George Lucas Selects Chicago For the Star Wars Museum 98
netringer writes: George Lucas has selected Chicago over Los Angeles and San Francisco as the future home of The Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts, housing his collection of Star Wars art and movie memorabilia along with exhibits of the technology of Industrial Light and Magic (ILM). Where else but on the Chicago Lakefront will be it easy to recreate the ice planet of Hoth?
Why bother? (Score:5, Funny)
The only Lucas art museum I need is ScummVM [scummvm.org].
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Erm... yes and no, but actually no.
The scene you're referring to was added in the special edition (1997). Boba Fett's first appearance was in fact in an animated sequence of the famously bad holiday special (1978) which depicts events a year after episode 4 and 2 years prior to episode 5.
Fighting the urge to go all Beavis and Butthead... (Score:4)
woot! (Score:5, Funny)
i hope he has a whole wing devoted to jar jar binks
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.. ..so we can burn that down and leave the good stuff intact?
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Well at least Chewbacca NEVER EVER stepped on poo.
If he did, he would find the person who left it there and pull their arms out of their sockets.
Re:woot! (Score:5, Funny)
No need -- heesa the narrator on your audio tour.
In Chicago??? (Score:3)
Well.....I guess that's one museum I'll never be visiting.
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Well.....I guess that's one museum I'll never be visiting.
You've never been to Chicago have you?
There are murders, but they almost entirely gang on gang. Hell, most of them aren't even gangs, they're just teenagers being idiots. I've lived nearby, visited often and never felt threated or gotten mugged. The part of the city where all the museums are (I'm assuming that's where this will go) is very nice and well policed. Also, thanks to the supreme court, you can carry a handgun for protection now!
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Actually, I am terrified of New Orleans. My mothers side of the family lives in Biloxi. I went once, aint going back. Chicago is Martha Stewarts living-room in comparison.
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Having a bunch of cowardly little men with mechanical penis running around to be a positive thing for the city.
It's not. It doesn't need to be. It's a constitutional right that no-one has to justify to you. That's how rights work.
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A wretched hive of scum and villainy, with really bad jazz.
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We do have the Museum of Science and Industry right across the street - a geek mecca if there ever was one.
I live close to Chicago (Score:1)
Please rethink it and keep it in California.
That way it's easier to change it from year to year. Less travel when you have to choose who shoots first and add fart jokes.
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at least the star wars pinball games where made in the Chicago area.
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His Wife is From Chicago (Score:5, Informative)
Yep, George married Mellody Hobson, and she's a native of Chicago - born there, grew up there. Think she had any influence on this?
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Wanna get nerds into the museum? (Score:2)
Sell the theatrical versions on HD media for ANH/ESB/ROTJ in the gift shop.
No CG bullshit, Han shoots first, and Sebastian Shaw is Anakin at the end of ROTJ. Complete with all the wonderful compositing errors around the miniatures and fighters in the space scenes (it's that slight colour mismatch you can sometimes see around things where they glued the footage together to create the final shots).
I'm basically talking about the Laserdisc versions on Bluray or something, dumped from those special archival ree
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Please.
My LaserDiscs are getting old, and if I just "archive" them, I'll be accused of faking the footage, since the kids have generally only seen the bogus version.
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I have instructions in my will to be buried with these discs. :-)
http://slashdot.org/journal/84... [slashdot.org]
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Is there any 'value' to Star Wars? (Score:3, Insightful)
Me thinks there is no permanence to Star Wars. Its already looking dated and silly.
Meanwhile '2012 A Space Odyssey' still feels fresh.
Re:Is there any 'value' to Star Wars? (Score:5, Funny)
'2012 A Space Odyssey' probably still feels fresh to you because it was only two years ago.
And Han shot first, because I was there when he did it, and I saw him do it.
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That's about the silliest way to phrase a question I've ever heard... I know, it's probably meant to sound intellectual, but really you just sound like a pretentious jackass to ask "will this movie be remembered like this type of art, that type of art, and movies?"
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Wrong
My 5 year old boy and 7 year old girl freakin love Star Wars.They have watched and rewatched all six movies.
Most of their little friends love Star Wars, too. Take a look at toy stores, and you fill find sections of Star Wars junk, indicating the continued interest among youngsters..
Star Wars.has already been "passed down" to the next generation.
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http://xkcd.com/1262/ [xkcd.com]
In Future news... (Score:2)
Population Proximity, Travel Hub, Central Location (Score:5, Insightful)
Well.. ,
Hardly surprising. This is the same kind of decision typically made by large entertainment ventures - e.g., Six Flags, Universal, etc. - after doing careful studies of population density, demographics and travel connections.
You've all heard the " ... there are N millions of people within a 4-hour drive or 1 flight,no transfer, from Y amusement park." Yep, same math.
While New York or LA may be closer to the entertainment industry, Chicago is central to the people who matter most - The fans.
If you stuck a pin in Chicago on the map and plotted a circle to estimate how many millions of people live within 2 states in any given direction - easy traveling considering the transportation arteries that converge into I-80 & I-94 - it's a hell of a lot of people. That one of the largest, most capable international airports in the world - O'Hare - sits on the edge of town, massively connected through multiple rail, bus and taxi lines - is a big fat cherry on top.
This is the kind of head-scratching math that puts enormous amusement parks like Kings Island in Cincinnati Ohio, or Six Flags halfway between Chicago and Milwaukee in the middle of nowhere - because they are actually in the middle of a ton of midwesterners unafraid of a car trip.
Having the ability to ride the nations' only electric interstate train all the way from South Bend, Indiana to Millennium Station in the heart of downtown Chicago for $22 round trip - I can't wait for the museum to open!
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Having the ability to ride the nations' only electric interstate train all the way from South Bend, Indiana to Millennium Station in the heart of downtown Chicago for $22 round trip - I can't wait for the museum to open!
There are other electric interstate trains in the US.
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actually this has more to do with the presidio trust screwing him over for 4 years.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/... [sfgate.com]
At least he didn't get his first choice (Score:4, Interesting)
Lucas originally wanted this location [google.com] for his monument to himself. It's in open space in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, with unobstructed views of the Golden Gate Bridge, the San Francisco Bay, and Alcatraz. That's one of the great urban waterfront public spaces of the world. So that plan was very unpopular in SF. Another location was proposed, some unused piers a few miles down the waterfront in the tourist waterfront area, but that wasn't dramatic enough for Lucas.
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No... that needs to be reserved for the Star Trek museum. Where was San Francisco in Star Wars? Nowhere... but the center of the Star Trek Universe is... you got it... Star Fleet Academy in San Francisco.
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No... that needs to be reserved for the Star Trek museum. Where was San Francisco in Star Wars? Nowhere... but the center of the Star Trek Universe is... you got it... Star Fleet Academy in San Francisco.
The center of the Star Trek Universe is fat, sweaty virgins.
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Something's got to generate that gravity well.
At least he didn't get his first choice (Score:1)
oh me (Score:1)
Could he have selected a more pompous name for the place?
SF SF fans are livid! (Score:2)
Good choice Georgee. (Score:3)
Great Choice Georgee it fits with the theme.
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy
Poor Han he still won't be able to shoot first there either. Maybe you should have picked Florida instead, we have more reasonable gun laws down here.
Re:Good choice George. (Score:2)
George Lucas has selected Chicago over Los Angeles and San Francisco
Great Choice Georgee it fits with the theme.
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy
Poor Han he still won't be able to shoot first there either. Maybe you should have picked Florida instead, we have more reasonable gun laws down here.
HEH!
Okay that got a laugh outta me.
So.
Damn.
TRUE!
Yeeessssss (Score:1)
Detriot, Mi (Score:2)
Fits (Score:4, Funny)
Chicago. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Chicago (Score:1)
Chicago - gave us our first truly anti-American President.
Wow. (Score:2)
He had that neck bag thing back then too.
All that money and he hasn't gotten his neck pouch removed.
Strange.
Harry Dresden will be thrilled (Score:1)
I'm not even sure which museum we're in. (Score:2)
How about Norway? (Score:2)
Where else but on the Chicago Lakefront will be it easy to recreate the ice planet of Hoth?
Its so cute when Americans from the lower 48 talk about how cold some place gets; sort of like when Canadians talk about heat waves.
Museum of Mutilated Arts (Score:2)
Along with permanent exhibits, such as theaters running constant loops of Greedo shooting first and Indiana Jones fighting aliens, there can be loaned works, such as the Mona Lisa. Da Vinci changed her frown to a smile in the re-release.
At least... (Score:1)