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  2. Thom
    Yeah, the writing could have been far better but I'm still up for seeing her in more SW movies. Get a better story arc and better writers (psst, Andor has some) and she'd be great.
  3. Seto Kaiba
    Oh, absolutely... and that was a cycle LucasFilm and its licensees had already gone through several times over more than twenty years before LucasFilm was acquired by Disney. That was the Star Wars Expanded Universe, where the fighting just never bloody stopped and which was on its seventh galactic government (and the fifth post-Empire one) in 21 years of realtime and about 130 years of in-story time when Disney and LucasFilm decided to pull the plug in the runup to the sequel trilogy. As I understand it, the official Happy Ending Override was Heir to the Empire in '91. Disney LucasFilm is just doing exactly what pre-Disney LucasFilm was already doing... milking the franchise until everything that made it likeable or interesting has run dry.
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  5. Thom
    I think they started undoing the 'happy ending' with the EU books.
  6. sh9000
    NECA Pee-wee Herman.
  7. Black Valkyrie
    I don`t care anymore, SW is long gone for me, when Disney purchased the franchise. I will always have a place in my heart for the OT.
  8. kajnrig
    I'm an idiot, ignore me. Got my wires crossed and thought we were talking about the Plamax and/or VFG kits.
  9. davidwhangchoi
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  11. Roy Focker
    I've got problem with them having post sequels and even sequels in the first place. Star Wars in its original form was a fairytale. As we know fairytales end with "and they lived happily ever after." They vanquished the evil wizard in the original trilogy. Which should have been brought peace to the kingdom, but they undid everything to make the sequels. It is what they'll do again to make the post sequels. Nothing will end. Every final victory against the dark side in a trilogy is basically meaningless because it will all be undone for the next trilogy.
  12. KOG Water Dragon
    What isn't a Bandai kit?
  13. shazam
    Mondo: Real Ghostbusters Peter Venkman
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  15. David Hingtgen
    There were unused ethernet jacks in the walls when I moved in. I had the 2nd bedroom (office) and living room ones wired up, so I can plug main PC and PS5 directly to the modem in the basement. They had 50% more latency on WiFi.
  16. Scyla
    I saw the announcement of the Lego One Piece sets (non Brickheads) and they look absolutely amazing to me. Sadly I’m almost done with collecting Lego so they are not for me but at times like these I wished Lego was more the focus of my collection.
  17. KOG Water Dragon
    Well crap. I wish I'd known. I would have ordered two. Now it's marked discontinued at HLJ. I'll have to get a second one elsewhere.
  18. Hikuro
    I liked it for the most part. The Sword was probably the best story of the 3. And the ending is kind of weak. I did dig that little ending cameo though. I did dig that Michael Beihn had a small role in this project now putting him right there with Bill facing down 3 of the most infamous sci-fi villains of history.
  19. Hikuro
    You can actually go on your old switch into systems and do data transfer to switch 2.
  20. Seto Kaiba
    Thank you for the heads up. I got one as a gift for my nephew, and will pass along word to my brother so he doesn't get caught by that rather odd issue. 👍
  21. Seto Kaiba
    The real question is even more direct than that... "Does warfare change after the sequels?" With Dave Filoni still firmly in charge of Star Wars, the obvious and extremely safe answer is "No". Part of it is that LucasFilm CCO Dave Filoni clearly does not like to leave his creative "safe space" (Star Wars: the Clone Wars), but to a large extent the lack of any real change will be easily attributable to the fact that the two confirmed post-sequel projects in development are only set a few years after the Rise of Skywalker. It's unlikely that war will change, both because it hasn't meaningfully done so in the 68 or so years of time encompassing the Skywalker Saga despite three major wars and because technological improvements are a main driver of change in how wars are fought and technology in Star Wars seems to be almost entirely stagnant across at least the 168 years of onscreen time we've seen thus far. Given that both of the announced post-sequel movie projects are supposedly set only about 5-15 years after the events of the Rise of Skywalker, I think it's safe to say that we'll be seeing the scattered remnants of the First Order harassing the reconstituted New Republic or whatever successor state replaces it in the same way we see the scattered Imperial forces harassing the New Republic in the time between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. Like what we see in The Mandalorian and Ahsoka. A very cynical part of me is inclined to suspect they'll try to go for an EU-esque approach to the period similar to what the previous work titled New Jedi Order did. That situation likely suits Dave Filoni's creative process just fine. He won't have to develop a new antagonist faction for either project. He can just rebrand the Empire again, and if he wants a dark sider for Rey's crew to fight he can just have some forgotten Sith apprentice come out of the woodwork the same way Order 66 Jedi survivors have been doing for decades. Starfighter's so close to the previous film he doesn't even have to come up with new designs, he can plausibly continue to lean on the existing designs from the previous film which were themselves just the classic designs from the OT with minimal facelifts. It's a near-perfect setup to play it extremely safe with future projects. The one risk I feel like they're taking is basing another movie (New Jedi Order) around Daisy Ridley's character Rey. Even excluding culture war nonsense - and a directoral choice seemingly intended to provoke culture war nonsense - Rey is a polarizing character to the target audience. She wasn't handled well in the sequel trilogy, so a lot of the audience is seemly rather ambivalent about her return.
  22. GMK
    Looks like you get decals for both included in the Max Battroid kit.
  23. Duke Togo
    I've seen several reports now that she's playing the bad guy.
  24. Dynaman
    All I can think of with that quote about ever expanding Death Stars is "Gurren Lagann", without the charm of course. It does give DisneyLucasFilmInc a direction statement, perhaps I can sue for a finders fee in a few decades (well, my offspring can).
  25. davidwhangchoi
    i like that of the tiers comes with a pedal to duck and cover reload.
  26. F-ZeroOne
    Thanks for the replies about data transfer. I don't have Nintendo Online so wasn't entirely sure about that.
  27. Seto Kaiba
    To be honest, the direction I feel like they're going with Nyan is that she's the person who's been swept along by events her entire life without any real means of control. What little exposition we've gotten about her paints the picture of someone who's been on her own and at the mercy of others from a very young age. She's from Side 2, and she lost her home and her entire family in the One Year War... likely in the One Week Battle, where Zeon's unprovoked attack on Sides 1, 2, and 4 with nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons wiped out approximately 1/2 of the Human population at the time. She was 10 or 11 at most when she was orphaned and made a refugee. She lived on her own in an illegal tenament in Izuma colony's illegal refugee district and worked as a black market courier to make ends meet, always fearing arrest by the Side 6 military police. When she meets Machu, she basically ends up under Machu's thumb and dependent on Machu's earnings in Clan Battle. Then she's dependent on Shuji for escape, and finally on Xavier's kindness and Kycilia's use for her to make any kind of life for herself. One has to wonder what will happen when she finally gets a measure of control... like her own Gundam. She unflinchingly killed two elite veteran soldiers in her only prior combat outing and she didn't hesitate to vaporize Miguel either. One has to wonder what she might do if unrestrained for the first time.
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