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"I've seen (George Lucas') Star Wars 500 times." Disney's #SWINO ... not so much. Similar is true for Star Trek. | #TLJFacts

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@mudron Rude. But there's more there, and elsewhere, than that (though nobody said "fully formed").

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Fun thing for OG Star Wars '77 theater goers - seeing it again when it was re-released before Empire & wondering where in the world "Episode IV A New Hope" came from. The big question raised for folks at the time - why IV?

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Yeah, so Ebert's review of "North" actually works pretty well as the crawl for The Last Jedi ...

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@DT2ComicsChat Might could have borrowed from Madame Webb casting for Firestar ... ?

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@DT2ComicsChat Dense?

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@StrongDreamsW Funnily enough, I've had folks tell me I couldn't possibly have known about the multiple trilogies idea in the early 80's, even though I clearly remember regaling my Mom's friends with that info back then.

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@StrongDreamsW At any rate, it's certainly fair to argue that many were surprised by the Episode # add, as the 1980 Time article linked in this thread also indicates. I know my father and I certainly were.

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@toys_retro I don't know if I still have any individual figures ... but I do still have Biotron.

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Never forget the day we lost the moon.

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@StrongDreamsW Not sure about "always" ... I don't think we did know when we first saw the "Episode V" added ... but by the time Jedi came out the larger "three trilogies" structure was definitely commonly known.

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@mudron If you read the original Star Wars novelization, it's pretty clear he did some of that backstory in mind ...

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OK, so I got this backwards. Episode V in Empire, then Episode IV added to the next SW re-release. So the bigger reaction was to seeing Episode V and wondering what the heck that was ...

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@MarshallJulius With the events introducing Machine Man and leaving him in the Marvel universe proper, IIRC?

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@80sOnTheBrain And also after learning that Trek 2 was planned to be called "The Vengeance of Khan" ...

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TOS. But TNG is amazing, not counting the films. TOS and TNG, Star Wars and Empire, Alien and Aliens - it's the first one that does the world and character work that allows the followup to be what it is.

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TOS or The Next Generation??

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@bestofStarTrek Some of those were unfortunately bendy ...

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Somehow it's more troubling that Star Trek IV is 40 years old this year than it is that Star Trek is 60 ...

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So if Star Trek V had been more successful, would Star Trek VI still have been the final for TOS? Released in 1991, they still could have squeezed in one more before TNG took over ...

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@BallerToy1327 A little funny business going on there with the costume from "The Cloud Minders" ...