11 hours ago, Commander Kaine said:Also the overlap with anime peasants is far too great for it to be a decent thing.
When I first read that I thought you typed Anime Pheasants, haha.
New Canon E-wing Revealed in Star Wars Resistance?
25 minutes ago, Ironlord said:TESB:
"Ship approaching, X-Wing class."
"Good. Monitor Skywalker and allow him to land."
I should have known I would have forgotten something... I knew they didn't say X-Wing or Y-Wing in ANH, and they didn't ever call them A-Wings or B-Wings in RotJ, but I forgot that line in ESB.
24 minutes ago, Forgottenlore said:When do they say T-65?
And in Empire, the officer tells Vader “ ship approaching X-Wing class”
blast you and your ninja ways Ironlord
I was pretty sure they refer to them as T65s in the Hangar Bay on Yavin at some point, though that may have been a deleted scene with Biggs vouching for Luke (or I may be mixing it up from some lines in the novelization... I'm getting old). I also thought Luke referred to T-65s when talking about the evacuation of Hoth, though that might have been T-47s, now that I think of it.
On 5/28/2018 at 12:42 AM, Animewarsdude said:I'll actually get a small chuckle if it turns out to be a Z-100 or a Z-195 Headhunter.
It definitely looks more like a Z-95 than it does anything else.
On 5/28/2018 at 1:50 AM, Azrapse said:
So 'B' is for "bogus"? I've been looking at that thing for decades, and still can't see anything resembling a 'B'.
On 5/28/2018 at 7:35 AM, Bad Idea Comics said:I bet it is an E-Wing and they simply removed all the stupid. The outboard engines are stupid. The cockpit cannon is stupid. The fighter depicted is far less stupid - almost like it was designed by people that actually understood Star Wars aesthetics!
It looks exactly like a Z-95 with a centerline engine. Why do people keep trying to link it to E-Wings?
2 minutes ago, JJ48 said:So 'B' is for "bogus"? I've been looking at that thing for decades, and still can't see anything resembling a 'B'.
It's the aBstract-wing.
10 minutes ago, Freeptop said:I was pretty sure they refer to them as T65s in the Hangar Bay on Yavin at some point, though that may have been a deleted scene with Biggs vouching for Luke (or I may be mixing it up from some lines in the novelization... I'm getting old). I also thought Luke referred to T-65s when talking about the evacuation of Hoth, though that might have been T-47s, now that I think of it.
I don’t remember any in universe designations in ANH other than T-16, just generic terminology; fighter, cruiser, etc...
There is the reference to T-47s in Empire. From a medical droid talking about equipment and “modules”. It has always bugged the **** out of me that someone decided that meant the snowspeeders.
3 minutes ago, Forgottenlore said:I don’t remember any in universe designations in ANH other than T-16, just generic terminology; fighter, cruiser, etc...
There is the reference to T-47s in Empire. From a medical droid talking about equipment and “modules”. It has always bugged the **** out of me that someone decided that meant the snowspeeders.
I could have sworn I remembered Biggs saying that the T-65 controls were similar to the T-16, so Luke would be fine. That may well have come out of the original novelization, though...
Man, I must just be getting old, then. Same age as Star Wars! We're getting old together, at least! ?
18 minutes ago, JJ48 said:So 'B' is for "bogus"? I've been looking at that thing for decades, and still can't see anything resembling a 'B'.
Can't you see the B shape?
Come on! It's not one of those Magical Eye from the 90s. 
9 minutes ago, Azrapse said:
Can't you see the B shape?
Come on! It's not one of those Magical Eye from the 90s.
If you have to distort the letter that much (and still ignore a significant portion of the fuselage), it could just as easily be literally any letter in our alphabet or theirs.
1 hour ago, Forgottenlore said:When do they say T-65?
17 minutes ago, Freeptop said:I could have sworn I remembered Biggs saying that the T-65 controls were similar to the T-16, so Luke would be fine. That may well have come out of the original novelization, though...
Man, I must just be getting old, then. Same age as Star Wars! We're getting old together, at least! ?
In the novelization, rather than the movie itself. Even the special edition, which has the same scene, has much less dialogue - as well as modifying Red Leader (former Blue Leader)'s comment to "you sure you can handle this ship" instead of "have you been checked out on it".
'Aren't you Luke Skywalker? Have you been checked out on the Incom T-65?'
'Sir,' Biggs put in before his friend could reply, 'Luke's the best bush pilot in the outer-rim territories.'
The older man patted Luke reassuringly on the back as they studied his waiting ship. 'Something to be proud of. I've got over a thousand hours in an Incom skyhopper myself.'
He paused a moment before going on. 'I met your father once when I was just a boy, Luke. He was a great pilot. You'll do all right out there. If you've got half your father's skill, you'll do a dam sight better than all right.'
'Thank you, sir. I'll try.'
'There's not much difference control-wise between an X-wing T-65,' Blue Leader went on, 'and a skyhopper.' His smile turned ferocious. 'Except the payload's of a somewhat different nature.'
He left them and hurried toward his own ship. Luke had a hundred questions to ask him, and no time for even one.
1 hour ago, Ironlord said:In the novelization, rather than the movie itself. Even the special edition, which has the same scene, has much less dialogue - as well as modifying Red Leader (former Blue Leader)'s comment to "you sure you can handle this ship" instead of "have you been checked out on it".
'Aren't you Luke Skywalker? Have you been checked out on the Incom T-65?'
'Sir,' Biggs put in before his friend could reply, 'Luke's the best bush pilot in the outer-rim territories.'
The older man patted Luke reassuringly on the back as they studied his waiting ship. 'Something to be proud of. I've got over a thousand hours in an Incom skyhopper myself.'
He paused a moment before going on. 'I met your father once when I was just a boy, Luke. He was a great pilot. You'll do all right out there. If you've got half your father's skill, you'll do a dam sight better than all right.'
'Thank you, sir. I'll try.'
'There's not much difference control-wise between an X-wing T-65,' Blue Leader went on, 'and a skyhopper.' His smile turned ferocious. 'Except the payload's of a somewhat different nature.'
He left them and hurried toward his own ship. Luke had a hundred questions to ask him, and no time for even one.
That would be it. Okay, I'm just getting old and mixing up my memories, then. Thanks for digging up that old fossil! ?
7 hours ago, Commander Kaine said:Lol... So I realize how that sounds.
What I meant is that I understand the fetish that involves clothing and make up and stuff like that. Actually most people do, dressing up is the most common fetish in the world. I definitely don't understand dressing up as animals
Believe me, I sure don't get that, and most sane people don't either.
3 hours ago, Ironlord said:In the novelization, rather than the movie itself. Even the special edition, which has the same scene, has much less dialogue - as well as modifying Red Leader (former Blue Leader)'s comment to "you sure you can handle this ship" instead of "have you been checked out on it".
'Aren't you Luke Skywalker? Have you been checked out on the Incom T-65?'
'Sir,' Biggs put in before his friend could reply, 'Luke's the best bush pilot in the outer-rim territories.'
The older man patted Luke reassuringly on the back as they studied his waiting ship. 'Something to be proud of. I've got over a thousand hours in an Incom skyhopper myself.'
He paused a moment before going on. 'I met your father once when I was just a boy, Luke. He was a great pilot. You'll do all right out there. If you've got half your father's skill, you'll do a dam sight better than all right.'
'Thank you, sir. I'll try.'
'There's not much difference control-wise between an X-wing T-65,' Blue Leader went on, 'and a skyhopper.' His smile turned ferocious. 'Except the payload's of a somewhat different nature.'
He left them and hurried toward his own ship. Luke had a hundred questions to ask him, and no time for even one.
When did this dude meet Anakin? I wanna' see that.
Oh wow, took me all my Star Wars life (first seen on a bootleg VHS at the age of 4 or 5 a bit over 30 years ago) to realize that...
Naming something-Wings with English letters DOESN'T MAKE SENSE!?
They would have named these (and the visual designers would have to base those ships on) AUREBESH LETTERS!
And here I always thought that it was called a B-Wing because:
6 hours ago, Nailed said:The Rebel starfighter designations are in High Galactic not Aurebesh
Of course! The Empire should be using High Galactic in labeling their tractor beam controls, and the ‘letter’-wings were first marketed to the empire....it all makes sense.
It is all about the Negative space for the B-Wing!!
Or it was in cursive ....
Look at that, it's a lower case b. Once you see it you can't unsee it. It's RIGHT THERE.
The cockpit and lasers are just serifs.
On 5/27/2018 at 11:13 PM, TylerTT said:remember Star Wars does not have “earthquakes” because there is no “earth”
The word “earth” originally means the ground or soil, it didn’t come to mean the celestial planet until just around a thousand years ago.
So “earthquake” is a perfectly fine English word without the existence of Earth.
Edited by TvboyUh, excuse me. I think you mean an Esk-Wing and a Besh-Wing.
3 hours ago, Tvboy said:The word “earth” originally means the ground or soil, it didn’t come to mean the celestial planet until just around a thousand years ago.
So “earthquake” is a perfectly fine English word without the existence of Earth.
Tell that to gorge.
On 5/29/2018 at 10:45 PM, Captain Lackwit said:Believe me, I sure don't get that, and most sane people don't either.
When did this dude meet Anakin? I wanna' see that.
A clone wars comic, I believe. He's a planetary militia veteran (from a unit impressively named the Rarefied Air Cavalry) who fought alongside Anakin in the clone wars.
5 hours ago, Magnus Grendel said:A clone wars comic, I believe. He's a planetary militia veteran (from a unit impressively named the Rarefied Air Cavalry) who fought alongside Anakin in the clone wars.
I saw something relatively recently that it was named after the guy who made the models in RoTJ... his name was Bruce, so they called it the Bruce-wing on set. Eventually that got shortened to B-Wing.
Either that, or Alex Davy was involved. I lean toward this one.
6 hours ago, Magnus Grendel said:A clone wars comic, I believe. He's a planetary militia veteran (from a unit impressively named the Rarefied Air Cavalry) who fought alongside Anakin in the clone wars.
Star Wars Insider covered it:
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Republic_HoloNet_News_Core_Edition_15:01:03
The Essential Guide to Warfare also showed Dreis reminiscing to himself about Anakin.
On 5/28/2018 at 8:03 AM, Alpha17 said:Eh, if that's Disney's take on an E-Wing, I'll stick with the real one, thanks.
Besides, we all know that's just a WWII fighter flying backward.
Hellcat or Bearcat
I always figured it was supposed to be a "T-Wing" but nobody was brave enough to correct the pointy haired boss when he started calling it the "B-Wing" in front of customers.