The Real Guns of Star Wars: A New Hope
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Ever since The Mandalorian chose a terrific prototype Bergmann pistol as the base for Mando's blaster pistol, I've been asked to cover the real gun origins of the blasters form he original Star Wars film. This isn't a particularly difficult thing to look up online, but hopefully I can bring a bit of additional context beyond the typical search engine results...
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"Hi, I'm Ian McCollum and I'm here in BlasTechs Grey Room where they've kindly let me take a look at some of the Galactic Civil War era weapons in their archive..."
You won the internet for me today
His Star Wars name is Ian MacLunkey.
this made me lol for real
If Ian ever teamed up with some cosplayers to do an in-universe Star Wars episode (where for history he said a combination of canon and made up facts) that would be amazing.
"Now this is really slick!"
Gun Jesus finally got to the guns that are *so forgotten* they're from "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..."
Gun Jesus 😂
Ian’s new affectionate nickname
@@cashotpb Not exactly new, I can remember that nickname some years back :)
Yeah, it's fairly old, looking at "Gun Jesus" videos by fans. Also worth mentioning is the Halloween shotgun match from 5 years ago.
@@pekkakoski6595 yeah hk literally post ian with jesus style in their official ig account
Here you go and welcome to the club th-cam.com/video/sI3x30iamHc/w-d-xo.html
"I am the way, and the light. Except the light is occasionally muzzle flash"
The Rebel blasters were technically stolen Imperial weapons, so Death Star troopers being armed with them isn't that much of a continuity error.
That, and BlasTech was infamous for selling arms to basically anyone, so it's not inconceivable the rebel blasters are new-production guns that they just bought for themselves.
U guys know that this was most likely a convenient production choice of the prop departement? Not some well thought out masterplan.
@@rubenskiii Yes, we know. _Star Wars_ was originally intended to be a one-off story, so any suggestion of a wider universe is mostly retroactive--but that suggestion of a wider universe is what makes _Star Wars_ what it is. Continuity errors and filmmaking thrift gave later writers the chance to produce something fascinating.
When you really think about it, those Rebel troopers weren't really Rebel troopers per se, they were part of Leia's security detail. So they were either Senatorial or Alderanian troops secretly working for the Rebel Alliance. If they were Rebels in uniform, that kind of makes the Captain's protests to Vader about being on a diplomatic mission a really hard sell. How can you say that you're on a diplomatic mission, basically saying that you made a mistake, when you and your crew are dressed as Rebels?
@@Riceball01 That particular uniform is only seen (AFAIK) in the Tantive IV scenes, so you may be right, but I've only ever heard them described as rebel troopers.
“Please don’t do this to a c96 please no I beg you please”
Nah, do it to one that's already been bubba'd.
@@toddmaddox3632 license built Astras actually (they have a magazine rather than requiring a stripper clip be used).
@@ScottKenny1978 Or, do it to one with no collectiblity. Little or no finish remaining, no matching numbers (Frankenstein gun), shot out or relined barrel, etc.
@@johnmullholand2044 yes, that'd also be acceptable to me and most collectors.
I could imagine Ian owning a self defense shop on Tatooine and not being affected by jedi mind tricks
MInd tricks don't work on me, only berthiers...
Get an old french rifle and he'll follow your will
I hate sand...
"9mm will do fine."
"No, it won't."
"9mm will do fine."
"No, it won't! Mind tricks don't work on me, only 32 french longue."
Scene cut from him sitting there while someone walks in the door and he's working on a Kentucky rifle... Pan right to boba Fett drinking some blue booze
Explains why the Stormtroopers can't hit anything, they never unfold the stock.
lol
It’s plot ammor
Probably because the armor isn't all that conducive to stocks.
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works with the mp5 in cs:go tho
@@mid1429 It's only one M but yes, you are right.
When I take my C96 to the range I get one of two comments. "Wow, that's a Mauser Broomhandle' or "That's a Star Wars gun!"
Lies again? Gun Oil UEFA SW
One of my neighbors had two C96s and he had one that was converted to a blaster, and another that had the forbidden markings on it. He did this to make people lose their minds on the ranges in town. Even went to the range once dressed like solo lol
Worth pointing out both the "E11" and Darth Vader's lightsaber had rubber car wiper blades glued to them as the "grips".
it was a pretty low-budget movie, after all...
@@crazysilly2914 Hey I'm not saying it was a bad idea. It was a BRILLIANT idea!
@@KaldekBoch yep!
but then it got ruined by the House of Mouse....
the main silver part in lukes light saber in ep 4 was made form an old camera
They aren't wiper blades. The are t track drawer slides
The entire saga was just a Blastech marketing scheme.
The whole Star Wars universe is clearly a conspiracy by the military-industrial complex, I mean for fuck's sake those idiots actually built 2 Death Stars! Thousands of Star Destroyers, millions of clones who can't even shoot straight... The real winner of all this violence and bloodshed is the contractors for the Empire, hell they probably backed the rebels in secret just to sell more weapons.
Palpatine isn't an evil genius, he's a fool who got conned by the defense lobbyists.
@@MrMattumbo thats actually mentioned in some of the lore, there were a lot of planets and entire systems profiting off of all the wars
Starwars is just Jedi propaganda
@@MrMattumbo But weren't the clones actually good shots?
@@narutohokage20 yeah all the stormtroopers in the trilogy are volunteers
Back in 1978 my father saw some of the first Star Wars movie and said, 'Wait a minute, Han Solo has a Mauser C96'
I saw the original star wars movie, I was 11 and had no idea WTF a C96 was.
it’s a modified DL-44 if we’re talking about what the blaster is called in the Star Wars universe
@@rooracleaf561 Clearly that isnt the case with ops comment.
And we all went out a got one !
@@rooracleaf561 Thank you, Captain, for pointing out the brutally obvious.
Imagine using red pistol tracers loaded into one of these - that would look better than any CGI :)
But also at least 100x more dangerous.
@@alexdavis1235 I know, more realistic to take these to the shooting range and use tracers there
Thats what annoyed me by the mandalorian, a lot of the battles looked so fake because they overused cgi when they could have done more practical effects
Now we just need to get Ian a role as a Mandalorian armorer
YESSSSS.
Now I need a scene of Ian trying to sell the Mando a new blaster in The Mandalorian Season 3.
Upcoming cameo at Camp Starwars! --- though, on second thought... we wouldn't want Ian to get a bad case of Disneyflu-21.
I hate that you've said this because now I really want to see that.
I would actually be very entertained by Ian sort of picking a couple of classic guns that would make cool movie blasters
FRENCH IN SPAAAAAAAAACCE!
In the same manner as the Sommelier in John Wick 2
"Bapti & Co." would be a good name for a Star Wars universe company.
"Bapty"
Pepsi Co
Pure shit talk
@@austinmoore7328 calm down there, thumbass
@John cookie monster
Ian: "It's not something I want to do too much of, after all this is movie props and not real history"
Also Ian: "I am Ian McCollum and we are back today, taking a look at another *Elbonian* firearm"
Elbonia is real history tho, he just doesn't want to deal with angry comments if he puts the actual country name
I thought it was a Fredonian firearm.
I just realized how horrible trigger discipline is in the Star Wars universe, it’s a miracle people weren’t being blasted by accident
Gotta have real bullets.
I like how the difference between "antique" and "futuristic" boils down not to the mechanics or functionality of the gun, but rather the gubbins and doohickies you bolt onto it.
The technical term is "greebles" and Ian uses the term correctly in the video. The term was (probably) coined by Lucas's Industrial Light and Magic company during the production of _Star Wars_ in 1976. ILM's model makers bought thousands and thousands of plastic model kits which they took apart and glued to their spaceship models to give them the illusion of much larger size. This then became the industry standard for how to make such models, and the term "greebles" stuck. The model makers for _2001: a Space Odyssey_ used similar methods, but it's unknown if they used the same term.
It's a pretty good example of Star Wars design, I think. Star Wars guns are real guns with bits stuck on or cut off - but they still look like guns, characters handle them like guns, and they kinda work like guns: They fire discrete, separate shots (not continuous laser beams), they make a noise each time, they have at least some recoil, usually appear to have magazines,...
Like most of the props, vehicles, etc, they're different and otherworldly to some extent, but also familiar enough to give them a certain veracity, and make the universe feel like a real, lived-in place.
@@catfish552 Yeah, that was the key to Star Wars and Alien. Everything was a plausible extension of real life. Meanwhile, Star Trek makes their new phasers more like electric shavers...
@@tarmaque There's also "the greeble" part, which is some piece from a tank set I can't recall.
You should check out the internet movie firearms database if you haven’t already. They have a few exclusive photos on their site from different armorers and prop companies. My favorite are the guns from Aliens.
"it looks pretty cool, it certainly fits the part" is probably one of the best qualities of star wars props on the original trilogy
That's what I hated about the sequel trilogy's weaponry. The Original trilogy's was based on real firearms and the prequels weaponry acted as precursor's to the Original trilogy's. The Sequels weaponry was just their without any real explanation
@@connorthegunlovingeek7465 the sequels were more based on the original ones, which makes sense as the original triliogy weapons lore wise are improvements of their clone wars variants
@@helix5441 This is completely off topic, but it's good to see a fellow fallout fan around these parts. I used to have that exact profile picture
@@helix5441 just looked back at all the First Order and Resistance weapons and just realized I'm stupid. The only reason I find them harder to identify is because they have more plastic bits and doohickeys attached to them, but are somewhat recognizable if you take a longer look at them.
@@connorthegunlovingeek7465 yeah more so for the first order weapons like the f-11 which is quite obviously a improved e-11
Distressed "Please don't do this!" toward the end was great. I really like this kind of stuff, and look forward to more. I do understand the concern about the core focus of Forgotten Weapons, but it wouldn't hurt your credibility in my eyes anyway. Part of firearms history involves how they are used and become well known, after all.
Ian forgot that rifle Luke was holding at the beginning of the movie.
And the sand people rifle
@@mancubwwa
Neither of which are real firearms.
Cycler rife is canon name
What about Chewbacca's bowcaster?
@@nichevo1 probably a crossbow
If Jar-Jar Binks ever had a gun it would look like a Zip 22
Or a Jennings.
A hi point
Be fair, even Jar-Jar isn't that dumb. Now giving him a Chauchat, and it actually working, that's Jar-Jar-esque.
@@nk_3332 Truer words have never been spoken.
_Hilarious!_
However, for the _real_ nerd, I bring to the attention of all, it was original intention of writer-producer-director George Lucas to eventually reveal Jar-Jar Binks as a Sith Lord -- _truth!_
Yes, this fan theory was confirmed by GL himself. The conceit was abandoned after the unpopularity of JJB in SW1, _The Phantom Menace,_ had debuted.
As a Sith Lord, JJB would have somehow made the ZiP into a functional weapon. Somehow.
"This was Greedo's pistol"
Me, reflexively: "Han shot first."
If you look in some dark places on the internet you can find _Star Wars 4K77_ which is a restored version of the original 1977 release in 4k. It is _extremely_ interesting since it is all but impossible to find a commercial version that doesn't have Lucas's "improvements." Some interesting points: Not only does Han shoot first, Greedo doesn't shoot _at all._ Nowhere in the opening crawl does it say "A New Hope" or "Episode IV." Some of the effects are pretty janky, but most of them are surprisingly good. All the scenes where Lucas added CGI stuff (primarily on Tattooine) look a lot better because the CGI he added looks out of place, however there are places where CGI was used to clean up janky original effects that really help.
www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k77/
If someone is pointing a gun at you, he is threatening you with deadly force. You'd be within your rights to shoot first and not wait and hope that you don't die when he shoots you first.
To all of you who complain that “but Hans shot first!”, May I remind you that the movie would be a bit different if Hans was dead from the beginning...
@@samiam619 I think they're complaining about Lucas changing it so Greedo shot first.
@@tarmaque Thank you. I'd not heard of this (I live in a cave). Presumably this restores the original audio bits (sound effects, voiceovers) that were altered as of the initial re-run? As a first-run type, the changes always annoyed me.
This tradition continued into the prequels! Some of the palace gaurds in Episode 1 are carrying "CR-2"s, a blaster visibly built from a Calico with the distinctive magazine still attatched.
If any of you own Battlefront or it's sequel, they're a fun place to take a look at some of these props in high res as DICE had access to many of the originals while building their game.
Suggestion: Include a photo of the actual model the movie prop was made from when showing the prop.
Just a thought.
IMFDB has that
"This is a cut down ...."
Atf: so anyways, i started blasting
Atf: : "And then the guy started dodging my shots..."
... shot the dog first, of course.
@@johnathansaegal3156 of course, i'm not uncivilized
Almost choked on my sprite. Good one
@@johnathansaegal3156 And then the wookie shot back
My favourite thing about weapons in the films was that the Sand People use Jezails.
I am surptlrised that not a lot of people bring that up.
Some guy made a working Han Solo Blaster. Semiautomatic 9or.45? Cant recall but the thing works
*insert donkey noises*
@@williamconnally7727 😆
I had thought Sand People were basically based on Bedouins, but maybe there is an Afghani reference there given the gun. They more or less hit the beats: they're a nomadic warrior culture who are well adapted to their environment, outsiders tend to be prejudiced against them because of misunderstandings, and basically they try to protect themselves while others act violently toward them because they expect violence. The Mandalorian did a good job digging into this. Mando gets along with the Sand People even though they are usually hostile to outsiders because he is respectful of their culture. So his encounters with them are very different. Then you have Anakin basically expressing the take everyone else has by committing genocide.
Humans are actually offworlders on Tattooine, and the situation is much like early relationships between native americans and european colonists. The attitude in Mos Pelgo is obviously deliberately modeled on Westerns, much as Star Wars was originally based on spaghetti westerns and samurai movies. Much like back then, the townsfolk are basically trespassing in sand people land and don't see their own hostile actions toward the sand people. They only see the response, which they consider unreasoning and indefensible.
I’m just gonna throw this out there- Same idea as this video, but for Firefly
nobody knows or cares about firefly
@@crazysilly2914 You are so very wrong.
@@aussie870 firefly is a rip-off of Star Wars but sh!ttier and lower budget...
@@crazysilly2914 Firefly has very little in common with Star Wars other than space and guns. Firefly has the capacity for a much darker tone since it isn't aimed at kids at all.
I really don't see how a low budget means anything, since the newer Star Wars movies had a HUGE budget and still managed to be absolute dogshit.
@@aussie870 Firefly is kinda niche though, compared to Star Wars, very few people have heard of it...
I heard a looooong time ago that the Star Wars crew had some issues getting the guns because the film, “A Bridge Too Far” was being filmed at the same time in the UK. It certainly makes sense but if anyone has more info on that, please share if you can.
The cantina scene was extensively reshot in Los Angeles after the first cut was reviewed. The arm-cut-off scene was originally a decapitation. This is probably where the new gun comes in.
Phew, man. Lucas gets a lot of cred for Star Wars. The decapitation detail wasn't mentioned in 'Star Wars: Saved in the Edit'. But an arm cut off vs decap is a huge improvement.
The start of a tradition. A severed body part in every movie until TFA
Fun fact: The scopes on the E-11 blaster rifles are actually Sherman tank sights.
I don’t think thats true, looks like one of those hand held telescopes.
@@kadecase7470 It is, it's the M38 tank scope.
@@kadecase7470 Look up the e-11 and the m38 scope on google! It really is lol
Explains the accuracy
Some are M19. Both types were put the wrong way around.
In ESB there are no M38s, and M19s also show up on Han Solo's and Luke's DL-44 blasters. in ROTJ the E-11 blaster scopes were all casts or lookalikes of the M19.
for anyone who DOES want to make a dl-44 without desecrating a broomhandle, you can do it with the AR-platform, i think someone even makes a kit for it.
I'd love to see this again! I love how Lucas and his helpers made these from strange and unusual guns/forgotten guns to make them into Sci-fit weapons.
At this point you can’t even so much as whisper about the Sterling or the Broomhandle without being bombarded by “this is the prop used in Star Wars”.
Sometimes even when it is a different model, such as the Mauser Schnellfeuer.
Or just stormtrooper jokes off the bat
I've shot a Sterling that was a Star Wars gun converted back to a transferable MG, Its was soooooo Cool!
That's awesome
If only Star Wars film tech has higher fire rates.
@@teslashark there a few with fast fire rates, like the clone DC-15 blaster rifles
@@rokairu0-216 too bad i don't think those were ever real. like they never had firearms in them or maybe they were purely cg
@@greatmeme I remember hearing that the clone ones might have been based on MG-42s? Or some sort of LMG. Not sure. There were real props though.
The MG15 was usually mounted in aircraft like the Heinkel He111. A fairly simple but light and elegant design, one of my favorite forgotten weapons. Thanks for including it!
This kinda series fits perfectly with the channel. It's just another part of the firearms history.
all those scopes and everybody still missed.
Yup. 6 hours of non stop gun fights 100 to 1 odds....never a single hit. And horribly safety practices, no wonder actors hate guns so much. No clue about them.
no one told them to look through the scopes :P
What do you expect with those helmets obscuring your entire field of view except for a tiny mail slot in the front?
@@Stoney3K Luke used to bullseye whomprats wearing his mail slot helmet back home.
Blaster shoots gas relatively slow to bullets, I don't remember the numbers but they're as fast as a baseball ball so that means that is easy to dodge, the force of the empire and it's troops comes in numbers
It’s 3 in the morning Ian......how did you know I didn’t wanna sleep.
Its 5 were I live bro
It's midday, you casuals
@@guyman9655 sameeee
5:05 for me (east coast)
Just in time for dinner. Lmao.
Yes, please, please, please do more videos of this nature! You are the most qualified and entertaining person to speak about film used firearms. I love your videos and movie weapon history/trivia is just as exciting to me as any firearm history. Keep up the good work.
Please continue with the movie gun angle as an addition to your usual top shelf content...thanks for your efforts,you continue to be my favorite YT channel
This series is gonna blow up when you start doing Westerns.
"In this scene, John Wayne uses a 73 Colt"
"In this scene, Clint Eastwood uses a 73 Colt"
In this scene, Gene Wilder uses a 73 Colt"
In this scene, Jack Palance uses a 73 Colt"
And so on
Gun Jesus has added an Eleventh Commandment, "Though Shall Not Fuck Up a Mauser C96 to make a prop gun replica."
And verily he said, that outside would remain, the bubbas, fudds, and all those who would sacrilegiously modify or destroy firearms of past
I mean especially today given the progress made in 3D printing. for Cosplay or a display in your home theater room 3D printed will look fine really. Just have to do a good job painting using metallic paints.
Or as he said, use airsoft as a donor.
if you could convert a C96 to a Han Solo Blaster and have it still shoot well that would be pretty dope tho
@@commodorjack8633 Its been done!
@@PsychoticBovine and tracers fit the blaster fire
6:08 Luke's abysmal trigger discipline on full display.
He’s literally in and out of firefights, I think it’s okay to keep the finger there
Something for the film buffs: Han Solo's blaster is a conversion from a film prop already previously altered for a previous film.
In the 1960s, Oliver Reed plays a professional assassin who uses a multi-part gun assembled from a case of parts: the C96 selbstladung pistole, converted to have a stock, a long suppressor, and a scope to fit on top.
The central part of that prop became Han Solo's pistol, with the muzzle brake from an aircraft machine gun, and with added radio-control plane parts ( the cylinders and pushrods from a plastic scale radial aircraft engine made as parts for radio control aircraft modellers, specifically.
I liked this, would prefer more side-by-side footage of the real guns vs just the prop and you explaining what the gun looked like originally
the Han gun's easy- just take off the scop & muzzle end and voila, a C96. the only other really add-on stuff is the coolg finds on the magazine well
"Good news trooper 2341, you get this MG-34!"
"Hooray!"
"Bad news trooper 8645, you get this Mk II Sten gun with a single-feed laser magazine..."
"Awww..."
And neither could hit the broadside of a Batha with them
@@SonsOfLorgar The same people that support the garbage TIE fighters. No Hyperdrive or life support systems. The TIE Defender was better.
Palpatine went to the lowest bidders to save money on that planet-destroying vanity project/jobs program of his. For reference, I've heard that some of the poor fellas in the Stormtrooper Corps had plastoid armor that broke from blows with armoury tools, or gaffi sticks from sand people.
@@robertfoley8414 Ima yell it out for the people in the back. Storm Troopers are NOT bad at shooting, they were hearding the heroes to the Millennium Falcon so that they could be followed. Its literally explained the second the heroes leave in the ship.
@@RyuuHatake That doesn't explain why they keep mostly missing the heroes in the rest of the trilogy. Also, no matter how well trained and indoctrinated a unit is, they wouldn't intentionally keep missing guys that have just gunned down bunch of their comrades... Much better explanation is Luke and Leia doing some kind of subconscious Force accuracy debuff on the Stormtroopers
The cut down SMLE that the Jawas used was actually a British WW2 era AFV smoke dispenser. Some of them even had their handles completely cut off and solenoids attached to their triggers so they could be fired from inside the vehicle.
Yes please. Just watched your mandalorian video and was utterly stoked to see you'd done another Starwars video. Don't let the next one be a year like this time please.
My father was an extra in the movie Zulu. They used Martini Henry's
The question is: were Zulus extras armed with the real stuff. :-)
Nicee
Some are MH. Other rifles were also used though as they didn't have enough MHs. You can see bolt-actions in some shots.
And spears. I imagine there were quite a lot of spears involved too.
Well, now we know he's covered every gun on this planet. He's now covering things from a galaxy far, far away.
There’s a shit ton of weapons in the Star Wars universe. Most of the editors on Wookipedia care more about tanks and planets. I catalogued every weapon from the six major armies. But let me tell ya straight up, the fact that they are two parallel universe makes it rather messy.
There were two versions of the DL-44 for A New Hope. One was the 'Greedo Killer', which had an M9 flash surpressor, from the M3 'Grease Gun'. The other was the 'Hero' version, which had a flash hider from an MG81.
Loved it. A nice change of pace every so often can't hurt. Great.
Ian really missed a chance to have the Forgotten Weapons logo burst onto the screen.
Forgotten weapons title crawl
Probably so Disney doesn't destroy the video.
Ian, I think this could be a once a week episode, “prop guns of the movies”. Along the lines of the book reviews you release on weekends.
Yes with the Movies Zulu and Zulu Dawn as the next episode.
Bladerunner ofcourse.
Would be so much work though. Diminishing returns and what not
yes !!!
@@NSixtyFour, Ian has a lot of video of the original guns already in the bag, so it should be a matter of pulling some old video and adding some new audio recording, along with some stills from the series. That’s easier than making new, original content from scratch.
Happy New Year Ian, thanks for all your vids.
Loved this! One film whose prop weapons I’d like to see something on is Aliens. You get to see a lot of detail, so the workings of them would be fun to see!
Ian "the last hope" McSolo presenting:
Forgotten Weapons from a galaxy far far away
This is interesting and I wouldn’t mind seeing more.
I second this statement
Agreed. Nice thing to throw in the mix every now and then.
Hes gotta do em all at some point
Great video , happy new year from Canada ! Thank you for all your hard work .
I truly enjoyed his video. However, if I can make one recommendation, it would only be to include more images of the real guns you're comparing the fictional guns to as a comparison just to show how much has or hasn't been changed. Of course, it's up to you and it was very good regardless, but I think that would help out some
As a firearms nerd and a hardcore Star Wars nerd, I thank you so much for this :)
Gun Jesus is the Chief of the Empire's Ordnance Department.
Gun Jesus would be war minister in The Empire
Ever since the Mando video I have been waiting for this one. Awesome! Ian, I love your videos and keep it up.
This was a nice change of the usual pace. I would like to see more of such videos and maybe include in the text screen section of the name not just the fictitious title but also the one from the original it is based on. Thank you Ian and a happy new year.
Can't remember where I heard it but I recall that they wanted star wars to have a "used" feel to it instead of the slick shiny things most sci fi's did.
In case you missed it, Din / The Mandalorian's 1894 recently got an in-universe name: Blastech IB-94. With "IB-94" obviously resembling "1894". :)
Thats a nice little detail, I'm glad Someone in control of the cannon has some creativity and passion.
Loved it! Please do more of these. I can't believe I didn't recognize the MG34 and the Lewis gun in Star Wars before! Recognized the broom-handled Mauser years ago, though.
The cut down version of the SMLE with a grenade cup was also used as an external smoke grenade launcher for some British tanks. Bolted to the side of the turret and remotely fired
The Death Star was just a very large cannon firing a green tracer
What? A 5000mm cannon?
Sturmtiger
This was cool, and honestly I would be absolutely thrilled with a “history” video of an E-11 in the style of GarandThumb’s MA5 review he did for April Fools
As would I, gearing Ian being just as professional, whislt talking about a fictional weapon does sound VER entertaining.
Ian dressed up in New Republic Intelligence uniform going over it like he does most of the other weapons he talks about?
Sign me the hell up
There was such information, then it got tossed in 1999 or 2000 with the first semi-purge of official-but-not-canon, following the bankruptcy of West End Games and the RPG license going into limbo. But even then, all that was ever official was a couple paragraphs, and Hidalgo has done his best to destroy it. Like five or six lines in Splinter of the Mind's Eye, some of which contradicts what is generally accepted about about blasters, a few more in Han Solo Corporate sector novels which has the same problem. Bits in pieces in roleplaying game supplements which got duplicated by Zahn, Anderson and Stackpole who all used West Ends material for reference. Other novels had random crap. And wookiepedia includes too much trash from video games that was created without referencing canon (either mouse cannon or legends canon) other than for a few model numbers and a poor understanding of the Galaxy and THEN Hidalgo crammed it in sideways with a hammer after he stopped giving a damn.
And before people ask, yes, Im a nerd. Most of my hobbies relate to bushcraft, shooting or science fiction. Piss off. :P
@@tenchraven Was gonna say you had a pretty solid grasp on what happened to Star Wars canon in my experince.
The order that could have crushed the rebellion. Imperial officer on Endor: Change to lead bullets in the MG-34! Lets gun down the teddy bears!
Ewoks die when you shoot them. There were just _too many_ of them.
@@WJS774 Star Wars blasers rate of fire is very low. Approximately 60 shoot/min if we are generous. MG-34 are (in)famus for its rate of fire about, 1200 shoot/min depending on model.
The joke is that the Stormtrooper use "laser bullet" in there MG-34 Powerful but slow fire, change to lead is load conventional bullets.
@@kirgan1000 Machine guns are excellent at what they're designed for, but close-quarters jungle skirmishing is very much not it. Plus they weren't equipped with that heavy blaster anyway, they were using their standard carbines.
@@kirgan1000 MG34s were 800-900 rounds per minute
This is perfect for the little holiday fun videos. I’d say keep doing them here and there.
I always thought the Princess Leia pistol looked like a power washer.
2 AM, I'll sleep when Jedi Master Ian's done lecturing.
Ditto
Bold of you to assume his allegiance...
Which is never...
Thank you- I knew about the MG-42 and the Storm Trooper Sterling because a gun collector friend of mine told me years ago. So much fun to hear about it all.
DO IT MORE PLEASE Ian for some people this is history and you bridging the gap I feel is useful. In many ways this is a cross of art tech and guns I just cant get enough.
Well, guess I’m staying up just a bit longer.
Same lol
I vibe with that
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Oof it’s 10:49AM where I am
Yeah it’s 3 am for me lol
Gun Jesus should be referred to as Blaster Jesus when talking about Star Wars, thank you.
Blastech jesus
Gun Jesus is one of the good guys, call him Master Jesus as he is a Master of the Props. "Use the Props, Luke..."
He doesn’t even look like Jesus. He has no beard.
This is the way.
I approve this.
Ian, as always, love the video, love the history, love Star Wars and strange weapons, both guns and swords alike.
I only really knew about the Broomhandle and the Burgmont model 1.
And i knew the latter thanks to your videos before Mandalorian came out.
Keep up the awesome vids!
I think these videos would make a nice treat every once in awhile
You know something special to thrown in every now and then
It's wild playing Star Wars Battlefront and just going, "Wait a minute, this is just a Lewis Gun. I'm hip firing a Lewis Gun." I would love to see more of these actually.
Thanks to "Walking Fire" tactics, hip-firing a Lewis was an actual military idea back in the Great War...According to C&Arsenal's research, the Canadians in particular were notable for actually making the whole crazy debacle actually feasible.
...I mean, walking fire across No-Man's land was still insanity, but it was slightly less so when you're providing it from a brawny French-Canadian Lumberjack with a special sling set up, to provide bursts of fire from what is effectively a SAW, so you can go H/LMG hunting in a German trench...
I apprecicate how he worked to get everything within the SW universe right. Ian deserves more credit than he gets
Heck yeah Ian, please do some more of these every now and again.
this was a long time coming, I'm glad you decided to do it.
I would love to see more of this. Both for star wars and other franchise's that dress up historical firearms.
I love the crossover of firearms and film. This IS history.
Nerd history is still history
Thistory, if you will
"We are merely passing THROUGH history, but this..."
(pats broomhandle mauser)
"...this IS history."
Movie history could be a subgenre of art history. It's legit I think.
Doing an episode for every Star Wars movie would be very cool to watch
Hey man thanks for being one of my top youtubers, happy new year
Blas Tech is also known as Fabrique Nationale d'Armes de Merde de Elbonia.
Ah yes, my favorite gun, the FNAME E-11
laughed more than I should at "armes de merde"
It means Factory National of Gun Of Shit Of Albania
@@clarkmirkbell880 Elbonia is from Dilbert cartoon and in atleast two Ian videos it was used to refer to Egyptian arms actually.
It’s crazy how Harrison Ford and Frank Sinatra used the same modified Mauser
@@brodynightingale6031 He's saying the very same C96 that was made into Han's DL-44 prop was previously used by Frank Sinatra's character in the 1967 movie The Naked Runner...
The boarding scene of the first movie: stormtroopers doing something effectively. It was the first and only time stormtroopers did something effectively.
Idk, they get shot pretty effectively.
It's silly, but I really hate that meme. They did a good job herding the rebels on the Death Star and Bespin, and they overran Echo Base with no trouble at all.
They keep this tradition alive in a some of the new Star Wars media other than The Mandalorian as well. For example Jyn's blaster in rogue one is just a repainted Luger with something stuck on the end of the barrel.
At the end you say "this is movie props and not real history" Star Wars A new hope is like 43 years ago. sounds like history to me. Oh and I was 10 years only in 1977. and it part of my history.
Also "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." So historical and exotic to boot.
Guys, cinema history doesn't count I'm world history. Not until actual weapons are designed and fielded on a real battlefield that were designed on movie concepts, as opposed to the other way around.
That'll probably happen in my life time though. Jet packs and rail guns are JUST around the corner.
@@Mygg_Jeager I mean theres probably a star wars galaxy out there somewhere haha
Hi Ian! I hope not too many people will point this out so I don’t become a voice in a sea of screams but both sides of the galactic civil war used the BlasTech DH-17. This is because it was a common and cheap weapon of the Imperial army meaning that they were abundant enough that the rebels were able to get their hands on them, even though they are more associated with the rebels due to their appearance in the films.
What a fun video! Star Wars offers a unique opportunity for you because of the kit-bashed nature of the technology we see in the films.
I really liked this video Ian! It may not be about real guns but it was cool to know that these weapons have real world roots.
The extreme close-up of Solo's DL-44 (as he is drawing it from his holster) is NOT the same gun you see through the whole movie. There was no close-up shot during filming in England, and this was noticed during editing in California. A stage hand donned the Han Solo pants and drew a PROTOTYPE version of the blaster that they had in California. Since this is the only good close-up we get, this is the vision of the gun we have emblazoned into our memories. At the end of the prototype barrel was a flash hider from an M3 grease gun. Through out the whole movie, Solo uses a different gun than the close-up, and the scope and scope mount are completely different. In the film, a Hensoldt Wetzlar scope is what you see. It is only in the extreme close-up that you see a different scope, a Compac Super scope.
I imagined the voice of the Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons when reading this. Really brought it to life.
@@striderflys - Back in the mid-1990's I was doing screen captures from a VHS tape, trying to figure out exactly how that scope mounting bracket was made. I machined a couple prototypes before I got it right, and then machined the rest of the parts to make my own blaster out of a die cast replica of a C96 Broomhandle Mauser. It was a lot of fun.
Luke didn't destroy the Death Star, it was Ian raiding their armory.
The rebellion was just a cover story so that no one would realize how many guns he had stolen.
XD Rebel Ian
@@SuspiciouslyGroomedPegasus gun dealer Ian!
"Use the MAS-36, Ian!!!" 😂😂
Star Wars, Guns and WW2 .. Now all the interesting topics finally come together!
no, we need Pirates!
George Lucas borrows a huge amount of technical imagery from WW II. That's why the movie felt so easily relatable. It also felt more real than one with flashy sci-fi weapons. His target audience had grown up watching WW II movies.
Awesome video Ian!!! I've been waiting for this one for years. Thanks a ton.
Fun video! I'd love to see one or two of these a month.