Exactly. The fact that Star Wars doesn't have as much cachet with young audiences as Marvel right now isn't surprising in the least. The sequel trilogy could have gone the route of the prequels and been a clown show, riddled with childish elements, shallow flash, and Jar-Jar jesters to trick children into paying attention -- in total conflict with the story it was supposed to be telling.
Arc-170, LAAT, Hellfire Droid, Separatist tank, Jedi starfighter, Clone Walker (forget its name, the six legged one). Just because you don't care for the designs doesn't mean they don't have their fanbases. The ST meanwhile is mostly regurgitations of OT designs, to a degree even the PT didn't.
You say that as if the kids of the late 70s and early 80s, as well as the kids of the 90s, were all huge Flash Gordon, WWII, and Kurosawa fans.
They were still made with older fans in mind (if they weren't then they wouldn't focus so much on the old cast nor bother with practical effects).
Wow, we are so on different planets here and really not wanting to get into an argument here, but imo they have done pretty much the opposite with being true to the OT characters, the lore and story to date ...but I respect your opinion. Crikey , they didnt even give us the main 3 characters together and as for R2, RWho?
And that's a chicken and egg situation. They keep reusing it because people scream "muh star wars" every time they show up, same damn reason as Pokemon doing the 151 over and over again.
Nothing low about that:
The prequel trilogy (and I'd argue the two sequel trilogy films) were definitely thinking about kids as a key target audience. The OT was based on kids adventure serials. I'm not sure I buy the idea that they weren't a key demographic. But Rogue One and Solo are clearly not trying to bring in new viewers, and they don't offer much of anything for young audiences who care about Rey, Finn and Poe.
The Naboo starfighter is an incredible design. I don't know what qualifies as "iconic" but I guarantee you that if one shows up in Episode IX people will lose their shit.
Nope. He has never let me down. No troll. He's great. Love his work. Can't wait for ep ix!!
Countless kids stories are about teenagers growing up.
Star Wars is still gigantic domestically, 700m won't be too difficult for it to achieve here.
I am sure there will be an avatar bet thread when the full trailer is out in October. If there isn't a full on thread then sure but otherwise I rather wait for the whatever is cooking once the full trailer is released as we tend to do here.
