Quote from: StBrianOfMinneapolis on February 12, 2020, 12:39 PM

the Vader armor/clothing never flattens out and half a day later he's a ghost just like Obi-wan and Yoda who both seemed to transition immediately to be one with the force.

My friends and I argued about this a lot back in the day.  I think we all kind of ended up going back to the "he's more machine than man now".  The bits and armor that are left behind and burned are "Darth Vader" and Anakin couldn't truly free himself and surrender to the Force until "Vader" was destroyed/burned.

In a way, "Anakin" was trapped inside the armor/Vader and it wasn't until the armor was destroyed that he was free.

It’s basically the same disguise Beckett uses on Kessel.

Iirc he rode behind someone or in a sidecar(?) but all the speeders had differences....  similar colors and styles but I don’t recall them being the same model for any of the gang.

I won't say they stole the delayed Force Ghost thing from the EU/Legends since I doubt many in charge are well versed in it, but back when they had the Jacen Solo turn to the darkside story line, Jacen killed Mara Jade and she left her body behind hoping that Luke et al. could solve her murder.  At her funeral, her body finally disappeared into the Force and she later appeared as a Force Ghost.

...isn't done, but guess what I found!? 

I was cleaning out storage buildings I have for a family sale we were going to have, and wouldn't you know it, I saved a "Robin Hood Prince of Thieves" Battle Wagon, and it's 99% complete, only missing the "hook" piece to the catapult.

I'm going to give it a paintjob since, even with a box and almost complete, these are apparantly worthless.  I'll make it my own Ewok wagon since that was its birth in the first place, but with a good paintjob I think it'll be a billion times cooler, even lacking the big skull.

Plus, I really feel as though Ewoks have a ****** display set-up and I now have a pretty sizable army of furballs between hood swapping, a little minor repainting, weapon swapping, etc.  It's really easy these days to make a decent army of these guys!  If only there were Wompus, right?  Right.

So yeah, something for them to ride into battle (without any clear means of it moving itself).  Yeah, it'll basically just be a big way to display them without having an entire Ewok Village playset out there (I have that too, but yeah, it's a spacehog for figure displaying).

Quote from: McMetal on January 17, 2020, 06:26 PM

After percolating on it a little bit, I still don’t get Palapatines whole game plan. Originally he wants to bring Rey from Jakku to Exogol, ok. Then Snoke gets a hold of her and seems like he wants to kill her, or at least have Kylo Ren do it. Then Palpatine tells Kylo to kill her too. Then when she shows up he’s all like, oh I wanted you here the whole time, huh?

Was he just lying to Rey? Was he hoping Rey would kill Kylo or something? Why not just tell him, bring her to me?

Obviously having them both there worked out well for him, at first, but he had no idea that was going to happen it seemed clear.

Don’t get the going back and forth on kidnapping/killing her.

I was talking with a friend about this.  His opinion (which I agree with) is that Palpatine has played out both sides as long as we've known him.  Dating back to the prequels, he's setting up back-up plans and multiple cross purpose strategies to keep several options open to him.  Why try to have Padme killed if he needs her to tempt Anakin?  He's got plans inside of plans inside of plans.  If Rey dies, he makes Ben his apprentice. If Ben dies, he turns Rey. He's better off with one of them dead, so why not play them against each other.  As an added bonus, whoever survived would have proven themselves to be the stronger candidate.