I'm looking forward to this more than I ever looked forward to LOTR.  I think Freeman will be very funny and charming, as opposed to Wood who had to play the straight man.  I'm also curious how they do Smaug's talking.  In the LOTR movies, the beasties didn't speak or have personalities.  Could be cool.  And I at least know that Jackson will deliver an action adventure film with style and substance.  He's earned his right to stir up the Tolkien narrative a bit.

Trench! I forgot about him.  If Kenner had the line we'd have him in a heartbeat.  They loved the freaky looking figs.

It's funny, if they announced at the end of this year that they weren't making more realistic figures I would be totally fine with that.  Don't know why.

As mentioned above, I do think that could do very well with some OT figures in the animated style.  I believe (but have no proof) that many of the long term collectors started with the OT, and it is closer to them.  Some, who normally wouldn't buy CW figures, would certainly buy a new Luke and company in a new style.

Maybe they will go the other way as well.  I want to see an animated style ANH Luke, Vader, Han, Fett, Stormtrooper and Chewie.  (Ooops, he's coming out.)

All they have to do is plaster the package with a "Classic Character" sticker.

Thanks guys.  Yeah, I won't be able to use it for actual artwork as the dpi within the illsutartion programs is very low.  I think many are 72dpi and just meant for the web.  But I really want to use it for sketching and working out ideas.

I'm also hot on the idea of having a notebook/sketchbook that is non linear.  I have a few sketchbooks going at all times.  But one night I might work on some fun drawings, then some notes for a story, them some life drawing.  A few nights later, if I want to make story notes once again, I've got pages of sketches in between, and sometimes feel like I overlook ideas because they are all spread out.  (Does that make sense?  I know I'm a writer and all, but man, it's late.)

Not my bag either, they have had some really cool SW shirts though over the last 18 months (Calvin and Hobbes as Solo and Chewie!)...I'll just keep posting them as they come up in case someone is interested

I gotta say, this one pisses me off.  While I'm sure they are paying Lucasfilm a fee, I'm pretty sure that Bill Watterson isn't getting any.

These are just so friggin awesome.  It really is a shame this line didn't run for longer.  Even one full year would have been enough!

Ugh...was I the only one who thought this trailer was just...corny?  It's everything I hate about most modern day genre entertainment.  The "angst" --- the slow-mo martial arts moves---and, it is just a retread of everything we've wever seen.  Even the smuggler ship is a Falcon "type" ship.  I agree that the prequels weren't fantastic.  But they at least had the guts to be different.

I don't have time to go into every detail...but why does the male Jedi stay and fight?  What's the point.  He and the girl could have made it to the ship.

Second...I couldn't tell who was fighting who in the shootout.  The good guys and the bad guys both are armored up.  That's just bad design work.