10 years ago I came to this forum to talk about Star Wars. Not sure how many fans are still left. But there have been some abundant leaks these past few days, that are getting me hyped again. Anyway feel free to discuss yay or nay

 

Stormtroopers

 

Han Solo

 

Slightly older X-Wing leak

I can get down to Star Wars.

 

Hopefully there will be less lens flare.

So Han's great-granddaughter never existed?

 

So Han's great-granddaughter never existed?

Right now, officially, the only things considered canon in Star Wars are the films and the upcoming products, IIRC.

Because it had to turn up....

 

http://youtu.be/hEcjgJSqSRU

 

So Han's great-granddaughter never existed?

Right now, officially, the only things considered canon in Star Wars are the films and the upcoming products, IIRC.

 

 

Thank god, most of the EU is an absolute mess. Clean slate and some actual writing talent on it would be much appreciated, it's a universe with a lot of potential. Keep Thrawn though..

The entire Legacy era is crap, aside for Ania Solo..

The entire Legacy era is crap, aside for Ania Solo..

 

You'll always have Hope Solo.

 

Some news today from Ep. VIII director, Rian Johnson, regarding a return to practical special effects, something inherent to the original trilogy:

 

 

Johnson went into detail about the more traditional approach. "They’re doing so much practical building for this one. It’s awesome," he said. "I think people are coming back around to [practical effects]. It feels like there is sort of that gravity pulling us back toward it. I think that more and more people are hitting kind of a critical mass in terms of the CG-driven action scene lending itself to a very specific type of action scene, where physics go out the window and it becomes so big so quick."

 

Great news, I think. Real ships, real props, real effects, they're what made the first movies so special.

 

 

Also, in new canon news, Marvel has re-assumed comic book rights, and will debut three new Star Wars series beginning in January, get this, set between A New Hope and Empire. One series for the good guys, one that follows Darth Vader and minions, including Fett, and a mini-series featuring Princess Leia.

 

 

So Han's great-granddaughter never existed?

Right now, officially, the only things considered canon in Star Wars are the films and the upcoming products, IIRC.

 

 

I believe Clone Wars is also canon.

I think the RAF should switch to x-wings. No! TIE fighters!

Not Episode VII related, unless they go for a Biker Scout redux as well--unlikely, but not impossible. Maybe for VIII or IX. Finally this 6" set came down to a reasonable acquisition threshold, so I made off with one. I'll open it and pose the guy ... still too much to buy two and keep the other in-box. The natural motorcyclist in me always really dug the Speeder Bikes. 

 

Someone I trust pointed me to an online T-shirt store, which has probably the best blend of art and popular geek culture I've seen. They use an interesting sales model: for twenty-four hours, a unique new design is available for $11. For one day after that, the same design is $14. For a limited time after that, in their gallery, previous designs are $18. The whole thing really suits my daily internet vigilance compulsion. Plus I like art, and movies and games and books and everything else ... cleverly displayed on a T-shirt. 

 

Got this design to try out the store. Red Five was, of course, Luke's call sign in Ep. IV.

 

Edited August 31, 201411 yr by ManifestedISO

Nice !!!

 

I think 10 years ago around now I saw the trailer for episode 3. Man I really hope Disney will disregard or remake the prequels.

Nice !!!

 

I think 10 years ago around now I saw the trailer for episode 3. Man I really hope Disney will disregard or remake the prequels.

the prequels are based on novels from what i ve heard, and for some reason, they kept out of the movies all the parts that were relevant to a sensible plot

for example the escape from naboo in the first movie, was supposed to be done by hiding the ship in the sensor shadow of an enemy cargo ship and sneaking past. in the movie to make it more spectacular, they made a frontal assault and then ran for it

'Jedi Master Luke Skywalker', by Phil Noto, March 2013. Check out his tumblr, superlative is too small a word.

 

 

 

So Han's great-granddaughter never existed?

Right now, officially, the only things considered canon in Star Wars are the films and the upcoming products, IIRC.

 

EU stuff was never canon to begin with. It was just EU stuff. I think lots of people, myself included, entertained other delusions back before the prequels came out, but once they did, Lucas was making it clear. He didn't care about the EU.

 

Note that prior to the prequels, everyone thought that dark side users would explode on death because Palpatine did. And that the Clone Wars were fought against crazed clones. And Boba Fett has like three origin stories.

 

The big change that occurred with the EU recently is that no more EU stories are being produced.

 

 

 

Nice !!!

 

I think 10 years ago around now I saw the trailer for episode 3. Man I really hope Disney will disregard or remake the prequels.

the prequels are based on novels from what i ve heard, and for some reason, they kept out of the movies all the parts that were relevant to a sensible plot

for example the escape from naboo in the first movie, was supposed to be done by hiding the ship in the sensor shadow of an enemy cargo ship and sneaking past. in the movie to make it more spectacular, they made a frontal assault and then ran for it

 

Someone was lying to you.

 

 

So Han's great-granddaughter never existed?

Right now, officially, the only things considered canon in Star Wars are the films and the upcoming products, IIRC.

 

EU stuff was never canon to begin with. It was just EU stuff. I think lots of people, myself included, entertained other delusions back before the prequels came out, but once they did, Lucas was making it clear. He didn't care about the EU.

 

Note that prior to the prequels, everyone thought that dark side users would explode on death because Palpatine did. And that the Clone Wars were fought against crazed clones. And Boba Fett has like three origin stories.

 

The big change that occurred with the EU recently is that no more EU stories are being produced.

 

 

no,the EU staff was canon,only it had to be 'canonized' by GL in order to be considered fully in the SW Timeline,in the case of the games like Kotor,give it a canon ending,canon alignment

i find it stupid to shut down the entire EU,even if it had crappy stories,it also had good ones

the ancient sith lords don't exist anymore

in my opinion,Clone Wars sucks and keeping that but not the other good novels in the EU is BS

 

on the movie i must say that i'm not excited at all

for several reasons

1)Disney will **** up the movie

2)the movies that were supposed to be 7-8-9 had the emperor alive until the 9th episode and made sense,so now that the emperor is already dead, what the plot is going to be?Ewoks in TIE fighters doing a crazy party with Jar Jar Biinks?or ridicolous lightsaber swinging for the sake of popularity?

or just a bunch of non sense?

3)if the kept the EU and fixed the bad stuff,they could have set the movie in the 'Jedi Knight:Outcast' period with Kyle Katarn as protagonist,who was a very good character and have Luke/Han/Leia as side characters but nope,let's delete the entire EU,it's the devil

 

So in a nutshell:i'm putting my expectations at a very low level,so i won't be dissapointed if the movie turned out to be bad,on the other hand,i will be happy if the movie will be good

 

 

 

Edited September 14, 201411 yr by DarthDeven

I am worried that Han and Luke will just be there for 5 minuites to say hi and get their checks and the rest of the movie will be about teen troubles with characters from the ****ty Clonewars spinoff.

 

I'd say I'm guardedly optimistic based on the director's track record. 

When was the last time Disney messed something up?

When was the last time Disney messed something up?

The Incredible Hulk.

When was the last time Disney messed something up?

 

Probably today, it is so big company that it will mess things constantly, if not in their main products (although I would say that The Lone Ranger (2013) at least was mess up and one could also argue same about John Carter (2012)) then in their byproducts like for example leaving certain main characters out of their action figure sets or t-shirts etc..

 

When was the last time Disney messed something up?

The Incredible Hulk.

 

 

That was before Disney bought Marvel, it was Marvel Studios' product for Universal Pictures

 

When was the last time Disney messed something up?

 

Probably today, it is so big company that it will mess things constantly, if not in their main products (although I would say that The Lone Ranger (2013) at least was mess up and one could also argue same about John Carter (2012)) then in their byproducts like for example leaving certain main characters out of their action figure sets or t-shirts etc..

 

 

I'll give you Lone Ranger, although I never saw that one.  Still, it seems like they hit a lot more homers than duds.