For real though, Airfix 2025 kits are following a strategy of “keeping the lights on at Hornby”, and I for one am okay with this (I still want a Canberra tho)

Middle class Australian here, most families had a mobile phone from about 2000 onwards. Certainly if you didn’t have one by 2004, you were a bit weird.

If I built a 50 square metre shelter in a carpark in western Sydney, then in a week it would have a butcher shop (I’d also be a property tycoon lmao)

To emphasise: a minimum 500-head stormtrooper garrison in a city with a *very* fixed square meterage for real estate. Bespin doesn’t strike me as the place with a tonne of basketball courts or stadiums.

Brought to you by JW Rizler’s ‘Making of The Empire Strikes Back’ and all the loans-upon-loans Lucasfilm had to take out to make this movie

Where my fellow mid-level management at

Oh hell yeah

one day I watched a random video of an F-5 taxiing out and Instagram decided that’s all I needed to see

Fun fact, it’s 22 years since AOTC, which is the same amount of time passed between Episode II and Episode IV