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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Sandwich on August 26, 2006, 04:55:51 pm

Title: Looking for Firefly/Serenity stuff...
Post by: Sandwich on August 26, 2006, 04:55:51 pm
I'm looking for two things. One, a browncoat. No, not a fan. A coat. That I can wear. And purchase for less than $1200 (http://www.fireflycostumes.com/costumes/browncoat/).

Two, a large (as large as possible, preferably 1920 pixels wide) picture that was used as a poster/wallpaper for the movie Serenity. IIRC based off of the screengrab below; I just need a higher-resolution source. :)

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Title: Re: Looking for Firefly/Serenity stuff...
Post by: Mefustae on August 26, 2006, 06:28:42 pm
I wouldn't mind finding a good 'Coat as well, been on the lookout for a while now.

*Waits intently*
Title: Re: Looking for Firefly/Serenity stuff...
Post by: Ford Prefect on August 26, 2006, 06:44:52 pm
I would pay $1200 for Joss Whedon to tell me, in person, who the hell Book really was. Wondering that is driving me bat**** insane.
Title: Re: Looking for Firefly/Serenity stuff...
Post by: Sandwich on August 26, 2006, 06:59:40 pm
I would pay $1200 for Joss Whedon to tell me, in person, who the hell Book really was. Wondering that is driving me bat**** insane.

:nod:
Title: Re: Looking for Firefly/Serenity stuff...
Post by: Mefustae on August 26, 2006, 07:09:08 pm
Spoiler:
He was an ANDROID!!


Edit: Okay, who's the wise-guy that turned off spoiler tags?
Title: Re: Looking for Firefly/Serenity stuff...
Post by: Mr. Vega on August 26, 2006, 09:01:22 pm
He was a former operative. There, happy?
Title: Re: Looking for Firefly/Serenity stuff...
Post by: Fragrag on August 27, 2006, 03:04:14 am
He was a former operative. There, happy?

That would be too easy to explain I'm afraid, it might be something shocking, possibly he headed the Miranda project?
Title: Re: Looking for Firefly/Serenity stuff...
Post by: Dark Knight on August 27, 2006, 03:34:11 am
On Book.

Read the novelisation of Serenity and you get a very, very big clue in the chapter where the Alliance attacks Haven. I'd find the book and quote the passage, but I gotta go to work.
Title: Re: Looking for Firefly/Serenity stuff...
Post by: karajorma on August 27, 2006, 05:37:50 am
He was the pope. On walkabout.
Title: Re: Looking for Firefly/Serenity stuff...
Post by: Grug on August 27, 2006, 09:17:32 am
Next time there's a brown coat movie screening in the city I was thinking about going along and checking it out. :)
Title: Re: Looking for Firefly/Serenity stuff...
Post by: Colonol Dekker on August 31, 2006, 08:21:55 am
Kaylee, Please nbear my next kid, I love her oh so much.

"SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" :lol:
Title: Re: Looking for Firefly/Serenity stuff...
Post by: aldo_14 on August 31, 2006, 09:55:57 am
Next time there's a brown coat movie screening in the city I was thinking about going along and checking it out. :)

Don't get it mixed up with a dirty mac screening, then.
Title: Re: Looking for Firefly/Serenity stuff...
Post by: Sandwich on August 31, 2006, 08:00:43 pm
Found one of the things I was looking for; the full HD trailer for Serenity had the shot. A little Photoshopping, and here you have it:

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Title: Re: Looking for Firefly/Serenity stuff...
Post by: Trivial Psychic on August 31, 2006, 08:12:46 pm
On Book.

Read the novelisation of Serenity and you get a very, very big clue in the chapter where the Alliance attacks Haven. I'd find the book and quote the passage, but I gotta go to work.
Got it, but I haven't read it yet.  I've got a theory that he was actually the Alliance commander in charge of the fighting at Serenity valley.  He was decorated as a hero, hence his VIP treatment when he got shot, but his experiences there changed him considerably so he left to enter a monestary... and ultimately the priesthood.
Title: Re: Looking for Firefly/Serenity stuff...
Post by: Mefustae on August 31, 2006, 08:17:56 pm
Got it, but I haven't read it yet.  I've got a theory that he was actually the Alliance commander in charge of the fighting at Serenity valley.  He was decorated as a hero, hence his VIP treatment when he got shot, but his experiences there changed him considerably so he left to enter a monestary... and ultimately the priesthood.
The Browncoat's commander and the Alliance's commander on the same ship? It's the original odd-couple!

*Starts humming 'Odd-couple' tune*
Title: Re: Looking for Firefly/Serenity stuff...
Post by: WMCoolmon on September 03, 2006, 01:03:59 am
Found one of the things I was looking for; the full HD trailer for Serenity had the shot. A little Photoshopping, and here you have it:

That's some pretty sweet ****.
Title: Re: Looking for Firefly/Serenity stuff...
Post by: Taristin on September 03, 2006, 01:14:53 am
http://www.propstore.com/list/cat_id/8/pos//num_display/100/view/0/ob/itm/movs/877

?
Title: Re: Looking for Firefly/Serenity stuff...
Post by: Sandwich on September 03, 2006, 06:40:37 am
I don't see no browncoats there.
Title: Re: Looking for Firefly/Serenity stuff...
Post by: Fineus on September 03, 2006, 10:38:27 am
Speaking of browncoats, does anyone know if there's one on sale similar to the one the Doctor uses in Doctor Who?:

(http://jot.communication.utexas.edu/flow/jotcontent/dr_who.jpg)
Title: Re: Looking for Firefly/Serenity stuff...
Post by: aldo_14 on September 03, 2006, 03:47:21 pm
Speaking of browncoats, does anyone know if there's one on sale similar to the one the Doctor uses in Doctor Who?:

(http://jot.communication.utexas.edu/flow/jotcontent/dr_who.jpg)


Go into any suit shop and you can find one of those coats.
Title: Re: Looking for Firefly/Serenity stuff...
Post by: kasperl on September 03, 2006, 03:56:10 pm
Meh, my old waxcoat looks quite like it, if you'd tear of the shoulder flap, cut some holes in place of the push buttons, and kind of rough it up (more then I've done with normal use already). Cost about 90 quid in a little Scottish town called Glencoe, but coats like it are avaiable from 10 quid upwards in just about any outdoor/farmers store in the UK. (Good ones are a whole different story altogether, but if you're going to rough it up, you want something cheap.)
Title: Re: Looking for Firefly/Serenity stuff...
Post by: Fineus on September 03, 2006, 04:04:15 pm
I just don't want to spend a lot of money ;)
Title: Re: Looking for Firefly/Serenity stuff...
Post by: Sandwich on September 03, 2006, 05:15:12 pm
Back to Firefly... Cotton, not leather, but a decent price ($60) (http://www.sportsmansguide.com/cb/cb.asp?a=244509). Not a Firefly replica though, just a similar style of coat (duster, actually).

For a more genuine replica, however: http://www.abbyshot.com/products/ps-firefly-browncoat.php - only $400-500 USD. :eek:
Title: Re: Looking for Firefly/Serenity stuff...
Post by: Trivial Psychic on September 03, 2006, 06:47:25 pm
When my Wife (Girlfriend at the time) and I went to see "Revenge Of The Sith" in theaters, there was a guy behind us in line dressed with a Sith dark robe and hood, and he looked alot like Mal from Firefly.  I told him this, and he said that his Girlfriend had introduced him to Firefly by showing him the pilot on DVD, less than a week prior.  She'd told him that Mal was alot more hansome than he was.  Later that year when "Serenity" hit theaters, I was joking with my Wife (again, Fiance at the time) that we could end up running into the same guy, now a total "Firefly" nut, dressed to the nines as Mal... didn't though.  Shame.
Title: Re: Looking for Firefly/Serenity stuff...
Post by: Sandwich on September 04, 2006, 03:01:43 am
I SOOO wanted a Darth Vader or Stormtrooper costume for LotR. :D
Title: Re: Looking for Firefly/Serenity stuff...
Post by: Mefustae on September 04, 2006, 03:42:32 am
I SOOO wanted a Darth Vader or Stormtrooper costume for LotR. :D
You'll still get your chance. Dress up like Darth Vader and hang around the front entrance of the cinema when the next Trek is to premiere, wearing a big sign that says "I hate trekkies". Y'know, Die-Hard 3 style.


I guarantee you nobody'd have the brass to jump you.
Title: Re: Looking for Firefly/Serenity stuff...
Post by: aldo_14 on September 04, 2006, 04:03:41 am
I SOOO wanted a Darth Vader or Stormtrooper costume for LotR. :D
You'll still get your chance. Dress up like Darth Vader and hang around the front entrance of the cinema when the next Trek is to premiere, wearing a big sign that says "I hate trekkies". Y'know, Die-Hard 3 style.


I guarantee you nobody'd have the brass to jump you.

They're trekkies - they'd just shake their tricorders and possibly pens (from the top pocket of their immaculately pressed white shirts) at you.  After all, there's no toy weapon that can beat a lightsaber in a square go.
Title: Re: Looking for Firefly/Serenity stuff...
Post by: Colonol Dekker on September 04, 2006, 04:06:00 am
In the game of life, Everything beats trekkie............

(no capital T on purpose)
Title: Re: Looking for Firefly/Serenity stuff...
Post by: Sandwich on September 04, 2006, 06:49:32 am
I SOOO wanted a Darth Vader or Stormtrooper costume for LotR. :D
You'll still get your chance. Dress up like Darth Vader and hang around the front entrance of the cinema when the next Trek is to premiere, wearing a big sign that says "I hate trekkies". Y'know, Die-Hard 3 style.


I guarantee you nobody'd have the brass to jump you.

I dunno about the sign (that'd be sort of self-abuse TBH), but the opportunity is brilliant. :)