What's he meant to look like? On the card art he's clearly dark Luke from Jedi, but the mini is different - what's it meant to look like?

Since the expansion is focused around Jabba's Palace, the figure is meant to be the Sarlacc sequence dress, which is slightly different from the Death Star duel dress that's pictured on the card. A minor quibble IMO, they probably didn't have a suitably imposing bit of Sarlacc dress Luke artwork in their art catalogue.

It looks a bit like his costume in the side mission card.

It looks a bit like his costume in the side mission card.

Aah, it does doesn't it? Ta!

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It's actually the same costume. When you see Luke in the first act, he's wearing the same outfit he's wearing in the Emperor's throne room, except he has a black tunic belted over it, and he didn't have the black glove on his hand.

So the mini you're seeing is still Luke from Return of the Jedi, just from the opening act, whereas the package art depicts him in his showdown with Vader.

Why don't these people ever change their clothes??? Han wore the same clothes for 6 months throughout TESB. Or does he just have a closet full of black sleeved vests and brownish striped pants? And Chewie has been wearing the same European carryall for 60 years between Ep 3 and Ep 7! Disgusting!

Why don't these people ever change their clothes??? Han wore the same clothes for 6 months throughout TESB. Or does he just have a closet full of black sleeved vests and brownish striped pants? And Chewie has been wearing the same European carryall for 60 years between Ep 3 and Ep 7! Disgusting!

I'm looking forward to the future, in that I case. Wardrobe decisions will be much easier

Perhaps they will figure out a way to implant nanotechnology into fabrics that constantly scrub you clean throughout the day.

Well Star Trek is uniforms, so they probably have bunches of them. As for Star Wars, its not like they show you the characters going to the toilet or taking baths, I'm pretty sure they wash their clothes regularly. I mean I have my favourite set of clothes I wear every chance I get, but its always washed.

Amilidalla would wear several outfits in one day!

When did Luke learn to fight with a lightsaber anyway? Did Yoda teach him off camera?

My impression was that Obi-Wan taught him all the basics during the trip to Alderaan, not sure we know how long the trip took? Was it hours, days or weeks... He likely practiced on his own as he seemed comfortable with it during his encounter with the Wampa on Hoth and the battle after that.

Luke wasn't any good with the lightsaber when he met Vader in Bespin, but had learned a trick or two before his final confrontation with Vader. We just don't know who he trained with in the meantime.

Yeah, I'm a little bummed that we didn't get the TESB costume. That said, the artwork and the mini are pretty boss.

When did Luke learn to fight with a lightsaber anyway? Did Yoda teach him off camera?

I think I read somewhere that Luke spent several weeks training with Yoda, and that the trip from Alderaan probably took like a week too. But time passing in the films, especially in regards to hyperspace travel always seem to be sort of wonky.

Luke wasn't any good with the lightsaber when he met Vader in Bespin, but had learned a trick or two before his final confrontation with Vader. We just don't know who he trained with in the meantime.

The books say, for that's worth, that he used holocrons at Obi Wan's place.

Surely he needed actual physical training against a proper opponent? He was pretty decent by Jedi!

IIRC in the old West End Games RPG it would take 3,5 days from Tattoine to Alderaan... but could be wrong... played it more than 20 years ago...

Surely he needed actual physical training against a proper opponent? He was pretty decent by Jedi!

I hear you, but the cave did provide an opponent. Maybe it is also possible for a training holocron to furnish one. It seems the idea, at least originally, was that attunement with the force is what guided the weapon, not a mastery of physical melee combat. I keep hearing that as a defense for why Rey could best Kylo.

IIRC in the old West End Games RPG it would take 3,5 days from Tattoine to Alderaan... but could be wrong... played it more than 20 years ago...

I know in Rebellion the Falcon had .5 speed, which meant twice as fast a 1 speed ship, and it took 7 days to go from Yavin IV to Corellia.

Force sensitives have a sense of the immediate future which gives them the reflexes to block blows, things also come to them more naturally. It took him all if 15 minutes to figure out how to block the shot from the droid with the helmet on.

Surely he needed actual physical training against a proper opponent? He was pretty decent by Jedi!

I hear you, but the cave did provide an opponent. Maybe it is also possible for a training holocron to furnish one. It seems the idea, at least originally, was that attunement with the force is what guided the weapon, not a mastery of physical melee combat. I keep hearing that as a defense for why Rey could best Kylo.

Certainly that's part of it, but Rey also had years (one assumed) of experience in melee combat (albeit with a very different weapon, but still), and an injured, young opponent who didn't happen to be the chosen one.

I reckon he trained with somebody else between Empire and Jedi. When he heads back to Dagobah after rescuing Han it sounds like he hasn't been there for quite some time, as opposed to just the couple of days involved in the rescue, yet his skills have improved significantly.

Surely he needed actual physical training against a proper opponent? He was pretty decent by Jedi!

I hear you, but the cave did provide an opponent. Maybe it is also possible for a training holocron to furnish one. It seems the idea, at least originally, was that attunement with the force is what guided the weapon, not a mastery of physical melee combat. I keep hearing that as a defense for why Rey could best Kylo.

Certainly that's part of it, but Rey also had years (one assumed) of experience in melee combat (albeit with a very different weapon, but still), and an injured, young opponent who didn't happen to be the chosen one.

I reckon he trained with somebody else between Empire and Jedi. When he heads back to Dagobah after rescuing Han it sounds like he hasn't been there for quite some time, as opposed to just the couple of days involved in the rescue, yet his skills have improved significantly.

And he did make himself a new lightsaber between the two films as well which would have required finding the right crystals...

And he did make himself a new lightsaber between the two films as well which would have required finding the right crystals...

Good point. The thing is, about Star Wars, is that we the fans have elevated it so far above what it was in our desire to play in the sandbox and establish a contiguous lore, that honestly has been far more contradictory than contiguous. I digress. Lucas, who wasn't much for traditional movies, loved Flash Gordon serials, and that is what he was trying to emulate. In serials there is not reason for things. Things just happen to move the plot along. You see that in Star Wars. Lucas and his writers gave no [bleeps] about continuity, and we, myself most assuredly included, twist ourselves into intellectual knots trying to explain it.

And he did make himself a new lightsaber between the two films as well which would have required finding the right crystals...

Good point. The thing is, about Star Wars, is that we the fans have elevated it so far above what it was in our desire to play in the sandbox and establish a contiguous lore, that honestly has been far more contradictory than contiguous. I digress. Lucas, who wasn't much for traditional movies, loved Flash Gordon serials, and that is what he was trying to emulate. In serials there is not reason for things. Things just happen to move the plot along. You see that in Star Wars. Lucas and his writers gave no [bleeps] about continuity, and we, myself most assuredly included, twist ourselves into intellectual knots trying to explain it.

Yep

There's enough continuity in the movies - they just didn't delve into details. He got trained and he made a new lightsaber, who cares about the details, just imagine a montage somewhere. Its all the Expanded Universe stuff that added the extra details that now contradicts with the original films, because you're forced to put a timeline to it all.