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Old 11-04-2015, 10:20 AM   #1901
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OMG another poster without Luke in it!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The toys. Lucas also wanted to sell toys. The toy sales are now the biggest piece of the pie:

http://www.statisticbrain.com/star-w...chise-revenue/

Toy sales from the new movie are expected to reach 5 billion in the first year alone:

http://www.avclub.com/article/disney...sales-a-224807

The Ewokes and other child like characters were all about the toys.
Yeah but kids, even the youngest kids want the Lukes, the Solos and the Darths as toys. No kid wants an Ewok, do they?

It's funny how I love the movies, yet I find there is so much wrong with them and it seems many a poster here feels the same.


As an aside, a part of me wished Yoda joined Luke on the Death Star to face the Emporer and Vader. It would have given Yoda a chance at redeeming himself for his failure to destroy the emperor in Episode 3.

Then as the battle ensued between the 4 of them, Palpatine kills Yoda, enraging Luke. It would have made Luke's internal struggle with his feelings even more epic. And when Luke ultimately chooses to save his father instead of destroying him, it would have proved even more that Luke is the greatest and wisest of all Jedis.

Man I can't wait to see what the new one has in store!
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Old 11-04-2015, 10:32 AM   #1903
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Harrison Ford/Han Solo just ooze coolness.
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Old 11-04-2015, 10:34 AM   #1904
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I never really got the hate for the Ewoks, and as a kid I hat a Wicket and Logray action figure. I also had the forest trooper on a speeder bike and used to have the Ewoks setup traps and make the speederbike explode. So ya, as a kid I had fun with Ewoks. Do I need to hang my head in shame?
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How can you not respect that which is such a honorable culture full of rich traditions and steeped in self confidence short man syndrome!!!!!
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Kylo Ren needs to get his #### together with that lightsaber. Its embarrassing.
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Old 11-04-2015, 02:15 PM   #1908
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Kylo Ren needs to get his #### together with that lightsaber. Its embarrassing.
I'm really curious if it's just a bad design, or if he amped it up so far that it needs vents and the beam is unstable. It would be pretty cool if he could break through another lightsaber through sheer power, and give more purpose behind the greatsword design
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No way, he's just over-clocking that bitch!
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Old 11-04-2015, 03:17 PM   #1910
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I never really got the hate for the Ewoks, and as a kid I hat a Wicket and Logray action figure. I also had the forest trooper on a speeder bike and used to have the Ewoks setup traps and make the speederbike explode. So ya, as a kid I had fun with Ewoks. Do I need to hang my head in shame?
I had a bunch of storm troopers and in my world the Cylon's came along to help, and in the end they all had a nice BBQ and everyone got a new scarf
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Yeah but kids, even the youngest kids want the Lukes, the Solos and the Darths as toys. No kid wants an Ewok, do they?

It's funny how I love the movies, yet I find there is so much wrong with them and it seems many a poster here feels the same.


As an aside, a part of me wished Yoda joined Luke on the Death Star to face the Emporer and Vader. It would have given Yoda a chance at redeeming himself for his failure to destroy the emperor in Episode 3.

Then as the battle ensued between the 4 of them, Palpatine kills Yoda, enraging Luke. It would have made Luke's internal struggle with his feelings even more epic. And when Luke ultimately chooses to save his father instead of destroying him, it would have proved even more that Luke is the greatest and wisest of all Jedis.

Man I can't wait to see what the new one has in store!
I think there was an infinities comic where that happened. And Vader, Luke and Yoda turned on the Emperor and Yoda crashed the Death Star into Coruscant and Vader survived and put on white armor.

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I'm really curious if it's just a bad design, or if he amped it up so far that it needs vents and the beam is unstable. It would be pretty cool if he could break through another lightsaber through sheer power, and give more purpose behind the greatsword design
That would be fricken bad-ass.
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I'm really curious if it's just a bad design, or if he amped it up so far that it needs vents and the beam is unstable. It would be pretty cool if he could break through another lightsaber through sheer power, and give more purpose behind the greatsword design
I was thinking something similar. More powerful but less stable has been known to happen.
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Old 11-05-2015, 08:20 AM   #1915
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That wasn't Lucas, I don't believe, that was another writer or David Lynch's idea ("I can't remember who) that Luke would walk off into the sunset all sad and dark and stuff.
Lucas put the ending in there that we saw because at that point he didn't want to do anymore sequels to Star Wars, the story as a whole was the rise and fall and redemption of Anakin, and when that all happened it was over, happy ending time.
If you look into it, it was Gary Kurtz (Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back) that revealed the criticisms of Lucas' decisions to sell toys rather than make good movies as well as quitting ROTJ over things like the change to a happy ending, etc. The Luke walking into the sunset thing is very real.
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I'm really curious if it's just a bad design, or if he amped it up so far that it needs vents and the beam is unstable. It would be pretty cool if he could break through another lightsaber through sheer power, and give more purpose behind the greatsword design
If I remember my lore right, the crystals that the jedi use are natural, and selected and are just basically put into a light sabre as is. With the Sith, because of their banishment they had to learn to make a synthetic crystal which also gives them the blood red color, Its possible that Kylo has never learned how to build a crystal properly, which is one of the lessons passed down from master to apprentice.
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Old 11-05-2015, 12:26 PM   #1917
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Hes got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes.
He's got the 1000 parsec stare.
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Old 11-06-2015, 06:54 AM   #1918
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New footage in Japanese trailer:

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Damn, that Tie Fighter shot with the Sun in the background is amazing.
The vastness of the opening shot is killer, man I'm so pumped for this.
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Chills.

Like the scary peanut butter jar in the cupboard... Soon.
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