![]() ![]() ![]() Making the decision to move Star-Lord from a cassette player to a Zune couldn’t have been an easy call for Gunn, either. “And I feel stuck to the iPhone because of the apps.” “But, admittedly, I’m going to have a hard time getting out of my 20,000 songs on iTunes to actually switch over to Zune,” Gunn wrote on his blog. As enamored as he was with it, he did admit it would be hard for him to switch over. While at the event, he got to test out a variety of other Microsoft products and couldn’t help but admire the company’s new Zune. In 2010, Gunn went to a Microsoft event to test out Project Natal, which would later come to be known as Kinect. But director James Gunn has admitted in the past that he was a fan of Microsoft’s MP3 player. ![]() On March 15, 2011, Microsoft announced the Zune would no longer be manufactured and the company would stop supporting the line. The Zune, fondly remembered by many ‘00s MP3 adopters, didn’t last long. The iPod Classic, widely regarded as one of the best MP3 players, was released that same year. By that time, Apple had already released the fifth- and sixth-generation models of its popular MP3 player and had become the dominant force in the market. The 30GB model of the Zune that Star-Lord is given is a first-generation model, which was released by the company in 2008. When Yondu’s friend hands it over, he tells Star-Lord that it’s the hottest piece of technology on Earth right now and can hold up to 300 songs. Instead of receiving a new tape deck, Star-Lord inherents a now defunct Microsoft Zune, the MP3 player Microsoft released to compete with Apple’s iPod. It’s not until the end, he receives a gift from an unlikely source: one of Yondu's Ravager crew members. The second mix tape volume in the sequel, however, comes to an untimely end when it’s crushed by Ego the Living Planet (Kurt Russell).įor the rest of the film, Star-Lord goes by without his tape deck. In both this film and the first, audiences are introduced to Star-Lord’s cassette players and the various mix tapes that he keeps on him. Music plays an instrumental part in Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) retaining a part of his past on Earth. 2 doesn’t go easy on the frequency of jokes, but the best one takes a little jab at Microsoft after a pretty emotional moment. ![]()
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