Archon Revuge wrote:...
I especially love the brief cameo of the Quasar Fire-class cruiser. Guess that Micro Machines Flurry is canon again now, huh? ...
I like this nod back to the old EU novels. 'The Truce at Bakura' was one that I quite enjoyed.
Yeah I read this one too. Love the design of this one a cool concept works well within the SW universe (ok within MY SW universe). I still really like the way Rebels is recycling a lot of the best of the EU into the series; it makes it a much richer universe, it keeps the feel right and it's great seeing a lot of that stuff on the screen!
Personally I'd like to see the E wing and the droid tie fighter from the dark empire comic make an appearance really nice designs there too!
The E-wing was a really nice design. It captured the same 70s industrial design aesthetic that pervaded the classic X-Wing really well, while not simply being a riff on it with nothing new to say. I'd love to see that one show up somewhere in the new canon.
That said, I can do without the fugly R7 droids that rode into the EU alongside the E-wing. It's quite clear they were intended to represent a new generation of cooler looking astro droid, but to me they are an example of a design fail with those triangles and diagonal lines that feel completely at odds with the rest of the droid's shapes.
oota goota wrote:Personally I'd like to see the E wing and the droid tie fighter from the dark empire comic make an appearance really nice designs there too!
Reverend Strone wrote:The E-wing was a really nice design. It captured the same 70s industrial design aesthetic that pervaded the classic X-Wing really well, while not simply being a riff on it with nothing new to say. I'd love to see that one show up somewhere in the new canon.
While not strictly canon, Jek-14's stealth starfighter in The New Yoda Chronicles nicely pays homage to the E-Wing design:
Reverend Strone wrote:The E-wing was a really nice design. It captured the same 70s industrial design aesthetic that pervaded the classic X-Wing really well, while not simply being a riff on it with nothing new to say. I'd love to see that one show up somewhere in the new canon.
That said, I can do without the fugly R7 droids that rode into the EU alongside the E-wing. It's quite clear they were intended to represent a new generation of cooler looking astro droid, but to me they are an example of a design fail with those triangles and diagonal lines that feel completely at odds with the rest of the droid's shapes.
I forgot about the r7's. But you're right the E wing looked not exactly like a next generation x wing but like another variation on that type of ship. I really like Cam Kennedy's artwork I used to read 2000ad ALOT when I was younger.
I also liked the TIE droid it works within SW. Someone trying to go back to droid technology like the 'good old days' of the clone wars
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It's a nice looking starfighter.
