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Some of the pics relating to the Kashyyk battle show Wookies piloting Small One Wookie helicopters. Why would Lucas want to put something so EARTHLY as that in his last movie? I think it takes the GALAXY FAR FAR AWAY part out of the picture.

i havent seen these pictures? PM them to me?

They are only sketches done by the art department. I will have to find them and send them your way.

coolio

I think it's because George Lucas wants to do an Apocalypse
Now movie scene. Yoda saying that he loves the smell of
napalm in the morning, oops that was his fart!!

Here is one link

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well okay looking at the pictures it seems as though theyre not really copters but fly like wings that flap up and down, i think that these things are the ugliest most rediculous things ive ever seen. chang needs to stop with the whole "everything needs to look like a bug" idea. its really rediculous because everything looks TO similar to a bug.

I thought that the Wookies were supposed to be technologically advanced. That doesn't look advanced to me.

Originally posted by vanyoda
oops that was his fart!!

LOL

For the same reason why he put 50's style diner in AOTC. I think they are kinda neat looking. The whole concept of Kashyykk is suppose to be a hybrid of primitave tech, and advanced tech. Wookies on crack basically.

Well if Lucas has based these "copters" on a real life insect
on the planet Kashyyyk, I can understand the Wookies using
them as a basis for the machines. We used birds as a basis
for our initial planes here on Earth, does this mean there are
no birds on Kashyyk? But I'm not sure about those flying boats!

The boats fly?

Unless I am mistaken they don't seem to be touching the water

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Wow you're right! Well these are concept art so we dont know if they make itto the film or not.

Thanks vanyoda.

they look kinda cool, but if theyre boats, why do they need to fly?

so they dont sink

The copters don't look so earthly to me, but that's just me.

Wow. I didn't know I was the only one who liked the Kashyyyk designs. I think they could have the coolest technology in the Star Wars saga.

I love the Kashyyk designs.

^^^ me too... i think it looks awesome....

I beleive GL was going for technologically advanced but in a different way

I also think the Kashyyyk designs are super, that's why I spent so
much time making a photo collage of the battle. I just hope
that Jar Jar is nowhere on this planet !!

The designs are fine, it's the concept that I don't agree with. Couldn't he (GL) have just let them have ships with repulser lifts and not rotery blades? For all I know they are not rotery blades, just flapping wings like someone stated before. Eather way I think they put too much thought into this one.

They do kinda look like repulsar technology, well at least the 'boats' do. But then we've seen that kind of thing before in Jabba's sail barges and skiffs have we not?

But then I guess their design was determined by the terrain on Tattooine. I don't no much about the terrain on Kashykk but i guess it would quite woody and luxurious like the moon of endor?

ANy thoughts?

Kashyyk has massive trees that grow miles into the sky. The Wookies live in the canopy of the trees because it is extremely dangerous at ground level. In ep3 GL has set the "BATTLE OF KASHYYK" in a lagoon at the edge of the forest. The Wookies that live here live at ground level because the clearings and lagoon are not protected by the large trees as much and don't offer hiding places for the large predators that lurk at the forest floor.

Very imformative, thank you.

I remember in an EU novel I read, Han goes there with Chewie and finds out that they only reason we cant understand chewie is that he has a speech impedement or something like that...anyone remember that?

It has to be in one of 5 books (cos they are the only ones I've read...)

Truce at Bakura

Courtship of Princess Leia

Or one of...

the Tim Zahn Trilogy...

Can't for the life of me remember which one though...

It is in the Thrawn series and it is Leia that goes to Kashyyk. She can understand some of the wookie language and finds it easyer to understand the leaders of the tribe because of the unknow speech impediment.

Thank you Junky. You are the font of all knowledge...

Talking of Thrawn, he'd be a nice character to bring in, although I guess then you'd have to explain his lack of appearance in the OT...

The Official site stated that we will see an EU ( Expanded Universe) character in EP3 but it has also been stated that it will not be Thrawn. Maybe Bel Iblis, I Dunno.

I just liked the fact that Thrawn was the only non human the Palpatine trusted... and those red eyes would be creepy cool...

Yes it would. There is going to be a SW TV series coming in 2006, we may get to see him then.