"You've seen Star Wars?" asked Sam, imagining Thor and Teal'c watching the movies and comparing notes.

"All three sagas," Thor said in his normal voice. "Stark insisted."

Tony Stark's reaction to the original Star Wars Trilogy

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Loves it
4 (14.8%)
Loves it but hates "Trust the Force, Luke"
3 (11.1%)
Despises it apart from the cute robots.
0 (0.0%)
Despises it unreservedly.
0 (0.0%)
He's more or less indifferent, real engineering is more fun.
2 (7.4%)
He's indifferent, but thought Slave Girl Leia was smoking hot - when he was a kid.
5 (18.5%)
He thinks the Death Star was poorly engineered, could do better.
13 (48.1%)
He modelled Jarvis on an intelligent C-3PO
0 (0.0%)
We are not worthy to envisage Tony Stark's opinions.
0 (0.0%)

Tony Stark's reaction to the prequels

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Tried to bribe Lucas to forget the idea.
5 (6.8%)
Had Lucas assassinated to kill the idea (it's not our universe after all)
2 (2.7%)
Liked the idea until he actually saw them
11 (15.1%)
Uses Jar-Jar Binks droids for target practice.
9 (12.3%)
Really doesn't care - he has better things to do.
8 (11.0%)
Pepper Potts!
10 (13.7%)
Cats!
7 (9.6%)
Pepper Potts and Cats!
8 (11.0%)
Baby Sloths!
4 (5.5%)
Meep! Clicky!
9 (12.3%)

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Temporary closure of Hampden Street footbridge

Hampden Street footbridge (also known as the Westbourne footbridge) that spans the Great Western Railway will be closed again to allow “Ada”, the second tunnel boring machine (TBM), to pass underneath. The first TBM “Phyllis” passed under the bridge on 13/14 March and is currently burrowing underground towards Paddington.

Once Phyllis is completely underground there will be space to move Ada into the portal area at Royal Oak and this will happen on the weekend of 9/10 June 2012.
Ada will be placed on a low-loader and rails, and moved very slowly 400m up to the portal, ready to be launched. The size of the TBM requires the northern section of the Hampden Street footbridge to be raised by 3m, on hydraulic jacks supported by steel trestles, as shown overleaf when Phyllis passed under the footbridge.

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