Random minifig of the day: sw0921

75212 looks so different from the usual Falcon that at first glance I thought it was an entirely different ship.

I know it’s a coincidence but again the last 3 Star Wars figures from the RMotD have all been from the movie Solo. Again I know it’s random but it still feels weird.

@Randomness said:
" 75212 looks so different from the usual Falcon that at first glance I thought it was an entirely different ship."

Only people who haven't watched Solo seem to notice it.

@Endermen89
Yes, Rouge One was also quite enjoyable.

@Maxbricks14 said:
" @Randomness said:
" 75212 looks so different from the usual Falcon that at first glance I thought it was an entirely different ship."

Only people who haven't watched Solo seem to notice it."

I in fact didn't watch Solo, so that would in fact explain that.

@Maxbricks14 I hate to be that guy but just so you know you typed my username wrong it’s endermen39 instead of endermen89. It’s actually a shortened version of a username that I’ve been using for about 8 years, endermen99876. The even shorter version of the short version would be endermen3.

@Randomness said:
" @Maxbricks14 said:
" @Randomness said:
" 75212 looks so different from the usual Falcon that at first glance I thought it was an entirely different ship."

Only people who haven't watched Solo seem to notice it."

I in fact didn't watch Solo, so that would in fact explain that."

Yeah that thing in the front is supposed the escape pod. Every time I look at the Solo falcon I think Perry the Platypus for whatever reason, I honestly don’t know why I think that.

@Endermen39 said:
"Rogue One was a great movie as well. "

I've seen dictionaries with less predictable plots. I knew everyone would die as soon as the droid got shot, and I even called the one who doesn't actually die, comes back to save the day, and then dies.

@Endermen39 said:
" @Randomness said:
" @Maxbricks14 said:
" @Randomness said:
" 75212 looks so different from the usual Falcon that at first glance I thought it was an entirely different ship."

Only people who haven't watched Solo seem to notice it."

I in fact didn't watch Solo, so that would in fact explain that."

Yeah that thing in the front is supposed the escape pod. Every time I look at the Solo falcon I think Perry the Platypus for whatever reason, I honestly don’t know why I think that."

I don't know how it sticks out that much to you, it's barely noticeable to me at a first glance.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Maxbricks14 said:
"I can see why he costs $34 dollars. He has lots of accurate detailing, despite him being from the unpopular Solo movie. (I quite enjoyed it though)"

It’s as close as Disney has come to doing a good SW film."

Yes, easily the best one, though Rouge One would be 2nd best, but i didn't like that it used new characters. And the sequels belong in the bin, not our TV screens!

@Maxbricks14 said:
" @Randomness said:
" 75212 looks so different from the usual Falcon that at first glance I thought it was an entirely different ship."

Only people who haven't watched Solo seem to notice it.

@Endermen89
Yes, Rouge One was also quite enjoyable."

I loved Rogue One, but Rouge One sounds very interesting too.

Does it involve a more fluid squadron that kicks ass in space AND on the dance floor? ;)

I wish we had more generic civlian clothing for Star Wars settings in cheaper sets. I've misappropriated Owen Grady's outfit and some other parts like Ninjago torsos, but most of them have specific prints that limit their usefulness. annoying if you want to diversify the population of your MOCs.

@StyleCounselor said:
"I loved Rogue One, but Rouge One sounds very interesting too. "
Here's the poster: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/83af65960a08e3f24655ba65af0bfd8aa773490703f0b5bb4383bc406e2b04a1.jpg

@StyleCounselor said:
" @Maxbricks14 said:
" @Randomness said:
" 75212 looks so different from the usual Falcon that at first glance I thought it was an entirely different ship."

Only people who haven't watched Solo seem to notice it.

@Endermen89
Yes, Rouge One was also quite enjoyable."

I loved Rogue One, but Rouge One sounds very interesting too.

Does it involve a more fluid squadron that kicks ass in space AND on the dance floor? ;)"

@TheOtherMike I wasn’t paying attention and I was tired. I am the worst at spelling words that look the same but have different meanings.

Edit:NVM I didn’t see that @MaxBricks14 was the one who put Rouge One. I thought it was me because I’m normally the one who makes these mistakes. But I finally spelled it correctly for once.

Star Wars: 90210.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
"I loved Rogue One, but Rouge One sounds very interesting too. "
Here's the poster: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/83af65960a08e3f24655ba65af0bfd8aa773490703f0b5bb4383bc406e2b04a1.jpg"

Noice!! Celtics won.

Solo was the only one of the Disney SW movies I didn't see in theatres (Deadpool 2 had more convenient screening times), but once I did see it, it really reinvigorated my love of the franchise for a good few years. I don't think it's that great a movie, somewhere around the middle ranks of the theatrical films, but it definitely worked as a gateway into the Expanded Universe for me.

At first I was surprised he was only in two sets but of course that’s just that specific version of Young Han, there’s like half a dozen different variations of him for the other sets in the range

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaan SOLO!!!

@Murdoch17 said:
"By the way, I remembered all that dialog myself. No references were made, nor any videos watched. Any errors were caused by George Lucas' meddling with the story over the years, and certainly not by me mis-remembering..."

You did an excellent job sir, I doff my cap to you.

Saw 75512 in the window of a charity shop in Chester yesterday. Thought I might be onto a bargain(!) but they must have had good advice as it was priced at £350.

@Banners said:
"Saw 75512 in the window of a charity shop in Chester yesterday. Though I might be onto a bargain(!) but they must have had good advice as it was priced at £350."

You could probably build it from your own parts if you have the figs

All the discussion of how good a movie Solo was or was not and no-one's brought up the single dumbest thing in the movie? Han's last name did not need an origin story. Other than that, good movie.

@MeisterDad said:
"Star Wars: 90210."

Don't remember han solo being in the best travis scott song

I'm gonna say it: Solo gets too much hate. It was overall a great, action-packed, heist-film-style movie!
Although I do agree that Dryden Vos was kind of a throwaway villain. I have heard people say Solo would've been better as a TV series. I can agree, but I also think what we did get was still amazing.

Rogue One, on the other hand... I have mixed feelings about. The writing was actually pretty good, and we got some of the coolest spaceship designs ever to come out of Star Wars. That, and we can all agree that the Darth Vader hallway scene was EPIC.
But the movie's plot just felt like a waste of two hours. We really did not need an entire movie about how the Rebels got the Death Star plans! A comic book or a novel would've sufficed. Also all the characters dying at the end was just dumb.

@Maxbricks14:
I recently read that they're giving Rey another movie, and all I could think about all day was Bob Hoskins shoving his fingers in his ears so he could use the wax to twirl up her mustache, as he said, "Like you? We could make the little buggers love you."

@Endermen39:
Rogue Squadron/Rouge Squadron may be one of the most common typos on the internet. Years ago, I remember looking up the script online, and every single instance was spelled "rouge". The ironic thing is that rouge is French for red, which was the squadron Luke flew with in Ep4. So in that sense it almost works.

@WizardOfOss:
And that's the reason Ep3 is my least favorite of the six Star Wars films. It just bridged the gap between two well-established dots, without straying very far out of its very defined territory.

@TheOtherMike:
The single dumbest thing about the Solo movie was how many people on the internet were whinging about how Han looked nothing like Ford, but that Lando was a perfect match for Williams. He's not. Not even a little bit, which just plays very uncomfortably into the "all black people look the same" trope.

@PurpleDave said:
"And that's the reason Ep3 is my least favorite of the six Star Wars films. It just bridged the gap between two well-established dots, without straying very far out of its very defined territory."And that's probably exactly why it's easily my favorite from the prequels. What came before was utterly disappointing, what comes after it is just classic, and we all knew what was going to happen. But while certainly not flawless, for most part it felt satisfying, the saving grace for the whole prequel trilogy. And in fact the movie that got me on board with the whole Star Wars franchise again. The first two prequels made me forget how iconic the original trilogy was.

Rogue One felt decidedly different, more like unabashed fan service. More about the world and the characters than the actual story. And it had Donnie Yen, what more do you need?

@TheOtherMike said:
"All the discussion of how good a movie Solo was or was not and no-one's brought up the single dumbest thing in the movie? Han's last name did not need an origin story. Other than that, good movie."

Lmao yes one of those things that some studio writer thinks needs an origin an absolutely does not. Did anyone in history say “Well I love the character but I just don’t get why his last name is Solo.”

@WizardOfOss said:
"Rogue One felt decidedly different, more like unabashed fan service. More about the world and the characters than the actual story. And it had Donnie Yen, what more do you need?"

Less fan service, better characters, and better story. And compare Donnie Yen in this film vs John Wick 4, where he again played a blind man, but one who could actually fight, and wasn't merely delusional.

@PurpleDave said:
"And compare Donnie Yen in this film vs John Wick 4, where he again played a blind man, but one who could actually fight, and wasn't merely delusional."
Haven't seen that one yet. But films in which Donnie Yen can actually fight? Isn't that like every film he ever made? It was fun seeing him doing something else ;-)

@WizardOfOss said:
" @PurpleDave said:
"And compare Donnie Yen in this film vs John Wick 4, where he again played a blind man, but one who could actually fight, and wasn't merely delusional."
Haven't seen that one yet. But films in which Donnie Yen can actually fight? Isn't that like every film he ever made? It was fun seeing him doing something else ;-)"

Films where someone can't fight? I can watch pretty much any western from my dad's childhood. There are some where you can see that the fist never came within inches of the person being knocked down.

Like a lot of people, though, I'd never even heard of Yen until watching Rogue One, so all I saw was a character who had no purpose in the film, other than to add to the body count. And JW4 was when I finally understood the point of his stunt-casting in Rogue One. For those who aren't avid viewers of martial arts films, the role would have worked better if they'd cast someone who was a household name, which currently would limit the options to Chuck Norris and Jackie Chan. Otherwise it's just a random guy who can't fight.

@PurpleDave said:
"Like a lot of people, though, I'd never even heard of Yen until watching Rogue One"
You. Never. Heard. Of. The. Legendary. Donnie. Yen.

Blasphemy!

Even when he might not have become a Hollywood household name like Jackie Chen or Jet Li, he did star in several films that did get quite a bit of recognition here in the west, like Ying Xiong (Hero) or the Ip Man series. And there's also this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYS3JiVQpfk

FWIW, in a vote on the Star Wars website, his character was voted the favorite character of Rogue One. Seems like many people liked what he did.

@WizardOfOss said:
" @PurpleDave said:
"Like a lot of people, though, I'd never even heard of Yen until watching Rogue One"
You. Never. Heard. Of. The. Legendary. Donnie. Yen.

Blasphemy!

Even when he might not have become a Hollywood household name like Jackie Chen or Jet Li, he did star in several films that did get quite a bit of recognition here in the west, like Ying Xiong (Hero) or the Ip Man series. And there's also this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYS3JiVQpfk

FWIW, in a vote on the Star Wars website, his character was voted the favorite character of Rogue One. Seems like many people liked what he did."

Donnie Yen as Wong Kei-ying in Iron Monkey - maybe the best wire-fu movie EVER - was amazing. He’s a great actor as well as a great martial artist. It was great seeing him in Rogue One.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Maxbricks14 said:
"I can see why he costs $34 dollars. He has lots of accurate detailing, despite him being from the unpopular Solo movie. (I quite enjoyed it though)"

It’s as close as Disney has come to doing a good SW film."

He got his name from an Imperial who just came up with it out of thin air. That was really dumb and pulled me out of the story.

@MutoidMan:
See, I watched Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon when it hit theaters in the US. And so many of the comments were about how Iron Monkey was a vastly superior film in that genre that, when that hit theaters for a limited engagement, I went and watched that, too. And I wasn't that impressed. Fans of that genre may hold it up as the best film in that genre, but CTHD was a better _film_.

@Emmafofemma said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @Maxbricks14 said:
"I can see why he costs $34 dollars. He has lots of accurate detailing, despite him being from the unpopular Solo movie. (I quite enjoyed it though)"

It’s as close as Disney has come to doing a good SW film."

He got his name from an Imperial who just came up with it out of thin air. That was really dumb and pulled me out of the story.
"

Not to mention how in the promotions for solo Disney was claiming that L3 was the first female droid. What ever happened to the silver protocol droid from the phantom menace?

I can't believe how much love there is for Solo in this comment thread and how Rogue One is sort of getting a brush off. When both movies came out, Rogue One was critically acclaimed, and Solo was dumped on (personally, I enjoy them both but like Rogue One more).

@Endermen39 said:
"Not to mention how in the promotions for solo Disney was claiming that L3 was the first female droid. What ever happened to the silver protocol droid from the phantom menace?"

Or the waitress droid, who had a built-in skirt, in Ep2?

@Dare_Wreck said:
"I can't believe how much love there is for Solo in this comment thread and how Rogue One is sort of getting a brush off. When both movies came out, Rogue One was critically acclaimed, and Solo was dumped on (personally, I enjoy them both but like Rogue One more)."

Nostalgia and rose tinted glasses are powerful things.
I, personally hated Solo (watched it once, that was enough) but have watched Rogue One at least four times.

I'd never heard of Donnie yen before seeing Rogue One but I was a huge fan of Alan Tudyk. So I just had to get 75120.