/sw/ - Star Wars★

Wow who would have thought kids in the digital age wouldn't want to bother with shitty, uninspired nu-wars shit.

>>2135 (OP)

Back in 2005 I was 9 and really enjoyed the epIII toys and my older brothers other prequel toys. Whatever you want to say about the movies the figures were fun and I had friends who'd come over with their own and setup hour long battles.

There's nothing new with this foe Star Wars, no new creatures or aliens. Further the quality I bet has gone down. Any younger kids I've seen had some of the ep7 stuff but nobody got the Rouge One shit. I hope Disney rots some more for ending the original expanded universe.

>>2139

>foe Star Wars

Just a heads up it's "faux" as in the French word for false not "foe" like someone's you're enemy.

>>2141

basically if you want anything worthwhile you'd have to get something from the black series.

also, disney has their own ripoff of the black series, called the elite series iirc. literally the same as those hasbro molds but with better detail.

>>2142

oh, and the elite series is nothing but the disney productions, so the line is all episode 7 and rogue one related characters.

I got a few pieces from the Black series, may pick up a few more. Rest of the modern merch is trash though. Like they're intentionally putting out garbage. Honestly I don't understand, are they doing it so wrong on purpose or are they truly that incompetent?

>>2144

>Honestly I don't understand, are they doing it so wrong on purpose or are they truly that incompetent?

look at any figure series that predates the disney sale and you'll see it's fully intentional. they are jewing at every possible corner they can.

>>2148

funny thing is those figures you posted are arguably low detail as well. but the articulation on them blows the shit out of any of the regular disney figures.

I would actually buy a Seventh Sister figure from the 6 inch black series if they made one. That is a Disney-era character but I bet they won't even make one.

>>2149

Yeah the element any Disney toy doesn't have, not only not being marketed to boys but girls because diversity. But also that there isn't anything new, there's no new cool vehicles, aliens or robots. If Star Wars had continued the EU especially by doing Legacy so you'd have all new actors but still some older looking stuff it'd be so easy to do toys, making figures from all the EU. It'd be so easy to make engrossing movies, huge amount of mythos, but they could never do that.

>>2150

I've always liked Dave Filloni, I wasn't a fan of Rebels but I can at least say it was capable and has done the most to create a mythos in nu-lore, the movies have been terrible with this. Oh yeah you touch a lightsaber and see the user's past? More like Harry Potter and Anakin did far more with that lightsaber then Luke did so you'd think one would be a stronger force.

>>2150

>>2151

I can respect Dave Filoni, more for Clone Wars especially its last season of course then Rebels. But based on the shit he was dealt of a dead universe he's done the best he can and that's why all of his stuff is going to be memory-holed at Disney, no more Rebels, because the cultural takedown of comic heros, Star Trek and Star Wars wasn't primarily done for just short profit.

Saw this posted on /tv/

>>2174

wow, the AAT has come a long way. i still have the original.

>>2151

> Anakin did far more with that lightsaber then Luke did so you'd think one would be a stronger force.

To be fair that's like Anakin's third lightsaber. It was only special because it was passed on to Lule.

>>2151

>I've always liked Dave Filloni, I wasn't a fan of Rebels but I can at least say it was capable and has done the most to create a mythos in nu-lore, the movies have been terrible with this.

I think that's just a result of how they're treating it. Before you could have other directors for the OT, but George was in charge so in addition to a script supervisor you had one voice for the whole thing. Now SW movies are something they rent out to whatever B tier director is interested. The LSG is a committee that basically exists to justify ideas that already exist from other people on board.

Filoni was George's protege. He worked with the man enough to understand what he liked and wanted and the feeling that resulted from that. You can say that an individual design may not work, or an individual detail isn't that great, but the overall shape of things is for better or worse more "Star Warsy" because Dave has been working on this for longer than Lucas was by the time Jedi wrapped up and on some level gives a shit about lore.

The other directors don't care because they don't HAVE to care. What the guys writing the guidebooks think isn't J.J. Abrams's problem, he just wants to make a movie and go home. Gareth Edwards may have played nice with everyone but ultimately he did make a movie that's difficult to build off because every place you saw was a smoking crater by the end and everyone with a name died. Rian Johnson may or may not do a better job than Abrams but his priorities are the same: Do this one job that's his concern and resume his career elsewhere. Star Wars as a long term project doesn't matter to them.

>>2238

>Gareth Edwards may have played nice with everyone but ultimately he did make a movie that's difficult to build off because every place you saw was a smoking crater by the end and everyone with a name died.

I would've liked to watch the movie he had in mind before Kennedy decided that it needed reshoots and Vader.

>>2159

>Imperials are nazis!

This moron had to be told that?

>>2174

So it seems the toymaking side of Disney is listening. We'll have to see if that pays off or not.

>>2813

Fair enough. Mind you, there have been examples of that showing up in more recent and I mean pre-Disney media, such as the Imperial Youth Program not the actual name, but that old magazine is long buried, COMPNOR, and the heavy coordination with major companies like Sienar Fleet Systems and Aratech.

Tarkin laughed at it? Don't you mean Admiral Motti?

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Conan_Antonio_Motti/Legends The "Canon" side depresses me.

>>2814

>COMPNOR

It's not like they created it, just repurposed. And propaganda ministries are par for the course in dictatorships.

The rest are valid points.

>Don't you mean Admiral Motti?

Well, shit. This what I get for re-watching the films less than every five years believing my memories have not significantly eroded yet.

>>2813

Why was the Empire anthropocentric again? There are a couple of expedient explanations in the post-Disney books, but was it ever given any justification from the horse's mouth before the buyout? Because as far as I could tell, even though Palpatine was a Sith and the Sith only really care about Dark power, it was just that the Empire are evil therefore racism.

>>2895

Because humans are among the most numerous races in the Galaxy, and thus have a large manpower and political pool to draw from.

>>2900

>>2895

even still, sheev used aliens when he thought it necessary. the best part is nobody ever actually had any problems with the empire being a pure human organization. the only problem was that one jackass writer trying to claim it was all white males.

>>2916

well, assuming the whole "sheev was trying to save the galaxy from the vong" thing was true, it would make sense to raise a xenophobic attitude, as it would improve morale for fighting an invading alien force.

>>2146

Damn strong nostalgia.

I remember going to Walmart every week with my mom as a kid and checking out the figures. it took forever for them to get Darth Maul in stock. He was constantly sold out, I remember raging every time haha.

>>2813

- The Emperor was literally Hitler unifying the galaxy under a strong authoritarian regime taking the Republic away from the Globalists and giving direct control of the systems to regional governors instead.

-Vader represents the Schutzstaffel, the class of anticuck warrior monks loyal to the ideology/Hitler above all else.

- JEdi = JEws. Vader purging the Jedi Temple = the Holocaust

-Republic = Multicultural decaying shitshow. Empire = Pro Human(Pro White).

-The guy who wrote the Sith Code admits he based it on Mein Kampf and it also strongly resembles Nietzsche philosophy.

-They were only ever "evil" to rebel fags who were in open revolt against them, not evil for the sake of it. The Jedi attempted to genocide them years ago so they could rule over the multicult paradise unopposed. Alderan = traitor Commies. Fucking pussies got what they deserved.

>>4148

there was an old article on the relation between star wars and ww2, and pretty much everything you wrote is what they wrote.