Going to San Diego Comic-Con

Post by **Mike DiCenso** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:22 pm

It's that time of the year again where I head off to one of the world's largest geek-fests! :-)

Why is this being posted in the Trek/Wars forums? Because every year Lucasfilm traditionally has several large Star Wars forums and presentations, one of which is MCed by Steve Sansweet himself. When I'am able to attend Sansweet's event, I try to get him to answer questions relating to matters, like what is or isn't canon. If anyone has any legitmate questions you'd like me to try to have him answer, I'll be happy to give it a go.
-Mike

Mr. Oragahn · Post by **Mr. Oragahn** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:03 pm

Well, canon won't be a big question. I mean, you certainly don't want to look like a freak (too late? :) ).

Try to get some stuff about the KOTOR MMO, the live action series, if anything is planned with Hamill, Ford and Fisher lending their voices to CGI characters, and err... see if there are models to take pictures of.

Post by **Mike DiCenso** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:10 pm

It's going to depend on what Sansweet's presentation shows us. We might get a sneak-peak showing about the live-action series, for instance, if the pre-production work has progressed far enough. The same with the animated series that was also announced several years ago at the same time as the live-action series.

As for models, there's always lots of that kind of thing! For the last couple years Master Replicas has been showing off their highly impressive and accurate 33" diameter Millenium Falcon model. Unless you mean actual models used in the movies. Except for a few dealers peddling bits and pieces, none of the actual SW studio models have been shown to my knowledge in the last 15 years or so I've been attending Comic-Con.

The Christies' auction people had a few of the Star Trek studio models, costumes and props on display. Among them was the huge Romulan D'Deridex class warbird model from TNG.

But that's the cool thing I love about Comic-Con... You never know what's going to show up there! :-)
-Mike

Mr. Oragahn · Post by **Mr. Oragahn** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:45 pm

I think the CGI series has actually been turned into a movie. Read that one week ago on some website, with some interview about how seeing what they achieved, Lucas thought this CGI stuff deserved a theater release after all.
But who knows. You never know with Lucash.

Flectarn · Post by **Flectarn** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 2:09 am

My understanding was that the theatrical release next month was leading into the series to be released in the fall... but then I'd have expected to see more advertising for eh show by now. What network was it supposed to air on?

Post by **Mike DiCenso** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:50 am

Flectarn is corrrect, the animated movie is to lead into the upcoming TV series. More on that here, and here.
-Mike

Mr. Oragahn · Post by **Mr. Oragahn** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 1:40 pm

So what Lucas actually deemed worth the theater was the pilot for the series.
Man, that's a demonstration of wealth and power, somehow.