![]() Using his own powers, Blatt was able to track down a Volvo 343 turn signal indicator, and made a mold to reproduce it. Other parts were from a record player and a camera viewfinder. The car was only made from 1977-1979, and only made in Europe (since the Star Wars prop team was based in the U.K.). Turned out, it was a turn signal panel from a Volvo 343. It took until November 2011 for internet sleuths to find what was used to make the parts of the side panel. In the case of Star Wars, it just so happened that what is later seen on the screen became a cultural touchstone. Prop makers often don’t even remember what they used. Those studios aren’t much different from makerspaces like the Node, with lots of stuff lying around that gets turned into something else. But the power to recreate things digitally is insignificant next to the power of 1970s prop makers who were just using found objects that happened to be lying around the studio. But to get it perfect and get all the details, that’s a whole other level,” he said.īlatt was able to find dimensions, and recreate some of the parts using 3D scans and AutoCAD. “You could build the whole thing in a day if you wanted. Those also happen to be the details that Star Wars geeks obsess over. “You get certain pictures and you’re trying to figure out spacing of things and how big things are, and you never get a straight-on shot and exact measurements of things,” Blatt said. Much assembly was still required, which is where the Bondo came in.īut that still left the vertical side panels, which in many ways are where the smallest details exist. Blatt was able to track down the body parts in rubber form, and received them in a rubber blob. In 1996, a company called Illusive Concepts was licensed by the Star Wars empire to produce replicas. In the movies themselves, there aren’t very many shots of the frozen figure, and only two props are in existence in the Lucasfilm archives.īlatt was buoyed early on after finding that he didn’t have to recreate the images of a trapped Harrison Ford. (Photo by Todd Blatt)įirst, however, he had to figure out how to build it. "Now he'll get his chance.A smaller, 3D-printed version of Han Solo in carbonite. "Han always wanted to save me," she says in the final panels of the comic. But he's a means to an end, just as he was for her during her bid to take over Crimson Dawn in the first place.īut there's something more going on with Qi'ra. He's connected to all the major players in the galaxy and wanted by all of them for a variety of reasons. Qi'ra says her plan is to get the attention of the galaxy, and having Han Solo accomplishes that. One wonders if she hopes that dream is still of her. ![]() She hints, though, that she hopes he's having a wonderful dream in carbonite. And there's something sweet and poetic about her having Han in her possession when he's not conscious enough to know about it. She's always been willing to do what it takes to get ahead, even if it cost her Han. This revelation is surprising in a number of ways, but really makes perfect sense. Han's old scrumrat of a girlfriend, played by Emilia Clarke in Solo: A Star Wars Story. With Hutts saying they could do business with Chancellor Soh, it makes one skeptical about how trustworthy Soh might be as the High Republic continues. The cats Marlo referred to are Soh's bodyguard targons, Matari and Voru. Chancellor Soh was the chancellor of the Republic in the High Republic era who featured prominently in Charles Soule's book Light of the Jedi. Marlo is now nearly a thousand years old and doesn't quite know where he is, but and mentions that Chancellor Soh is someone they can do business with. Marlo first appeared in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and was an homage to Marlon Brando and his portrayal of Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather. One cameo of note here is Marlo the Hutt. In hyperspace, Jabba the Hutt talks to the heads of the other Hutt clans, wondering what can be done about this new player in the galactic underworld. Jabba has taken flight, heading toward the rendezvous in hopes of taking Han Solo from those who stole him from Boba Fett. There, he confronts Bib Fortuna and discovers Jabba missing. Boba Fett drops Zuckuss off a landing platform and cuts 4-LOM's head off and ties it into his computer for information, proving the pair likely won't be a threat to him again.Īfter discovering the fact that Jabba the Hutt has placed a bounty on his head so large he won't be able to go near a civilized system without a fight, Boba Fett goes straight to Tatooine. This issue seems to have shown both these characters their end.
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