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Um, Star Wars?

Gimme a couple weeks or so to get re-situated (moving soon), but I'm on a Mac, and I'd be happy to take a crack at an iOS version, or at least help.

Sorta; Alien 3 was originally going to take place in a wooden ecclesiastical type of setting, but when the first director (and credited writer) was fired, the script was rewritten to take place on a prison world.  The sets were already under construction, so they just painted everything gray and threw in a few buckets of grime.

The Fast and The Furious isn't too bad; I'm a car guy too, so some of that stuff just makes me cringe, but back then I remember spending a lot of time looking at aftermarket parts for my '96 Neon.  I'm just an enthusiast though, so I'm not sure how much I'd bring to the racing aspect.  (Hell, right now I'm driving a boat of a Buick.)  It's also one of the only roles I like Paul Walker in.  I saw him later in Timeline, and he was literally playing the same character.

It also has Vin Diesel, which brings me to my suggestions of Pitch Black / Chronicles of Riddick.

Might seriously need to "hurt my back" at work so I can make this one; I'll be quitting soon enough anyway.

I love our forum. <3

Yeah, that's definitely one for this year's mashup.

Weeeeeeee!  That kid is going to have so many surrogate aunties & uncles.  Congratulations Dotys!

I actually have vague memories of going to see Jedi in the theaters.  I even remember the change from Revenge to Return; I might have even had a t-shirt or something that had Revenge printed on it.  My most distinct memory though is of the toys.  Growing up, Christmas and birthdays always had a few new action figures to add to my collection, so it was easy for folks that didn't know what to get me.  In those days you could save the cardboard backings of the packages and send away for certain figures; I remember getting the Emperor by saving up backings and sending away for it.  Anyway, with the release of the new movies, rather than having different backings for different films, the entire line would be updated to reflect whichever film was just released.  It was possible, then, to get an action figure of a character with a RotJ backing, who had not appeared in RotJ.  I don't recall which character it was, but I distinctly remember a moment of being a little prick, when I complained to whoever had given me this figure for my birthday, that I already had this character, and that he wasn't even in this movie.

Actually I remember another such moment of childhood indignation, when the old lady who lived next door (Mrs. Han if memory serves) complimented me on my airplane, to which I sneered at her and responded that "it's an X-wing!"

(Completely unrelated to Star Wars:) Then there was the time, just before girls started getting interesting, that the girl I was interested in came to my birthday party.  The party was already in full swing and the doorbell rings.  I run to the door and there she is standing there, smiling, holding a big box.  All I remember is grabbing the box, running into the living room with it and tearing the paper off.  I got about halfway through when I was hauled to my feet and dragged to the door to apologize to this poor girl who was, naturally, in tears.  I'm pretty sure she went home, and never spoke to me again.  Can't say I blame her.  Nicole, if you're reading this, I am so sorry.

So yeah, I was pretty much a dick as a kid.

It's in the notes in the file, but I'd just like to reiterate something here.  Tony says that the mk1 chest-piece can generate 3 Gigajoules of energy per second, or 3 GJ/s.  1 J/s = 1 Watt, so the mk1 can generate 3 GW (that's what the hell a Gigawatt is), or about the same as this nuclear power plant in Belgium (I can only imagine what the mk2 chest-piece or the full sized arc reactor generate).

Imagine a fan fiction with an Iron Man / Back to the Future crossover; Doc invents the Flux Capacitor, Tony steals the idea, and uses the existing arc reactor technology to travel through time.  But Doc still has the Delorean, and finds Tony in time (so to speak), and has to steal the arc reactor to power it, so he can set things right.  Could work.