New Toy Descriptions of Three Rogue One Characters and Several New Vehicles?
A member from the Toyark forum posted some interesting details about several Star Wars toys supposedly shown during the Nuremberg Toy Fair. The most interesting items were from the upcoming Rogue One line, including three characters and several new vehicles. Read on for the details.
Before you get too excited, I want to warn you that while very interesting this story seems a bit off. When you read the last sentence from the quote you will understand why I am skeptical of its legitimacy.
Rogue One 6″ Black Series were shown. Main heroine, main antagonist (looks like Admiral Thrawn, but without blue skin. Black droid (Assuming RO).
ANH Leia and TFA C-3PO.
3,75″ Rogue One vehicles. Starfighter, a new kind of Tie fighter (flat wings shaped kinda like those of an Interceptor. AT-AT with mobile app enhanced control and firing Nerf darts (Smalelr than Vintage Collection). Many new 3,75″ figures for TFA, OT, PT and RO.
Banner for Rogue One with a big shot of Darth Vader.
Everything looked great until that last sentence. A big Rogue One banner with Darth Vader? If this was indeed the case, I believe we would have heard about it earlier, and not just from one member of a toy forum. And I really doubt they will reveal that Vader will appear in Rogue One in a toy presentation.
Still, if I am wrong and this info is legit, my guess is that the Admiral Thrawn lookalike is probably Ben Mendelsohn’s character. Also this droid is perhaps the rumored commando unit that will be played by Alan Tudyk. Not sure why the guy who posted this is assuming that the droid is called Rogue One. I still believe Rogue 1 is the name of a ship in the movie.
So again take this story with a huge grain of salt. I hope we would get more info on this during the NY Toy Fair (Februrary 13-16). It’s just 10 days away.
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I think the poster meant:
Black droid ( assuming FROM Rogue One)
And my best guess is that Rogue One refers to the call sign of Felicity Jones’s character.
‘Main antagonist (looks like Admiral Thrawn, but without blue skin.)’
Huh? So just because he’s an Imperial Admiral he has to be Thrawn? 😀 Someone must have a boner for that Chiss.
In the world of garbage that was mostly the EU, I hold Zahn’s contributions apart. I think he did a fantastic job of bringing Star Wars alive through his works. To me, Thrawn, Jade, and Kaarde are an indelible presence in the Star Wars mythology.
That being said, I don’t wish to see them on screen. They have their own place in the novels and I sort of think they should remain there.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Thrawn, but I just think it’s silly people want him everywhere now.
Yeah. Thrawn is a great character but he does not need to be validated by an on-screen incarnation. Oh, and Winter/Targeter was another incredibly Zahn creation.
This movie is going to sneak up on me. While I’m stoked about it being made, my excitement level is nothing compared to the last couple of years. I was counting the days from the announcement of Episode VII until its release.
The description of the new TIE sounds like a piece of concept art that dropped a while ago concerning TFA. It was black, with flat curved wings. It looked a bit like an upgraded TIE Interceptor, but far too advanced for the time period of Rogue One.
Hopefully similar to the TIE Defender or TIE Hunter.
I’m starting to feel the hype coming again. I came down after seeing TFA 6 times but now it’s building up again. It’s a great time to alive with income to burn
I seen it twice, and realized it didn’t get any better as I seen it again.
I seen TFA 6 time’s in theater’s and it got better every time. I only wish i could go again. (WOO BLU RAY!!)
I don’t think having Vader in Rogue one is a BIG REVELATION. If he’s in the cartoon show with such prominent role, of course he will be involved as antagonist when the rogue group attacks just few days before A New Hope.
Mendelson looks too nice to be an andmiral Thrawn i think. Mads Mikelsen is better IMO. Thrawn was known to be cold-blooded, scaring and with a face like a wall. Reminds the performance of the guy in Valhalla Rising, and tells me he’s not the man to play Thrawn
for me it’s the same kind of face or not too far…
Mendelson plays one hell of a bad guy, he did for that Netflix show. He was great. Bloodlines.
U wings will appear in Rogue One
Thrawn should appear as Blue.
It will be interesting to see if they use elements of Admiral Thrawn in a new character in a Star Wars movie, but it will never directly be Thrawn and I think it should stay that way when using elements from the EU that are now Legends.
I’m thinking Rogue One is the code name that the Alliance gave to the whole team.
My best guess is that Disney/Lucasfilm would want to keep Vader’s appearance as a surprise, whether he has a major role or just a small cameo. Because of this, I also don’t think he’ll be featured too prominently in the promotional campaign, if he’s featured at all.
No I think since they beefed up cadets role they will use him heavily in the marketing. He makes most sense marketing wise with perhaps the droid a close second. Besides if rumors of the emperor, tarkin and boba Fett being in the movie there are plenty of surprise cameos left.
If Vader’s heavily involved in the plot and an official announcement is made, then yeah. Of course it makes all the sense in the world to use his image heavily in marketing.
If Disney/Lucasfilm are as smug as they were with TFA (Finn used as an apparent Jedi hopeful, no Luke, no Snoke, etc.) I seriously doubt they’ll use Vader too much. They could be looking to keep his involvement a surprise, as I said before.
John Hamm ought to play Grand Admiral Thrawn.
I would say this is probably 100% legit. That sounds like a very plausible lineup of toys,including two we already have heard are coming(ANH Leia and TFA 3PO)I think the person reporting was speculating that the black droid he saw MAY have been from Rogue One(RO)….without knowing anything about the character,he might have assumed it was from somewhere else. And as for Vader being on the packaging….why does this sound funny? Hasbro has ALWAYS put the most marketable characters on the merchandise packaging (Darth Maul,Kylo Ren….I fully expect Vader to be on anything and everything Rogue One related).
Thrawn without the blue skin? Do they mean a Grand Admiral? We saw Yularean in ANH but he was basically just an extra. I’d like to see one actually do something.
If it’s Thrawn without the blue skin then it might as well not be Thrawn. Name him something else. But some other particularly cunning Grand Admiral? I’m game.
Long as they keep the military genius aspect which has never been seen in the films before and a much welcome break from all the dark siders.
That’s a problem with the whole EU, they’re damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Change a detail and everybody will be up in arms about it like comic fanboys.
True. That being said, if they do Thrawn, his blue skin is a really iconic part of the character. If they don’t…well…it’s like Punisher without the skull or Pee Wee Herman without his red bow tie.
Yep, I just rolled Pee Wee Herman into the discussion. : )
I’m just happy if they use the good parts. Going to be pissed if they start borrowing from Darksaber, FOTJ, and Children Of The Force for the next ones.
Darksaber? Like a book called “Darksaber”? Because the darksaber was featured in TCW like 4 years ago.
You aren’t missing much then. It was a 90’s book where The Hutts build a Deathstar code named Darksaber. One of the EU books I was glad to see decanonized and I hope they don’t reuse that plot anytime soon.
ANH Leia? Will she appear in last scene of R1, may be as digitally composed ?
The ANH Leia Black Series figure will be released the same time as a couple of the Rogue One figures. That’s all it means. Otherwise it would also mean a red-armed Threepio would be appearing in Rogue One.
The movie ended with C3PO having his gold arm back so hopefully his accessory is an extra arm and leg so you can have both movie versions.
How funny would it be if Lucas had filmed some sort of scene as part of ANH where Leia receives R2 and the plans….and that’s some how spliced into this meaning we wouldn’t get a CGI Leia.
Well, there IS more R2 and Threepio on the Tantive, there is more Leia on the DS, so who knows.
main antagonist (looks like Admiral Thrawn, but without blue skin. Black droid (Assuming RO).
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Great, so Disney is both whitening the universe AND forcing more affirmative action casting – thanks for ruining everything for EVERYONE this time, jerks!
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I think rogue one is the name the actual squad or unit. Thrawn would be cool. But he needs blue skin.
Folks we saw other Imperial officers wear white uniforms in ANH. The white uniform was not unique to Thrawn.
Didn’t Imperial Intelligence Officers wear white uniforms?
Or maybe he is another Grand Admiral.