Mara Jade Skywalker Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 I was lucky enough to see The Force Awakens exhibit at Celebration Anaheim this past weekend. Here's a link to the album on Flickr, and I'm posting some highlights below. Resistance X-Wing fighter sign: Resistance X-Wing: Kylo Ren's lightsaber hilt: Kylo Ren's costume: First Order Snowtrooper and Flametrooper: Rey's costume: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Jade Skywalker Posted April 23, 2015 Author Share Posted April 23, 2015 Jakku costumes and BB-8: BB-8: Finn's civilian jacket (which I want very badly): Finn concept art (notice the lightsaber): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destiny Skywalker Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Awesome! Thank you for sharing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Darth Hunter Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 I posted this on another thread but I thought it'd bared mentioning here. Notice Finn has the lighstaber on him in that pic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryn Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Maybe he's the one to find it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Jade Skywalker Posted April 23, 2015 Author Share Posted April 23, 2015 Also worth noting: Incom is now canon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavonis Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Display signs count as "canon"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Jade Skywalker Posted April 23, 2015 Author Share Posted April 23, 2015 Yup. Everything is approved by the Story Group going forward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavonis Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 That's....nice? Why is canon important, anyway? Is "Incom" less fictional now for being mentioned on an approved display, rather than in a book decades ago? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerina Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavonis Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 So, is Incom publicly traded? Because it looks like a stable company that I might consider investing in. Financially, not emotionally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerina Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 I'm not sure. Why don't you give your broker a call and see if he can find it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavonis Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 My stock broker is a she, thank you very much. Seriously, though, what's the importance of canon now? If anything, it's less important, since before there were several levels of canonicity, and details could be promoted or demoted, and some kind of emotional response to changing status was understandable. But now? Canon doesn't mean anything anymore, does it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevil Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Great pictures Mara, thanks for sharing!! Incom has been canon for a while as it's appeared in the official star wars games as far as I know. As far back as the first rogue squadron game you were flying the Incom T-65 Interceptor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Jade Skywalker Posted April 23, 2015 Author Share Posted April 23, 2015 Thanks! I wish the lighting wasn't so dark in that exhibit. One of the Del Rey editors told me they took Alan Dean Foster into the exhibit before the show opened and kept the regular lights on so he could get a good look at everything. i was so jealous. I'm putting this Story Group discussion under a cut because it's not relevant to the topic. Yes, Incom was included in those games, but those aren't considered canon any longer. pavonis, I know you're smart, so this shouldn't be difficult to understand. Anything approved by or produced under the Story Group is considered "canon," aka part of one big Star Wars story. Anything that is considered "Legends" (i.e. the Expanded Universe published before September 2014) being promoted to "canon" through inclusion in a current story does get me excited, because I like (some of) those books and the worldbuilding and would like to see those things stay a part of the Star Wars story. I realize you don't understand these sorts of feelings and probably consider me a huge nerd for it, and that's okay. I don't mind. I am a huge nerd. I still enjoy Legends stories, and will continue to read them whenever I feel like it, and continue to encourage people to read them right along with novels being produced under the Story Group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavonis Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Anyway, very good photos. I wonder whether the X-wing and the Falcon are in scale to each other. Any information on that? Well, thank you for responding Mara. So, your level of enjoyment of the SW universe is tied to the Story Group's decisions. I do not understand why, but I suppose that's not something that can be easily articulated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Jade Skywalker Posted April 23, 2015 Author Share Posted April 23, 2015 There wasn't anything about scale, but I'm guessing the newer X-wing is about the same size as the older ones. So, your level of enjoyment of the SW universe is tied to the Story Group's decisions. ...No? I mean, yeah, if they say "Mara Jade is now canon" I'll be ecstatic, but she's still my favorite EU character regardless of being "Legends" or not. I don't enjoy something more just because it's elevated to canon status, but it does make me excited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driver Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 I feel like before the EU was the EU it was considered canon too. Basically, whatever is currently being marketed, is canon, and in a decade, it will be trodden all over. No one cares about canon outside of fandom, the only reason a distinction is being so heavily touted now is because they are making a new movie that ignored the EU so they had to say SOMETHING. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacen123 Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 No one cares about canon outside of fandom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Choc Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 I'm part of fandom and I don't care about canon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavonis Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 I think I'm a fan (others here may disagree) but I spend no time pondering which parts of this fiction are more or less fictional than other parts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Jade Skywalker Posted April 24, 2015 Author Share Posted April 24, 2015 I'm going to keep all this in mind the next time someone here tells me the EU doesn't count. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Choc Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 The point is that none of it counts unless the guys telling the main story, meaning the movies, say it counts at that particular time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavonis Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 The old EU is no less fictional than the current universe. I'm just hoping the current universe has better stories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driver Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 And I still don't buy that the "story-group" has the power to tell the film division what they can or can't do. No way we make it through 3 episodes and 3 anthology films without some part of the print continuity being messed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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