@prentice1215 slow claps
I agree wholeheartedly with everything you said. You really hit the proverbial nail on the head my friend. Were you at Brickfair? Cuz I feel like I would have loved to chat with you 
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Sadly, no.
Iām hoping for next year, however. Wonāt have school looming over my head anymore once this year is done and over with.
Ironically, Disney and online articles are creating the so called āStar Wars fatigueā by making stupid assumptions about the public and their interests. The public still loves Star Wars, itās been engraved in U.S. culture let alone world culture for close to 50 years. However, general opinions can be swayed by little to no research and being told what to think. Solo didnāt do well because of the very public BTS issues, and little to no marketing before it came out. And then normies think reception to TLJ is what caused the film to underperfom because of articles like above that merely hypothesize and ponder rather than present actual fact.
Headline: āThe Last Jedi Killed Solo Box Office?ā
Public: āWell, I guess Star Wars is dead now.ā
Fans/Intellectuals: "Oh look, a single film didnāt do well for a variety of reasons. Oh well. Guess Iāll have to wait for the myriad of other Star Wars content thatās coming out for my next fix.
Clone Wars Season 7 is announced, The Mandalorian is announced, Resistance Season 2 is announced, Cassian Andor/K-2SO show is announced, a plethora of other novels are announced, more Star Wars movies are confirmed to be coming but just not as frequently, Jedi: Fallen Order is coming out soonā¦
Theme park doesnāt do well because itās not operating at 100% quite yet
Public: (thinking back to that one article headline they read in June 2018 and sees one negative thing in a sea of positive) āStar Wars is dead now.ā
TL;DR- the public is stupid, has a skewed yet long memory, and websites perpetuate the cycle by not providing enough information in their articles, being borderline slanderous IMO
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Thatās pretty much it.
I like to think that Iām a fan/intellectual.
So I know that Star Wars is far from dead.
Itās still got a lot of life in it.
I just feel like itāsā¦
subdued.
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What causes you to think itās subdued? When I look at video like this, it seems like the Star Wars fandom is anything but subdued:
Awesome! A bunch of former Boards members and I have been making all sorts of cool MOC collab plans for next year. Let me know if youāre interested.
Absolutely 100% agree with you. Iām gonna start writing blogging/video essays this fall and Iām going to be very careful with what sources I use.
Weāve talked a lot about crappy Star Wars fan media. But what about the good stuff? Whatās some of your guysā favorite fan content coming out right now?
Here are some of mine:
EC Henry is a fantastic digital model-maker who recently collabed with EckhartsLadder on this awesome project:
He also does great little videos like this:
Spugesdu/Gareth Pugh (of Squad 42 fame back in the day) is currently working on a follow-up to his recent breath-taking CGI-stop-motion Order 66 film.
I
CANāT
WAIT
Spacedock does super high-production-value starship overviews that remind me of all the hours I spent pouring over Visual Dictionaries and Incredible Cross-Section books as a child:
Cinematic Captures does beautifully high-quality Star Wars Machinimas and other fun content mostly using the new Battlefront games
But the Prequels are amazing
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I wasnāt talking about the fandom as a whole.
I was mostly talking about the stuff Disneyās churning out, at least so far.
No, no, the fandom is wholesome and honestly probably at the height of itsā¦
wholesomeness?
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My sweet child, I admire your innocence.
Whatever you do, never venture into the big Star Wars YouTubersā comment sectionsā¦
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Never watch anything about the last Jedi on YouTube, and if you canāt help it whatever you do do not go into the comments
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I mean, thereās also this one. Not a personal favorite per se Iāve never really engaged much with Star Wars fan content, tbh, but itās still amazing and worth sharing around.
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Thereās a definite factor of people beleiving what they want to beleive. Some people who dislike the ST want Star Wars to fail for some stupid reason.
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Looks phenomenal. Rey and Kylo must cooperate to to keep the debris balanced or theyāll both plummet to their deaths. Love the symbolism!
Ok, I suddenly have more faith in this movieā¦ This is easily one of the best Star Wars posters ever.
Palpatine looks animated.
I mean, the entire poster is clearly illustrated, soā¦
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To be honest, I didnāt even really notice that. I first saw it on a phone, so it was hard to see.
I do think this would have looked a lot better in live action, though.
āYesā -Ewan McGregor making my day
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I do believe it is painted over, but Palpatine also looks off because his face is the Hot Toys mold of the Emperor. See this image:
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Considering that Hot Toys is more accurate than pretty much every other toyline, I donāt think it looks weird.
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I actually think the toy mold itself is fine. The combination of the face with the lighting of the poster, the saturated colors, and the overemphasis on the eyes is what makes the poster look cartoonish to me. A video I watched compared the poster to the cover art from a video game, and I actually think thatās a good comparison. It looks more like that than a film poster.
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