The ‘train.’

Looks like they are stealing part of it in the trialer.

15 hours ago, xanderf said:

The premise of the prequels, and indeed the overall arc of them, was a LOT more interesting than even the OT was. By a long shot - the prequels were telling a vastly more interesting story. And the added detail really improved everything, even about the existing movies.

What let the prequels down was casting choices (the actors given Anakin's role needed to be...a lot better) and the writing of dialog (which Lucas has always struggled with, all the way back to '77 - the first drafts of Star Wars were not good ).

Guess we'll have to agree to disagree. Let's just start with the basics: Nothing in the prequels was as cool as it should have been. The easiest example: The Clone Wars sounded so cool and mysterious when Obi Wan Kenobi mentions it in A New Hope. "Whoa. Who where the clones? Who was cloned and why? Why were they fighting?" Apparently a bunch of guys from New Zealand because accents are also cloned.

The casting was certainly not a problem. Everybody in those movies has been at least competent somewhere else. Many of them have been nominated for, or won, real acting awards. Natalie Portman Best Actress Oscar, 3x nominee. Sam Jackson, 4x Golden Globe noms, 1x Oscar nom. Ewan McGregor 3x Golden Globes, 1 Best Actor win. Liam Neeson, Best Actor noms, Oscar and GG. Ian McDirmid has a Tony. Hayden Christiansen is the only principle actor in the trilogy without any major recognition. Well, aside from the Golden Raspberries he won for Star Wars. But, that's not really his fault. Attack of the Clones had seven nominations and 3 wins, lol. Even Natalie Portman, who got an Oscar nomination the following year. Phantom Menace had 6. The Revenge of the Sith has the fewest Razzy awards with only 1 win, but one has to assume they were bored of crapping on Star Wars at that point, and there was stiff competition from movies starring Rob Schneider, Jenny McCarthy, Jamie Kennedy and Paris Hilton that year.

The OT made a cultural icon out of a film starring a voice actor from the I Dream of Jeannie cartoon, a bit part player from Warren Beatty's version of Shampoo, and the part-time actor-carpenter who built an office for Francis Ford Coppola. Let's not talk about casting, lol. The prequels did not fail because of Hayden Christensen.

From May, 1997.

The robot looks a little like Leebo.

Ok Plot Guess Time:

• Solo lives on the streets making money as part of a Fast & Furious style Speeder Racer crew...somehow gets into Debt with a Jabba type gang leader character.
• During one of his races he gets caught by the Empire who give him a choice...join or die.
• He makes his way through Imperial Recruitment processing and asks to become a pilot
• They make him the equivalent of a Space Truck Driver
• Still with a Debt owed to the Gang Leader dude from his old Speeder Racer days he is contacted by some guy who puts a team together to steal a thing
• They use Han's new Space Truck Driver credentials as cover to steal the thing
• Empire finds out...
• Enter 1 or 2 hr Mad Max Fury Rd style Space Chase scene with the Empire & Jabba Gang Leader chasing Solo and the team.
• Ends with every new character they introduce being killed or captured and Han/Chewie runs off with the Falcon
• And Scene

Impact on X-Wing

• Someone will complain about a thing

Close up of the new old falcon from the Solo movie poster. Is that a cargo pod or does it just not have the two prongs? I thought the prongs where where cargo pods went on the YT-1300 freighter but that looks like part of the ship...?

Four Armed Space Monkey yet to be named.

I had to pause the video carefully at that point to make sure that wasn't Maz Kanata.

It's not.

21 minutes ago, Phoenix5454 said:

Close up of the new old falcon from the Solo movie poster. Is that a cargo pod or does it just not have the two prongs? I thought the prongs where where cargo pods went on the YT-1300 freighter but that looks like part of the ship...?

Really honestly take a look at the mandibles, yeah?

They aren't squared off at 90 degrees far enough back. They hit a sharp cut to the front. This is all part of the same ship.

6 minutes ago, Captain Lackwit said:

Really honestly take a look at the mandibles, yeah?

They aren't squared off at 90 degrees far enough back. They hit a sharp cut to the front. This is all part of the same ship.

I must say then, the Falcon was very blah until Hans special modifications

23 minutes ago, thespaceinvader said:

I had to pause the video carefully at that point to make sure that wasn't Maz Kanata.

It's not.

Same. Though I won't be surprised if she has a small cameo in it.

Would be a cool payoff for future viewers watching in chronological order for the first time to see her again 5 (as of now) movies later.

Notice the Villain figure and the Stormtrooper variant .

Also notice the lack of bending elbows and knees... I find the lack of good action figures disturbing.

11 minutes ago, Imperial Advisor Arem Heshvaun said:

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Notice the Villain figure and the Stormtrooper variant .

All I notice is CHEWIE ON TOP !!!

These are not the articulated figures you're looking for.

These inarticulated figures are mostly for throwing around, chewing and bashing siblings with.

10 minutes ago, Kieransi said:

Also notice the lack of bending elbows and knees... I find the lack of good action figures disturbing.

These are the simple "overgrown" figures that made an appearance in all Hasbro toys a few years ago. Large, simple, little paint apps (those these seem to have more), meant for younger kids.

The actual collector toys will look better than this.

5 minutes ago, kris40k said:

All I notice is CHEWIE ON TOP !!!

Where he rightfully belongs ...

Let the Wookiee win.

These maybe the troopers protecting the train. Notice the tracks in the packaging.

God save me. I’m looking at secondary Box art now.

3 minutes ago, MegaSilver said:

These are the simple "overgrown" figures that made an appearance in all Hasbro toys a few years ago. Large, simple, little paint apps (those these seem to have more), meant for younger kids.

The actual collector toys will look better than this.

Yeah, I know... but I do miss the early 2000's, when all the $7, 3.5-inch action figures in Target had great articulation. Now you have to pay $20 each for the one or two Black Series action figures they make. All the action figures in a normal store now are those horrible non-articulated ones with the rocket-launcher jetpacks. I still haven't been able to find good Rey, Kylo, Jyn, Cassian, Baze, Chirrut, etc. 3.5-inch action figures with bending knees and elbows, whereas I seriously have Denal (that's right, Denal, the random 501st Clone Trooper who has exactly one scene, which is when he dies) in that fantastic 3.5-inch fully articulated action figure form. So you can say all you like about the Clone Wars/prequels era, but that era had the best action figures.

Hasbro sucks.

/rant

6 minutes ago, Kieransi said:

Yeah, I know... but I do miss the early 2000's, when all the $7, 3.5-inch action figures in Target had great articulation. Now you have to pay $20 each for the one or two Black Series action figures they make. All the action figures in a normal store now are those horrible non-articulated ones with the rocket-launcher jetpacks. I still haven't been able to find good Rey, Kylo, Jyn, Cassian, Baze, Chirrut, etc. 3.5-inch action figures with bending knees and elbows, whereas I seriously have Denal (that's right, Denal, the random 501st Clone Trooper who has exactly one scene, which is when he dies) in that fantastic 3.5-inch fully articulated action figure form. So you can say all you like about the Clone Wars/prequels era, but that era had the best action figures.

Hasbro sucks.

/rant

The Economy isn't doing as great as it may have at the time (I was a kid ok), but there's more- companies have become curiously scrupulous.

But yeah I totally agree, clones got the BEST figures, holy crap dude.

20 hours ago, Alpha17 said:

Glad we'll be seeing Solo join the Imperial Navy. Hopefully it'll be more than a few minutes of screen time in the movie. Interesting how clean the Falcon looks when its supposed to be several decades old by this point.

Have you seen how clean Lando kept basically everything he had? Cloth, quarters, the whole freaking MINING facility of cloud city? It fits imho very well.

13 minutes ago, Captain Lackwit said:

The Economy isn't doing as great as it may have at the time (I was a kid ok), but there's more- companies have become curiously scrupulous.

But yeah I totally agree, clones got the BEST figures, holy crap dude.

Yeah, I'd like to think that it's because the companies are treating their workers better, but I haven't heard anything to indicate that's the case. I think it's just price gouging and product degradation because they can . I don't really mind the $7 to $20 price increase, it's more that we used to get like 20 or 30 good action figures for each movie, now we only get a few. And the fully articulated 3.5-inch figures are basically gone, because 90 percent of today's kids will still buy those disgusting things with the missile-launching jetpacks and fused solid spines, knees, and elbows.

My old Windows XP computer can't do anything anymore, my 1990's Casio keyboard sounds really bad to me now, and Microsoft Andromeda is going to be a huge smartphone that folds up and fits in your pocket, so I find it weird that with all this technological advancement, action figure technology has somehow backslid.

I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I'm cautiously hyped for this. I don't think anyone can replace Han Solo, but I think the rest of the movie might make up for it. Also the world building in this one looks great compared to TFA and TLJ.