Empire Magazine’s Exclusive First Look at Constable Zuvio from The Force Awakens

Constable Zuvio Action Figure

As an appetizer for their upcoming The Force Awakens special issue, Empire has just posted an exclusive look at brand new character, Constable Zuvio, on their website. Aside from the character having his own action figure, not much is known about him or his purpose in the upcoming film.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Constable Zuvio Ph: Elena Dorfman © 2015 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Right Reserved.

Here’s what Empire has to say regarding the Constable:

A few bits of merchandising aside, this is the first time we have clapped eyes on the character, who is described by LucasFilm as a “vigilant law officer on a mostly lawless world” who “keeps order in a frontier trading post”. He’s also apparently “tough and humorless”.

That’s about all we know of the mysterious Zuvio, who has not yet appeared in any trailers or official marketing material for the film. There’s no word on what race of alien he is. There’s no word on which actor is playing him, nor on where he’s based – though judging from this photo, it’s a reasonable bet that he lives to be on the desert planet Jakku.

Empire promises for even more secrets to be revealed in their special November issue which is due to hit shelves on the 26th.

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Jordan Pate is Co-Lead Editor and Senior Writer for Star Wars News Net, of which he is also a member of the book and comic review team. He loves all things Star Wars, but when he's not spending time in the galaxy far far away, he might be found in our own galaxy hanging out in Gotham City or at 1407 Graymalkin Lane, Salem Center, NY.

74 thoughts on “Empire Magazine’s Exclusive First Look at Constable Zuvio from The Force Awakens

  • November 16, 2015 at 9:07 pm
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    I almost forgot about that guy…

  • November 16, 2015 at 9:10 pm
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    I was honestly expecting him to be a dude in makeup, Sort of cartoonish looking here but it might look better on film. We’ve never seen space cops in Star Wars before so I hope they make him interesting by being a crooked one than just another boring straight throwaway character like the PT was chock full of.

    • November 16, 2015 at 9:10 pm
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      I think he would have looked cooler with the face mask on too.

  • November 16, 2015 at 9:21 pm
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    Why does E.T. look so angry?

  • November 16, 2015 at 9:21 pm
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    This is the first thing I really don’t like about TFA.

  • November 16, 2015 at 9:21 pm
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    He reminds me of a character I’d see straight out of rebels, or the clone wars. Considering those are both canon material though I’m not too shocked by his “cartoonish” appearance. I think once we hear his voice, and how he animates himself on screen, that general impression will disappear.

    And as far as the whole space police thing goes, I think that’s pretty awesome. Especially since Jakku is kinda barren and as they say “lawless”. My guess right now, is that he informs the First Order of the whereabouts of Finn when they go out looking for him, and maybe Ray/Finn have to fight Zuvio.

    • November 16, 2015 at 9:26 pm
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      Glad they could capture that “cartoonish” appearence with practical effects to meld the Rebels/Clone Wars look into the film saga and tie them more together.

  • November 16, 2015 at 9:30 pm
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    Well, are we officially at the point where probably useless minor characters get backstories and names to sell toys? Not that I have any problem with that, usually its the opposite because of toys we get more background info on side characters that is sometimes interesting.

    • November 16, 2015 at 9:38 pm
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      Are you sure he’s a minor character? We haven’t seen the movie yet…

      • November 16, 2015 at 9:40 pm
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        True, but come on, he might impact the story in someway but he’s basically a cop on Jakku. Its not like he’s going to be some major villain or hero.

    • November 16, 2015 at 9:38 pm
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      Were we ever not at that point? I know when I bought my Ponda Baba action figure as a kid It wasn’t because of his dramatic necessity to the story.

    • November 16, 2015 at 9:49 pm
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      Wilrow Hood?

      • November 16, 2015 at 10:21 pm
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        LOL ice cream guy

    • November 16, 2015 at 9:58 pm
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      I had a 12-inch Boba Fett figure before the Empire Strikes Back was released. I was pretty disappointed with his actual (non-)role in the film.

    • November 17, 2015 at 12:09 am
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      where have you been the last… thirty years?

      • November 17, 2015 at 7:11 pm
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        I meant with regards to Force Awakens and its lead up. I don’t remember getting names for any side characters yet for this particular movie(maybe I missed it). I did mention how sometimes i like that aspect of it because we can get interesting tidbits that probably wouldn’t come otherwise.

  • November 16, 2015 at 9:30 pm
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    I just hope he blinks his eyes.

    • November 16, 2015 at 9:45 pm
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      agreed. Thats one of the dangers of practical effects. I think it will look better on screen. I know I thought the Killer Croc mask in suicide squad looked like garbage in the promotional photos but looked great in the trailer. As long as they don’t add digital eyelids like the did with the Ewoks.

      • November 16, 2015 at 10:10 pm
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        What worries me is that the killer Croc have real human eyes, contrary to Zuvio. They better apply good animatronics in his eye movements, eyelids, eyebrows and cheeks if they want to make the character convincing at all.

  • November 16, 2015 at 9:31 pm
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    Wonder if the color scheme’s similarity to that of Boba Fett is a connection they’re trying to make?

  • November 16, 2015 at 9:35 pm
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    Kind of reminds me of Embo from Clone Wars. Granted he’s obviously a completely different species as Embo’s body is a mechanical body controlled by a very small alien inside. But I get the same type of design vibe. Must be the hat.

    • November 16, 2015 at 9:46 pm
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      whatda? its not a robotic body at all, that was another bounty hunter that was in that first episode it appeared in

      • November 16, 2015 at 10:17 pm
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        Lol. You are right. Serapis was his name. It’s been a while since I had watched those episodes and I remembered incorrectly. Thanks. 🙂

        • November 16, 2015 at 10:25 pm
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          no problem… just I was pretty sure embo was an alien… I wouldnt even remember that there was that serapis guy if you hadnt mention him

          • November 16, 2015 at 10:50 pm
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            I think they were both in the same episode together helping Obi-Wan and Anakin fight against Hondo’s pirates. I must have gottem some wires crossed somewhere though. I think I remember that little Men In Black alien guy dying in the episode whereas Embo appears several times later.

  • November 16, 2015 at 10:05 pm
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    the HDR image quality and high resolution,It flatens the image. The new HDR technology of film and video equalizes both the dark and light parts of the image by taking multiple shots at different exposures simultaneously. Its to make the darks and lights in full tone/color range. If you look at the OT film images they were less quality so the shadows didn’t have much detail. The OT image quality added more of a mysterious and noir caracter to the film; there was allot of chiaroscuro. Now images are so detailed the shadows can also be flatened by making them full range in post production. Looks flat, over-detailed, and less mysterious.

    • November 16, 2015 at 10:19 pm
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      But you’re still watch it.

      • November 16, 2015 at 10:23 pm
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        yup

    • November 17, 2015 at 12:45 am
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      thanks, I found your post really interesting ! 🙂 I was always wondering why if I watch something at my Brothers house who has a really high tech tv, everything looks so unreal compared to watching movies on my laptop.

  • November 16, 2015 at 10:06 pm
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    Perhaps is the one Rey is staying with during her years on Jakku

  • November 16, 2015 at 10:14 pm
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    Rey-Zuvio like Anakin-Watto perhaps???

    • November 16, 2015 at 11:38 pm
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      Uh… righto.

    • November 17, 2015 at 12:02 am
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      No..he is playing Jar jar after he got fat

  • November 16, 2015 at 11:34 pm
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    Meh..

  • November 16, 2015 at 11:41 pm
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    Jakku, really? Am I the only one that sees snow on the ground?

    • November 16, 2015 at 11:56 pm
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      You trolling dude? That’s sand!

      • November 17, 2015 at 12:01 am
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        I don’t like sand..

        • November 17, 2015 at 4:30 pm
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          Me neither… Gets everywhere

      • November 17, 2015 at 5:11 am
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        Yeah, I guess you’re right. I must admit that those characters are dressed for desert sand environment, not snow.

  • November 17, 2015 at 12:08 am
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    I dont really like it, honestly this shows how… misguided the practical effects fetishests are.

    But I doubt he will ever be up close so I dont really give a crap… also…

    https://youtu.be/gZCPdluWEJw?t=36

    • November 17, 2015 at 2:53 am
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      I would rather have this than some prequelly cartoonish CGI piece of crap.

      • November 17, 2015 at 7:00 pm
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        *looks at it*

        And that isnt cartoony? Im sorry but you are just being a d*k because it was different. grow up man… this is more cartoony than most aliens from the prequels, its got big silyl googled anime eyes for gods sake…

        • November 17, 2015 at 7:28 pm
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          It’s not the design I was talking about, it’s the execution. A guy in a costume photographed on set, interacting with the human characters will always look better than some crappy animation pasted into the movie and the actors staring at a tennis ball.

          • November 17, 2015 at 8:14 pm
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            no, no it wont “always” look better, sometimes it will look better, sometimes it wont look better. ITs not an always one way or always other way you dumb stupid idiot.

          • November 17, 2015 at 8:32 pm
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            Please. Spare me the childish playground insults if you want to talk like a person with any intelligence. YES it will always look better. CG is and always will be inadequate in mimicking reality than reality itself, i.e. REAL humans in costume on a REAL set being photographed by a camera with REAL actors to act against will always be more convincing than some animated cartoon character bullshit made by some animator on a computer screen and comped into a fake background.

          • November 17, 2015 at 8:37 pm
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            Why? you are being a close minded douchewattle! Sometimes CGI looks better, sometimes practical effects look better… pretending that one is always going to look better than the other is just pathetic.

            It is nothign more than holding onto your childhood because your life is so pathetic in the now that you have fetishized the way things were in the past as being some sort of golden era.

            Also the pictures you used werent even from scenes where people were interacting with the characters you imbecile. Also emphasizing the word Real doesnt make you sound smart, it makes it sound liek you are an idiot.

            Also they have been using green screens and other methods to superimpose stuff into films since… way-goddamned-before the original trilogy of star wars.

            Also, some idiot in a doofy mask unable to see where he is goign, sweating, uinabel to move properly, like walking around in a goddamned balloon will not look better than say… caeser from the new planet of the apes movies.

            Even watto looked fantastic in Attack of the Clone…dont give me this shit man… You are just being an insulting petty fucking man-child that cant get over or move past his childhood.

          • November 18, 2015 at 2:41 am
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            No, it’s a state of opinion, based on a basic understanding of what real things look like, how things move in real life, what real textures look like and how light reacts with them. People who have a good understanding of these things can determine the believability of special effects when they see them in a movie.

            You obviously have no such understanding. I guess you’re easily fooled by CG, or have bad vision, or both, but I am not. I have the ability to tell when something looks fake and unconvincing and has an obvious fake cartoonishness to it. So I’ll stick with my opinion and you can go on eating this crap up.

            And, just a tip, if you want to make someone who happens to disagree with your opinions out to be an idiot, you can start by writing coherently and clearly yourself instead of spewing a bunch of fragmented, badly misspelled vitriol because you already come across as a child for resorting to insults because somebody has a different opinion than you do.

          • November 18, 2015 at 2:52 am
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            oh its an opinion? I THOUGHTI T WAS AN AARDVARK! FCUK YOU YOU DUMB IDIOTI KNOW WHAT AN OPINION IS. Watch the new planet fo the apes movies retard, CGI is just fine… not all the time, but it can work just fine…

            Stop pretending its any better or worse than any otehr methods. Your issues BTW are also applicable to stop-motion animation, so…. shut the fuck up…. The lightning will also not match the actors and other stuff when you impose those things.

          • November 18, 2015 at 12:58 am
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            NO it wont always look better, sometimes it looks better, sometimes it doesnt… what the fuck is wrong with a neutral opinion and it not being a certain thing either way?

            “some animator” you mean highly trained artists that trained for years and years and YEARS to master tehse skills you fucking insulting prick… Its not bullshit, its a highly skilled creation, you shouldnt be pissed that thigns are CGI you dumb fuck… you should be pissed that George Lucas made people create horrible things with CGI thus degrading their skills and insulting them on a fundamental level as human beings.

            Zuvio has big googley anime eyes up here, and they are TRYING to make him look serious. The pictures you linked were george lucases attempts at INTENTIONALLY MAKING THINGS SILLY, they arent even silly and cartoony.. .they are pathetic and unsettling…

            Are you fucking blind? are you retarded?

            PRactical Effects…

            http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/planetoftheapes/images/7/70/Bobo.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/250?cb=20090524033635

            CGI…

            http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-J9rxAkXc1lI/U78YhDCpKRI/AAAAAAAAKcM/mv6WEnTWPms/s1600/Karin+Konoval+as+Maurice+in+Dawn+of+the+Planet+of+the+Apes,+photo+courtesy+of+20th+Century+Fox.JPG

            Eat shit Crixxxx

          • November 18, 2015 at 2:14 am
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            Wow, that’s a really valid comparison. Some guy in a suit from some ancient low budget movie or TV show or whatever the hell that is. Yeah, that’s really accurate depiction of 2015 practical effects.

            And, sorry but yes, CGI creatures in previous Star Wars movies look like shit. I don’t care how many years of experience the animators had or how many hours they spent making them. They look like completely out of place, unrealistic cartoon garbage. You will not convince me otherwise.

            And thank you for confirming what a child you are. Personally insulting people who happen to disagree with your point of view about goddamn special effects in movies. Learn how to engage in a civil conversation without resorting to personally insulting the other person and you might just find that people will take you seriously instead of a petulant child.

          • November 18, 2015 at 2:56 am
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            Yes, it is a valid comparison you imbecile…

            And no I am not arguing that the CGI in the previous movies was good, often times teh technology was imperfect… and to put it bluntly George Lucas would demand that utterly hideous creatures be made for comedic effect.

            Some of the CGI creatures, droids, and places looked perfectly fine. The animals often looked good, some of the more focusedo n characters looked absolutely fantastic. Some things were seemless, some things were not.

            I am personally insulting you, because you are a dumb, stupid, closed minded piece of shit that masturbates to practical effects. you probably shove a clay rancor up your ass every night because you cant sleep knowing CGI exists.

            BTW, Escape from teh planet of the Apes was made in 1971, the same decade as the original star wars film… within spitting distance of it in fact.

        • November 17, 2015 at 10:34 pm
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          Seriously, one thing …. The Ep1 Podrace … You have a veritable pick of the dopiest looking cgi characters to ever grace the silver screen

          • November 18, 2015 at 12:52 am
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            …. Those were intended to be dopey idiot, George Lucas was intentionally going out of his way with the intention to make them comedic and silly looking.

            The reason they look “dopey” is because Geroge Lucas is an idiot that doesnt understand concepts like tone and consistancy.

          • November 18, 2015 at 1:31 am
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            Settle down oh furious rager, I think your rational personality is arguing with yourself in your second sentence … First you call me an idiot then you call your uber over underlord an idiot in the second sentence after defending him in the first …. I believe Im witnessing bipolar in semi real time?

          • November 18, 2015 at 2:58 am
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            Dude piss off you know damn well what I mean, trying to fabricate a contradiction is not goign to make me look like an idiot.

            People are complaining that shit someone tried to make look dopey… looks dopey… They should be complainign that someone wanted to make an alien look dopey, not that the alien turned out that way.

            Its not the CGIs fault when a crazed lunatic does something stupid with it… this is like saying its a windows fault when someone smears human excrement all over it.

  • November 17, 2015 at 12:10 am
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    Very excited to see what constable will bring the design especially the helmet and the face looks like the bounty hunter from star wars the clone wars.

  • November 17, 2015 at 12:15 am
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    pretty cool – “Boushh – ish” looking dudes

  • November 17, 2015 at 12:39 am
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    He’s the Odo of the Jakuu settlement. “Tough and humorless.”

  • November 17, 2015 at 1:01 am
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    Yellow eyes = Dark Side corruption?

    • November 17, 2015 at 3:12 am
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      Yoda had yellow eyes and so does many star wars charecters

      • November 17, 2015 at 12:40 pm
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        Yoda? Really? Not watched too many Star Wars movies then, must be more of a Star Trek fan?

    • November 17, 2015 at 4:59 pm
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      One of the questions I’ve been wondering is what colour are Kylos’s eyes.

      • November 17, 2015 at 5:49 pm
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        Good question, we haven’t really had the chance to see Kylo upfront and personal (I don’t think the magazine shot really counts – more Adam Driver than Kylo Ren)

  • November 17, 2015 at 5:04 am
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    I wonder if the photo is from one of the 6′ black series figures. Seems he has more articulation & detail than TFA figures I’ve seen so far.

    • November 17, 2015 at 4:36 pm
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      It is a photo of the 6″ Black Series figure. The clue is in the elbow joints. The 3.75″ 5-pointers only have joints at the shoulders, hips, and neck. Prior to Empire’s photo, although we knew the character was in the film, the toys were the only pictures we had of him, which is why I used the Black Series figure for the article. 🙂

  • November 17, 2015 at 5:42 am
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    Wait, so is this photo of a action figurine or is it a photo of the actual actor in costume on-set?

    Because that’s either a very detailed toy – or a rather unfinished costume. The face looks like it’s at step 7/10, lack of texture on the face.
    But it doesn’t clearly say WHAT this is a picture of, so I can’t judge.

  • November 17, 2015 at 9:36 am
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    Why is the action figure wearing like a jungle green and burgundy outfit, but in the Empire photo he looks like he’s on his way to South Beach with an aqua and like a pinkish color scheme? lol

    • November 17, 2015 at 12:44 pm
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      The mustard chest “tabs” are missing in the Empire shot, ruins the whole palette…

    • November 17, 2015 at 3:35 pm
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      Ambient blue light from the sky altering the way the somewhat reflective paint looks, I suppose. Also, those mustard “tabs” are there, they’re actually some sort of cloth under the shoulderpads. However they appear to match the color of the face cover (which makes sense, as it may be one piece altogether), and the toy is wrong.

    • November 18, 2015 at 6:53 am
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      Sorry, but its obviously a white and gold dress

  • November 17, 2015 at 5:04 pm
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    E.T. was really a Bounty Hunter!!!! Noooooo!

    Looks cool though

  • November 17, 2015 at 5:57 pm
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    Reminds me of that one Clone Wars bounty hunter (forget his name) – he was pretty cool. Wonder if there is a connection or if it’s just a random coincidence?

  • November 18, 2015 at 9:23 am
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    Future Bond Entertainment was banned for constantly insulting people.

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