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May
To beat Kurasawa 2, you just have to believe...
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May
The prince doesn't like to be mocked
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07
May
But let's just say he could hypothetically cruise at a cool 500 kilometers per second...
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May
Ha, well, I have ramscoops...
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May
That was a great scene
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07
May
Seven, seventeen, same thing...
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May
You only get the Golden Sun the first time...
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May
This is a good one
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08
May
Here's an interesting mod/map for the unusual RTS game Particle Fleet: Emergence. The enemy seems to be made out of red physics particulate, and friendly ships go wild attacking it. I actually can't find a whole lot of info on the project and how it came to be, but fortunately Josiah de Brueys made this nifty vid of him playing it. You can clearly make out Confed carriers and a Midway style design, among other ships. There are also easily recognizable Kilrathi corvettes and dreadnoughts from WC3. It seems pretty cool if you know what's going on, but the learning curve is scaring me away. If you manage to figure it out and have a review to share, hit us up!
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21
Aug
…AD has been hard at work recovering and restoring some of the scenes cut from the final version of the Wing Commander movie. Enjoy this collection of work he's done so far!
Paladin Ejects - Paladin is forced to eject from his Broadsword after sinking a Kilrathi warship.
Blair Leaves the Diligent - Blair, originally the turret gunner, is lured aboard the Diligent in search of the NAVCOM AI.
Tattoo - Blair asks Paladin what his neck tattoo means.
Kilrathi Compilation - All the Kilrathi footage originally intended for the film.
Pilgrim Chat - Paladin reveals more details about the Pilgrims.
Alternate Intro - An alternate cut of the movie introduction featuring an opening narration from Blair. (As of publishing time this video is blocked because of an incorrect copyright claim; it should be available soon!)
FPS Experiment - An experimental sequence shot first person for the shipboard combat sequence.
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18
Feb
…The Wing Commander Movie is seeing is biggest and broadest sale yet. The film briefly dipped down to $5 at Microsoft last year, but now we're seeing the same sale repeated at both Amazon and VUDU/Fandango (which have recently merged). At this point it seems like MS - as well as Google Play/YouTube are still at the $10. All of these are part of Movies Anywhere, so buying them at one storefront gets you access at all of them, which is great.
For a while after 2017 when the rights were changing over, the movie was hard to buy in any format, including streaming, but it's nice to see that it's more readily available again now. Apple/iTunes appears to be the last major platform that doesn't have a digital purchase option, but it can be rented. And buying it at the other places does deliver a purchased copy to your iTunes account, so at least that's an option. It's hard to go wrong for $5!
Based on the
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19
Sep
…AD noticed that Microsoft is running an exciting sale that marks the Wing Commander Movie down to one of its all time best prices. They're holding a "Gamer Flicks" sale that brings WC and many other game-based films down to half off. In this case, Wing Commander drops from $9.99 to $4.99 in the US and Canada. This is the same price as the Canadian rental and just $1 more than a 48-hour viewing in the US. We don't see very many discounts of the film, so this is a great chance to fill out your collection (especially with the DVD/Blu-ray out of print!). As an extra bonus, MS is a part of Movies Anywhere, so if you buy it here, a copy also appears in your Amazon, iTunes, Google and Vudu libraries. Most of the shots below include the Xbox interface, but no console is necessary. You can buy the movie here, and it will play on your PC, mobile device, Xbox or HoloLens. Act quickly, because the sale
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31
Oct
…A collector in Spain has listed a Wing Commander Movie flight suit on eBay. A good number of these made it out via the various prop channels in the early 2000s, but you don't see very many for sale these days. This makes it a rare chance to grab one for yourself, but the price is steep at some $2100 USD equivalent. Adjusted for inflation, they used to go for about half that. You can try to make a lower offer, however.
Since most people reading this won't get a chance to see one up close, we can at least share the pics. The seller did a nice job photographing some of the detail. It's probably too late for this year, but this could make a fantastic costume for next Halloween. Let us know if you pick it up!
Original Flight Suit, production used from the movie Wing Commander (1999)
Good condition. Uniform a bit worn and darkened in some areas as requested for the production of the movie.
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The popular Carnage Counts channel has done their thing with Wing Commander. The YouTube channel profiles various shows and movies and adds a real time counter with the number of kills depicted in each product. The rules are a little bit weird - a capship detonation counts the same as a fighter destruction or Rosie being pushed off the flight deck - but I suppose that's not much different than how most Wing Commander games do it! The official tally here is 64. Check them out below!
Welcome to Carnage Counts, where we count and compare death in television shows and movies! Today we are covering Wing Commander!
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18
Mar
…We are cruising through this real time live tweeting event like the Tiger's Claw slices through the Vega Sector! A sampling of day two is below. Be sure to follow @WCCIC on Twitter for more. The action really heats up when the Claw reaches the Kilrathi fleet!
Day 2 - 0330 Zulu - Captain Sansky has reviewed Tolwyn's orders and decided that the only chance to intercept the Kilrathi is to make a dangerous pulsar jump from Enyo to Dakota. Meanwhile, Tiger Claw security reports a fight has broken out in the mess hall! MORE
Day 2 - 0930 Zulu - The Tiger's Claw continues to head towards a dangerous Pulsar jump. Lieutenants Forbes and Marshall have been assigned to fly CAP. MORE
Day 2 - 1130 Zulu - Lieutenant Forbes' patrol did not encounter enemy fighters but... breaking... there's been a near-miss accident on the flight deck during fighter recovery! MORE
Day 2 - 1330 Zulu - We are now hearing that
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25
May
Display MoreAtherin has been busy recreating nearly every ship in the Wing Commander film using
SketchUp. There's really not much missing - we don't see the Kilrathi Concom, Diligent or some of the small background items, but just about all of the other major stuff is there. It's a pretty nice lineup! He's been uploading everything to do the
3D Warehouseso you can download copies for yourself
here. Or you can find more comprehensive info on the ships that appear in the Wing Commander movie
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SivarSnakierRalariFralthiConcordiaTiger ClawRapierBroadswordDralthiKilrathi
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Sep
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The Wing Commander movie club has returned from the distant, hopeful tomorrow of 2010 and we've voted to watch another movie with a year for a title! This is going to be an interesting one because it's a movie I have not seen and know nothing about: Ridley Scott's 1992 historical drama 1492: Conquest of Paradise. Ridley Scott has made a lot of nearly perfect movies… but this is one we didn't know. It should be pretty exciting to find out what its deal is! You can join us this Friday via Discord to watch along.
The Wing Commander connection is fascinating, too. 1492 is one of three major references used by Chris Roberts to develop the Wing Commander movie's spectacular opening sequence. The opening was not scripted with the rest of the movie, it was something Chris developed after the shoot to try and capture viewers' attention based on the same 'everything in the first act' philosophy used to develop
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The Wing Commander movie club had a great time revisiting the '90s with True Lies! For our next movie, we're going back to space... the space of a recent future past. That's right, it's finally time for Stanley Kubrick's legendary 2001: A Space Odyssey. You can join us this Friday via Discord to watch along.
The first major reference to 2001 in Wing Commander is that the HAL 9000 actually appears in the SNES port of the original Wing Commander! Watch carefully as you take off, he's on the first 'rung' of the Tiger's Claw. It's so fun to imagine some artist at Mindscape deciding to sneak this into the game.
The passwords provided at the end of the second episode of Secret Ops ("Thickening") are both direct references to 2001. AE-35, the winning password, is the model of the Discovery's antenna which HAL sends the crew to repair. TMA-1, the losing password, is the monolith which is found on the moon in
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