I tried the classic collection from Hasbro, which fucking sucked. I have funko pops, which I do like but I want something more serious. For the more scary characters. Just something for my shelf, preferably able to move into different poses but if there good quality without that then it'll still be good. Thanks!
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Sabine Wren
Maris Brood
Merrin
Jyn Errso
Mara Jade
Lapti Nek is superior in every way. Jedi Rocks had a good bass line , I’ll give it that, but this song is a banger. Max jamming out on his space Fender Rhodes like Donald Fagen can’t be beat. Same with the clarinet solo.
Which do you prefer musically?
When i was growing up, this video was legendary. Before youtube, you couldn't just google something and find a video to watch like i just did. So before i ever watched the Star Wars Holiday Special, we talked about it in my Star Wars RPG game i was a part of in high school; Arnaldo, Ammar, Ariel, and Ulises. I played "Hoobalah Hoolah", better known as Ulibacca these days...
My character was an alcoholic Wookiee, that constantly drank a banana-like fermented drink. He would also use it to make molotov cocktails to throw at Imperial Scum. Looking back, I remember when Arnaldo invited me to play a game that used pen and paper and storytelling, stories we'd make up as we go. I was curious, and to be honest, no one ever invited me to do things like that as a teenager, and Arnaldo was the only person from school that i knew lived down the block from me, so I went.
I remember it felt like a little party of just nerds, and I could be as wacky as i wanted with my character. I remember throwing a beercan of "Nanners" as we called my drink, shooting it with a laser rifle, and it exploding into flames -- saving the day. Probably one of the best nights of my teen life.
Then i grew up, and everything i learned from Star Wars RPG went into Where's the Wookiee.
These days, Ammar is a doctor, Arnaldo is a scientist, and Ariel is a music teacher. Next month, I have the biggest show of my career. Celebrating ten years since the first volume was published and released in the United States at Gallery Nucleus, where i'll be teaching a class to the next generation of imagineers. It's also been ten years with my wife, Melody Often, and we have a son of 7 years.
I got to visit Kashyyyk twice while i was touring the Star Wars Universe. The first time during War, the second time during Peace.
"Star Wars: Where's the Wookiee" was and still is, the biggest project of my career. I'm eternally grateful for the opportunity. As I look back on the pages, I can see my own life reflected in the spreads.
Most of my life growing up, was filled with conflict at all levels of perception. In my family, in my neighborhood where drug paraphernalia littered the front of my house, in my parent's country, Cuba, which first imprisoned my father and then exiled him. When i first started my career as an illustrator, I didnt know i was carrying a whole history of violence around with me, seeing conflicts where others only saw community. It was easy for me to draw bombastic, chaotic all-encompassing conflicts, because that's what i felt life was all the time. Just one big Star War that will never end.
The world now feels much more uncertain than it did in 2014-2015. 2016 is when everything seemed to finally go over the cliff. But whereas before i was constantly on edge and in fight-or-flight mode, these days I feel more like a starship navigating a hyperdrive storm. Along the way, i met my wife and co-pilot Melody Often, who can see a bit clearer than i can sometimes, and can speak to me and cut through the noise of the storm. I went with her to France, one of my favorite places i've ever been.
In France, we saw castles that had graffiti on the stone walls that was over 300 years old. I wonder who Pierre was? Was he a little kid just making his mark on the world? Did he feel like me, hoping to make some kind of way to call out across time. I always say when someone dies, that they are just around the corner. Not physically in distance, but temporally in time. They are still there as they always were, but it's a dimension we can't cross...not physically anyway.
In Star Wars, God is called "The Force," - it's an energy field that flows through everything, binds everything, works on everything. It is invisible but it's everywhere. It is gentle, but it is the most powerful.
In France, we saw a giant red wood tree at the estate of Herge, the creator of Tintin, one of my biggest inspirations.
People all around the world were there to see 3D recreations of his very art-style, at a museum near a villa where he used to reside. I wondered if he knew when he first drew Tintin, how many people it would reach. Would he know he reached me, in the ghetto of Elizabeth, New Jersey? Did he know i would reach out back to him, buying a poster of his voyage to the moon that now hangs over my wife's work table? Would he know i'm hoping to do the same as he did?
For the first time in my life, I could see the Force, i could feel the Force working in me all the time. I don't say that i'm a convert, i say i'm a revert. I've reverted to the wisdom that all children have, that everything is alive. At one point, it seemed so obvious, and then as you get older and more jaded, you tell yourself you were wrong, those were just fairy tales - they don't mean anything real. Then you get older, and you realize it's the only real thing there is. The Force, the Legends...they're all true.
I said I found Peace when i returned to Kashyyyk. That brings us back to Life Day.
People confuse the Force, they think there is a light side and a dark side, and they are both equal and oppositely capable distinct forces. But there is only one force. The 'dark side' is not the Force, but where it is out of Balance, where the light is in flux.
If you cover a seed in darkness, water it carefully, it will begin to grow, breaking out of its confining prison of ignorance. It will grow naturally towards the light, without eyes or ears or any sense of self, it knows in a way that can only be described as a Force, to move towards the Light. We are like those seeds too. We are often in darkness, and don't know it, but there's a force that moves us towards the light, even if we don't have it. We feel that force as Love. Even the most unloved creature, still craves it above all else. In all our acts, we are either moving towards it, or moving as a cause of it. And when things are all in balance, they GROW.
This is Life Day, and this is what i depicted when i came back to Kashyyyk. Different Lives growing.
Family...
Sunbathing and Sunlight and Umbrellas for Shade...
Water and Waves and Splashing.
Flowers around Clonetroopers' heads
And lots of Babies.
Lots of little adorable Wookiee and Alien babies...
Babies on trampolines...
Babies in trees....
And for all these babies...Gratitude.
I remember when i started this drawing, i wanted to show an image of Kashyyyk at a happy time, at a time of celebration, and the only other instance where you see the Wookiees (at that time) was in their depiction in the Star Wars Holiday Special.
At one time, it was considered something of a legend itself, as the "Worst thing ever made by George Lucas", but as i get older, i don't think there's a light side or dark side of the force, and I don't think there's a lightside or darkside of Star Wars. If it's Star Wars, then there's something that will inspire the next George Lucas, who will then help make sense of the world through art for some other strange weird kid growing up in the ghetto. It's all good.
If i do anything, i hope my legacy is that some kid out there gets my book as a gift for them, and it one day brings them to France, or Upstate NY, or Los Angeles, or wherever they need to go, to find their Peace too. I believe in the Force, but before i did, the Force believed in me.
From the first drawing i did as an over-ambitious commission, which got me my job to my first book, which got me to my solo show ten years later on May 2, the Force moves in mysterious ways. But i use my own life as proof that the Force is always with you.
Now it would be possible to buy Princess Leia’s ceremonial necklace at an auction.
Part of Björn Weckström's ground breaking Space Silver collection created in the late 1960s, Planetoid Valleys and Darina's Bracelet became internationally renowned when worn by Princess Leia in the final scene of George Lucas's first Star Wars epic, as she awarded medals to Luke Skywalker and Han Solo.
Here is a link to the auction:
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