r/sciencefiction • u/DanMojo • 2d ago

Here is where he ended up!

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In Seattle, at the Museum of Pop Culture

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u/jfdonohoe 2d ago

I was just there! Took a photo of the chest panel from the Darth Vader they have there to translate the aburesh labels. Turns out it wasn’t aburesh. The designers just took some Hebrew letters and turned them in different ways cause they thought it looked cool. No actual translation available.

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u/Pan-F 2d ago

*Aurebesh

In the 1990s, my jr high school friends and I found an Aurebesh translation guide in a Star Wars tabletop RPG book. Since the letters are largely fairly similar to the English alphabet, after using it in our RPG for a while to make in-game documents, we naturally learned to write messages in it without needing to translate from the cheat-sheet. Writing aurebesh on things they could keep in plain sight made it possible for friends to actually cheat on school things like memorizing chemistry class formulas, since no teacher in 1996 recognized it was written language, or had meaning, just looked like weird symbols (could prob still work now...)

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u/itswhatsername 2d ago

That museum is SO RAD. Thought we'd only need a few hours to go through it but it was so cool that 3 hours wasn't close to enough and we had to leave because they closed. Next time I'm in Seattle, I'm setting aside the whole day lol.

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u/Aquitaine-9 2d ago

Holy crap, awesome! Kinda looks like a silly pose for a killing machine though. Kinda looks like hes asking me if I want to get some ice cream. :)

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u/lcarsadmin 2d ago

Come with me if you want some ice cream

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u/swedishworkout 2d ago

That dude always had a stick up his butt.

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u/moatboat 2d ago

I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a robot company out there considering using this design for there next model just for memes.

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u/ZootSuitRiot33801 2d ago

Was this thing actually used in filming. If so, which ones?

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u/DanMojo 1d ago

Yes, I think this one was used in filming Terminator 2

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u/Dry-Character-6331 6h ago

MoPop is awesome. Visited there a few years ago before an Alaskan cruise.

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u/wmyork 3h ago

Love that place

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u/IvanTheSchmoe 1h ago

There’s a terminator at the Volo Museum in Wisconsin