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http://collectiondx.com/news_item/12161 ... _skywalker

I think Phant would enjoy this Luke Skywalker figure. It's ready for the cold weather.

http://www.theforce.net/v3-story/frontM ... 156071.asp

Star Wars comic rights are reverting to Marvel once the current Dark Horse contract is up. I have mixed feelings about this. I love the Dark Horse comics. They were one of the most consistently high-quality segments of the E.U.

So Han Solo will make a deal with the Devil a Sith Lord to save Chewbacca's life and in exchange it'll be as if he and Princess Leia never got together?

So I made the joke on SB about Benedict Cumberbatch playing Thrawn. Little did I know that there are rumors of him actually being in the movie.

Personally I would love it. I don't know about him playing Thrawn per se although I think of anyone else out there, he could for sure nail the role. Not sure who else would be able to pull off the Grand Admiral as well.

But anyway yeah, I wouldn't mind seeing Cumberbatch, and not just because of the lolz of him being in SW as well as Trek and all of that. I think he could work quite well. But as hero or villain? Hmmm...

So most people are pegging the switch from Dark Horse to marvel as the point at which the current Canon will be discarded and a new one adopted to free space up for the sequels. I wonder, will there be an official announcement, and a splitting of continuity, with one universe continuing the original and one synced up with the movies, or will they just start making stuff that ignores previous material?

RogueIce wrote:So I made the joke on SB about Benedict Cumberbatch playing Thrawn. Little did I know that there are rumors of him actually being in the movie.

Personally I would love it. I don't know about him playing Thrawn per se although I think of anyone else out there, he could for sure nail the role. Not sure who else would be able to pull off the Grand Admiral as well.

Michael Fassbender could pull it off too I reckon.

Darksi4190 wrote:So most people are pegging the switch from Dark Horse to marvel as the point at which the current Canon will be discarded and a new one adopted to free space up for the sequels. I wonder, will there be an official announcement, and a splitting of continuity, with one universe continuing the original and one synced up with the movies, or will they just start making stuff that ignores previous material?

The latter more than likely.

Don't you feel great for investing in the EU?

Stofsk wrote: Don't you feel great for investing in the EU?

Meh. Fun ride while it lasted.

the EU stuff will still be there, you know

yes, it will, but

it won't be

CANONICAL

burn down canon and shit in the ashes. It's a nonsense concept with no value.

I'll have to agree with the furry on this one.

I think I went into it over the whole TCW series vs CW era novels thing, but I just pick which "canon" I like and stick with that, while whatever the Party Line is can go fuck itself.

Which means TFU and Gary Stukiller never fucking happened fuck you and your family crest and ruining the whole formation of the Rebel Alliance

So anyway yeah, fuck canon. Go with what you like. You'll still have whatever novels and comics you bought, free to read them whenever. Or to bring it back to Star Trek (because JJ Abrams lol) you've still got the DVDs, Netflix and various reruns of the classic series, nuTrek didn't erase them from physical existence even if it had been a hard reboot instead of the time travel shenanigans they wimped out on decided to use after careful thought and evaluation.

seeing some sales numbers for recent Star Wars books brings up an interesting question that's been in my head for a while.

Is the EU aspect of Star Wars, that is, the comics, the novels, and the video games that aren't direct tie-ins, that are there own independent story, even profitable any more? Or does it just keep going through sheer inertia and subsidies from toy sales?

You'd have to show me the sales numbers before I could make an educated guess.

My guess is, from some of the stuff I've seen, the ones that seem far afield probably don't do too good. Like that two book series about Jaden Korr. Do they think most of the audience gives two fucks about some dude from the Jedi Academy game?

How well did Scoundrels sell, since that at least has Han, Chewie and Lando on the cover.

The only information I can find on Scoundrels is that it currently ranks #17,658 in Books on Amazon.com. Publishing companies apparently don't release sales numbers online. The guy who wrote the TFN post about the previous book sales must have read it in some kind of financial publication or gotten the info from Del Rey.

Can you link to that post?

Also, I wonder what that 17,658 is out of. 20,000? 100,000? 1 million? 200 gigatons?

It's around here. TFN doesn't let you directly link to posts. There's some more stuff about how he got the numbers either on the page before or the page after. Look for posts by "DigitalMessiah."

RogueIce wrote:Like that two book series about Jaden Korr. Do they think most of the audience gives two fucks about some dude from the Jedi Academy

the only thing worse than making a customizable VG character "canon" is setting their race and gender

Darksi4190 wrote:It's around here. TFN doesn't let you directly link to posts. There's some more stuff about how he got the numbers either on the page before or the page after. Look for posts by "DigitalMessiah."

Thanks. And it turns out I have a TFN account, from way back in December 2003. Huh. I might just keep on posting there, we'll see. That's some interesting information on the whole LOTJ/FOTJ debacle in that thread. No idea what's true or not, but still.

Oh, and to answer your question from the SB thread, I'm afraid not. I uninstalled TOR because I just don't see myself picking it back up in the future. Not with my character names probably getting a forced change, which I didn't even notice that e-mail until about a month later.

A few choice comments about the character of Starkiller from The Force Unleashed on the TFN forums:

"I feel like The Force Unleashed 3 would feature him using Battle Meditation during the Battle of Endor, revealing him to be the main reason the Rebellion won that battle."

(in reply to the above) "and he'd influence Vader to toss Palpatine into the reactor and influence Luke not to kill Vader"

(My favorite) "He is everything that is wrong with the EU made manifest."

Well, perhaps TFN is not as hopeless as once thought.

RogueIce wrote:Oh, and to answer your question from the SB thread, I'm afraid not. I uninstalled TOR because I just don't see myself picking it back up in the future. Not with my character names probably getting a forced change, which I didn't even notice that e-mail until about a month later.

No worries. Now that i'm using a tank character and have figured out how to properly manage the group finder, it's actually not all that hard to get groups for Flashpoints, and i'm in a guild that does ops.

The comments on Troy Denning in that thread are interesting to me. I always thought he was one of the better regarded authors of the EU, but some of those posters make him out to be the reason everything has gone wrong. Then again I haven't read a book of his since NJO, so things might have changed.

Darksi4190 wrote:The comments on Troy Denning in that thread are interesting to me. I always thought he was one of the better regarded authors of the EU, but some of those posters make him out to be the reason everything has gone wrong. Then again I haven't read a book of his since NJO, so things might have changed.

From what I could see, Star by Star is still well regarded but it's the things starting with the Dark Nest Trilogy and from there that it started to go down hill. Since Denning said in interviews and stuff that they were "setting up" adventures and crap I guess there's a sense that he had a larger hand in things for LOTF/FOTJ than the other authors? That seems to be the gist of it, anyway.

Star By Star isn't anything great. I read Tattooine Ghost first and thought it was a bit ordinary. SBS is better though.

Well. That was unexpected.

somewhere Darkstar is smiling

he won

wait i don't understand what is different?

the movies were already taking ideas from the books as i understand it and the vs debaters obviously cling to the precious canonicity of their ICS book soooo i don't get what this means