Author Topic: RIP Darth Vader  (Read 1986 times)

RIP Darth Vader
« on: 29 November, 2020, 07:12:39 am »
Dave Prowse, 85 apparently

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Re: RIP Darth Vader
« Reply #1 on: 29 November, 2020, 08:07:48 am »
Far more importantly. RIP, "The Green X Code Man"!

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Re: RIP Darth Vader
« Reply #2 on: 29 November, 2020, 08:11:19 am »
I still think they should have used Prowse's voice for Vader.

That higher-pitched-than-you-expect tone, slightly camp West Country accent,  all filtered through the metallic clang effect.

Would have been far scarier.

Re: RIP Darth Vader
« Reply #3 on: 29 November, 2020, 09:21:30 am »
He used to frequent the gym just down the road from Borough High Street station.

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Re: RIP Darth Vader
« Reply #4 on: 29 November, 2020, 10:55:01 am »
The Curse of HMHB claims another victim :'(. He was namechecked in “Sponsoring The Moshpits”.
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Re: RIP Darth Vader
« Reply #5 on: 29 November, 2020, 02:41:28 pm »
I still think they should have used Prowse's voice for Vader.

That higher-pitched-than-you-expect tone, slightly camp West Country accent,  all filtered through the metallic clang effect.

Would have been far scarier.

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Re: RIP Darth Vader
« Reply #6 on: 29 November, 2020, 02:50:23 pm »
Did he ever get the tray?
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Re: RIP Darth Vader
« Reply #7 on: 29 November, 2020, 07:01:55 pm »
I still think they should have used Prowse's voice for Vader.

That higher-pitched-than-you-expect tone, slightly camp West Country accent,  all filtered through the metallic clang effect.

Would have been far scarier.

"Luke moi luver- oi am yer father"

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Re: RIP Darth Vader
« Reply #8 on: 30 November, 2020, 08:36:46 am »
"Ah, Princess Leial Organal the rebel"
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Re: RIP Darth Vader
« Reply #9 on: 02 December, 2020, 02:03:18 pm »

On the ex-Colston plinth.
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Re: RIP Darth Vader
« Reply #10 on: 02 December, 2020, 02:45:04 pm »

On the ex-Colston plinth.

Yeah....err....not sure we should be celebrating this man.

Very checkered history.

Have you checked out his Wikipedia page?

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Re: RIP Darth Vader
« Reply #11 on: 02 December, 2020, 03:20:49 pm »
Yebbut... you wouldn't notice it from a usual angle... look at that cod piece! Or is it incontinence pants?
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Re: RIP Darth Vader
« Reply #12 on: 18 December, 2020, 02:37:59 pm »
So hard, even the Sarlacc couldn't digest him.
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