March Raffle Celebrates LEGO Star Wars 25th Anniversary!

[Hapori Tohu]

BZPower is thrilled to announce an exciting raffle for the month of March. As part of the ongoing celebrations for the 25th anniversary of the LEGO Star Wars collaboration (yep, we totally planned this), BZPower is giving away the iconic LEGO Star Wars set 75108 Clone Commander Cody! Entering the raffle is as easy as navigating the Kessel Run! Simply visit the official raffle page and follow the instructions to participate. Remember, the Force is strong with those who enter! May the bricks be with you!

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[confused piraka]

5 hours ago, Hapori Tohu said:

Entering the raffle is as easy as navigating the Kessel Run

so it's impossible?

[Master Inika]

2 hours ago, confused piraka said:

so it's impossible?

Now that I think about it, they didn't specify "in less than twelve parsecs." Perhaps the Kessel Run is easy to navigate given more time, and it is only impressive if done under a certain time constraint.

Either way, I already have this model (it is a good one) otherwise I probably would have entered myself.

[confused piraka]

5 hours ago, Master Inika said:

Now that I think about it, they didn't specify "in less than twelve parsecs." Perhaps the Kessel Run is easy to navigate given more time, and it is only impressive if done under a certain time constraint.

besides how long is parsec? if it's like a few years I could walk the kessel run

[Nato G]

30 minutes ago, confused piraka said:

besides how long is parsec?

That's the confusing part. A parsec is actually a measure of distance, not time. 

[confused piraka]

so it's not a sifi second?

[That Matoran with a Vahi]

It's interesting to note that, according to original intention, a parsec not being the correct unit of measurement was the point. The published movie script suggests that Han is just making stuff up to wow what he sees as two ignorant locals, so he doesn't care if it's accurate as long as it sounds impressive (which would make his insistence in TFA on the twelve parsecs thing funny if this was the case: "these may be made-up facts, but they're MY made-up facts and dang it you're going to get them right!"). The script even says something like "Ben reacts to Han's attempt to impress them with obvious misinformation" in its directions.

This intention, however, wasn't well understood from the final movie. So we have works in both continuities (Rebel Dawn, third novel of A. C. Crispin's Han Solo trilogy; and the movie Solo) making a point of explaining and justifying how that could actually work: in the explanation that I remember better (the novel one), the Kessel Run goes through the middle of an improbable cluster of black holes, and Han sheered dangerously close to them on one run and in taking that risk managed to achieve it in a shorter distance because of how the black holes warped the space around them.

Edited March 3 by That Matoran with a Vahi

[confused piraka]

On 3/3/2024 at 9:28 AM, That Matoran with a Vahi said:

hat Han is just making stuff up to wow what he sees as two ignorant locals, so he doesn't care if it's accurate as long as it sounds impressive

why does this smell like something vizor would do