Before SDCC trulty takes over the internet, let’s journey back… To the last couple days. Rumors! Rebels! X-wings! A DOGGIE!
Quick! Star Wars fans. What's the first thing you see when you read this sign? pic.twitter.com/8aytYW9TRo
— JovialJay (@JovialJay) July 17, 2014
I think it's so unfair that Lucasfilm still haven't released the lightsaber technology even after decades.
— Jason Alan Dewey (@JasonAlanDewey) July 22, 2014
Dusting crops: 100% irrelevant to Luke Skywalker's understanding of farming.
— Eleven-ThirtyEight (@eleventhirtyate) July 23, 2014
One last birthday gift. Kathleen Kennedy = BEST BOSS EVER. cc @KennerToys pic.twitter.com/nzjNujBQcu
— Gary Whitta (@garywhitta) July 23, 2014
Episode VII and beyond
THE X-WING! Sorry, Headhunter truthers, you have no place here.
I'm not tearing up while making noises that sound a lot like "SQUEEEE!" because I just saw J.J. Abrams next to an X-wing. You are. #StarWars
— Kay (@Geek_Kay) July 21, 2014
A nice look at the pilot. Is that a lightsaber on his belt!?! ;) #starwarsvii pic.twitter.com/dNTrjEjqlf
— Andrew Lupi (@MasterAndrew15) July 21, 2014
Note the smaller built in ladder and the climbing hand-holds in the fuselage. #EpisodeVII pic.twitter.com/3J6HVmCOue
— Pete Morrison (@PeteMorrisonLR) July 21, 2014
The #EpisodeVII X-Wing pilot helmet looks different to me as well. No cranial ridge. Visor that slides over helmet
— Pete Morrison (@PeteMorrisonLR) July 21, 2014
…Seriously, folks:
It's not a Z95, it's an X-Wing, and what's beautiful is that appears to be an old McQuarrie model.
— Simon Pegg (@simonpegg) July 21, 2014
SERIOUSLY.
@CDCanimation It is in fact an Episode VII X-wing, not a Z-95.
— Star Wars (@starwars) July 21, 2014
(Who knew so many people would even know what a Headhunter was? Geeks, man.)
So excited by the mouse droid reveal (hidden, for shame, in a vid featuring some new spaceship) that I feel the need to watch #starwars :D
— Quantum Sheep (@Quantum_Sheep) July 21, 2014
For real you guys, the new X-wing is beautiful and I wish I lived in Star Wars so I could fly one.
— Brian (@wakingthedead17) July 22, 2014
You didn't hear it here but that X-wing is a pampered no-talent diva.
— Star Wars Character (@swcharacter) July 21, 2014
Meanwhile, a lone Y-wing stumbles into a corner pub, resigned to another day of warm beer and neglectful silence.
— YZ Freedman (@stoogey) July 21, 2014
Scuttlebutt from the week’s big rumor.
EXT. SPACE
IMPERIAL OFFICER [VO]
"Captain, what is that coming toward us?"
IMPERIAL CAPTAIN [VO]
"Is that…a hand??!"
#StarWarsVII
— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) July 21, 2014
Everyone's talking about the hand making planetfall; that don't make sense. Much cooler to scoop it up as space salvage #StarWars #firefly
— Chris Taylor (@FutureBoy) July 21, 2014
Hey guys I found a new easter egg in that video. pic.twitter.com/Wee0EhlVYe
— Eleven-ThirtyEight (@eleventhirtyate) July 21, 2014
I told my friend about the possible traitorous stormtrooper in #StarWarsVII. He said, "I'd switch to the side that can aim, too." #WiseJedi
— Ryan Malin (@BrushYourTeeth) July 21, 2014
I've gotta be honest. If Thing from The Addams Family lands on Tatooine, I will be pretty damn excited. #StarWarsVII
— Johnamarie Macias (@BlueJaigEyes) July 21, 2014
No way that Episode 7 rumor is true because a severed hand floating through space would be the first unrealistic thing in a Star Wars movie.
— Brett Gallman (@brettgallman) July 20, 2014
And then Han Solo angrily yells, "Luke's hand?! What about my damn leg?!?!"
— Scott Foy (@Foywonder) July 20, 2014
Rebels
So used to saying "Expanded" when I see "Extended" that the new Rebels Extended Trailer is making my brain malfunction.
— Jason Ward (@MakingStarWars) July 22, 2014
I dig that Star Wars Rebels is tying in Obi-Wan's message from Episode III. I'm sure we won't see him otherwise, but I like the connection.
— Peter Di Cicco (@PeterDiCicco) July 22, 2014
Wow. There are more than a few Star Wars fans. Who knew? You're all invited round for tea. #StarWarsRebels
— Jason Isaacs (@jasonsfolly) July 17, 2014
The Expanded Universe
I'm glad that we can finally announce that in the Marvel Star Wars comics, Luke Skywalker is a woman and Han Solo is a black man.
— Jennifer Heddle (@jenheddle) July 17, 2014
Mark my words: whatever the plot of #EpisodeVII is, EU fans will be able to describe it in terms of existing stories, f.e. "GoDV meets JAT".
— Eleven-ThirtyEight (@eleventhirtyate) July 21, 2014
The most exciting part of any Star Wars book is the brief glimmer of hope when it seems like the giant green rabbit Jaxxon might appear.
— Julian Louis Blair (@JLB_Tosche) July 20, 2014
goddammit I'm gonna say something about Kyp Durron again uugh I can feel the bile rising
— Mallory Ortberg (@mallelis) July 23, 2014
it is MESSED UP that a SMALL, ELITE GROUP OF RELIGIOUS EXTREMISTS are allowed to have THEIR OWN LEGAL SYSTEM in Star Wars
— Mallory Ortberg (@mallelis) July 23, 2014
"Kyp Durron has just destroyed AN ENTIRE STAR SYSTEM, let the trial begin"
"wait he is a Jedi"
"oh well let his mentor decide, then"
— Mallory Ortberg (@mallelis) July 23, 2014
this would be like if some Ba'hai practitioner DESTROYED MARS (which was…full of people I guess) and we just let Rainn Wilson try him
— Mallory Ortberg (@mallelis) July 23, 2014
Star Wars life
just saw a little girl in a Luke Skywalker shirt that said "Future Pilot". all is right with the world.
— Feminist Ali (@WonderAli) July 18, 2014
I have harnessed the Force. #StarWars #Jedi https://t.co/bALrCabXe2
— Chad Neidt (@chadneidt) July 21, 2014
My kids are chasing a fly around the house. One has a fly swatter, the other has a lightsaber. #parenting #StarWars
— Erin Tate (@tigereye25) July 16, 2014
Child cannot name all 8 planets in our solar system, but can name 19 planets from #StarWars universe
— Josh Funk (@papajfunk) July 21, 2014
This waffer fry looks like the Millennium Falcon! My mouth is about to be a space slug! #starwarsonthebrain pic.twitter.com/ojnIHnrQT9
— Joyce/Jay Krebs (@JoyceKrebs) July 23, 2014
Snark
Guy walking in front of me is obviously a #StarWars fan, as he’s a veteran of the Cologne Wars. #PUUUUUUU
— Security Humor (@SecurityHumor) July 22, 2014
Whenever I see fans react to new rumors, I am always of two minds, and those minds are Yoda and Palpatine. It's my eternal struggle.
— Peter Di Cicco (@PeterDiCicco) July 21, 2014
Part of me wants to say, "Calm your minds. Fear is the path of the Dark Side." But the other part says, "Dance puppets dance!" I'm evil.
— Peter Di Cicco (@PeterDiCicco) July 21, 2014
Truth be told, I would really like to see another infinities take on the movies. I don’t need a female Luke (or a Star Wars multiverse for that matter), but simply exchanging the twins might do the trick. Han as a black man? Why not just put Lando there? Lando teaming up with Leia to rescue Luke from the Death Star should be interesting… :-) Then build Death Star II not over Endor, but over Naboo, and turn the Gungans into the story’s Ewoks, and we’d be in for a fun little ride. ;-)