Talk:The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

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Contents 1 Star Trek 2 Cleanup 3 When commerce kicked Bladerunner into the dirt, Bonzai was born 4 Proposed merge, World Crime League 5 Blue Blaze Irregulars or Blue Blazer Regulars? 6 Lectoids 7 Question about possible change 8 Overthruster prop

[edit] Star Trek

Should indicate which series, as the original series was obviously created before Buckaroo Bonzai. Is it TNG or the movies or what that contains countless references? --12.226.230.75 18:52, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

• It's TNG and DS9 for sure, I'm not sure about the rest. I'll see if I can check and edit that in when I've got the time.--MythicFox 14:00, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
• There was also a reference in an episode of Voyager (can't remember the name of the eps.) where Janeway and Chakotay are in the holodeck and Janeway talks to a hologram and mentions beings coming out of the rocks and Chakotay adds "By way of the 8th Dimension."MindScream 12:16, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

There's a cleanup tag on this page, but no discussion of it here. If the page is clean enough now, I suggest we remove that tag. Oed 01:37, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Good work; I have removed the cleanup tag. Joshuardavis 02:49, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] When commerce kicked Bladerunner into the dirt, Bonzai was born

This is still one of my perennial favorites and hope to see more posters contribute to the main page with obscure details and any insight into the latest Alien manifestation taking place in watermelon crops across the world.--71.131.191.31 08:39, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed merge, World Crime League

Propose moving World Crime League into main Buckaroo Banzai article. Remember, Wikipedia has a search engine and is searchable with Google. There's no need to provide separate articles for minor characters, etc. --John Nagle 20:16, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

• Please do. --fataltourist 00:57, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Please do not merge. There are several entities that use the moniker "World Crime League" , unrelated to the film "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension". --Helicopter01 01:38, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

• Then it should be a disambig page. --fataltourist 14:33, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Do not merge since, I feel, there are several aspects of the whole B. Banzai universe that can stand alone... Take for examplatory instance, List of minor characters in Blade Runner. There certainly could be something similar providing information on such characters as New Jersey, Perfect Tommy and Rawhide.. DrWho42 19:08, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. Why the urge to merge?Helo01 11:47, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Blue Blaze Irregulars or Blue Blazer Regulars?

When watching the movie, I always heard it as "Blue Blazer Regulars" instead of "Blue Blaze Irregulars" (although the two sound very close). At the bottom of the article in the FASA bullet, it mentions the "Blue Blazers" but in the body it calls them the "Blue Blaze Irregulars." Is there a canonical source on this? 128.195.20.127 23:32, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

• I believe it is "Blue Blaze Irregulars." The allusion is to the Baker Street Irregulars in the Sherlock Holmes stories. If I could find my copies of the short-lived World Watch One fanzine (and hadn't given away my copy of the novelization), I believe I could verify that.

• While not necessarily canonical, the French subtitles on the DVD use "Veste Bleues" and "Blazer Bleus". --The CyberSlug 04:19, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lectoids

Where was/is it mentioned that the Lectoids are reptillian? I was always under the impression that they were insectoid, possibly due to their red and black division quite like red and black ants.--RedKnight 23:33, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question about possible change

Are the factoid subtitles that come on the DVD considered a source for plot information? Because, if so, this article is wrong in that Rawhide isn't dead, the Banzai Institute managed to put him in cryogenic suspended animation before he died and currently has an entire wing dedicated to finding a antidote to the spine's poison. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.51.89.79 (talk • contribs) 01:10, 24 November 2006.

Hi there... Welcome to Wikipedia! You may want to get a registered username, makes certain things easier. Also, it is typical to put new comments at the bottom. Also, as the banner says at the top, all comments on Talk pages should be signed with four tildes. --Bhuston 12:43, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Overthruster prop

The article mentions the possibility of the Flux Capacitor design being inspired by the Oscillation Overthruster, which is then discounted because the props look nothing alike. However, one of the controls for the OO is a triangular display with a similar look to the FC - this is probably what was meant.

Also, the OO prop itself appears in an episode of Babylon 5 as a Starfury component. [1]

--The CyberSlug 04:19, 26 November 2006 (UTC)