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STAR WARS PARODY?
Jun. 21st, 2007 12:00 pmDoes anyone remember a very popular internet video from waaaaay back in the mid-to-late 1990s, i.e. waaaaay before YouTube (when internet video was still tiny, lo-res, and mostly a curiosity) that was a Star Wars parody film made with toy action figures?
I know, there are thousands of those. But this one, I seem to recall, was literally one of the first.
I remember seeing it sometime really "early" in the grand scheme of internet time -- probably around 1995-ish -- meaning appeared before the Star Wars re-releases, well before the prequels, and definitely before the re-explosion of Star Wars fandom (and, by extension, the countless fan films that now litter the internet landscape).
Back then, Robot Chicken was nary a gleam in Seth Green's young eyes (that show's recent all-Star-Wars special is what made me think of this older one).
I seem to recall it had some pretty funny stuff in it -- an almost-kiss between Han Solo and Lando Calrissian, some Jedi disco dancing, and if I remember correctly, a very prescient Yoda-bouncing-around-with-a-lightsaber battle scene, correctly predicting (or maybe inspiring?) the scene in Episode II.
I looked on some old backup drives to see if I had archived it somewhere, to no avail. And of course, searching for "Star Wars Action Figure Animated Fan Film" pretty much turns up thousands of entries nowadays.
Anyone recall this one? Nerds? Hello?
I know, there are thousands of those. But this one, I seem to recall, was literally one of the first.
I remember seeing it sometime really "early" in the grand scheme of internet time -- probably around 1995-ish -- meaning appeared before the Star Wars re-releases, well before the prequels, and definitely before the re-explosion of Star Wars fandom (and, by extension, the countless fan films that now litter the internet landscape).
Back then, Robot Chicken was nary a gleam in Seth Green's young eyes (that show's recent all-Star-Wars special is what made me think of this older one).
I seem to recall it had some pretty funny stuff in it -- an almost-kiss between Han Solo and Lando Calrissian, some Jedi disco dancing, and if I remember correctly, a very prescient Yoda-bouncing-around-with-a-lightsaber battle scene, correctly predicting (or maybe inspiring?) the scene in Episode II.
I looked on some old backup drives to see if I had archived it somewhere, to no avail. And of course, searching for "Star Wars Action Figure Animated Fan Film" pretty much turns up thousands of entries nowadays.
Anyone recall this one? Nerds? Hello?
