I can only think of one thing:

Rebels' Ties are so adorably stubby

So is Winged Gundark.

I really liked the design and seeing it in action. Inquisitor's helmet was also super cool.

Cylon Sith... Scary.

Looks like they based the wings on Darth Maul's ship. Heck it almost does look like that ship minus the "nose". Maybe it has landing gear that works the same way ?

I have some reservations about that "new" Baron whatshisname. Obviously it's a cheap Baron Fel rip off. He shouldn't have blood stripes, even the 181st isn't wearing blood stripes yet. Fel isn't even in the 181st yet I think. But yeah I know there no longer is a 181st. So they can just ***** blood stripes where ever and when ever they want.

One easter egg I did like in Empire day is the data disk Ezra found at his old house. It's identical to the design of the data disk Kyle Katarn's father left him in Dark Forces: Jedi Knight PC game.

Looks like they based the wings on Darth Maul's ship. Heck it almost does look like that ship minus the "nose". Maybe it has landing gear that works the same way ?

I have some reservations about that "new" Baron whatshisname. Obviously it's a cheap Baron Fel rip off. He shouldn't have blood stripes, even the 181st isn't wearing blood stripes yet. Fel isn't even in the 181st yet I think. But yeah I know there no longer is a 181st. So they can just ***** blood stripes where ever and when ever they want.

One easter egg I did like in Empire day is the data disk Ezra found at his old house. It's identical to the design of the data disk Kyle Katarn's father left him in Dark Forces: Jedi Knight PC game.

Yeah, I saw that! that was an awesome nod to Dark Forces..! I really loved it. When I saw that I was like, "ooooohhhhh coooool~!"

Err, is it ever referred to as an advanced? Because other than curved wings it looks nothing like one. It's hard to say that this is a prototype for a prototype that won't be developed for 5 or so years.

I would think it would be much more likely as a TIE mod/title than a Advanced variant.

Yeah, its known as the TIE Advanced V1. In the Imperial Hand book it says that special agents of the Emperor are given this craft.

Something else that was revealed in part 2 (up at Watch Disney XD right now) is the Inquisitor's TIE advanced has a missile tube. Also the TIE pilot they introduced when unveiling the new TIE at the parade, Baron Valen Rudor, is the same one in both of the short films "Entanglements" and "Property Of Ezra Bridger" and the episode "Fighter Flight". Something different is the Baron was sporting the Bloodstripes on his flightsuit and helmet in the new episode.

Are you sure he had red stripes on his flight suit? I saw a picture with him and it looks like the lighting to his right is red, things besides him had red coloreation to his right while everything to his left had white lighting including his left half. The only thing for sure red was a red stripe going down the crest on top the helmet. Thats not a exclusive 181st look.

I can see folding for storage just like the wings on Aircraft carrier jets. but i too don't like the Curved look. besides non curved wings would fold just as easily... AND theoretically take up less space!!

Big problem though is maintence, it has to spreed its wings to allow maintence crews to work on it, or just pop the wings off altogether. Generally because of design of craft used in the USN you dont have a space issue like whats caused by the V1.

They showed him very clearly in the Empire Day episode. Might as well been Baron Fel standing there. With the exception of his jumpsuit, it was grey with red stripes. Earlier in the episode they also showed three TIE Pilot's with grey jumpsuits rather than the normal black. I'm wondering if it means anything.

They didn't call it a TIE Advanced, they call it an Advanced TIE Starfighter. Not sure it makes a difference, but that's what the lady called it. I'm willing to bet it doesn't have a hyperdrive, since it doesn't have the hyperdrive "sled" like the X1.

Err, is it ever referred to as an advanced? Because other than curved wings it looks nothing like one. It's hard to say that this is a prototype for a prototype that won't be developed for 5 or so years.

I would think it would be much more likely as a TIE mod/title than a Advanced variant.

Yeah, its known as the TIE Advanced V1. In the Imperial Hand book it says that special agents of the Emperor are given this craft.

Something else that was revealed in part 2 (up at Watch Disney XD right now) is the Inquisitor's TIE advanced has a missile tube. Also the TIE pilot they introduced when unveiling the new TIE at the parade, Baron Valen Rudor, is the same one in both of the short films "Entanglements" and "Property Of Ezra Bridger" and the episode "Fighter Flight". Something different is the Baron was sporting the Bloodstripes on his flightsuit and helmet in the new episode.

Are you sure he had red stripes on his flight suit? I saw a picture with him and it looks like the lighting to his right is red, things besides him had red coloreation to his right while everything to his left had white lighting including his left half. The only thing for sure red was a red stripe going down the crest on top the helmet. Thats not a exclusive 181st look.

I can see folding for storage just like the wings on Aircraft carrier jets. but i too don't like the Curved look. besides non curved wings would fold just as easily... AND theoretically take up less space!!

Big problem though is maintence, it has to spreed its wings to allow maintence crews to work on it, or just pop the wings off altogether. Generally because of design of craft used in the USN you dont have a space issue like whats caused by the V1.

you must have an Aircraft maintenance background... As i bet nobody else would think of that.. LOL but putting logic to star-wars is like trying to figure out how cats work.. or worst Women... lol

Well that was sexist.

(which may be modded again a bit to fit Phantoms)

Phantoms land on the lower wings.

The Phantom's didn't land on the lower wings. Rebel Assault Two showed them being stored in a special rack then launched, or atleast carried from the rack by some sort of over head crane. At the end of the game it shows the rebels had some sort of a landing platform set up special for the Phantom to land on.

They showed him very clearly in the Empire Day episode. Might as well been Baron Fel standing there. With the exception of his jumpsuit, it was grey with red stripes. Earlier in the episode they also showed three TIE Pilot's with grey jumpsuits rather than the normal black. I'm wondering if it means anything.

They didn't call it a TIE Advanced, they call it an Advanced TIE Starfighter. Not sure it makes a difference, but that's what the lady called it. I'm willing to bet it doesn't have a hyperdrive, since it doesn't have the hyperdrive "sled" like the X1.

In that case it probably a diffrent elite squadron markings. As for the name IM sure each faction has multiple names for each ship, although any TIE Advanced would be an Advanced TIE Starfighter.

Big problem though is maintence, it has to spreed its wings to allow maintence crews to work on it, or just pop the wings off altogether. Generally because of design of craft used in the USN you dont have a space issue like whats caused by the V1.

you must have an Aircraft maintenance background... As i bet nobody else would think of that.. LOL but putting logic to star-wars is like trying to figure out how cats work.. or worst Women... lol

The alternative is that the Empire figured they would still have alot of pilots die using this craft, so to save money they requested SFS to do away with maintenance pannels and caps.

V1 PIlot: Sir how do the monkey crews repair my craft with my solar pannels folded down?

Boss: Son the Empire figured you would be dead in two weeks even when piloting this hot pocket so the engineers at SFS didnt build them to be maintained.

V1 Pilot: Excuse me but WHAT!?

Boss: Lets face it kid your no Darth Vader, heck your not even a OS-72-10, your lucky and all but IM sure youll be dead in less than a week hahaha ha

V1 Pilot: ... Thats not funny SIR.

Boss: It is just a little

V1 Pilot: No not even a little.

Boss: Party pooper. I know what will cheer you up, I got some bananas left in my banana bag...

V1 Pilot: Bananas are not going to make me feel any better SIR.

Boss: So are you saying You are a mmmmm beeyetch that doesnt like mmm bananas?

V1 Pilot: EXCUSE ME IM A ACDAMEY GRADUATE IMPERIAL NAVY FIGHTER PILOT OF THE GALACTIC EMPIRE AND I DONT CARE FOR YOUR DEGRADING QUESTIONS.

Boss: Whats wrong? Just answer the question. Are you a mmmmm beeyetch that doesnt like mmm bananas?

V1: WHAT THE HELL, NO I DONT LIKE BANANAS!

Boss: So your a mmmmm beeyecth that doesnt like mmm bananas! WELL THATS FINE BECAUSE YOU WONT BE FINDING ANY BANANAS ON THE MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNN!!!!

ACTION: The energy field keeping the landing bay safe from the vaccume of space has turned off, you hear a alarm simiular to the one in Ghostbusters when Walter Peck has the power shut off to the ecto containment system. The V1 Pilot screams as he is shot into space and heading towards a moon.

Boss: BEEYECTH HA HA HA HAHAHA!!!

They showed him very clearly in the Empire Day episode. Might as well been Baron Fel standing there. With the exception of his jumpsuit, it was grey with red stripes. Earlier in the episode they also showed three TIE Pilot's with grey jumpsuits rather than the normal black. I'm wondering if it means anything.

They didn't call it a TIE Advanced, they call it an Advanced TIE Starfighter. Not sure it makes a difference, but that's what the lady called it. I'm willing to bet it doesn't have a hyperdrive, since it doesn't have the hyperdrive "sled" like the X1.

In that case it probably a diffrent elite squadron markings. As for the name IM sure each faction has multiple names for each ship, although any TIE Advanced would be an Advanced TIE Starfighter.

Big problem though is maintence, it has to spreed its wings to allow maintence crews to work on it, or just pop the wings off altogether. Generally because of design of craft used in the USN you dont have a space issue like whats caused by the V1.

you must have an Aircraft maintenance background... As i bet nobody else would think of that.. LOL but putting logic to star-wars is like trying to figure out how cats work.. or worst Women... lol

The alternative is that the Empire figured they would still have alot of pilots die using this craft, so to save money they requested SFS to do away with maintenance pannels and caps.

V1 PIlot: Sir how do the monkey crews repair my craft with my solar pannels folded down?

Boss: Son the Empire figured you would be dead in two weeks even when piloting this hot pocket so the engineers at SFS didnt build them to be maintained.

V1 Pilot: Excuse me but WHAT!?

Boss: Lets face it kid your no Darth Vader, heck your not even a OS-72-10, your lucky and all but IM sure youll be dead in less than a week hahaha ha

V1 Pilot: ... Thats not funny SIR.

Boss: It is just a little

V1 Pilot: No not even a little.

Boss: Party pooper. I know what will cheer you up, I got some bananas left in my banana bag...

V1 Pilot: Bananas are not going to make me feel any better SIR.

Boss: So are you saying You are a mmmmm beeyetch that doesnt like mmm bananas?

V1 Pilot: EXCUSE ME IM A ACDAMEY GRADUATE IMPERIAL NAVY FIGHTER PILOT OF THE GALACTIC EMPIRE AND I DONT CARE FOR YOUR DEGRADING QUESTIONS.

Boss: Whats wrong? Just answer the question. Are you a mmmmm beeyetch that doesnt like mmm bananas?

V1: WHAT THE HELL, NO I DONT LIKE BANANAS!

Boss: So your a mmmmm beeyecth that doesnt like mmm bananas! WELL THATS FINE BECAUSE YOU WONT BE FINDING ANY BANANAS ON THE MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNN!!!!

ACTION: The energy field keeping the landing bay safe from the vaccume of space has turned off, you hear a alarm simiular to the one in Ghostbusters when Walter Peck has the power shut off to the ecto containment system. The V1 Pilot screams as he is shot into space and heading towards a moon.

Boss: BEEYECTH HA HA HA HAHAHA!!!

Platinum quality reference. Why aren't you on my friends list?

Something else that was revealed in part 2 (up at Watch Disney XD right now) is the Inquisitor's TIE advanced has a missile tube. Also the TIE pilot they introduced when unveiling the new TIE at the parade, Baron Valen Rudor, is the same one in both of the short films "Entanglements" and "Property Of Ezra Bridger" and the episode "Fighter Flight". Something different is the Baron was sporting the Bloodstripes on his flightsuit and helmet in the new episode.

So he's gotten even better since then, and beforehand might have been a nooblet. Interesting.

After watching the latest episode "Gathering Forces" I think the promotion to Baron is due to Rudor's taking command of a Squadron/Wing of new TIEs being produced on Lothal. In the episode, the Rodian Tseebo mentioned that TIEs were going into production on Lothal in 6 weeks. The Baron may be there to take delivery of the first TIEs to be produced there.

I don't know how it escaped everyones notice but the Advanced TIE proto-prototype doesn't have landing gear at all. With s-foils folded it can land on it's belly and lower wings. It takes off from that position in the episode. I imagine the curved wings are a remnant left over from Mauls Sith Infiltrator and simply haven't been converted to flat rigid panels yet. Probably a design change they come up with thanks to this prototype.

One possible reason the pilots in the bar looked 'grey' is because its really hard to shade 'black' as there isnt really 'dark black' so if you use dark grey, dark blue , dark green etc as you base you can create a deeper looking black oddly.

Otherwise you can only highlight raised areas.

well its like that in miniature painting anyway. if i want a figure wearing black i usually paint them in incredibly dark blue or brown depending on the material they are wearing so that a black 'wash' with make it all look very black.

Same reason supermans hair is blue in comics

One possible reason the pilots in the bar looked 'grey' is because its really hard to shade 'black' as there isnt really 'dark black' so if you use dark grey, dark blue , dark green etc as you base you can create a deeper looking black oddly.

Otherwise you can only highlight raised areas.

well its like that in miniature painting anyway. if i want a figure wearing black i usually paint them in incredibly dark blue or brown depending on the material they are wearing so that a black 'wash' with make it all look very black.

Same reason supermans hair is blue in comics

I thought it was because he's an oap and got himself a blue rinse.

They showed him very clearly in the Empire Day episode. Might as well been Baron Fel standing there. With the exception of his jumpsuit, it was grey with red stripes. Earlier in the episode they also showed three TIE Pilot's with grey jumpsuits rather than the normal black. I'm wondering if it means anything.

They didn't call it a TIE Advanced, they call it an Advanced TIE Starfighter. Not sure it makes a difference, but that's what the lady called it. I'm willing to bet it doesn't have a hyperdrive, since it doesn't have the hyperdrive "sled" like the X1.

In that case it probably a diffrent elite squadron markings. As for the name IM sure each faction has multiple names for each ship, although any TIE Advanced would be an Advanced TIE Starfighter.

Big problem though is maintence, it has to spreed its wings to allow maintence crews to work on it, or just pop the wings off altogether. Generally because of design of craft used in the USN you dont have a space issue like whats caused by the V1.

you must have an Aircraft maintenance background... As i bet nobody else would think of that.. LOL but putting logic to star-wars is like trying to figure out how cats work.. or worst Women... lol

The alternative is that the Empire figured they would still have alot of pilots die using this craft, so to save money they requested SFS to do away with maintenance pannels and caps.

V1 PIlot: Sir how do the monkey crews repair my craft with my solar pannels folded down?

Boss: Son the Empire figured you would be dead in two weeks even when piloting this hot pocket so the engineers at SFS didnt build them to be maintained.

V1 Pilot: Excuse me but WHAT!?

Boss: Lets face it kid your no Darth Vader, heck your not even a OS-72-10, your lucky and all but IM sure youll be dead in less than a week hahaha ha

V1 Pilot: ... Thats not funny SIR.

Boss: It is just a little

V1 Pilot: No not even a little.

Boss: Party pooper. I know what will cheer you up, I got some bananas left in my banana bag...

V1 Pilot: Bananas are not going to make me feel any better SIR.

Boss: So are you saying You are a mmmmm beeyetch that doesnt like mmm bananas?

V1 Pilot: EXCUSE ME IM A ACDAMEY GRADUATE IMPERIAL NAVY FIGHTER PILOT OF THE GALACTIC EMPIRE AND I DONT CARE FOR YOUR DEGRADING QUESTIONS.

Boss: Whats wrong? Just answer the question. Are you a mmmmm beeyetch that doesnt like mmm bananas?

V1: WHAT THE HELL, NO I DONT LIKE BANANAS!

Boss: So your a mmmmm beeyecth that doesnt like mmm bananas! WELL THATS FINE BECAUSE YOU WONT BE FINDING ANY BANANAS ON THE MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNN!!!!

ACTION: The energy field keeping the landing bay safe from the vaccume of space has turned off, you hear a alarm simiular to the one in Ghostbusters when Walter Peck has the power shut off to the ecto containment system. The V1 Pilot screams as he is shot into space and heading towards a moon.

Boss: BEEYECTH HA HA HA HAHAHA!!!

Platinum quality reference. Why aren't you on my friends list?

IM A BANANA!!!