1/6th Scale General Grievous Figure

[Wor-Gar]

Personally, I think Maul did more with his less time than Grievous did with all of his.

I'm sure a lot of people here would agree with you. Maul's stock has always been high. He's the 'Boba Fett' of the PT... little screen time, huge fanbase... and a monster following before the film even opened.

I would agree that he's more popular than Grievous. He's more of a bad ass. Kids can act like him easier. He has cool moves. And skills. He has 'skills' and chicks dig that.

 

[EVILFACE]

Grievous dumps all over Maul.

 

[Wor-Gar]

OK, so me and Evilface like Grievous better. That's two.

 

[MaulFan]

I'm sure a lot of people here would agree with you. Maul's stock has always been high. He's the 'Boba Fett' of the PT... little screen time, huge fanbase... and a monster following before the film even opened.

I would agree that he's more popular than Grievous. He's more of a bad ass. Kids can act like him easier. He has cool moves. And skills. He has 'skills' and chicks dig that.

Just for the sake of argument, what traits/moments make Grievous such a shining star over Maul?

 

[Wor-Gar]

I can't wait to hear what Evilface says...

But for me, seriously, I like the rubbing-the-hands "fiend" quality -- the "You fool!" arrogance -- those spinning swords -- the moment he broke the glass and shot the grappling line to get back to his ship -- that laugh -- and a good fight with Obi-Wan too. PLUS the design -- and the touch of bio-mechanical melding that predates Vader.

For Maul, people just like the fighting and the permanent scowl. That's his two traits.

 

[tnaig001]

blame Lucas, seriously.

Maul had such great potential for development and they killed him off barely after introducing him

GG has a lot more development esp if you add in the clone wars.

Wins it for me because of that, but i wish it were reversed.

 

[MaulFan]

If you pick up on those things and find an especial fondness for them, then I can see ranking Grievous higher.

For me, neither really have a "character" to them, minimal dialogue each, mostly just two badass fighters. I think Grievous is a great design, one of my favorite visual characters in all of Star Wars, but I really like the tats and horns on Maul, and his fighting moves were more interesting to me, plus a double saber over multiple single hilts. I will say, if the movie Grievous had been the type of fighter developed in Clone Wars, I may feel different, and I think some of my not liking movie Grievous so much may be impacted by the downgrade, I really got into him in Clone Wars. Speaking of EU, it probably also fuels me that I have the Maul comic series which elaborates on him a bit and futhers his fighting skills.

 

[Wor-Gar]

We shall not speak of EU.

I think some of my not liking movie Grievous so much may be impacted by the downgrade, I really got into him in Clone Wars.

I think a lot of people felt this way, and it hurt movie Grievous badly. Not his feelings, his image.

I do think that people perceived him to be Maul's replacement -- another bad ass fighter, a killer, a Terminator. At last, boys can have their kick-ass killer that Lucas threw away after TPM. But then Lucas pulled a fast one: made Grievous a sniveling, moustache-twirling character more in line with Sebulba than Maul. Why would he do that? Why would he take a kick-ass bad ass and make him a cartoon villain? People were furious. Plastic lightsabers were thrown at the screen. It was mass hysteria. But not me. I got it. Because it's more in line with the old villains of the old serials on which this is based.

That all said, I could have done without the cough. A precusser to Vader's breathing they said. Glad they passed on Lucas' original idea: sneezing.

 

[Khonsu70]

As much as I love Maul (all Sith, really), Grievous wins. Maybe the fact that I watch the CW series has skewed my opinion, because Grievous has had TONS of screen time there (check out last week's episode for an example of why Grievous wins). As for Maul, alas, we hardly knew him...

 

[LoveMinusZero]

If you pick up on those things and find an especial fondness for them, then I can see ranking Grievous higher.

For me, neither really have a "character" to them, minimal dialogue each, mostly just two badass fighters. I think Grievous is a great design, one of my favorite visual characters in all of Star Wars, but I really like the tats and horns on Maul, and his fighting moves were more interesting to me, plus a double saber over multiple single hilts. I will say, if the movie Grievous had been the type of fighter developed in Clone Wars, I may feel different, and I think some of my not liking movie Grievous so much may be impacted by the downgrade, I really got into him in Clone Wars. Speaking of EU, it probably also fuels me that I have the Maul comic series which elaborates on him a bit and futhers his fighting skills.

I feel pretty much the same. He was so awesome in that Clone Wars cartoon, finally a villain that was an actual threat to the Jedi, he seemed to sort of herald the great Jedi purge we had all been waiting for. Sadly, he ended up being just another lame villain that runs away and gets killed off far too easily.

The guys that worked on that cartoon knew how to build a villain, and they only had a few minutes to do it. Lucas on the other hand, loves to have villains that look cool, but do nothing. Grievous was dangerous in the cartoon, in the film he was barely a threat. The Jedi never felt in danger, there was no suspense or thrill, the Jedi are always seemingly invincible and afraid of, or concerned about, nothing.

He still looks awesome, and I'm so buying this when it comes out, but having to think about where he ranks next to Maul shows how little impact he had.

 

[kajobaldisimo]

Darth Maul

 

[Khev]

I got a kick out of Grievous' moustache twirling antics in ROTS.

I also liked that in the latest CW episode last week he had a duel with Asajj similar to his fight with Obi-Wan where they were surrounded by dozens of battle droids. As soon as Asajj got the upper hand he ordered all of his droids to fire on her. Gives a hint as to what Grievous was planning on Utapau had all the clones not shown up just then.

 

[EVILFACE]

I can't wait to hear what Evilface says...

But for me, seriously, I like the rubbing-the-hands "fiend" quality -- the "You fool!" arrogance -- those spinning swords -- the moment he broke the glass and shot the grappling line to get back to his ship -- that laugh -- and a good fight with Obi-Wan too. PLUS the design -- and the touch of bio-mechanical melding that predates Vader.

For Maul, people just like the fighting and the permanent scowl. That's his two traits.

Pretty much it. Grievous is a classic villain. And because he exchanged lines with other characters it elevates him higher over characters like Maul, who just said a few generic throw away lines to Sidious and looked "cool" on screen.

Plus ultimately Kenobi had to resort to uncivilized means to knock off Grievous. Maul was dispatched easily.

In simple terms: Maul looks cool, Grievous is cool. Same reason as why Jango > Boba as far as characters go.

 

[Valfar]

Grievous looks more dangerous then Maul but, Maul is more intimidating and vocals sound much better too, for all of the what? three times he spoke.

Grievous never sounded like he looked, his accent sucks.

 

[automaton]

Grievous looks more dangerous then Maul but, Maul is more intimidating and vocals sound much better too, for all of the what? three times he spoke.

Grievous never sounded like he looked, his accent sucks.

some say the same about Stephen Hawking... his voice doesn't match the way he looks.

 

[Glennfett]

All i knows is.....Grievous will be awesome when he arrives.....

Sideshow can take as long as they want as long as it turns out very good.
Maybe he will be up for PO after the plethora of Battle droids-who were also shown at the show

 

[automaton]

definitely one of the more demanding figures to pull off... if IG-88 is any indication, Grievous is in very capable hands.

 

[galactiboy]

As impressive as it is, after the initial wow and checking out of all the gadgets, it'll eventually just be a car on display, save space and money with a Hot Wheels 1:18 Batmobile and Grievous for less than the HT Batmobile, with money to spare. Plenty of ways to display this guy and keep mixing it up.

That's actually what I'm leaning towards... getting a 1:18th Batmobile as it will fit in with some of the other 1:18th 80's cars I already have (Delorian and Kitt).

But to be clear, I was never doubting picking up Grievous; that is a must-have figure for me

 

[RIDDICK]

Darth Maul

Enough of this useless character.
Too much of him everywhere.

 

[devilof76]

Only place I care about him being is on my shelf. Andele, Sideshow. Vamanos.