To animate light like that you'd use Adobe Imageready and create an animated gif.  Basically you'd need layers for each possible frame that would exist and then you turn them on or off for each frame and tell it how long to leave each frame on screen for.

It's how I make all this kind of stuff:





If you want to go really crazy, Adobe After Effects has a lightning plug-in.  It doesn't look much like real lightning, but it certainly looks as much like lightning as the stuff shown in this thread - and it's much more malleable.

Anyone want to throw up a spoiler warning and post what happens after the credits for those of us who had to piss so bad that we didn't even think to stay just incase?

I just got back... it was everything that a Summer blockbuster should be... I had a great time watching it - being as it was one of the most over-the-top things I've ever seen.

It's hard to keep your tan wearning biker scout armor all day long.

What exactly happened?

It was pretty rare... I have a couple loose and am glad I got them when I did.  Here's some on ebay...

ASCENSION GUN AMIDALA

 

What a rip off.  I got real lucky and found that entire wave at Target on clearance (even though they were brand new, they got caught up in the rest of the E1 clearance sales) for $2.50 each.  I never saw them anywhere else.

Are the hobo names still in our future?  I'm anxious to read installment 5 of 70.

I was already pretty sure I wouldn't buy it - but that pack-in is so lame that the clearance price that it would take for me to buy one is getting lower and lower.

I'm thinking $20 or $30 tops, and you can bet that visor would never be raised.