I'm sitting here watching Robot Chicken Star Wars online with video commentary from creators Seth Green and Matt Senreich, and in the opening sequence Green explains how the animators actual animated a real AT-AT toy to duplicate the Imperial Walker scene from The Empire Strikes Back. Green mistakenly refers to it as a Hasbro toy, but as all Star Wars fans know, it was Kenner that made the toys, not Hasbro.
Of course, the fact that I would even know that makes me exactly the sort of Star Wars geek the folks at Robot Chicken were aiming for. I hate to admit I wasn't as floored by the special as I was hoping, and somewhat disappointed to see sequences reused from past episodes, but it was clear, based on the special; the interludes with Green, Senreich and Breckin Meyer; and the aforementioned commentary, that these guys really love Star Wars, and that alone made it worthwhile.
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6-22-2007 @ 4:39PM
IN Mike said...
Perhaps Green is referring to the fact that Kenner is now a part of Hasbro, and Hasbro makes the current toys?
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6-22-2007 @ 7:28PM
BartmanDK said...
Well i was really UNDERWELHEMD by the Star Wars speciel.. It was hyped to be the funniest thing ever, and it eneded up being 50/50 of new and reused things
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6-22-2007 @ 8:10PM
Bash said...
I hate this I hate this MAN I HATE THIS.
This goddamn restriction to US I-ranges makes me sick. This so f-ing annoys me.
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6-22-2007 @ 11:06PM
C. Hernandez said...
I mostly enjoyed the commentary, but in most of Chapter 2 and then again later on, Senreich was looking at Green like "Dude, would you SHUT UP and let me talk for 5 seconds?! I swear, I will stab you in the eye with a plastic storm trooper foot, if you don't can it."
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6-23-2007 @ 10:26AM
Jeremy Kulow said...
Hasbro (who bought Kenner) has been making the Star Wars toys for over ten years now and have released two versions of the AT-AT. One from Hoth and one from Endor. The one used in the episode is most likely the Hoth one made by Hasbro as all the other actual toys used in the episode where from the Hasbro line. I know because I've owned most of them at one time or another ;)
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