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  1. fantastic_four
    That's a pretty good guide, thanks! I can't really tell much about most of the tiny shards without a much higher-resolution picture to zoom in on, but it's pretty much impossible to believe that Stryfe is actually in there though. I'm skeptical of Cyclops and Juggernaut too.
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    People are suggesting the glass shard in the lower-left of that Strange poster confirms Marvel Zombies in the film. Doesn't seem conclusive to me...
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    I guess this is the new poster released yesterday with the Captain Carter reveal. Her shield with the Union Jack on it is on a shard of glass to Strange's right at about his waist level. If anyone sees a breakdown of everything in this poster please do share. There are some shards I can't entirely figure out but have guesses for.
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    Or wait, is that dwarf supposed to be a young Balin?
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    Wow, didn't realize Tormund Giantsbane was in this.
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    Anyone seen a review embargo lift date yet? All I can find is people claiming there is no embargo, but the lack of reviews pretty clearly indicates there is one given that plenty of critics have seen the film at this point. Plus there's ALWAYS one, so I have to assume there's one this time too. The first meta-review site that starts listing embargo lift dates so that I don't have to search for them myself will become my new favorite.
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    I'm always puzzled about how to grade books that look like a 9.x but have a spine split. Do you deduct based upon the length of the split or what? How much for one inch, two, three, five, seven?
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    There's a toy already announced several months ago based upon this version that I'll wrap in spoiler tags. Not even sure it's much of a spoiler since all it does is refer to this character by a name, but I'll err on the side of caution.
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    Before coming here I also thought that voice sounded like Patrick Stewart, so I listened to it a few times. Though it sounds very similar to him there are slight differences and I don't think it's him. But I could be wrong because he sounds quite different now than he did a decade or two ago.
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    It just doesn't make much sense for them to say that though, much less do it. Why would they? They pretty much had it funded and could have easily met the goal with just a week or two extension. Aside from speculation over a re-do geared towards Book of Boba, there was also a LOT of negative feedback about the project, particularly regarding the cruddy tiers as you pointed out. They may have just wanted to scrap it and re-think how to do it right, which is hopefully what happens.
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    It was killed because the price point was way too high $350, IIRC. In 2020 Hasbro ran a crowdfunding project for the Transformers character Unicron. The price point was $575, and the target was 5,000 backers. At the end of the funding period they were at about 3,500, so they extended it for another month. After that extra month they got above 8,000. The Rancor had a goal of 9,000 backers. At the end of the period it was at about 8,500. They already knew from experience with Unicron--which was at a MUCH higher price point--that they could easily exceed the goal by extending. That would be particularly true if they just extended it long enough for Book of Boba to start just a few weeks after the funding period. The fact that they didn't means there was some explicit reason they didn't want to that went beyond whether it could be funded or not. It's possible they learned about the rancor appearance in Book of Boba during the crowdfunding period and figured they'd cancel the one geared towards Return of the Jedi and tweak it to work for both that film and this series. Disney has been keeping Hasbro in the dark about characters and stories from the shows--they JUST announced action figures for the Dark Trooper and Ahsoka from season two of the Mandalorian from 2020 that won't even be out until 2023 --so they really may have had no idea there would be a rancor in this series.
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    This thread is arguing for Disney to make a TINY pool of shows that almost NONE of us would have liked when the original trilogy released in 1977, 1980, or 1983. Slave I being almost consumed by a sarlacc? Boba riding a rancor into battle, with said rancor kicking tons of arse? This is a rerun of 1999 through 2005 with the prequels, so I'm familar with it to the point of expecting it beyond several decades now. Maximus appealing to the crowd to appreciate his EXCEPTIONAL effort to no avail due to their unrealistic expectations, or in this case adults wanting the ignorant bliss of their childhood back, not getting it, and venting it on Star Wars? Yep, it was predictable. Book of Boba wasn't great overall, agreed. Was it the crepe many prematurely-old fans are vomiting out? No.
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    I was thinking that too as it started jumping around the buildings. Really poor planning on the part of Hasbro. And the awful tier system they implemented. The rancor scene leaked while that Haslab campaign was going on, so even back then I was absolutely flummoxed about why they were running it before Book of Boba came out. I thought for sure they would just pause it and re-start it after Book of Boba, but no, they announced after the funding period ended that it was dead--despite only being a few hundred backers away from funding. There HAD to be some politics at Hasbro that killed the project given how close it was to funding.
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    Most of the paraphernalia on Bane's outfit is to help him in various situations; for example those tubes attached to his face aren't because he doesn't breathe oxygen, it's to allow him to go into open space and still breathe when he does. The light started blinking as soon as the gaffi stick penetrated his chest, so I'm guessing it was some kind of vital sign monitoring system. Cad Bane travels with a service droid named Todo 360. I bet the light indicated his health monitoring system was beaconing Todo to come help him. Certainly characters in Star Wars have survived far worse than that gaffi stick to the chest including Anakin, Fennec Shand, or Darth Maul. Krrsantan took so many plasma blasts in this episode that should be more life-threatening than that gaffi stick wound.
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    Wasn't the season that they had mostly completed before Disney bought Star Wars supposed to focus on Boba Fett becoming the bounty hunter we knew from the original trilogy, and wasn't that season scrapped? I'm still making my way through Clone Wars so I've only seen a few Boba episodes so far from when he was a kid, but I thought I had heard there was a ton of planned material of Boba as a young adult that never made it into the show that Favreau could now develop in live action himself. I know that final season of Clone Wars showed some of the content from the scrapped season, and while I haven't seen that yet I thought it was only a small amount of the skipped content that mostly centered around Ahsoka. Was Boba in that last season they released a year or so ago?
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    I'm going with Grogu being saved by the Force ghost of Yaddle. She died between Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. Just a matter of time before we learned she and Yoda hooked up and made Grogu. Attachment is forbidden to Jedi, but that doesn't rule out casual sex.
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    I could see that as well. His survival continues to be a debate. As for how Grogu survived, I think he was hiding somewhere the Clone Troopers couldn’t see or wouldn’t have checked. His size would allow him to hide almost anywhere. That’s what I was left with after seeing that scene and, IIRC you could see a shadow on his face to appear as if he was peaking out from somewhere. They have the widest of berths to make up whatever they want for how Grogu survived since he was created later. Just because he was in training on Coruscant doesn't mean he was necessarily in the Jedi temple or even on the planet the day Order 66 began...they can tell that tale however they want.
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    Me too. Seemed like Luke was falsely framing the choice as being one thing or the other. Why can't Jedi wear beskar? Maybe Luke would still have that hand if he had inherited Anakin's lightsaber AND his beskar armor. My question about the chain mail is aren't the holes in it a HUGE problem? Chain mail can deflect blades, but if we're talking about a lightsaber that's heated to several thousand degrees seems like if you took a hit to the chain mail there would be little circular burns everywhere the blade (or blaster) came in contact with the armor. The plasma would also superheat the beskar surface of the links close to your skin and the armor itself would burn you and you'd suddenly have to take it off. I get beskar armor plating, but links seem like a terrible idea for defending against plasma.
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    Cad Bane is a member of a species named Duros who live about as long as humans do, and at the point of Book of Boba Fett he would be around 71 years old. They did put a bunch of wrinkles on his face so I guess it's believable that he's so old.
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    Care to tell the full story?
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    I got this back in 2020, but it's topical after today's episode of Book of Boba Fett, so here's the Black Series Cad Bane. This is one of Hasbro's top ten Star Wars figures they've ever made, so if you like Star Wars action figures definitely pick this guy up, he's amazingly well done.
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    Clone Wars is the easiest to watch cartoon I've ever seen aside from adult-oriented ones like the Simpsons, Family Guy, etc. Every episode is like a little Star Wars movie...love that show so much.
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    He's by FAR the baddest character introduced during the Clone Wars cartoon, so it's great to see him finally make his live action debut. We all love Boba Fett because his armor and Slave I look cool, but Cad Bane is cool mostly because of what they've shown him doing. Fett's never really earned our admiration like Cad Bane has during Clone Wars. I was hoping this series would finally make me look at Fett as something approaching the level of skill that Bane has, but nope, not yet. Lots of subtle little changes to Bane from Clone Wars, but the biggest is his hat is more conservative. Filoni gave him a huge, exaggerated hat in Clone Wars shown below. The voice actor from Clone Wars also voiced him in this episode which is GREAT, love that guy's voice. He also doesn't have his boot thrusters visible in the pic below.
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    This is the third or fourth time I've seen this hypothesis, but I can't tell where it's coming from. Order 66 happened what--25 years before the current day in Book of Boba Fett? Or was it 30? Even if this was before Order 66, I don't get how that works. Anakin can't get past the beskar so he just gives up? No openings at all for him to stab into?
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    My guess for what Din had the Armorer make for Grogu is a little ball, like the one Grogu kept stealing from the Razor Crest. As far as I know that one got destroyed with the ship. Even before she crafted it that was my guess, and the package looks sized just right to be a little ball. I've seen people guessing a little lightsaber or a little set of Beskar armor for Grogu, but none of that fits in that package or makes much sense.