1/6th Scale Sideshow Boba Fett Figure

[automaton]

Boba was cool because our imaginations filled in the back story.

 

[mortifactor]

When is Q2 btw? around may?

 

[Billy Ray]

April, May , and June are Q2

 

[TotalDominAsian]

How do you know he's being released in '12 Q2?
I always thought he looked nearly ready, and a possible Q4 '11 release.

 

[JAROTO]

Boba was all about the suit.

 

[mortifactor]

and the attitude, the way he spoke to vader in a pissed off manner over a vendetta with solo.. haha, although that tone was lost abit when temura morrison phoned his voice over in!

 

[cokebabies]

Yeah, it's hard to sort out the opinions I formed as a kid, and ones formed later on. But I definitely remember the first time I saw ESB, I couldn't believe this guy was talking to Vader like that. Almost everyone else in the Empire ____ themselves when he was around, but Fett was tossing an attitude Vader's way that just seemed amazing.

 

[SAB]

Boba was cool because our imaginations filled in the back story.

Correct.....and then Lucas smeared feces all over our imagination...and ignored his companies official history, rendering more than a few of the EU novels pointless.

 

[jkno]

and the attitude, the way he spoke to vader in a pissed off manner over a vendetta with solo.. haha, although that tone was lost abit when temura morrison phoned his voice over in!

I was never a huge Boba Fett fan but I did have respect for the character nevertheless. Now I don't have that anymore alas...

 

[krieg-der-sterne]

i dont care what lucas did later,boba is still the coolest guy.i have him with his original voice on dvd,therefore i dont care about the new one.and forget about django being his "father".HE is boba fett,the swashbuckling bounty hunter who kicks ass in our fantasies

 

[Khonsu70]

Huh. I guess I'm the school of thought that says "pick and choose what you like, disregard the rest". If you like the EU stories and not the prequels, go with those. If your write fan fiction and like those stories, go with those. It's ALL a work of fiction. I think when you approach EU stuff for any franchise, you should do it with the knowledge that it isn't cannon and the forces who own the rights get to dictate what's official and can change the game. If Lucas had the creative juice to do it, he could do like Joss Weadon and write the "EU stuff" himself, in essence making it cannon. But he cares more about a buck and his ego at the end of the day, and that's what we have to work with.

Having said that, I really have 0 problem with the origin of Boba Fett storyline they've come up with so far. He is a clone of Jango Fett, who is a badass in his own way, but because they share DNA does NOT make them identical individuals. They are more like identical twins separated by a generation who have led entirely different lives. Who's to say that the events that shaped Boba into the bounty hunter from the OT aren't as cool as those our imaginations can create? I feel like the back story established in AOTC is solid, even if the movie as a whole was not. The Clone Wars has expanded on that a bit with Boba joining forces with the totally psychopathic Aura Sing to attempt to exact revenge on Mace Windu. I think it's interesting, but those who don't like it can disregard.

 

[Khonsu70]

Oh, and Boba was cool not only because he openly gave Vader attitude, but because Vader tolerated it. The only other characters who could make that claim were Tarkin and the Emperor. So that made you take notice and wonder "what the hell's this guy's deal?" Plus he just looked cool!

 

[The Mike]

I love Boba Fett and one of the reasons that he had appeal despite being on screen for about half an hour in both films was because you as a kid could create your own backstory. You heard a couple of blurbs from Lucas about him and then came up with the rest on your own. It was a fantastic outlet of your imagination to match up to the story you loved without dealing with issues in continuity.

It's like the Jedi of the Old Republic, if you listen to what Lucas said about them up until about 1997, he made them sound like Samurai Monks who meditated about The Force and fought when needed. Obviously that all changed once he hit us with The Phantom Menace but his original descriptions made for me Obi-Wan Kenobi much cooler than what we got in the prequels, like them or not...

 

[abake]

I love Boba Fett and one of the reasons that he had appeal despite being on screen for about half an hour in both films was because you as a kid could create your own backstory. You heard a couple of blurbs from Lucas about him and then came up with the rest on your own. It was a fantastic outlet of your imagination to match up to the story you loved without dealing with issues in continuity.

It's like the Jedi of the Old Republic, if you listen to what Lucas said about them up until about 1997, he made them sound like Samurai Monks who meditated about The Force and fought when needed. Obviously that all changed once he hit us with The Phantom Menace but his original descriptions made for me Obi-Wan Kenobi much cooler than what we got in the prequels, like them or not...

That's pretty much the way the seem to me in the prequels...
They are monks, they do meditate about the Force and they do fight when needed. They are also part of an intricate political power system that spans a galaxy... I don't see the problem...

 

[The Mike]

It's up to interpretation I guess but for me, the way Lucas talked about them and referred to them especially given the obvious points of reference, they felt more like they should be Buddhists or so separated from the interworkings of the galaxy. They would be searching for enlightenment and if approached or attacked they would spring into action.

The way the prequels made them feel to me was more like Space Cops. I believe the term Defenders of the Republic is more the feel. It seems like they would be more the iron fist of the Senate to make sure everything or everyone would comply and that is far removed from the gentle natured, search for wisdom template Lucas originally gave. I would have thought the Jedi Temple would have been on a planet more like Dagobah or Yavin IV then where it was and they just seemed too plugged in to the politics than I would have originally imagined given OWK's or Yoda's brief descriptions and definitely Lucas' original interview tidbits.

 

[abake]

Yeah, I get your point, I guess I never really gave them that much thought to begin with...
It is an intriguing concept though.

I guess to me that is part of the allure of SW. It's just such a vast universe with so many possibilities. George's vision certainly sparked something rather grand, however much he seems to have disappointed many fans.

 

[devilof76]

I think their status as galactic enforcers was a role they were gradually pulled into as the Republic became decadent. As political agents, they were diplomats first, cops second. Windu and Yoda bemoaned the extent to which politics were encroaching upon the order, but they accepted it as a necessary evil because the problems existed, and they were the most able to deal with them.

 

[The Mike]

Well the thing is the concept of a Jedi evolved in Lucas' mind as he continued working but for me it would have been one of those things where the Republic would have come to the Jedi and they would have said "We do not get involved with those matters" and have it be it. Then again this is my own slant on Georgie's ideas.

I know people who absolutely loved the way the Jedi were in the prequels and I'm glad for them, it just didn't pan out for me although there are parts of the prequels I really like.

It's definitely away from the point which was the allure of Boba Fett because of open interpretation. Look at the conversation about the Jedi that occurred in this thread where we have more binding restrictions than even Boba Fett with what Lucas has even put into the prequels.

 

[The Josh]

I think their status as galactic enforcers was a role they were gradually pulled into as the Republic became decadent. As political agents, they were diplomats first, cops second. Windu and Yoda bemoaned the extent to which politics were encroaching upon the order, but they accepted it as a necessary evil because the problems existed, and they were the most able to deal with them.

Yeah, reading the EU novels set all along the PT you totally get that. Lots of conversations about how the order was changing because of what the war was doing. Like you said though you get from what goes on and how they act that as something they had to do because of the war.

 

[Entropy]

It's up to interpretation I guess but for me, the way Lucas talked about them and referred to them especially given the obvious points of reference, they felt more like they should be Buddhists or so separated from the interworkings of the galaxy. They would be searching for enlightenment and if approached or attacked they would spring into action.

The way the prequels made them feel to me was more like Space Cops. I believe the term Defenders of the Republic is more the feel. It seems like they would be more the iron fist of the Senate to make sure everything or everyone would comply and that is far removed from the gentle natured, search for wisdom template Lucas originally gave. I would have thought the Jedi Temple would have been on a planet more like Dagobah or Yavin IV then where it was and they just seemed too plugged in to the politics than I would have originally imagined given OWK's or Yoda's brief descriptions and definitely Lucas' original interview tidbits.

and the costuming. I imagined Old Ben dressing the way he did because he was a hermit, not that they were standard issue Jedi robes.