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I was first introduced to Wing Commander in 1992, when a High School friend sold me this exact entire pack (WC1, SM1+2, WC2, SO1+2, and the speech pack) for $50 flat. (He'd bought the whole thing, liked it, but then moved on to X-Wing). Other than the boxes being a little flattened, everything...

Reason why I voted for the Lance (aka "Dragon") -- one word: Telamon.

I was pretty upset when Arena came out, mainly because it was released on a single platform. I had been a die hard Wing Commander fan since adolescence, but was a cash-strapped young adult who had just invested in a PS3 and wasn't about to buy an Xbox 360 as well, just for one game. I didn't...

To me the biggest mystery of WC3 is why they took the personality overlay video explanation out of the game. I know the given reason is "because there wasn't room on the CD", but it seems like you could have shortened up or eliminated some of the transitions cutscenes that we all turn off after...

Think of the difficulty spike as adding an in universe element…its supposed to have been 10 years since you flew a combat mission, and so naturally your character will be a bit rusty and missions will seem harder! :)

Neat work! I've successfully printed and painted models of the Arrow, Hellcat V, and Thunderbolt VII. All on my Ender 3 (but at a small scale). Having issues with the Longbow, though... I like doing everything in a single print rather than in pieces that need to be glued together, and for...

Those Rapier models are absolutely gorgeous. Question... I know the F-44A is the version we fly in Wing Commander I, and the F-44G is what flies off the Concordia in WC2 (and that we fly in Standoff?). Where are the F-44C and F-44E from?

WC2 definitely raised the bar, not just in the Wing Commander world, but in video games in general, when it came to storytelling. The characters were a little bit tropish at times, but that was true of many video games of the era. Some of the new gameplay elements really didn't work as well...

"except in what they consider to be pizza!" Well, for food in general I wouldn't trust the Brits. Also, they insist on putting an extra syllable in "aluminum" which takes some getting used to...

Just got my first 3D printer and I did the Arrow from this collection as a test print. It came out fantastic and my kids were really impressed. These models are great! The hellcat will be my next test. Still dialing in the printer. Note if anyone else tries… the fighter models aren’t all the...

WC4 definitely has one, and it’s a neat hidden story telling element, if I recall correctly. If you stay with Confed after Eisen defects, you start seeing other pilots showing up on the kill board as MIA, not KIA. Then after you join the Intrepid, there the MIA pilots are! It makes it clear...

I just got around…finally…to reading End Run. Great book, a complete page turner. But in reading it, it got me wondering about a couple of things. First, there was a copy or editorial error in the version I read (Kindle)… when Bear first comes aboard the Tarawa, he mentions that the CVE carries...

"She's not one of the Tiger's Claw survivors Jazz is hunting" True, but neither is Hawk. And he was on board during Goddard, correct? Wasn't he a communications officer or something at the time... I don't know if Jazz's list is exhaustive.

In the past, I would have voted for the "original" WC1 version. But looking back, he seems to be a bit of a Scottish caricature. I never liked the Hawaiian shirt, and he was a bit of a jerk in WC3. The SWC Eye Patch Paladin looks very cool, but I never played SWC so I can't vote for that...

I think that depends on whether they let J.J. Abrams write the next script... Seriously, I'm not aware of any canonical indications of Blair's fate... so as far as I know it's up to your imagination. He's most likely dead... whether the tower he was in gets sucked back through the wormhole or...