Leonardo wrote:Take your lips off my pipe!
God Thundercracker wrote:Wonder why neither Luke nor Leia seem to have any children in the new movie. Has the Skywalker line become sterile from all those midochloridians or something?
God Thundercracker wrote:Wonder why neither Luke nor Leia seem to have any children in the new movie. Has the Skywalker line become sterile from all those midochloridians or something?
Wigglez wrote:Just remember. The sword is an extension of your arm. Use it as if you're going to karate chop someone with your really long sharp ass hand.
Leonardo wrote:Take your lips off my pipe!
Stuartmaximus wrote:Here's a question.....even though he did this in the prequels......but didn't in the originals(obviously coz they never thought of this at time) but did they ever FULLY explain in Revenge Of The Sith how R2 lost his ability to fly?(& I meant onscreen! not some bloody comic that explained it).
& will he regain this ability in The Force Awakens & will that be explained too?(again onscreen! & not in some comic prequel).
RAR wrote:I think the implication is all Astromech's can fly (especially in space) but they don't do it often as it likely uses a lot of energy.
I got the impression in an Atmosphere they can do little more than a powered shallow glide-fall path as they need a constant thrust to travel where as in space they can puffer jet.
The other obvious reason for them being able to have very limited flight ability is to be able to get out of a droid socket in a trick situations - in a way being able to fly is like their ejector seat function for use in emergencies and special situations.
Also bare this in mind the way Artoo was able to motivate under water in Empire strikes back is likely down to him using a swim sub-function related to his flight abilities.
I still think it's likely that his flight was harmed in some way perhaps due to Anakin upgrading him to take more than the usual number of memory chips or damage he got in one of the many battle he fought in.
But it can't be ruled out that he could always fly he just didn't have a reason to do so when his companion can only walk.
Take a Y-Wing & an X-wing as an example those are not easy things for an Astromech droid to get down from - they don't have belly Droid feeder ports like a Naboo Starfighter has.
Also they are usually called an ASTRO (Space) MECH (Mechanic or Mechanical) DROID (Android).
So if the inference is that they both navigate and repair something Artoo is shown doing more than twice and something 'Chopper' also does repeatedly. Then a bit of added Mobility wouldn't hurt - if Artoo was to assist repairing the Falcon for example he might need his jets a little even if only to drop to the ground safely from the top if he needed to do so.
Also they have retconned Artoo's flight boosters back into his body in the sequence in ROTJ when all his arms pop out - now his jets do too.
william-james88 wrote:If ever Sabrblade decides to go on vacation, I am glad to know we can rely on you.
Really? For me it was the opposite. After seeing it, I was just "Meh." The only part that made me smile was Han's speech about the stories being true. Where the hell is Luke, anyway? He's not in the trailer (I'm assuming it was him under the cloak with R2) and he's not on the movie's official poster either. Why?Burn wrote:I FINALLY got goosebumps.
Rodimus Prime wrote:Really? For me it was the opposite. After seeing it, I was just "Meh."Burn wrote:I FINALLY got goosebumps.
Leonardo wrote:Take your lips off my pipe!
Ironhidensh wrote:I've had goosebumps since the first teaser, but thus keeps them going.
Wingz wrote:His servos bring all Naval Strikes 'Cons to the yard
Rodimus Prime wrote:Really? For me it was the opposite. After seeing it, I was just "Meh." The only part that made me smile was Han's speech about the stories being true. Where the hell is Luke, anyway? He's not in the trailer (I'm assuming it was him under the cloak with R2) and he's not on the movie's official poster either. Why?Burn wrote:I FINALLY got goosebumps.
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