Mixing the old and the new?

Hi All,
Excellent comparisons all especially Duggy 😀 Strong the force with you is young padawan…:D

Geoff.

Those things look to me like something Barnes Wallis may have designed if that level of technology was available at the time, so there’s a good link with the Dambusters for you.

Would love to see one at Legends!

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There are more appropriate sections on the forum for sure. Then again, looking down the list of threads in this section, many of them seem to have pretty tenuous links to ‘history’…!

Quote “The unforgettable climatic battle owes its influence to not one but at least two different World War II movies. Perhaps the biggest influence on the Death Star assault scenes is British director Michael Anderson’s 1954 movie, The Dam Busters. Inspired by real events, the story of The Dam Busters follows a group of RAF pilots who must blow up a strategically important German dam.
To do so, they use special bombs that bounce off the surface of the water. To blow up the dam, they must land that one extremely difficult “million to one shot” in the exact right spot. It’s an assault that takes multiple attack runs by different planes, all of whom have German fighters on their tail. Sound familiar? Even some of the X-Wing pilots’ banter is lifted verbatim from The Dam Busters.

Also figuring in the Death Star attack mash-up is director Walter Grauman’s 1964 movie 633 Squadron. Cliff Robertson plays a squadron leader who commands an attack on a German V-2 fuel factory. The factory is located deep within a fjord in Nazi-occupied Norway. The fjord is heavily armed with anti-aircraft guns.

The shots of the anti-aircraft guns firing on the planes as they attempt to make their attack run into to the fjord are very similar to the shots of the laser cannons firing on the X-Wing Fighters as they attempt to make their attack run into the trenches of the Death Star. And these are but a few mash-ups in Star Wars. There are many others. “

Read more: http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/star-wars/18033/star-wars-the-original-mash-up-movie#ixzz3uhvqLaUW

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Magnificent quirky artwork. Brought a smile to my face. Thanks for posting 1958biggles.

Long tiring day was it Halcyon???

’tis the season to be jolly (grumpy) :rolleyes:

Surely 633 Sqdn ‘Up the fiord’ attack scene was the sequence said to be part of the inspiration for Star Wars ?

Need I say more?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNdb03Hw18M

Adrian

Love it!

“A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…”
Clearly historic.
:eagerness:

:eagerness: The Canadian group posted this on their f/b page 🙂 .What with the Vulcan in Star Wars and now the Lanc 🙂

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Feel free to come back when you’ve found a sense of humour. Or started a better forum.

Personally, well, it gave me a good smirk, so no complaints here.

Adrian

Interesting concept 🙂

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