment
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Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
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Star Wars, Galactic Battlegrounds is a real-time strategy video game set in the Star Wars universe. It was developed by Age of Empires developer Ensemble Studios and LucasArts, the Japanese version published by Electronic Arts and Squaresoft Joint Venture Electronic Arts Square. It was released in November 11,2001, an expansion pack, Clone Campaigns, was released in May 14,2002, adding two new factions and campaigns. Later that year, both Galactic Battlegrounds and Clone Campaigns were released in a box set, Star Wars, Galactic Battlegrounds Saga, the games were built on the Genie engine, the same one used in Age of Empires and Age of Empires II. The player starts the game with a Command Center, a scout, the player search and gather resources such as Food, Carbon, Nova Crystals, and Ore and then using the resources in order to create new buildings, units, workers and so on. Food is used for units and troopers, as well as the work force. Carbon is used in place of Wood in Age of Empires 2 for buildings, Nova Crystals create the more high-end units and can be gathered through getting special holocrons. Ore is used for structures as well as the Gungan unique unit Fambaa. The player can build separate units at separate buildings designed specifically for different types of units, the player can advance through the four Tech Levels by paying a certain amount of resources. When a player advances a Tech Level, more units, buildings, there are a total of seven military structures in the game. These are the Troop Center, the Shipyard, the Mech factory, the Jedi Temple or Sith Temple depending on the faction, the Heavy Weapons Factory, the Airbase, the Troop center produces cannon fodder early game units. These are the Grenadier, the Anti-Air trooper, the Mounted Trooper, the Shipyard produces ships, these being the Frigate, the Destroyer, the Cruiser, and the Anti-Air Frigate. The Mech Factory produces Scouts, Assault Mechs, Strike Mechs, the Jedi Temple or Sith Temple is a depository for Holocrons and produces Jedi Padawans/Sith Apprentice and Jedi Knights/Sith Knights as well as Jedi Masters/Sith Masters. The Fortress serves as a structure and produces the civilizations unique unit and an anti-jedi Bounty Hunter, as well as long-range cannons. It fires high-damage, area-of-effect shells at air, sea or ground targets over long reload times while being durable and it is the most directly powerful unit in the game If Victory is set to standard, the player can win in three different ways. The player may win by destroying all of the enemies buildings, also, the player can use a Jedi/Sith to bring all of the Holocrons to the Jedi/Sith Temple and preserve them for 200 days. The final way to win is to build a monument that is available at Tech Level 4. If the monument stays standing for 300 days, then the player wins, tutorial - The campaign sees the player assume the role of Chewbaccas father, Attichitchuk
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Lex Lang
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Walter Alexis Lex Lang is an American voice actor and director who has provided voices for a number of cartoons, anime, and video games. His main roles in anime include Sagara Sanosuke in Rurouni Kenshin, Genjo Sanzo in Saiyuki Reload and he also voices Marechiyo Omaeda in Bleach, Hayate Gekko in Naruto, Cruhteo in Aldnoah. Zero, and Sōichirō Kuzuki in Fate/stay night, Unlimited Blade Works. In animation, he voiced Dr. Doom in The Avengers, Earths Mightiest Heroes and Sozin the Fire Lord in Avatar and he has many video game roles, including Dr. Neo Cortex in Crash Bandicoot and the Grim Creeper in Skylanders. Lang is married to voice actor Sandy Fox. They live in Studio City, California and they also created Love Planet Productions, which includes several multimedia projects such as anime presentation shows, toddler shows and products, and Zen programming. Lang is also a Deepak Chopra meditation instructor, Internet Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Television Series, 1998–2013. Official website Love Planet Records Lex Lang at Anime News Networks encyclopedia Lex Lang on IGDB. com Lex Lang at the Internet Movie Database
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Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike
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Star Wars Rogue Squadron III, Rebel Strike is an action video game developed by Factor 5 and published by LucasArts exclusively for the Nintendo GameCube. The game is set during the original Star Wars trilogy and recreates battles that take place during those films, the game follows the Rogue Squadron, which, under the command of Luke Skywalker and Wedge Antilles, uses starfighters to engage and defeat the Galactic Empire. Rebel Strike was developed as a sequel to Star Wars, Rogue Squadron and Star Wars Rogue Squadron II, Rebel Strike added the ability for players to leave their starfighters to participate in ground battles as well as enter and pilot other vehicles during certain missions. The game also has a multiplayer mode allowing cooperative play for all. Rebel Strike contains on-foot missions and space missions, as in the previous Rogue Squadron games. The game also includes some unlockable classic missions inspired by the Star Wars original trilogy, Rebel Strike features two multiplayer modes, Co-op and Versus. Co-op allows players to replay missions from Rogue Squadron II, Rogue Leader in split-screen, excluding the levels Triumph of the Empire, in Co-op, players share the same pool of lives. Versus features a variety of modes, such as Dogfight and Survival, in any Versus mode, players can pilot several craft, including X-Wings, A-Wings, TIE Fighters, and Darth Vaders TIE Advanced. The story is set shortly after the destruction of the Death Star above Yavin 4, the Empire drives the Alliance off the moon, leaving the Alliance searching for a planet to serve as its next base. Tycho Celchu, an Imperial officer, defects to the Alliance on Dantooine, during the battle to rescue the scientists, Rogue Squadron member Sarkli defects to the Empire. Despite this, Rogue Squadron and the scientists escape safely in a transport craft, the Rebels settle on Hoth, but the Battle of Hoth forces them to leave as the Empire attacks and destroys their base. The Wedge Antilles campaign takes place after the Battle of Hoth, Sarkli leads Rogue Squadron into Geonosis orbit, where they both crash following an ambush by TIE fighters and Imperial escort carriers. Rogue Squadron fights with stormtroopers and battle droid remnants, by making use of various pieces of deactivated Galactic Republic machinery left over from the Battle of Geonosis, Rogue Squadron escapes and Wedge flees the system. This uncovers a ploy to wipe out part of the Alliance fleet over Dubrillion, emperor Palpatine reveals that the recent battles were manipulated, making the Rebels overconfident. This proves disadvantageous to the Rebels in the upcoming Battle of Endor, nevertheless, Han Solo, having been rescued from Jabba the Hutt, disables the shield protecting the second Death Star over Endor while killing Sarkli, allowing the Rebels to achieve victory. The game ran into some troubled development, pre-orders for the game included a bonus disc featuring several game demos, trailers, a playable version of the original Star Wars arcade game and a Rebel Strike art gallery. Rebel Strike was met with positive reception, as GameRankings gave it a score of 76. 61%, critics praised the intense gameplay and the ability to have more enemies on screen than on Rogue Leader. However, Rebel Strike was criticized for its missions, due to their clunky game-play
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Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005 video game)
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Star Wars, Battlefront II is a 2005 first- and third-person shooter video game based on the Star Wars film franchise. Developed by Pandemic Studios and published by LucasArts it is a sequel to 2004s Star Wars, Battlefront and the second game in the Battlefront series. The game was released in PAL regions on October 31,2005, on the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Microsoft Windows, and Xbox platforms and it was later updated to be backwards compatible for the Xbox 360. It was also released on the PlayStation Store on October 20,2009, the PSP version was developed by Savage Entertainment. The game features new vehicles, characters, game mechanics, maps, gameplay additions over Battlefront include the use of Jedi, additional game modes such as hero assault, and objective-based space battles. Battlefront II was well received, with the PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions scoring in the mid 80s at aggregators GameRankings, the PC version scored slightly lower at both sites, scoring a 76. 60% at GameRankings and 78 at Metacritic. The PSP version was the worst received, scoring 70. 93% at GameRankings and 69 at Metacritic, reviewers generally praised the narrative-based story, however, some felt that the upgrades from the original were not enough to merit the price. Like the original game, it was a commercial success, GameSpy Technology scheduled a shut-down across all titles using the service for May 31,2014, which included Star Wars, Battlefront II for PC, PS2, and Xbox. Electronic Arts announced it would extend support for Battlefront II until June 30,2014, the extended support ended on July 25,2014, taking all GameSpy online video games across all platforms offline. The Windows version was added to a list of supported games on GameRanger on May 31,2014, Battlefront II is fundamentally similar to its predecessor, albeit with the addition of new gameplay mechanics. The general objective in most missions is to eliminate the enemy faction, players have the ability to choose between six classes during gameplay. Four class types are common to all factions, infantry, heavy weapon, in addition to the four standard classes, each faction has two unique classes which unlock by scoring a predetermined number of points. Battlefront II also features heroes - a special class that allows the player to control characters from the Star Wars universe. Heroes serve as a bonus to players, and are unlocked by meeting certain criteria, differences between Battlefront II and its predecessor include the ability to sprint and the ability to roll forwards. In addition to utilizing heroes in conquest matches, the game featured a hero assault mode in which heroes were pitted against villains in a team deathmatch format. There are a total of 18 missions, four of which are optional space missions, the PSP version of Battlefront II does not feature the Rise of the Empire campaign. Instead it features three single-player Challenge modes, Imperial Enforcer, Rogue Assassin, and Rebel Raider, in Imperial Enforcer the player is sent to eliminate indigenous species on several given planets, such as Gungans on Naboo and Ewoks on Endor. Rogue Assassin requires the player to eliminate all Imperial officers on a given sets of planets, bonus points are awarded for any other kills
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Star Wars: Empire at War
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Star Wars, Empire at War is a 2006 real-time strategy video game developed by Petroglyph Games and published by LucasArts. Set between Episode III and Episode IV, it focuses on the struggle between the Empire and the Rebels. It uses Petroglyphs game engine Alamo, in October 2006, an expansion titled Star Wars, Empire at War, Forces of Corruption was released. As of May 31,2014, online functionality, including network multiplayer and wireless chat is no longer due to Glu Mobile purchasing GameSpy. There are three modes, storyline-based Campaign, Galactic Conquest and Skirmish. Battles can take place on a planet or above the planet, land battles are fought with infantry and ground vehicle units, while space battles are fought with starfighter squadrons and large spacecraft. Galactic Conquest is the campaign, in which the player controls either the Rebel Alliance or The Empire. A weaker, neutral faction of Pirates exists, but makes no attempt to battle the Rebels or Empire unless attacked, grand strategy, production, and resource management are facilitated through a three-dimensional galactic map. The player receives funds from planets they control and from mining facilities, money is used to research technology, build defenses and vehicles, and train troops. Each planet confers different advantages to its owner, even though some bonuses are specific to each faction, when enemy forces meet a battle ensues. The player can use only the equipment they brought to the battle, factions must battle across both space and land maps. The defender may use any buildings or his space station if he has constructed them. In each battle, each side may only have a number of units on the field at a time, the rest are retained as Reinforcements. In land battles, a player can field more units at a time if he captures Reinforcement Points, the storyline campaign follows a semi-open linear path, where the given side must complete sequential mission objectives. Campaign missions build up to the plot of Star Wars and eventually, the campaign is very similar to Galactic Conquest, although the Galactic Map is gradually opened for play as the player completes scripted events and completes missions. Skirmish mode is the familiar, classic RTS mode, skirmishes come in two types, land and space. In land skirmishes, all start with bases and must research upgrades. In space skirmish mode, all players have a station that can be upgraded
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Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron
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Star Wars Battlefront, Renegade Squadron is the third entry in the Star Wars, Battlefront series of video games, first released on October 9,2007 in North America and later in Australia and Europe. The game was designed as a PlayStation Portable exclusive and features the eponymous Rebel Alliance covert ops unit Renegade Squadron, Renegade Squadron was one of the first games available in a bundle pack with the newly released PSP redesign. The single-player campaign follows the exploits of Renegade Squadron from its inception by Han Solo throughout its operational history, during play the Renegades participate in several battles, including those of Yavin and Hoth. The game also features several types of multiplayer modes, in contrast with previous titles in the series that require characters to have a set class, players in Renegade Squadron are able to build their character as they see fit. Renegade Squadron received a reaction from the video gaming community. The game was considered superior to its predecessor and it was praised for its customization options and online play, opinions on the graphics were mixed, and the controls were generally described as inadequate. The overall structure of Renegade Squadron is similar to games in the Battlefront series in that it is a war game played primarily from a third-person view. Each map has a set number of posts, and it is beneficial for the player to occupy as many as possible. Each side has a set number of reinforcement tickets at the beginning of the time a soldier dies. To win a match, a player must capture every command post or reduce their opponents ticket count to zero, the player gets 100 credits to purchase weapons and equipment for their character. In previous games in the series, players chose a class before battle from a list of pre-made options. Each class had a combination of weapons and equipment. Before Renegade Squadrons release, LucasArts stated that the engine would allow millions of different character combinations. Another new feature allows players to enter asteroid bases on some space maps, in addition, players can earn medals by achieving set objectives, such as destroying a certain number of spaceships. There are three options for single play, the campaign, instant action, and galactic conquest, during the story campaign, the player takes control of Renegade Squadron, under the command of Col Serra and occasionally Han Solo. The final mission features the Battle of Endor, where the objectives are similar to the footage in Return of the Jedi. With instant action, players are able to part in battles against computer-controlled opponents. There are four types of missions and these heroes span the Clone Wars and Civil War periods and include Asajj Ventress, Jango Fett, and Kit Fisto
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Lego Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out
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Lego Star Wars is a Lego theme that incorporates the Star Wars saga. Originally it was licensed from 1999–2008, but the Lego Group extended the license with Lucasfilm Ltd. multiple times, First to 2011. In 2012 another 10-year agreement was signed between the two companies, many short films and miniseries have also been produced. The first Lego Star Wars, released in 1999, included model 7140, Star Wars was the first intellectual property to be licensed in Lego Group history. The first few sets based on the trilogy were released in 1999. Sets based on the trilogy of Star Wars would follow. As each new film in the prequel trilogy neared its release date, Lego issued new models of ships and scenes in those films, Lego also produced models based on The Clone Wars, which was released early in 2008. Sets based on The Force Awakens, Rogue One and Star Wars Rebels have also been produced, in addition to the regular minifigure-scale sets, Lego has released several sets for the Ultimate Collector Series. These models are larger, more detailed, are usually meant for display purposes. Many of them include an information plaque and often a display stand, on October 10,2007, the Lego Group released a UCS version of the Millennium Falcon, complete with five minifigures. At 5195 pieces, it is the largest Star Wars Lego set ever released, the newest Ultimate Collector Series set is the 75095 TIE Fighter. On June 5,2015 an unopened box of the Millennium Falcon Lego set was auctioned at auction house Catawiki for 5,000 euros. While also upgrading the first game from the PS2 and Original Xbox generation, to the Xbox 360 and PS2/PS3 generation. The Lego Star Wars Movie Video Game which contains cutscenes from the movie & is available for Wii, Wii U, PS2, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Nintendo 3DS, several films and videos based on Lego Star Wars have been produced. In it Vader hires Boba Fett to track down the Gungan Jar Jar Binks for an accident he caused to Vader. Lego Star Wars, The Padawan Menace released on July 7,2011, is a 30-minute, when Master Yoda leads a group of rambunctious Jedi younglings through Senate chambers when he senses a disturbance in the Force. Summoned to help save the Republic, he discovers one of the younglings secretly boarded his ship. and has a taste for adventure. Meanwhile, C-3PO and R2-D2 are put in charge of the boisterous group, Yoda and the droids proceed to save the younglings from Sith lords
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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
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Star Wars, The Force Unleashed II is an action-adventure platform video game developed and published by LucasArts. It is the installment of the The Force Unleashed multimedia project. Players control a clone of Starkiller, who himself was an apprentice to Darth Vader in The Force Unleashed. The clone embarks on a quest to find his identity and find Starkillers love interest, sam Witwer again provides the voice and likeness for Starkiller, and several cast members return to voice and provide likeness to their respective roles. The Force Unleashed II produced varying responses from critics, who despite adulating the sound design and aesthetics, were concerned with several gameplay elements, aggregate scores range from the 40–70% range at websites GameRankings and Metacritic. During the first few weeks after its release it placed fifth or higher in sales for several regions, the Force Unleashed II is a third-person action game in which the players characters weapons are the Force and a lightsaber. The game has a system for stringing lightsaber attacks and for combining lightsaber attacks with Force powers. Like the original Force Unleashed, experience points earned by killing enemies and finding artifacts can be used to increase Starkillers powers, the Force Unleashed II refines gameplay elements from the first Force Unleashed, and adds more variety with such features as puzzle solving. Combat was modified to include the ability to wield dual lightsabers, the game also adds more Force powers, such as Mind Trick and Force Rage. According to lead producer Vinde Kudirka, the goal of the game across all platforms is to make the player feel like a super-powerful Jedi. Executive producer Julio Torres said that while the story is consistent across platforms, gameplay decreases in style across platforms to reflect each platforms uniqueness, the Wiis control scheme is focused on being able to precisely control Starkillers Force powers and saber combos. The Wii version also has a mode, inspired by The Outfoxies. The Wii game also has an extra story-based level, on Dagobah, the gameplay also highlights the potential to destroy the game environment. Neither of the PC, PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 versions of the game include multiplayer, the Nintendo DS version features the same Force powers as the console versions, but was designed for shorter play sessions due to its mobile nature. The game takes approximately six months after the events of the first game. The Force Unleashed II is described as the entry in the series. Players control Starkillers renegade clone, a failure of Darth Vaders attempt to create a secret apprentice. After a vision that Darth Vader will kill him due to his inability to kill a test droid, which had taken the form of Juno Eclipse, the clone escapes from captivity on Kamino
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Disney Infinity 3.0
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It was developed by Avalanche Software, with additional help from Ninja Theory, Studio Gobo, Sumo Digital, and United Front Games. In contrast to how Disney Infinity 2.0 focused on Marvel characters, the game was announced on May 5,2015, and was released on August 28,2015 in Europe and on August 30,2015 in North America. Unlike the previous two games, this game was not released on handhelds and this game was the final video game published by Disney Interactive Studios and the end of the Disney Infinity series. Disney Infinity 3.0 features similar mechanics to Disney Infinity and Disney Infinity. Although sharing many key elements, the combat system has been redesigned to become more in-depth. The games combat system is influenced by the Star Wars, The Force Unleashed and its sequel, Kingdom Hearts, Devil May Cry, lightsabers have been integrated into combat, due to the inclusion of Star Wars characters. Characters who use lightsabers in combat can utilize additional weapons, for instance, playable character Luke Skywalker has the ability to use a blaster and a lightsaber, which used together can juggle enemies in the air. Full combos have been integrated, which allows the player to pause mid-combo, playable characters with the ability to use the Force, in Star Wars mythology, have the ability to push and pull enemies during combat. Special attacks, which were introduced in Disney Infinity, Marvel Super Heroes, have returned, only the bearer of a close-ranged type weapon, including the characters who have their own primary close-ranged weapons, and characters who can fly are able to perform an aerial combo. Instead of waiting for a bar to fill up for a special attack to be performed, a new feature allows the attack to be released early. Auto-lock when firing ranged weapons at targets has been enhanced, so no longer have to move closer to enemies in order to auto-lock on their positions. The Twilight of the Republic Playset storyline is based on the era of the Star Wars prequel trilogy, set during the events of Star Wars, The Clone Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Yoda and Ahsoka Tano discover a reactivated Droid factory on the planet Geonosis. The four Jedi then decide to find out who is the mastermind behind the newly minted droid army, the Rise Against the Empire Playset storyline is based on the events of the classic Star Wars trilogy, with some differences. The Playset revolves around Luke Skywalker, his sister Leia, Han Solo, a playset based on Star Wars, The Force Awakens was released in December 2015, it was announced at the D23 Expo that the playset would feature Finn and Rey from the film. Kylo Ren and Poe Dameron were later confirmed as playable characters, in the Inside Out playset, Riley falls asleep watching a horror movie and chaos ensues in her subconscious. This scatters some of Rileys memories all over Imagination Land and the emotions must find, a play set featuring Marvel characters fighting each other on a series of levels. All Marvel characters from Disney Infinity 2.0 are playable in this playset, along with new characters introduced in 3.0, such as Hulkbuster, Ant-Man, Black Panther and this is also the first play set to utilize four-player local gameplay. In the Finding Dory playset, Dory learns of a flood at the Marine Life Institute that has washed the littlest fish into all the wrong tanks, together with Nemo, Marlin, Hank, Bailey and Destiny, she returns to rescue them and lead them out to safety
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Star Wars Battlefront (2015 video game)
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Star Wars Battlefront is an action shooter video game developed by EA DICE, with additional work from Criterion Games, and published by Electronic Arts. The game, based on the Star Wars franchise, is the major release in the Star Wars, Battlefront sub-series. The game was released worldwide in November 2015, and received mixed reviews from critics, critics praised the game for its gameplay, visuals and high production values but was criticized for its lack of content on both single player and multiplayer modes. Despite this, it still shipped over 13 million copies, players traverse planets from the original Star Wars trilogy, such as Endor, Hoth, Tatooine, Bespin, and Sullust, as well as the planet of Jakku from the sequel trilogy. To navigate the world, players use a variety of vehicles, battles are planet-based, restricting players from exploring space. The only map that is space-based is included in the expansion pack titled Death Star, the games weapons, characters, gear, and abilities are customizable. As new weapons are unlocked, players have the ability to them with their teammates. Battlefront does not feature iron sights, but allows players to zoom in for better accuracy, the game lets players choose to control either a Rebel Alliance soldier or an Imperial Stormtrooper. Non-playable characters such as C-3PO, Admiral Ackbar, and Jabba the Hutt make minor appearances in the game, the game includes cooperative missions, which can be played offline, but excludes a campaign mode. Players can complete the missions both independently and with bots or another player, the game split screen on consoles. The games online mode supports up to 40 players in one match. DICE first acknowledged the game at Electronic Arts E32013 press conference, as such, DICE did not brand the new game as a sequel to Battlefront II, but a reboot of the franchise. Söderlund said that the game almost wasnt developed, but that staffers at DICE lobbied to be given the project, instead of using traditional modeling techniques, the developers used photogrammetry to produce the assets. Small teams formed by artists were responsible for selecting the assets that could be used by level designers to build maps. According to DICE, the process of developing the assets for the game took half as time as developing the assets for Battlefield 4. In June 2014, it was revealed at EAs E32014 press conference that the ice planet Hoth, in late October of that year, it was revealed that the game would be released Christmas 2015, tying in with the release of Star Wars, The Force Awakens. To meet the deadline, the team had to remove the games campaign mode. In early March 2015, the first gameplay footage of the game was shown at a retail event
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Keith Ferguson (voice actor)
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Keith James Ferguson is an American voice actor best known as the voice of Blooregard Q. Ferguson was born in Los Angeles, California on February 26,1972. Towards the end of his career, he actively began his pursuit of a career in voice-over. He ended up booking the role from this first VO audition, after which he signed with Pat Brady who. He reprised his Han Solo character in The Lego Movie, fergusons mother is a retired probate estate specialist whilst his father was a well-known pianist who was one of Southern Californias popular piano men until his death in 1999. Official website Keith Ferguson at the Internet Movie Database Keith Ferguson at VoiceChasers. com
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Robot Chicken
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The writers, especially Green, also provide many of the voices. Senreich, Goldstein, and Root were formerly writers for the action figure hobbyist magazine ToyFare. Robot Chicken has won an Annie Award and five Emmy Awards, Robot Chicken is based on Twisted ToyFare Theater, a humorous photo comic-strip appearing in ToyFare, The Toy Magazine. The series first appeared as Sweet J Presents on the Sony website Screenblast. com in 2001, in the first episode, Conan OBrien was a featured character, voiced by Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane. Sweet J Presents ended after 12 episodes and moved to Cartoon Networks Adult Swim in 2005 as Robot Chicken, premiering on Sunday, some television networks and sketch shows rejected Robot Chicken, including Comedy Central, MADtv, Saturday Night Live, and even Cartoon Network. However, someone at Cartoon Network passed the pitch along to Adult Swim, around the time that Seth MacFarlane told Seth Green. It employs stop motion animation of toys, action figures, claymation, and various objects, such as tongue depressors, The Game of Life pegs. One particular motif involves the idea of characters being placed in a more realistic world or situation. The Star Wars episode was nominated for a 2008 Emmy Award as Outstanding Animated Program. Sat Adult Swim block, many of the shows sketches from Sweet J Presents were redone for Robot Chicken. The series was renewed for a 20-episode third season, which ran from August 1,2007, after an eight-month hiatus during the third season, the show returned on August 31,2008, to air the remaining 5 episodes. The series was renewed for a season which premiered on December 7,2008. In early 2010, the show was renewed for a fifth and sixth season, season 5 premiered on December 12,2010. The second group of episodes began broadcasting on October 23,2011, the 100th episode aired on January 15,2012. In May 2012, Adult Swim announced they were picking up a season of Robot Chicken. The seventh season premiered on April 13,2014, season 8 premiered on October 25,2015. On a stormy night, a mad scientist finds a road-killed chicken, claypool also composed and performed the shows theme song. In the episode 1987, Michael Ian Black claims that this sequence tells the viewers that they are the chicken, beginning in the sixth season, a new opening sequence has been featured with a role reversal. The chicken comes upon the body of the scientist, which has been decapitated, beginning in the eighth season, a new opening sequence has been featured with the Robot Chicken being uncovered in snow frozen in a block of ice by cyborgs
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Mad (TV series)
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Mad is an American animated sketch comedy produced by Warner Bros. The series premiered on the evening of September 6,2010 on Cartoon Network, the series ended its 3-year run on December 2,2013. The series has some recurring sketches, A Mad Look Inside – A short piece in which viewers see a world inside a celebrity. This only played during Season 1, Alfred E. Neuman for President – During the Election of 2012, there were campaigns for Alfred E. Neumans presidential election. Ask the Celebrity – Where various celebrities respond to fan letter questions, such as Miley Cyrus, when asked what she did to put on a good concert performance, states that she rubbed cats on herself and walked on wool carpeting. Bad Idea # – This presents a scenario from the long list of bad ideas. Celebrity Birthdays – This segment shows the birthdays of fictional characters, only one section of this type has been shown, though. Celebrities Without Their Make-Up – The segment shows what real and fictional celebrities would look like without their make-up, commercials – There are some commercials for fictional items and programs on every episode. Dear Reaper - Letters from children and letters from the Grim Reaper about their death, Don Martin – Adaptations to comics strips by longtime Mad cartoonist Don Martin. Gross and Beyond Gross – Differences between gross and beyond gross, MAD News – A newsman ends up delivering the recent news. This sketch originally began broadcasting randomly in the middle of an episode usually interrupting another sketch, starting with episode 9, the sketch now serves as a cold opening for every episode until MADvent Calendar came into view as the MAD News goes back to interrupting another sketch. MADitorial – An editorial segment starting with episode 5 of Season 4, the sketch is animated by Jorge R. Gutierrez. MADvent Calendar – A series of funny and ridiculous pop culture events that happened recently, starting with Season 3, the sketch serves as the new cold opening for every episode. Mike Wartella – Animations by cartoonist M. Wartella, security Cam – A presentation of surveillance footage of things that happens at public places during nightly closing hours. Each video features supernatural occurrences that suggests would never happen during the day, Spy vs. Spy – An adaptation of the long-running comic series Spy vs. Spy. – A parody of the PSA segments from the Super Friends, here various super-villains from the Legion of Doom present themselves as moral guidance to some child or children. However, as they are villains, they manage to swindle, double cross. This Day in History – A look at an achievement on the day of the initial broadcast, most cases it will involve a lesser known person of historical significance doing or coming up with something in the shadow of another well-known historical figure
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The Lego Movie
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Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Nick Offerman, Alison Brie, Charlie Day, Liam Neeson and Morgan Freeman provide their voices for the films main characters. The film was released theatrically on February 7,2014 through Warner Bros, Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures to near-unanimous acclaim, critics praised its visual style, humor, voice cast and heartwarming message. It earned more than $257 million in the U. S, a sequel to the film is scheduled for release on February 8,2019, as well as a third spin-off, The Billion Brick Race. In a Lego world populated by anthropomorphic minifigures, the evil Lord Business finds a weapon called the Kragle. The wizard Vitruvius attempts to him, but is blinded by Business robots, he prophesies that a person called the Special will find the Piece of Resistance. 8½ years later, construction worker Emmet Brickowski finds a woman named Wyldstyle searching for something at his construction site after hours, when he investigates, Emmet falls into a hole and finds the Piece of Resistance. Compelled to touch it, Emmet experiences vivid visions and passes out and he awakens with the Piece of Resistance attached to his back, in the custody of Bad Cop, Lord Businesss lieutenant. Wyldstyle rescues Emmett, believing him to be the Special, Emmet learns that Wyldstyle and Vitruvius are Master Builders—people capable of building anything from their imagination without the need of instructions—who oppose Business. Wyldstyle explains Business wants to use the Kragle, a tube of Krazy Glue with a weathered label, to freeze the world into perfection. Though disappointed to find Emmet is not a Master Builder, Wyldstyle, Emmet, Wyldstyle, and Vitruvius evade Bad Cops forces with the aid of Batman, Wyldstyles boyfriend. They go to the hidden Cloud Cuckooland where they attend a council of Master Builders, Bad Cops forces attack, having placed a tracking device on Emmett, and capture everyone except Emmet and a small team of Master Builders. Trying to retaliate, Vitruvius is decapitated by Business, who sets a self-destruct protocol, as he dies, Vitruvius reveals he made up the prophecy. He soon reappears to Emmet as a ghost and tells him that his belief makes him the Special, strapped to the self-destruct mechanisms battery, Emmet jumps into the abyss outside the tower and severs the connection, saving his friends. Inspired by Emmets sacrifice, Wyldstyle rallies the Lego people across the universe to use whatever creativity they have to build machines, Emmet finds himself in the human world as a Lego minifigure unable to move. The events of the story are being played out by a boy named Finn on his fathers expansive Lego set in their basement. Realizing the danger his friends are in, Emmet wills himself to move, Finn returns Emmet and the Piece of Resistance to the set, where Emmet now possesses the powers of a Master Builder and confronts Business. Meanwhile, Finns father looks at his sons creations and realizes that Finn had based the villainous Business on him, through a speech Emmet gives Business, Finn tells his father that he is special and has the power to change everything. Finn reconciles with his father, which plays out as Business having a change of heart, capping the Kragle, Emmet is hailed as a hero, and begins a relationship with Wyldstyle with Batmans blessing
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Lego Star Wars
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Lego Star Wars is a Lego theme that incorporates the Star Wars saga. Originally it was licensed from 1999–2008, but the Lego Group extended the license with Lucasfilm Ltd. multiple times, First to 2011. In 2012 another 10-year agreement was signed between the two companies, many short films and miniseries have also been produced. The first Lego Star Wars, released in 1999, included model 7140, Star Wars was the first intellectual property to be licensed in Lego Group history. The first few sets based on the trilogy were released in 1999. Sets based on the trilogy of Star Wars would follow. As each new film in the prequel trilogy neared its release date, Lego issued new models of ships and scenes in those films, Lego also produced models based on The Clone Wars, which was released early in 2008. Sets based on The Force Awakens, Rogue One and Star Wars Rebels have also been produced, in addition to the regular minifigure-scale sets, Lego has released several sets for the Ultimate Collector Series. These models are larger, more detailed, are usually meant for display purposes. Many of them include an information plaque and often a display stand, on October 10,2007, the Lego Group released a UCS version of the Millennium Falcon, complete with five minifigures. At 5195 pieces, it is the largest Star Wars Lego set ever released, the newest Ultimate Collector Series set is the 75095 TIE Fighter. On June 5,2015 an unopened box of the Millennium Falcon Lego set was auctioned at auction house Catawiki for 5,000 euros. While also upgrading the first game from the PS2 and Original Xbox generation, to the Xbox 360 and PS2/PS3 generation. The Lego Star Wars Movie Video Game which contains cutscenes from the movie & is available for Wii, Wii U, PS2, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Nintendo 3DS, several films and videos based on Lego Star Wars have been produced. In it Vader hires Boba Fett to track down the Gungan Jar Jar Binks for an accident he caused to Vader. Lego Star Wars, The Padawan Menace released on July 7,2011, is a 30-minute, when Master Yoda leads a group of rambunctious Jedi younglings through Senate chambers when he senses a disturbance in the Force. Summoned to help save the Republic, he discovers one of the younglings secretly boarded his ship. and has a taste for adventure. Meanwhile, C-3PO and R2-D2 are put in charge of the boisterous group, Yoda and the droids proceed to save the younglings from Sith lords
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Lego Star Wars: The Padawan Menace
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Lego Star Wars is a Lego theme that incorporates the Star Wars saga. Originally it was licensed from 1999–2008, but the Lego Group extended the license with Lucasfilm Ltd. multiple times, First to 2011. In 2012 another 10-year agreement was signed between the two companies, many short films and miniseries have also been produced. The first Lego Star Wars, released in 1999, included model 7140, Star Wars was the first intellectual property to be licensed in Lego Group history. The first few sets based on the trilogy were released in 1999. Sets based on the trilogy of Star Wars would follow. As each new film in the prequel trilogy neared its release date, Lego issued new models of ships and scenes in those films, Lego also produced models based on The Clone Wars, which was released early in 2008. Sets based on The Force Awakens, Rogue One and Star Wars Rebels have also been produced, in addition to the regular minifigure-scale sets, Lego has released several sets for the Ultimate Collector Series. These models are larger, more detailed, are usually meant for display purposes. Many of them include an information plaque and often a display stand, on October 10,2007, the Lego Group released a UCS version of the Millennium Falcon, complete with five minifigures. At 5195 pieces, it is the largest Star Wars Lego set ever released, the newest Ultimate Collector Series set is the 75095 TIE Fighter. On June 5,2015 an unopened box of the Millennium Falcon Lego set was auctioned at auction house Catawiki for 5,000 euros. While also upgrading the first game from the PS2 and Original Xbox generation, to the Xbox 360 and PS2/PS3 generation. The Lego Star Wars Movie Video Game which contains cutscenes from the movie & is available for Wii, Wii U, PS2, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Nintendo 3DS, several films and videos based on Lego Star Wars have been produced. In it Vader hires Boba Fett to track down the Gungan Jar Jar Binks for an accident he caused to Vader. Lego Star Wars, The Padawan Menace released on July 7,2011, is a 30-minute, when Master Yoda leads a group of rambunctious Jedi younglings through Senate chambers when he senses a disturbance in the Force. Summoned to help save the Republic, he discovers one of the younglings secretly boarded his ship. and has a taste for adventure. Meanwhile, C-3PO and R2-D2 are put in charge of the boisterous group, Yoda and the droids proceed to save the younglings from Sith lords
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Ross Marquand
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Ross Marquand, is an American actor from Denver, Colorado. He has appeared on film, stage, and television and he is best known for portraying the role of Aaron on The Walking Dead. Marquand was born in Fort Collins, Colorado and his initial foray into acting began at the age of nine when he played a small part in a church pageant. Soon thereafter, he joined the Boy Scouts of America and began impersonating celebrities at campfire ceremonies, while in attendance at the University of Colorado at Boulder he starred in several productions including To Kill a Mockingbird, The Passion of Dracula, and The Cherry Orchard. He graduated with a BFA in Theatre Performance, after college he moved to Los Angeles and quickly garnered attention in several film and television projects. Marquand portrayed screen legend Paul Newman on AMCs Mad Men, Marquand is best known for the recurring role of Aaron on The Walking Dead, the popular TV series first gay male character. An accomplished voiceover actor, Ross has lent his talents to such as Phineas and Ferb, Conan. He is also known for impersonating a plethora of celebrities including Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey, Matthew McConaughey and this expertise led to a starring and producing role on Pop TVs Impress Me, helmed by Ben Shelton and Rainn Wilson. Ross Marquand Official website Ross Marquand at the Internet Movie Database
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Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars
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Phineas and Ferb, Star Wars is a 1-hour long crossover episode of the American animated series Phineas and Ferb featuring characters from Star Wars. It aired on July 26,2014, on Disney Channel, after escaping, he rendezvous with Princess Leias ship and is complimented on his success by his superior officer, Major Hologram. Darth Vaders Star Destroyer intercepts Leias ship, forcing her to load the disc into R2-D2, as she does this, she is observed by a trio of Imperial stormtroopers, Candace Flynn, Baljeet Tjinder and Buford van Stomm. After seeing R2-D2 and C-3PO entering an escape pod, the trio decide to pursue them, elsewhere, the evil Darthenshmirtz arrives with his robotic underling Norm-3P0 at the Death Star. In conversation with Norm, he reveals that he has a new invention that is more evil. Back on Tattooine, Candace and her companions are on the trail of the droids-as is Perry-until their commander sends them into Mos Eisley to shop for socks for Darth Vader. Perry continues trailing the droids as they are seized by Jawas and then sold to Owen Lars, unfortunately, they accidentally run into Phineas and Ferb on their way to Obi-Wan Kenobis, whom Phineas and Ferb are acquainted with as he has given them instruction in the Jedi arts. Upon discovering the disc, Phineas and Ferb set out to return it to R2-D2, which takes them to Mos Eisley where they encounter Wattos son Blatto, whom they are regular customers of. With Blattos help they discover that the contains the Death Star plans. The brothers just miss Artoo departing with Luke, Obi-Wan, C-3PO, Han Solo, determined to return the disc, the pair travel to the Mos Eisley cantina and are introduced to Isabella Garcia-Shapiro, captain of the Centennial Chihuahua and an old rival of Han Solos. Isabella agrees to them, meanwhile, Candace and her comrades are forced to ride a bus transport back to the Death Star. Ferb, sensing through the Force that Perry is in danger, leaves Phineas and Isabella to go to his aid, unknowingly passing Obi-Wan Kenobi on the way. He then knocks Perrys carbonite slab out of the way of a blast from the Sith-inator only to be hit himself, which begins his transformation into a Sith by giving him yellow irises. Elsewhere, Isabella and Phineas run into Candace, who pursues them, only to be saved from a fall by Phineas. Darthenshmirtz is then attacked by a freed Perry, while Phineas gives Isabella the Death Star disc to take to the Rebels while he goes looking for Ferb. Entering Darthenshmirtzs lair, Phineas discovers an upgraded Sith-inator and Ferb, Isabella travels to Yavin and delivers the Death Star plans, but despite the appeals of the Firestar Girls refuses to join the Rebel Alliance. The battles between Perry and Darthenshmirtz and Phineas and Ferb continue and intersect, until Candace comes to Phineas aid. Together they manage to destroy the Sith-inator, which restores Ferb to normal, Perry also leaves with a carbonite-encased Darthenshmirtz, while the rebels begin their attack on the Death Star
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Millennium Falcon
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The Millennium Falcon is a spaceship in the Star Wars universe commanded at one time by Corellian smuggler Han Solo and his Wookiee first mate, Chewbacca. The highly modified Corellian Engineering Corporation YT-1300 light freighter first appears in Star Wars, the ship also makes a brief cameo appearance in Revenge of the Sith. Additionally, the Falcon appears in a variety of Star Wars expanded universe materials, including books, comics, the ship originally had a more elongated appearance, but this designs similarity to the Eagle Transporters in Space,1999 prompted Lucas to change the Falcons design. The original model was modified, re-scaled, and used as Princess Leias ship, modelmaker Joe Johnston had about four weeks to redesign the Falcon, and Lucass only suggestion to Johnston was to think of a flying saucer. Johnston did not want to produce a basic flying saucer, so he created the offset cockpit, forward cargo mandibles, the design was simple enough to create in the four-week window. Johnston called production of the new Falcon design one of his most intense projects, to this, sound designer Ben Burtt added the hum of the cooling fans on the motion-control rig at Industrial Light & Magic. Visually, the Millennium Falcon was represented by models and external and internal sets. For Star Wars, an exterior set was constructed and the set dressed as Docking Bay 94. Besides the functional landing gear, an additional support held up the structure and was disguised as a fuel line, the interior set included the starboard ring corridor, the boarding ramp, cockpit access tunnel, gun turret ladder, secret compartments, and the forward hold. The cockpit was constructed as a set that could be rocked when the ship was supposed to shake. Several inconsistencies exist between the set and the external set, the cockpit access tunnel angle being the most noticeable. The effects models for Star Wars matched the design of the exterior set, the primary model was 5 feet long and detailed with various kit parts. The ship was represented by a painting when Princess Leia sees it for the first time. For the 1997 Special Edition, a digital model replaces the effects model in several shots, for The Empire Strikes Back, a new external set was constructed. Built in secrecy under the code name Magic Roundabout, the company leased the 1930s Western Sunderland Flying Boat hangar in Pembroke Dock. It was then disassembled and shipped to Elstree Studios, Hertfordshire, today, the Pembroke Dock museum has an exhibit about the project. The new model, which measured at approximately 32 inches in length, had several features that differed from the five-foot model including updated landing gear. The 32 model was the version of the Millennium Falcon most depicted in toys, model kits, the model was reused for Star Wars, Episode VI, Return of the Jedi
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Rebel Alliance
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The Alliance to Restore the Republic is an interstellar revolutionary faction in the fictional universe of Star Wars. Their goal was to seize the Alliance forces, the Rebel Alliance was first featured as the main protagonist-faction in the 1977 film Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. The origins of the Alliance to Restore the Republic are told during the events of Revenge of the Sith, the group included Bail Organa, Padmé Amidala, and Mon Mothma, amongst others. Amidala was, at the time, the most famous and prominent of the group and she realized that this made her a target and later advised the others to go quiet in their dissent and exclude her from any future proceedings. The young senator died in premature childbirth not long after her attempt to prevent Anakin Skywalkers fall. The show focuses on a group of rebels that band together aboard a freighter starship called Ghost. By the end of the first season, it is revealed there are various cells that are resisting the Empire. Senator Bail Organa of Alderaan and former Jedi Ahsoka Tano both play a role in coordinating them, during the events of Rogue One and the original Star Wars, the Alliance learns of the construction of the Death Star, an enormous battle station intended to secure the Empires power. With the help of the Rogue One squad led by Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor, right after the battle, the Tantive IV, an Alderaanian cruiser carrying Princess Leia is captured by the Imperial fleet while attempting to deliver the Death Star Plans to Bail Organa on Alderaan. The Princess is subsequently rescued by Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Obi-Wan Kenobi and this leads directly to the Alliances victory in the Battle of Yavin and the loyalty of Luke Skywalker, the Rebellions only remaining member with training in the Force. In The Empire Strikes Back, the Alliance suffers a defeat on Hoth when one of their main command centers. The remaining forces of the Rebellion are forced to stay mobile, using Admiral Ackbars flagship, Home One, by Return of the Jedi, the Rebel Alliance has regrouped and learned that a new Death Star is being constructed, and will be completed under Emperor Palpatines personal supervision. Mon Mothma has Admiral Ackbar and Lando Calrissian command the Alliance fleet and dispatches Han Solo and Princess Leia to disable the stations defenses, the Alliance subsequently wins the Battle of Endor, in which Darth Vader, Emperor Palpatine, and much of the Imperial hierarchy are destroyed. Thus, the Empire is essentially defeated, and the Rebellion liberates most of the galaxy, by The Force Awakens, the New Republic has formed from the Rebellion. The Resistance, an army backed up by the New Republic and successor of the Alliance, is formed to stand against the First Order, a new military power formed by remnants from the Old Empire. The incident begins when an Imperial military cruiser commanded by Captain Wilhuff Tarkin is blocked by peaceful anti-Empire protesters who refuse to move off the landing pad. With implied permission from the Emperor, Tarkin lands the ship anyway, injuring and killing many, the myriad of civilizations which are fighting the Empire continue to grow in number and progressively coalesce into a ragtag organization known as the Resistance. They intend upon removing the evil Emperor, but the growing ruthlessness of the Imperial state forces them into secrecy and these Rebel starfighters were equipped with hyperdrive capability along prearranged routes which would allow this kind of harassment and escape before the Empire may react
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Smuggling
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There are various motivations to smuggle. Examples of non-financial motivations include bringing banned items past a security checkpoint or the removal of classified documents from a government or corporate office, Smuggling is a common theme in literature, from Bizets opera Carmen to the James Bond spy books Diamonds are Forever and Goldfinger. The verb smuggle, from Low German schmuggeln or Dutch smokkelen, apparently a frequentative formation of a meaning to sneak. Smuggling has a long and controversial history, probably dating back to the first time at which duties were imposed in any form, in England smuggling first became a recognised problem in the 13th century, following the creation of a national customs collection system by Edward I in 1275. Medieval smuggling tended to focus on the export of highly taxed export goods — notably wool, merchants also, however, sometimes smuggled other goods to circumvent prohibitions or embargoes on particular trades. Most studies of historical smuggling have been based on official sources — such as court records, according to Dr Evan Jones, the trouble with these is that they only detail the activities of those dumb enough to get caught. This has led him and others, such as Prof Huw Bowen to use records to reconstruct smuggling businesses. Grain smuggling by members of the elite, often working closely with corrupt customs officers, has also been shown to have been prevalent in East Anglia during the later 16th century. In England wool was smuggled to the continent in the 17th century, the principal reason for the high duty was the need for the government to finance a number of extremely expensive wars with France and the United States. The thievery was boasted about and romanticized until it seemed a kind of heroism and it did not have any taint of criminality and the whole of the south coast had pockets vying with one another over whose smugglers were the darkest or most daring. The Smugglers Inn was one of the commonest names for a bar on the coast, in Henley Road, smuggling in colonial times was a reaction to the heavy taxes and regulations imposed by mercantilist trade policies. After American independence in 1783, smuggling developed at the edges of the United States at places like Passamaquoddy Bay, St. Marys in Georgia, Lake Champlain, and Louisiana. During Thomas Jeffersons embargo of 1807-1809, these places became the primary places where goods were smuggled out of the nation in defiance of the law. Like Britain, a gradual liberalization of laws as part of the free trade movement meant less smuggling. In 1907 President Theodore Roosevelt tried to cut down on smuggling by establishing the Roosevelt Reservation along the United States-Mexico Border, Smuggling revived in the 1920s during Prohibition, and drug smuggling became a major problem after 1970. In the 1990s, when sanctions were imposed on Serbia. The state unofficially allowed this to continue or otherwise the entire economy would have collapsed, much smuggling occurs when enterprising merchants attempt to supply demand for a good or service that is illegal or heavily taxed. As a result, illegal trafficking, and the smuggling of weapons, as well as the historical staples of smuggling, alcohol
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New Republic (Star Wars)
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The New Republic is the main fictional government in the Star Wars universe. The government is a restoration to the Galactic Republic, a state that governed the galaxy. Following its decisive victory at the Battle of Endor as depicted in Return of the Jedi, the goal of the New Republic was to restore the democratic rule of the galaxy that had existed under its predecessor state, the Old Republic. These individuals were able to form the First Order, an offshoot of the Empire seeking to destroy the Republic, for the three decades preceding the film, the First Order operated secretly in the unexplored regions, rebuilding its army and starfleet, in hopes of resurrecting the Empire. Inspired by the ideology of the Old Empire, the First Order constructed Starkiller Base, the superweapon was built into a mobile planet from the unexplored regions of the galaxy, and would travel across multiple star systems to draw their suns energy in order to charge its weapon. However, Starkiller Base is later destroyed by the Resistance, a splinter of the Republics military and protagonists of the film, the new Alliance serves as a provisional government which eventually transitions into the New Republic. Star Wars, The Force Awakens, The Visual Dictionary, New Republic on Wookieepedia, a Star Wars wiki
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Galactic Republic
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The Galactic Republic, often referred to as simply the Republic, is the name of the interplanetary State used in the fictional Star Wars universe prior to the establishment of the Galactic Empire. The form of government, ruled by the Senate, was introduced in the prequel trilogy. By the time of the trilogy, it is referred to as the Old Republic. It was a democratic, though eventually ineffectual, constitutional republic tied up in layers of bureaucracy, the Republic, as it was commonly known, was a republican government that was able to sustain itself for over twenty-five thousand years. The Republic itself was formed in 25,053 BBY when the first Galactic Constitution was signed on Coruscant, the Republic was made up of several hundred thousand worlds. The Republic began as a protection and economic alliance among a number of planets in the Galactic Core. Each member world chose a Senator to represent them in the Republic Senate, Senators were ambassadors of their homeworld, and member worlds were able to maintain their government and society in accordance with local beliefs, customs, and traditions. There were a variety of different local governments along the political spectrum. In some systems, the senator was elected to that post, when the Republics power and influence expanded, many new areas of the galaxy were incorporated into the Republic. A reorganization of Senatorial representation occurred 1,000 BBY during the Ruusan Reformation, the most common organization for these new territories was to group regions into Sectors of about 50 inhabited worlds. Each sector is represented by a Senatorial Delegation, when the number of sectors became too large, sectors were organized into roughly a thousand regions, each represented by one delegation to the Senate. The Senate served as the body of the Galactic Republic. The Senate, according to the Star Wars. com Encyclopedia, was a building containing 1,024 floating platforms, each of which contained a senator. Each platform in the senate represented a sector of the galaxy, with one senator for that sector accompanied by a delegation of aides, some platforms represented individual worlds bringing special pleas to the senate, others the special interest groups such as the Trade Federation. Along with the senators, the leaders of the individual member planets apparently also had the power to vote in the Senate, each senatorial delegation had one vote. In the spirit of C-SPAN2, Senate cam droids, also known as Senate hovercams, were floating cam droids used in the Galactic Senate to record the legislative sessions. The members of the Senate then elected a Chancellor from among their ranks who served as the Senates presiding officer and as the Republics de facto leader. The Chancellor was assisted by the Vice Chair, who is elected in the same manner as the Chancellor
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Princess Leia
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Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan, later known as General Leia Organa, is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise, portrayed in films by Carrie Fisher. Introduced in the original Star Wars film in 1977, Leia is princess of the planet Alderaan, a member of the Imperial Senate and she thwarts the sinister Sith Lord Darth Vader and helps bring about the destruction of the Empires cataclysmic superweapon, the Death Star. In The Empire Strikes Back, Leia commands a Rebel base and evades Vader as she falls in love with the smuggler, Han Solo. In Return of the Jedi, Leia leads the operation to rescue Han from the crime lord Jabba the Hutt, and is revealed to be Vaders daughter and the twin sister of Luke Skywalker. The prequel film Revenge of the Sith establishes that the mother is Senator Padmé Amidala of Naboo. Leia is adopted by Senator Bail and Queen Breha Organa of Alderaan, in The Force Awakens, Leia is the founder and General of the Resistance against the First Order and has a son with Han named Ben, who goes by the name Kylo Ren. She becomes the Chief of State of the New Republic and a Jedi Master, One of the more popular Star Wars characters, Leia has been called a 1980s icon, a feminist hero and model for other adventure heroines. She has appeared in many works and merchandising, and has been referenced or parodied in several TV shows. Her cinnamon buns hairstyle from Star Wars and metal bikini from Return of the Jedi have become cultural icons, Leia was created by Star Wars creator George Lucas. In 1999, Lucas explained his early development of Leia, Luke and Obi-Wan Kenobi, The first talked about a princess, the second version involved a father, his son, and his daughter, the daughter was the heroine of the film. Now the daughter has become Luke, Mark Hamills character, There was also the story of two brothers where I transformed one of them into a sister. The older brother was imprisoned, and the sister had to rescue him. In the fourth draft it was established that Leia Organa came instead from Alderaan, Fisher was 19 when she was cast as Princess Leia, with actresses including Amy Irving, Cindy Williams and Jodie Foster also up for the role. Asked about Streep in 2015, Fisher said, Bullshit, but Jodie Foster was up for it. That one I knew the most, the second draft of the Return of the Jedi screenplay contained dialogue in which Obi-Wan tells Luke he has a twin sister. She and their mother were sent to the protection of friends in a distant system, the mother died shortly thereafter, and Lukes sister was adopted by Bens friends, the governor of Alderaan and his wife. Fisher explained in 1983, Leias real father left her mother when she was pregnant, I was adopted and grew up set apart from other people because I was a princess. Composer John Williams created a musical leitmotif for Leia which recurs throughout the Star Wars saga, Princess Leias Theme was recorded as a concert suite for the score of the 1977 film
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Kylo Ren
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Kylo Ren is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. Introduced in the 2015 film Star Wars, The Force Awakens, Kylo Ren is the chosen name of Ben Solo, the son of original Star Wars trilogy characters Han Solo and Leia Organa. Though trained by his uncle Luke Skywalker as a Jedi, he has been seduced to the side of the Force by Supreme Leader Snoke. Kylo Ren is also the master of the Knights of Ren, and a commander for the First Order and he is featured in The Force Awakens media and merchandising, and will appear in the films forthcoming sequel, Star Wars, The Last Jedi. According to director Abrams, the First Order is inspired by ODESSA, Drivers casting in the film in an unnamed role was first announced on April 29,2014. Kylo Ren was first seen, but still not named, in the 88-second The Force Awakens teaser trailer released by Lucasfilm on November 28,2014, the name Kylo Ren was revealed by Entertainment Weekly in a Lucasfilm-designed Topps-style trading card mockup in December 2014. A May 2015 Vanity Fair photo shoot by Annie Leibovitz confirmed that Driver would be portraying Kylo, in an interview with Time, The Force Awakens costume designer Michael Kaplan said that Abrams requested that Rens mask be designed to be memorable for a child. After numerous attempts to gain Abrams approval, the design was selected. Kaplan said, I dont know if it was the kind of spaghetti type lines on it or what, also the silver in those lines kind of reflects and changes color with the action. You know, if hes standing in front of fire you see that, Abrams told Entertainment Weekly in August 2015, The movie explains the origins of the mask and where its from, but the design was meant to be a nod to the Vader mask. According to other cast members, Driver is a method actor, Rens character arc shares similarities with that of the Star Wars expanded universe character Jacen Solo, the son of Han Solo and Princess Leia who threatens the galaxy as a fallen Jedi. Additionally, critics have noted a resemblance between Rens character design and that of Revan, the protagonist of Knights of the Old Republic, Abrams told Empire in August 2015, Kylo Ren is not a Sith. He works under Supreme Leader Snoke, who is a figure on the Dark Side of the Force. Abrams had previously told Entertainment Weekly that the character came to the name Kylo Ren when he joined a group called the Knights of Ren. Robbie Collin of The Telegraph described Ren as a hot-headed, radicalised Dark Side jihadi, whose red lightsaber splutters, Abrams noted, The lightsaber is something that he built himself, and is as dangerous and as fierce and as ragged as the character. The Telegraph also explains that Rens wild and erratic temper and angsty instability make him dangerous, melissa Leon of The Daily Beast describes Rens use of the Force formidable, citing his ability to stop a blaster shot mid-air, immobilize victims and probe their minds against their will. Kasdan told Entertainment Weekly in August 2015, Ive written four Star Wars movies now, I think youre going to see something thats brand new to the saga, noting that the character is full of emotion. Abrams explained, I think that what makes Ren so unique is that he isnt as fully formed as when we meet a character such as Darth Vader and he is not your prototypical mustache-twirling bad guy
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Solo family
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The Solo family is a fictional family of characters in the Star Wars franchise. Introduced in the 1977 film Star Wars, smuggler Han Solo is initially a morally ambiguous character and he is also a major character in the sequels The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and Star Wars, The Force Awakens. In The Force Awakens, Han and Princess Leia have a son named Ben Solo, Han first appears in Star Wars, A New Hope where he is played by Harrison Ford. He and his Wookiee co-pilot, Chewbacca are initially hired to transport Luke Skywalker, Han and Chewbacca later become involved in the Rebel Alliance and are committed to its cause. Over the course of the franchise, Han becomes a leader for the Alliance, falls in love with and marries Leia Organa. Leia first appears in Star Wars, A New Hope, played by Carrie Fisher and she is princess of the planet Alderaan, a member of the Imperial Senate and also an agent for the Rebel Alliance. She is later revealed to be the daughter of Darth Vader, over the course of the franchise, Leia becomes a leader among the Alliance and later of the New Republic. She falls in love with and marries Han Solo, with whom she has a son named Ben, following the events of Return of the Jedi, Leia and Han have a son, Ben Solo. He is taught the ways of the Force by his uncle, Luke Skywalker, taking up the name Kylo Ren, he sets out to destroy the First Orders enemy and his mothers militant force, the Resistance, as well as kill his former master, Luke. The characters below are no longer considered to be officially canon after the acquisition of Star Wars by Disney, King Berethon e Solo ruled the planet Corellia during the Golden Age of the Old Republic, and set up a constitutional monarchy in 312 BBY. His descendants continued to rule Corellia until the establishment of the Diktat centuries later, by 29 BBY, their declining status had driven them out of rule and into poverty. Han Solo was born during this time, following the events of the original film trilogy, Han is a hero of the Rebel Alliance, and marries Rebel leader Princess Leia in The Courtship of Princess Leia by Dave Wolverton. Han and Leia have a son and daughter in Timothy Zahns The Last Command. Leia becomes the Chief of State of the New Republic by the time of the Jedi Academy trilogy by Kevin J. Anderson, all three of the Solo children become Jedi Knights under the tutelage of their maternal uncle Luke Skywalker. The Solo children were ranked as the 16th top Star Wars heroes, Jaina Solo and her twin brother Jacen were created by Timothy Zahn in the Star Wars expanded universe novel The Last Command. She is the eldest child of Han Solo and Leia Organa Solo, and has appeared in various novels, Jaina, named after Hans mother, is born five minutes before her brother Jacen in the Thrawn trilogy. The twins, and eventually their younger brother, live at various safe havens for their first few years under the protection of Leias handmaiden Winter, the twins play a small role in Kevin J. Andersons Jedi Academy trilogy. In Champions of the Force, Jaina helps her brother defend their unconscious uncle from the spirit of Sith Lord Exar Kun, in Vonda McIntyres The Crystal Star, Jaina is kidnapped and used in a plot, along with her siblings, to take advantage of their Force powers
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