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SW had a big December, with 4 pre-orders, along with 2 highly requested figures, in Padme and Mace, think we'll see a more Marvel/DC focus for the next month or so.

Tech/Wrecker need to go up during this season though, were already behind as it is.
 
I wasn’t counting on any TCW figures, but I’ll absolutely get some OG proper Clones (and not the weaklings from FiloniWars)

I love the Tartakovsky Clone Wars. Fordo, Muunilinst 10; fan favorites for good reasons.

As a diehard fan of the micro series, I was also skeptical of The Clone Wars in the beginning. But the show won me over.

There are many incredible moments that show the strength, courage, and loyalty the Clones have, both inside and out.

There are awesome Clones in TCW that are also fan favorites for good reasons.

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AOTC Obi-Wan?
Wouldn't surprise me if they do AOTC Kenobi under the Clone Wars anniversary line, and include the swap out clone armor parts like they did with Windu. The animated version of Clone Wars era Kenobi in Tales of the Jedi is closer in appearance to AOTC Kenobi now.
 
I love the Tartakovsky Clone Wars. Fordo, Muunilinst 10; fan favorites for good reasons.

As a diehard fan of the micro series, I was also skeptical of The Clone Wars in the beginning. But the show won me over.

There are many incredible moments that show the strength, courage, and loyalty the Clones have, both inside and out.

There are awesome Clones in TCW that are also fan favorites for good reasons.

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I binged it last year (then followed it up with Rebels). It had some fine moments, but I never connected with it. GenndyWars was aesthetically cooler, and the Filonisms just soured me on the other. Might be SW saturation. I’d take TLJ over Filoni’s waifuism any day, and I can’t believe I’m saying that. Anyway, I decided a while ago to stick with just the EU and my memories, as it helped me put an ending. I still watch the new shows and flicks when I have some time to kill, but it’s just “air”. Granted if a character is cool enough and I can put them somewhere, I’m always open to adding a figure to my “canon”. But I’m too tired to properly “care”. If I like a new instalment I just shoehorn it into my EU canon and disregard what I don’t like. From FiloniWars I took the good bits, but I’m not attached to it enough to want any of the Clones. If I get any they’ll be from the movies and now GenndyWars. I preferred their demeanour in the Dark Horse comics.
 
I've never understood the idea behind "Star Wars saturation". Outside of Tolkien, Star Wars is my biggest fandom passion. I'd take a new film or show every year, provided it weren't garbage. There's so many stories that can be told in such a massive universe. Keep nonsense out of it and give me as much as there is to give.

I'm still not sure why people think there's more Obi-Wan coming. I've said this here before - but there was never an apprentice or AOTC Kenobi shown, the CW Kenobi has disappeared entirely while everything else shown with it has been released already, and the Kenobi show figure looks more like Chuck Norris than Ewan.

Everyone talks about how there's probably problems with Harrison's likeness rights or Harrison personally. I don't know why people aren't speculating more that Ewan might have likeness rights issues too. Ewan's Obi-Wan, generically speaking, is probably top 3 in terms of Star Wars popularity. You'd think there'd be as many figures of him as Anakin or Luke. But the two Ewan figures both had likeness issues. ROTS wasn't nearly as bad as the Kenobi show, but we do know there were issues from the licensor with the ROTS version.

I sure don't expect another Kenobi to come up anytime soon to eat away at sales of the show figure, for whoever is buying it anyway. Seems to be one of the few figures that's been around a bit and not running to pre-order, so I'm sure no one wants to hinder what sales there are there.

Maybe for the 20th anniversary of The Clone Wars in 2008, that CW Kenobi will finally pop up. Who knows.
 
I've never understood the idea behind "Star Wars saturation". Outside of Tolkien, Star Wars is my biggest fandom passion. I'd take a new film or show every year, provided it weren't garbage. There's so many stories that can be told in such a massive universe. Keep nonsense out of it and give me as much as there is to give.
Personally, it’s mostly because of all the repetitive filler. I don’t care how big the universe is if I keep getting “muh Rebels versus muh Empire”. Same old Jedi and Sith. 4-6 stories, 3-4 stories, always the Skywalkers and co, even things like TOR era are too similar to the same beats. I like it well enough, I want quite a few characters as dollies (much more than many other franchises apart from Marvel), and I’ll download a flick/show, but I’m not in that mode where I’m tracking down the books to fill in the gaps from the game which ties into the show which is the spin-off from the movie.

I’ve never been able to really obsess over anything in pop culture. Some characters yes, but titles/settings/franchises as a whole, not really. I read capes from such a young age that it all seemed utterly meaningless to get invested in such a degree. All these IPs will never be allowed to die, have an ending, or whatever else. How many times can I consume the same story with some extra bits and a pallete swap for the antagonist? It’s why I like collecting dollies, they allow me to give my favourite characters the endings that I see fit and make up my own canons.

I tire easily, truth be told. Most of the things I like, more accurately I should say that I’m into a few specific aspects that draw me in, I focus on certain stories, and I make the rest up in my head. I can’t stay in one fictional universe for too long as there’s no single one that I like everything in. When I’m reading a SW book and there’s a new alien race in every other paragraph, I skip over it and don’t even check Wookiepedia. SW is a different beast, what with the interconnectivity of books, shows, comics, etc in a single canon. It’s too much for me to be an ubermegafan.

Depending on my mood I reach for one from my “shortlist”. The mood passes, my interest for it wanes, and I move onto the next. After a while the cycle repeats.
 
I've never understood the idea behind "Star Wars saturation". Outside of Tolkien, Star Wars is my biggest fandom passion. I'd take a new film or show every year, provided it weren't garbage. There's so many stories that can be told in such a massive universe. Keep nonsense out of it and give me as much as there is to give.

I'm still not sure why people think there's more Obi-Wan coming. I've said this here before - but there was never an apprentice or AOTC Kenobi shown, the CW Kenobi has disappeared entirely while everything else shown with it has been released already, and the Kenobi show figure looks more like Chuck Norris than Ewan.

Everyone talks about how there's probably problems with Harrison's likeness rights or Harrison personally. I don't know why people aren't speculating more that Ewan might have likeness rights issues too. Ewan's Obi-Wan, generically speaking, is probably top 3 in terms of Star Wars popularity. You'd think there'd be as many figures of him as Anakin or Luke. But the two Ewan figures both had likeness issues. ROTS wasn't nearly as bad as the Kenobi show, but we do know there were issues from the licensor with the ROTS version.

I sure don't expect another Kenobi to come up anytime soon to eat away at sales of the show figure, for whoever is buying it anyway. Seems to be one of the few figures that's been around a bit and not running to pre-order, so I'm sure no one wants to hinder what sales there are there.

Maybe for the 20th anniversary of The Clone Wars in 2008, that CW Kenobi will finally pop up. Who knows.
Well this aged badly lol
 
Personally, it’s mostly because of all the repetitive filler. I don’t care how big the universe is if I keep getting “muh Rebels versus muh Empire”. Same old Jedi and Sith. 4-6 stories, 3-4 stories, always the Skywalkers and co

This!

That big universe gets shrunk down to one family and a few consistent friends that are somehow all connected. Tiresome.
 
SW had a big December, with 4 pre-orders, along with 2 highly requested figures, in Padme and Mace, think we'll see a more Marvel/DC focus for the next month or so.

Tech/Wrecker need to go up during this season though, were already behind as it is.

Or just make me spend more money, that works too I guess.

I love surprises like this, we haven't had a "surprise" reveal in a while, the AoTC anniversary was teased and then Mace/Padme were teased in December, we knew BD Vader was going to come sooner or later and Bane because of the BoBF show.

This has guy has been shelved for years and it was awesome opening up my phone and seeing that glorious bastard pop up.
 
This!

That big universe gets shrunk down to one family and a few consistent friends that are somehow all connected. Tiresome.
I wouldn't mind that if it was a set story with a beginning, middle and end. And in this whole universe we got more stories with their own beginnings, middles and ends. In far off places, with different characters, totally divorced from the Skywalkers, or with some slight connection, or even as a direct continuation.

But when you're constantly milking the same exact characters, the same exact beats, over and over again, then I get too tired to search for the diamonds in the rough. What are SW comics about? Luke-Han-Leia battling the Empire. We've been getting that for 40 years. Sometimes there's the OC Jedi during the 4-6 window doing the same thing. Repeated beats in such farmed out IPs are fine and all, but there's a difference between capecomics and SW that is important. SW has fixed endings for all the big happenings, whereas capes are soap operas and are in an eternal flux. Yeah, most X-Men comics are more or less the same thing month in month out, but there's the illusion of change. A death here and there, a rebirth, a change of pace, different genres, different decades and zeitgeists changing the aesthetic, there's a cycle. Currently they have their own country and planet and are fighting other alien empires. It'll end, they'll go back to the mansion, we'll get another Mr Sinister story in a decade and so it goes. But that's par of the course with capes. Every run is someone's first. Retcons happen every week. They're soap operas with tights. But until Marvel closes up shop I have no idea what'll happen. Maybe something awful, maybe something cool, maybe something temporary, maybe something permanent. But the possibility is there.

Now compare that with SW where you know that Vader dies, Obi-Wan dies, and the Emperor reigns for just a couple of years meaning the millenia-spanning great Sith plan and Sithari prophecy ended up being a failure. And with the ST we know everyone dies and Palpatine's and Luke's Hand's Cloned-esque granddaughter takes over the Skywalker name. So what's the point? Why should I read another generic 10-issue story arc where Luke and Han battle the Empire? Why should I care about a game with an OC Jedi fighting the Empire? I know how it all ends. I've been pulling the Vader comic(s) since 2015. Every writer cycles through the same beats where Vader mopes, finds a new OC Jedi to hunt, Palpatine berates him, and he does something bad to strengthen his Edgy Side. But oh, there's a tear and some humanity left! But again, I know all the important bits. I've read this story again and again. 90% of "new" stories are just more derivative "fast food" that do nothing but bloat the brand. If there was even the illusion of moving forward, I wouldn't mind it. The EU did move forward. Like it or not, it explored the far past, the immediate aftermath of ROTJ and the future. Sure, the same 3-4/4-6 stories existed too, but in smaller quantities and were adjacent to main plots. There was possibility.

Nevertheless, for me, the thing that makes Star Wars, and the kind of pop culture is created, so hard to really obsess over and "love" is that it's so goddamn huge and interconnected. The movies are in the same canon with the books and the shows and the comics and the cartoons and everything. It's the first of its kind even going back to the EU. Comics have their own continuities, and convoluted as they are, you just read from the 60s to now. The novels, the AUs, the movies, the games, they all have their own continuities. It is both too big in its content, and too small in its variety. Ultimately, sure, you can pick and choose, which is what I've been doing all the decades I've been a fan. But we're talking about being so passionate about an IP that you can't get oversaturated.

In the end I see SW as a story, whereas capes are an endless soap opera. The characters and settings lend themselves to different interpretations and reinventions, so even if you tire of the "story", you can still like the gimmick/core. With SW I can't do that. Vader is Vader the way he is. And the more his story is bloated, the less special he becomes. Same goes for the entirety of SW. I cannot judge it the same way I judge a comic or a videogame. Halo is there to be a game first and foremost. Capes are a soap opera. Something like LotR is a few specific books and extra notes/worldbuilding, with lots of non-canon other media adaptations. SW is its own thing, and I can't keep up with it to that extent. 40K is similar in that there's tons and tons more content, but there canon means nothing so you can literally choose what you want and make up your own.

All in all, it's a bit personal. Something grabs me, I get into it, and I focus on the best bits. I never was the kind to visit the encyclopedia site to learn about made up lore. It's why I never got into fantasy much. I find it utterly useless. I barely know enough about real world cultures, I'm not gonna waste brain space and time learning about the Kauxra from Kahraxa and their religion of Kau'Hran worship to get that tidbit about that vase from the side-mission of the videogame which spun-off from the show which is shoehorned between Episodes 7 and 8 of The Water-Walker: An AirBringer's Bane Saga or whatever. I get into the main installments, if I find the time I check the easily accessible sidenotes, and that's it. All that said, I'll play that SW Eclipse thing when it comes out, as it looks aesthetically cool. But I'm not reading any High Republic stuff. I'll buy any SW dolly, from any era or "source", as long as I enjoy the character and have somewhere to put it. But I'm not going to bother to "keep up with the canon". I'll just pick and choose what I like, when I like, the way I like.

TL;DR I just can't obsess over fictional settings to such a degree. They all tire me and overstay their welcome at some point. I rather "a bit of everything" over an overabundance of bloat from one single thing.
 
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