I wonder if they just don't have anything finished at this point or ready enough to reveal. Maybe there was a mad rush to get as much done during the hype and now they are working at their regular pace.
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I wonder if they're having issues with the actors not approving their likenesses or something?
Not at all. Also no problem with LFL approvals. It's just Hot Toys bouncing their focus around, which is pretty much what they've always done.
The drought has ended! Huey, Dewey, and Louie Stormtroopers, yay!
The deformed nature of these really does make them look like duck faces.
As silly as those are I take it as a good sign that HT is making them. Unless I'm mistaken HT only makes cosbabies for the lines they plan to go really deep into like Iron Man and Avengers. If they made Pepper Potts then hopefully that means we'll see a TFA Leia. 
Keep in mind that Hot Toys often likes to announce things around key milestone dates. And Star Wars has 3 relatively big ones coming up within the next 2-3 months...
1. Release of TFA on DVD/Blu-Ray (early April)
2. May the 4th
3. Release of Trailer for ROGUE ONE and its Marketing kick-off (this *may* be timed with either the TFA Blu-ray or May the 4th)
The TFA theatrical buzz has died down, so it makes sense that HT is focusing announcements around DEADPOOL, BATMAN v SUPERMAN and CAPTAIN AMERICA, all of which will be released within the next 3 months so the hype trains are at full bore. As sick as I am of superhero merchandise these days (particularly 1:6) it does make sense. Star Wars isn't going away for HT, it just won't be the focus for the next couple of months. That's not to say we won't get an announcement before early April. We very well might get 1 or 2. I just wouldn't be concerned at all... unless we get into May and there's still nothing.
1. Release of TFA on DVD/Blu-Ray (early April)
2. May the 4th
3. Release of Trailer for ROGUE ONE and its Marketing kick-off (this *may* be timed with either the TFA Blu-ray or May the 4th)
The TFA theatrical buzz has died down, so it makes sense that HT is focusing announcements around DEADPOOL, BATMAN v SUPERMAN and CAPTAIN AMERICA, all of which will be released within the next 3 months so the hype trains are at full bore. As sick as I am of superhero merchandise these days (particularly 1:6) it does make sense. Star Wars isn't going away for HT, it just won't be the focus for the next couple of months. That's not to say we won't get an announcement before early April. We very well might get 1 or 2. I just wouldn't be concerned at all... unless we get into May and there's still nothing.
Plus isn't there a new Celebration this summer as well?
It'd be neat if we got a new preview today since today is the day it's assumed to be passing $900 million domestic and $2 billion worldwide.
It'd be neat if we got a new preview today since today is the day it's assumed to be passing $900 million domestic and $2 billion worldwide.
Yep. July will bring both Celebration Europe and SDCC.
Irish I'm curious as to how you reconcile the prequels now. Prior to TFA I just assumed that Abrams would pull a "Days of Future Past" and try and tie all the prior good and bad films together in a way that redeemed the series. But then seeing how he redeemed the saga by flat out ignoring that the prequels ever even existed it has allowed me to finally do the same once and for all.
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I’m not sure I follow that idea that TFA “ignored” the prequels. The way I see it is that it just didn’t come up. The prequel timeframe is now 2 generations removed from Rey and Finn, so it’s feasible that most of those events are pushed aside from memory in favor of more recent events (like what happened in the OT). In the movie, stuff from the OT is already just rumors and tall stories. And that was "only" 30 years prior. So what would events from 50+ years prior be like? Likewise the Clone Wars and those events were already half forgotten during the OT as well, stuff or legends and wild stories, to Luke at least.
So like I said, it just didn’t really come up.
Maybe JJ and company didn’t make an effort to sneak some prequel stuff in there, I’ll give you that. But then that would be just as forced as Finn finding the training ball or turning on the dejarik table and wouldn’t serve anything at all to the audience or the story. At least the callbacks to the OT were to incite nostalgia (although I think it was unnecessary) in us old timers. Do the prequel-ers need nostalgia from 15 years ago?
I think it was pretty blatant how the film ignored easy opportunities to pay lip service to the PT. Maz refers to "the Sith, the Empire, and now the First Order" instead of "the Separatists, the Empire, and now the First Order." Technically the Trade Federation/Separatists *were* the bad guys of the PT and they were strategically ignored. Plus I thought it was pretty convenient that they had a "Republic City" complete with Senate and Chancellor that were NOT Coruscant. Again, it would have been an easy tie in to just not go out of their way to make a brand new Capital Planet that also appeared to be one giant city. It was like they said "if it originated in the PT, we're ignoring it or changing it."
People sometimes say that Kylo's "clone army" comment was somehow referencing the prequels but the "Clone War" had been discussed all the way back in ANH and obviously THAT movie wasn't referencing the prequels. You could almost make the case that they included Kylo's line about clones as simple clarification to the audience that those horrible things from the PT *won't* be appearing in the movie. Kind of like Cyclops mentioning "yellow spandex" in the first X-Men film. Finn also goes out of his way to say "like all of my kind I was taken from a family I never knew." They really hammered it home that there are no clones in this movie. Not to validate the PT, to me they appeared to be doing the opposite.
It doesn't mean that you can't see TFA as an extension of the PT + OT SE's but I just find it interesting that Abrams appeared to make the film in such a way that it's very easy to dismiss that the PT ever occurred. The entire movie itself even flows better if you go by the original ewok celebration where the Rebels were celebrating an isolated victory that wasn't some galaxy wide event.
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In some ways I see the film re-doing the Anakin origin through Rey and Ren. In Rey, we see what looks like a chosen one who has all these amazing skills (I bet her midi-chlorian levels are really high 
) and then through Ren we see the type of portrayal of Anakin that most of us would have preferred--in both cases JJ starts with adults rather than children, smartly. I had always hoped that in ROTS Anakin had already become Vader so we could see him hunting down the Jedi, etc. as Vader in the mask--not Hayden with red eyes. Anyhow, it satisfies some of the things I was hoping to see in the PT while writing a new chapter that I'm even more curious to see transpire.
) and then through Ren we see the type of portrayal of Anakin that most of us would have preferred--in both cases JJ starts with adults rather than children, smartly. I had always hoped that in ROTS Anakin had already become Vader so we could see him hunting down the Jedi, etc. as Vader in the mask--not Hayden with red eyes. Anyhow, it satisfies some of the things I was hoping to see in the PT while writing a new chapter that I'm even more curious to see transpire.
Yep, lots of making up for past "sins." Han had a weak showing in ROTJ where he didn't get to die a hero so TFA rectified that. The PT gave us a crappy Force prodigy and young tortured Sith and TFA made up for that as well.
If Rey really does end up with a double bladed lightsaber as an evolution of her staff then we won't even need to watch a prequel just to see Darth Maul.
Yep, lots of making up for past "sins." Han had a weak showing in ROTJ where he didn't get to die a hero so TFA rectified that. The PT gave us a crappy Force prodigy and young tortured Sith and TFA made up for that as well.
If Rey really does end up with a double bladed lightsaber as an evolution of her staff then we won't even need to watch a prequel just to see Darth Maul.
Maul's saber does appear to be part of her staff after all.
You brought up the PT every day for the past month or so......
Maul's saber does appear to be part of her staff after all.
Fascinating!
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What are the circles supposed to be highlighting? Things that aren't the same?
Just similar features.
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Yeah that's what I was getting at, similar, it's clearly not Maul's saber.
It was said a bit tongue-in-cheek. Thanks for clarifying.
But if you want to get really AR, Luke's saber in TFA has different parts than the one that was lost in Cloud City. Do you think it's a different saber?
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