Medicom RAH Jango Fett!!!!!

[dedguy]

Maul was resurrected in a non-canon comic, "Visionaries" where he dueled an aging Ben, with a 7 year old Luke or some such.

I still maintain he should have filled the role of General Grevious in episode 3. Demoted out of the Sith ranks, part cyborg and looking for revenge. The Star Wars movies across the board seem to suffer from killing off amazing villians far too quickly and in increadibly lame ways... well actually Maul's death was pretty good, but he went down too early.

 

[gatchatom]

I still maintain he should have filled the role of General Grevious in episode 3. Demoted out of the Sith ranks, part cyborg and looking for revenge. The Star Wars movies across the board seem to suffer from killing off amazing villians far too quickly and in increadibly lame ways... well actually Maul's death was pretty good, but he went down too early.

That never occurred to me, but you're right. That would have been a great battle to see and nice to bookend the films.

 

[Vader AL]

but then how would george sell all of the general grievous merchandise?

 

[DarthNeil]

After the amazing popularity of Boba from EMPIRE (despite he's stupid sarlaac death in RETURN) it seems that George had a specific bad guy imagined for each of the prequels---

Darth Maul for PHANTOM (hence the red packaging of the Hasbro figures)
Jango Fett for CLONES (hence the blue packaging)
Darth Vader is obviously the face of SITH (hence the orange packaging of the lava flames) but General Grievous is the foreshadowing go-between demonstrating where Anakin was eventually headed... for storytelling I definitely agree that Maul should have been ressurrected as a half SITH/CYBORG in the third installment--- but for what seems like economic reasons a new character was used.

Kind of like switching a planet full of wookies for ewoks.:chew

 

[The Chaver]

After the amazing popularity of Boba from EMPIRE (despite he's stupid sarlaac death in RETURN) it seems that George had a specific bad guy imagined for each of the prequels---

Darth Maul for PHANTOM (hence the red packaging of the Hasbro figures)
Jango Fett for CLONES (hence the blue packaging)
Darth Vader is obviously the face of SITH (hence the orange packaging of the lava flames) but General Grievous is the foreshadowing go-between demonstrating where Anakin was eventually headed... for storytelling I definitely agree that Maul should have been ressurrected as a half SITH/CYBORG in the third installment--- but for what seems like economic reasons a new character was used.

Kind of like switching a planet full of wookies for ewoks.:chew

They still can ressurrect Maul in the StarWars series,which could turn out to be pretty cool,if they do it right.

 

[MaulFan]

I still think Maul's death was a matter of getting through the first film, not feeling a need for the character to live on, and failure to anticipate popularity. I suspect there was a feeling that Maul, although key in the Jedi duel, would be a character that came and went without any fuss and keep focus on Anakin's story and not get anyone caught up in any more new characters than needed. If you think of it, the main story characters were Padme, Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Palpatine; 3 characters whose end lives were carried out in Ep 4-6, so a need for back story had been established on them and the prequels satisfied that, and Padme's character was covered in the whole of the PT. I'm sure there was some concern that if other characters had drawn enough attention, there'd be a demand for Epidsode -1, -2 and -3 to tell their back story. I'm sure if Lucas had suspected popularity with Boba Fett, his story would be different, same for Maul. Jango was to give another flavor of the Fett story, but not meant to be a longterm character.

 

[DarthNeil]

They still can ressurrect Maul in the StarWars series,which could turn out to be pretty cool,if they do it right.

Now then... that would be interesting.:maul

 

[The Chaver]

Now then... that would be interesting.:maul

Yes it would.

 

[EVILFACE]

Maul is dead. It would be just too comical for a someone that was cut in half and fell down a endless shaft showing up later.

Jason Voorhees, yes.
Maul, no.

 

[dedguy]

Luke had his hand cut off and fell down an "endless shaft". Granted that's not being cut in half but...

-Maul was cut in half by a lightsaber, meaning zero blood loss.
-Maul is not human, we don't know what his anatomy is like. It's more than conceivable that his constitution is much higher than a human's and that he has few necessary organs.
-Anakin had both legs cut off, a hand cut off, and fell in Lava and he turned out okay and he was human.

Not saying it's likely, just saying based on the wacky universe we're dealing with that's far more fantasy than science it's not exactly insane to think someone could be cut in half at the waist, fall a long way down, and still survive.

Speaking of which, where in hell did that whole area come from in Episode I? They're in this fairly archaic building... they walk through a door... and suddenly they're jumping around on dozens of catwalks criss crossed over this giant apparently bottomless pit.

 

[Vader AL]

Luke had his hand cut off and fell down an "endless shaft". Granted that's not being cut in half but...

-Maul was cut in half by a lightsaber, meaning zero blood loss.
-Maul is not human, we don't know what his anatomy is like. It's more than conceivable that his constitution is much higher than a human's and that he has few necessary organs.
-Anakin had both legs cut off, a hand cut off, and fell in Lava and he turned out okay and he was human.

I like the way you think.

 

[dedguy]

I'm just saying, in the SW universe characters have a way of appearing to be dead yet coming out of it alive. If there's no body they're still alive as far as I am concerned.

 

[MaulFan]

Speaking of which, where in hell did that whole area come from in Episode I? They're in this fairly archaic building... they walk through a door... and suddenly they're jumping around on dozens of catwalks criss crossed over this giant apparently bottomless pit.

The duel starts out in the Theed Hangar, and granted it's a movie so they'll take leaps and bounds to fit the plot regardless, but architecturaly, it's also conceivable that in a luxurious place like Theed, something like the city's power generation would come from a remote area where the main people don't go near, and putting it with a hangar full of defensive ships would make sense as only Naboo should really go there and royal guests should be kept to the more royal areas of the city.

 

[dedguy]

The duel starts out in the Theed Hangar, and granted it's a movie so they'll take leaps and bounds to fit the plot regardless, but architecturaly, it's also conceivable that in a luxurious place like Theed, something like the city's power generation would come from a remote area where the main people don't go near, and putting it with a hangar full of defensive ships would make sense as only Naboo should really go there and royal guests should be kept to the more royal areas of the city.

See you can validate anything, Maul is still alive.

 

[MaulFan]

Much as I love Maul, it's over, whatever mechanical way they could come up with to revive him, he just wouldn't be the character that I took a liking to, he'd be something new, and maybe that'd be entertaining also, but I'd rather leave that to a totally new creature than an abomination of the Darth Maul that TPM gave us.

 

[lerath666]

I know it's non-cannon, But for me, Maul dies three times.

Obi-wan cuts him in half. he falls.
He rebuilds himself ( visionairies comic) and goes after Old ben. Owen Lars shoots him in the face, killing him.

Insane zabrak scienties rebuilds his bran, and puts him in a jar, attached to a holographic projector. The incantation of maul is completely insane (Star wars Tales # 17 ) This is investigated during By Luke, who shuts the machine down, letting maul die for good.

Then there was the clone killed by Vader, vut it was a clone, not the real deal, so it dosn't really count

Like i said, they're non-cannon, but I like those versions.

 

[lerath666]

but back on topic. I've just jumped BACK on the jango waitlist. I flip flop like a Pancake(or a political candidate) it seems. Gonny try getting a fet, and a hasbro OTC fett, and a medicom bfett, do a few part swaps ( medicom armor, hasbro bodysuit, medi weapons, and make my own leather belt) and see how good it looks. If i can pull it off, I'll try to get a jango and do the same.

 

[ProgMatinee]

I preordered this item from Alterego when it was first announced for $135 now they have it priced for $175.

I've never ordered from them before. I hope they still honor the presell price.

 

[Stendec]

I know it's non-cannon, But for me, Maul dies three times.

Obi-wan cuts him in half. he falls.
He rebuilds himself ( visionairies comic) and goes after Old ben. Owen Lars shoots him in the face, killing him.

Insane zabrak scienties rebuilds his bran, and puts him in a jar, attached to a holographic projector. The incantation of maul is completely insane (Star wars Tales # 17 ) This is investigated during By Luke, who shuts the machine down, letting maul die for good.

Then there was the clone killed by Vader, vut it was a clone, not the real deal, so it dosn't really count

Like i said, they're non-cannon, but I like those versions.

All those Maul reincarnations sound ridiculous, why cant they just let characters die and be done with it. However, being a complete hypocrite, I will say that Boba Fett was definatley not killed by the Sarlacc

 

[Rob]

I know it's non-cannon, But for me, Maul dies three times.

Obi-wan cuts him in half. he falls.
He rebuilds himself ( visionairies comic) and goes after Old ben. Owen Lars shoots him in the face, killing him.

Insane zabrak scienties rebuilds his bran, and puts him in a jar, attached to a holographic projector. The incantation of maul is completely insane (Star wars Tales # 17 ) This is investigated during By Luke, who shuts the machine down, letting maul die for good.

Then there was the clone killed by Vader, vut it was a clone, not the real deal, so it dosn't really count

Like i said, they're non-cannon, but I like those versions.

Actually, the last one IS canon. Supposedly, in the comic, Maul was resurrected by Sith wizards and put against Vader because the Wizards believe Vader has become too weak to be a Sith and want Maul to take his place at Palps side.

The other two are non-canon, though I rather enjoyed the Visionaries version...