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Message #03514
To: Jean auBois aubois@trail.com, beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Dave Hrynkiw dave@solarbotics.com
Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 02:00:51 -0600
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Rollerbots (was: Star Wars Ep1...)
At 01:10 AM 5/22/1999 , Jean auBois wrote:
>Presuming the trailer is anything like the movie, I'd say that the concept
>is precisely the same, even though the details are somewhat different. A
>device that alternates between walking a rolling, yes?
Actually, I don't recall it ever walking. Just rolling, then stopping on
tripod legs and firing.
>:I can see Mr. Lucas went to the library, ripped that picture
>:out of a book
>
>Perhaps he -owns- a copy of the book and needn't go to the library. He
>needn't have gone off and "ripped that picture out of a book" but I find it
>excessively doubtful that he's never seen it, nor the insect I described
>ever in his life.
If *I've* seen similar creatures on the "Discovery Channel", I'm sure Mr.
Lucas has seen them too. He doesn't strike me as anything but a well-read
man, considering how many moral concepts, fables, religious storylines, and
Asian mythologies he's managed to merge into Star Wars.
You criticize his rolling heavybots as a knock off of Escher's rolling
creatures & nature's "Pillbugs". Ummm, last time I looked, these are not
robots (or illustrated as such). His concept of a rolling robot that
unfolds into an upright, heavily armored, well-gunned robot is like NOTHING
else I've seen or heard of.
If you can't recognize the genius of his imagination, and his skill in
rendering it, well.... "Oh give me a break!"
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"Um, no - that's H,R,Y,N,K,I,W. No, not K,I,U,U, K,I,_W_. Yes,
that's right. Yes, I know it looks like "HOCKYRINK." Yup, only
2 vowels. Pronounciation? _SMITH_".
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