Tuesday 31 July 2012

Top Five Star Wars Top Fives of Star Wars minutia (Original Trilogy): Part 1

Kicking this off, I wanted to get my thoughts together on some of my favourite minutia from the Original Trilogy. Now whilst I of course know what the exact names of most of this stuff is called, I can't pretend to be a card-carrying authority. Wookieepedia could be my friend, but as a lot of this stuff was only named in the Expanded Universe (which I've never been inclined to get involved with), I shall refer to items by what I would've known them as in 1983.

I have broken these down into five top fives. I was desperately trying to think of four other bags so I could have Chewie's satchel as my number one best bag in the Galaxy, but have come to the conclusion that as it was such a remarkable satchel (and defo what I'd choose if I was allowed to take one item from the original set), that everyone else gave up carrying bags because they just couldn't compete. With Chewie's satchel.

And so on to the first top five . .

Fifth best Top Five: 
Firing weapons (which could be held in a hand - i.e not the Death Star)


5. Princess Leia's pistol - It's long, thinness sets it apart from a lot of weapons in the universe meaning I always knew whom it belonged to in my ice-cream tub of loose figures.
Apparently this is called a Sporting Blaster

4. R2's electric thing - Not sure if this was designed as a weapon, or something to do with fixing space electricity, but it's certainly effective in making Salacious Crumb jump onto the ceiling.
I'm classing it as a weapon even if it's not its primary function (which it might be).

3. Han's blaster - "No blasters, no blasters!" shouted the barman in the Cantina, but thankfully Han didn't heed this warning, thus giving him the drop on Greedo. And lots of Stormtroopers.
Someone likes Han's Blaster a lot more than I do.

2. Stormtrooper's rifle - Held in a very cool manner by the Imperial troops with the smartest costumes in the Galaxy, the big joke is of course they couldn't hit a cow's arse with a barn door with them.
Never had one of these. Never will . . .

1. Chewie's Bowcaster - Clearly any weapon chosen to be wielded by the Greatest Best Friend In The History Of Cinema was always going to win, however we are lucky that it genuinely also does look the coolest, being a low slung crossbow. From the planet Kashyyyk! (presumably).

Look at the Galaxy's most loyal best mate, with his amazing Bowcaster. That shoots lazers!!