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Looks like someone's making a super-deluxe Chet figure!

(I mean, really, does that not scream Chet?)

Ok, this is weird- where does Chet the Safety Trooper actually *show up* in the stories? I remember the character, but looking at that link I realized that him being safety-cone orange never registered with me originally, so I wanted to go back and read that bit, and now I can't find it.

Very cool figure though.

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

>Ok, this is weird- where does Chet the Safety Trooper actually *show
>up* in the stories? I remember the character, but looking at that link
>I realized that him being safety-cone orange never registered with me
>originally, so I wanted to go back and read that bit, and now I can't
>find it.

I'm not sure Chet's ever actually appeared. He started out as a Forum joke about another clonetrooper action figure, and has been mentioned a few times (mainly in the form of the "Chet's Chow" restaurant chain, which is like Planet Hollywood with a stormtrooper theme instead of action movies), but no one portraying the character has appeared in-story as far as I can recall. (It is mentioned once, I think in In for a Penny, that Jay McCandless did a tour of duty as Chet off-camera, sometime between The Vastru Encounter and The Revolution Will Be Televised.)

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I believe that in one story Our Heroes dine at Chet's Chow, and the waiter is indeed attired appropriately.

>I believe that in one story Our Heroes dine at Chet's Chow, and the
>waiter is indeed attired appropriately.

IIRC, the waiter is dressed like a tie fighter pilot.

But, some googling shows that I'm wrong

As she got up and crossed the restaurant to the pay phones, a
waiter in the white and black armor of a White Legion scout trooper
appeared at Utena's elbow, almost startling her out of her seat as he
asked

From Requiem for a Lensman
--
-Pasha
"Don't change the subject"
"Too slow, already did."

Aha! I was stuck on an erroneous recollection of Truss and Jung regrouping at a Chet's after the "getting run off Earth" fiasco.

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

That was chinese on B6. You're thinking of Kozue after getting booted from the WDF's advanced fighter school, where Starbuck (the elder) drops in.

>That was chinese on B6. You're thinking of Kozue after getting booted
>from the WDF's advanced fighter school, where Starbuck (the elder)
>drops in.

I believe there's also a scene in the New Avalon Chet's in Requiem for a Lensman; I forget how the waiter was dressed that time. They're always some kind of White Legion or MILARM personnel, but the front-of-house staff are not customarily dressed as Chet himself - the usual response when customers (usually parents who have their children with them) ask is that he's on assignment with the Fleet just then.

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>I believe there's also a scene in the New Avalon Chet's in Requiem
>for a Lensman; I forget how the waiter was dressed that time.

I quoted it a few messages up, scout trooper.

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-Pasha
"Don't change the subject"
"Too slow, already did."

>>I believe there's also a scene in the New Avalon Chet's in Requiem
>>for a Lensman; I forget how the waiter was dressed that time.
>
>I quoted it a few messages up, scout trooper.

Hmm, what was I thinking of, then? I know there's another besides the Requiem one and the Rogue Squadron one.

Oh! I know. The scrapped scene from Bagatelles where Corwin runs into Rei, that happened in a Chet's. No mention of what the waitress is wearing, though.

--G.
... sounds kind of dirty when you put it that way. Or is that just me?
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Thanks for the reminder, I'd forgotten all about that outtake, and the extra snippets of Rei's background story.

FWIW, I still get a giggle out of Corwin's noticing that the TIE fighter hung up on the wall isn't a display model: "It's not like it would have -cost- them anything."

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I mostly got Chet through the forum posts and backmatter, though I think there was at least one time Gryph put up a link to an old clone trooper toy who did, in fact, have orange stripes who was supposed to be Chet's inspiration.

LAST EDITED ON Jul-10-14 AT 02:08 PM (EDT)
 
>I mostly got Chet through the forum posts and backmatter, though I
>think there was at least one time Gryph put up a link to an old clone
>trooper toy who did, in fact, have orange stripes who was supposed to
>be Chet's inspiration.

I believe this is the very first mention of Chet the Safety Trooper; at least, it contains the picture and origin story of which you speak.

--G.
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