Update! New Toy Photos Give Us an Even Better Look At Snoke’s Praetorian Guard from The Last Jedi!

Some promotional toy photos have surfaced on Reddit’s StarWarsLeaks that show us a clearer picture of what one of Snoke’s Elite Praetorian Guard look like! The toy is mostly likely part of The Last Jedi “Force Friday” merchandise and toy release event that is happening on September 1st, 2017. The pictures seem to confirm all the past rumors and pictures of the Guards that we’ve seen before.

 

 

 

One of our past articles HERE showed you the Elite Guard along with two other guards that have a different helmet design. We can assume that the Elite Praetorian Guards have a different helmet than the other Praetorian Guards.

 

 

I have to say, I’m really liking the design of these Guards. It looks like the Emperor’s Royal Guards might have some competition! Let us know in the comments and The Cantina what you think of the new Praetorian Guards!

 

 

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A new figure of Poe Dameron in The Last Jedi, similar in size to the guard above, has been spotted on Amazon’s German site.

 

 

 

 

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105 thoughts on “Update! New Toy Photos Give Us an Even Better Look At Snoke’s Praetorian Guard from The Last Jedi!

  • July 23, 2017 at 10:53 pm
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    Are the Knights of Ren replaced for Snoke’s Pretorians?

    • July 23, 2017 at 11:03 pm
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      I’ve a feeling they were never his guard. Just another group within the Order. Since Ren is a title like Darth… maybe the lot of them are potentially talented like Kylo. Like Acolytes of Snoke or something.

    • July 23, 2017 at 11:07 pm
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      Probably not. The praetorian guards are PROBABLY nothing more than Snoke’s bodyguards if not his elite or both. The Knights of Ren were assigned to work under Kylo as his I guess you can call his henchmen to do things in the wider galaxy.

    • July 24, 2017 at 2:46 am
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      Watch, the Knights will turn out to have been just a group of thugs Kylo hired to help him murder Luke’s students. They’ll be easily dispatched in the opening minutes of TLJ by Luke and Rey. And *hand waving* we’ll see nothing more of them for the rest of the movie and Episode IX.

      • July 24, 2017 at 1:38 pm
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        I think they’re actually a tribute band that gig around the Mos Eisley area. Kylo is probably the lead singer and / or drummer

  • July 23, 2017 at 11:07 pm
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    They don’t dethrone the Royal Guards for me… but I like them all the same. Hopefully these guys get to throw down.

  • July 23, 2017 at 11:30 pm
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    They are just Roya; Guards with some tweaks here and there. I was expecting something more creative.

    • July 23, 2017 at 11:39 pm
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      Other than the color they are nothing like the Royal Guards.

      • July 23, 2017 at 11:51 pm
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        And apart from the masks covering most/all their faces and the archaic weaponry.

        • July 24, 2017 at 6:14 am
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          From a visual standpoint, they look nothing alike.

          • July 24, 2017 at 7:44 am
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            I think the main complaint, fair or not, against the sequel trilogy is that everything is clearly ‘inspired by’ something. You can’t deny that these are clearly analogues to the royal guards. They are red armored faceless protectors with red flowing cloth who guard the decrepit black robed villian with staff weapons. Saying they look nothing alike is different then having something visually imaginative and starkly different. I like the design personally, but I can’t fault people who are saying they wanted a quantum leap in visual aesthetic rather than an iphone incremental change. As cool as it is to see slightly modified tie-fighters fight slightly modified X-wings, it would have been cool to have ships that we new to us completely, but that is risky business in a franchise this huge as a bad design could damage the brand.

          • July 24, 2017 at 10:33 am
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            They have definitely played it safe in the aesthetic design department for the ST1. However, I didn’t expect them to drastically change everything to begin with, maybe some fans expected that change. I just find it funny that fans don’t like that the Star Wars sequel trilogy is basically ripping off Star Wars.

            You change the looks too much and it doesn’t look like Star Wars anymore, because it looks like any generic Sci-Fi Fantasy design. However, you stay too similar to the Star Wars designs and it gets labeled as unoriginal. I think a blend of both new and similar designs is the best approach to this new sequel trilogy, which seems to be what they have tried to do so far, I know that some fans don’t even like that there are gorilla walkers, Kylo’s TIE Silencer, or even the Praetorian Guard red guard similarities. But to me, that’s what makes Star Wars Star Wars.It has a very distinct look and feel to it, and you immediately recognize that’s Star Wars.

            I dislike that some fans are so picky, that they don’t even want there to be any story similarities at all, like zero similarities.

            “Oh, great there is another walker attack on a snow looking planet even though it’s sand with ski speeders just like on Hoth… ESB rip off!!!”

            “Oh, great there is another jedi master training a padawan again… ESB rip off!”

            “Oh, great there’s another TIE Interceptor type design that looks too much like a TIE Interceptor!!! RoTJ rip off!”

            “Oh great, there’s another training water scene, Rey must have to lift Luke’s X-Wing out of the water as her test… ESB rip off!”

            “Oh great, there’s another vision, Rey must have to pass a cave type test just like in ESB….. ESB rip off!!!”

            I mean some of these we don’t even know how accurate they are, but even if they were true would that mean the movie is going to be bad???

            I guess, to all of the people who don’t like the similarities, it will immediately be bad. I just don’t judge a movie entirely on how similar it’s aesthetics and story beats are to a previous movie. Otherwise, I wouldn’t enjoy more than half the movies I watch.

          • July 24, 2017 at 4:47 pm
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            Good luck with this crew.

          • July 24, 2017 at 4:32 pm
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            The only reason why the same exact complaint (“everything is clearly ‘inspired by’ something”) isn’t hold against the OT, and only to a way lesser level against the PT, is that most of the people is WAY too ignorant to know what the OT/PT designs are inspired by.

          • July 24, 2017 at 8:19 pm
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            That is fair. George did pilfer / “draw inspiration” from tons of things from DC’s new gods to flash gordan serials and beyond, but if your audience has never seen the thing your drawing from it still feels fresh to the audience, which is the important thing. Most people who watched TFA had seen ANH, and the people who hadn’t probbably really enjoyed all the cool new visual designs they hadn’t seen before. No design will please everyone, but I hope we see more choices like Kylo’s lightsaber and Finn being a former stromtrooper (both of which IMO felt different from what we were used to regardless of if they were inspired by other things) and less things like Starkiller base which even the film acknowledges is something the rebels have dealt with before in a similar way.

          • July 24, 2017 at 4:46 pm
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            You need to keep in mind, that when Episode I came out, people SCREAMED about the fact that the fighters look “TOO FUTURISTIC, WHY DOES THE OT STUFF LOOK OLDER AND THIS STUFF NEWER!?”

            Which lead to more familiar shapes and designs in Episode II.

            No one is going to be happy. There’s a 30 year difference between the OT and the ST. Look at how the modern military has evolved in that same time.

            Tanks still look like tanks. Planes still look like planes. Uniforms haven’t changed much either.

            The First Order was built from the remnants of the Empire, they’re going to keep the same aesthetic going.

          • July 24, 2017 at 8:12 pm
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            I definitely get the reasoning behind it, its a choice by the folks at lucasfilm and it certainly doesn’t affect my (or hopefully most rational people’s) enjoyment of the film, but I was definitely not one of the people who minded the futurism of the PT, that is one of the things that I really love about those films. You can never please everyone, heck people were mad at the NAMES of main characters not being “star wars-y” enough in the ST lol. But personally I just love striking vastly different imagery more than I love realistic progression of technology, which has never really been a thing in star wars considering lightsabers and hyperspace were practically in their current form 1000s of years BBY. If the OT was a candle I would want the ST to be a lightbulb rather than a more efficient candle. Or a flip phone to a smartphone. Different areas of tech grow at different rates. But I love what we are getting- this guard looks awesome even if it wouldn’t have been my go to design for how I’d want Snoke’s guards to look.

          • July 25, 2017 at 5:11 am
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            The really funny thing is, these guys probably won’t do shit. Imperial Guards in the PT and the OT did nothing but stand, walk, and get pile driven into a wall by Yoda.

            They’re most likely going to be a living set piece. I still don’t see why people get butt hurt about it.

        • July 24, 2017 at 3:23 pm
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          That’s Star Wars.

    • July 24, 2017 at 1:04 am
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      I don’t know how you can be more creative when it comes to guard designs. Besides the color and their purpose these guys look nothing like the Emperor’s royal guards.

    • July 24, 2017 at 12:09 pm
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      I love the OG guards…. but they were just a helmet and a red sheet….. The new ones are all unique, and can actually move their arms without being encumbered by their wardrobe.

  • July 23, 2017 at 11:49 pm
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    Seems to me someone looked at the “Samuri” version of the royal guards and took inspiration from that. I like it. Clearly very similar to the origional but different enough that it feels like an upgrade. The royal guard will always be more iconic, but these do seem less ceremonial and more combat ready than the original.
    https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1NMxqOpXXXXabXVXXq6xXFXXXy/-font-b-Star-b-font-font-b-Wars-b-font-Ashigaru-font-b-Red-b.jpg

    • July 24, 2017 at 3:34 am
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      I think we could see a training montage segment. Scenes with Rey with Luke, then interspersed with Kylo Ren and his training partners.

      • July 24, 2017 at 7:21 am
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        That would be amazing

    • July 24, 2017 at 12:07 pm
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      Well, Snoke did say he needed to finish his training, and 8 is right after 7. I will be honest though…. I hope we get like a 5 year gap between 8 and 9. Would love to see a longer hair jacked up Kylo Ren… Uber pissed….. maybe he even takes out Snoke in anger during the final conflict. like “Shut up! i got this!”

  • July 24, 2017 at 12:40 am
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    This is one of my favorite designs from the entire saga, they look much more menacing and less ceremonial than royal guards, the mask gives them that “faceless” look-like they are present for a single purpose: Guarding there leader.

    The samurai influence is very apparent and judging by the shape of the mask they also seem to have a slighty gothic element in terms of style, which gives the overall design a very medieval quality.

    …i also love the scythe/staff weapon.

  • July 24, 2017 at 12:52 am
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    Seems like another missed opportunity to come up with something really cool. None of the 3 or 4 of the helmet designs that have leaked so far strike my fancy. They are more odd than anything else. Maybe once I see these guys in action I’ll change my mind…

  • July 24, 2017 at 3:09 am
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    Not impressed. Laziest most uninspired design I’ve seen yet.

  • July 24, 2017 at 3:10 am
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    Looks like the Flying Nun.

  • July 24, 2017 at 3:16 am
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    Really not impressed with the baddies of the sequel trilogy. Snoke / Kylo Ren / Red Guards feel like very weak imitations of the OT baddies. They should have gone the creative route and come up with something with an entirely new feel.

  • July 24, 2017 at 5:45 am
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    The armor especially the sleeves is very Game of Thrones (which I love by the way) but doesn’t really fit in the Star Wars IMO,

  • July 24, 2017 at 5:45 am
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    The armor especially the sleeves is very Game of Thrones (which I love by the way) but doesn’t really fit in the Star Wars IMO,

  • July 24, 2017 at 6:47 am
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    I think it looks like they’re trying too hard, but in the wrong way. The arms look too Michelin Man, imo. The faceless mask is a great concept, but this…I’m not feeling it. Maybe it’s the “hat”; I don’t like it. I guess side/profile view isn’t too bad. The weapon is seriously out of place. How is he supposed to use that halberd thing with those clunky arms? The figure is going to be an un-poseable lump of plastic with a skirt.

    • July 24, 2017 at 8:51 am
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      I agree, but it’s a toy so probably not the correct proportions. But the original Imperial guard is such a great design… impossible to top. But I just wish the new designers had as much originality (not to say they aren’t doing great) I do dig some of the new designs I’m seeing but those old SW films were just mesmerizing with their awesome designs. Nothing topped it before and nothing topped it since.

    • July 24, 2017 at 12:03 pm
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      New designs are cool. especially love how they are different in looks and weapons. OT Imperial Guards are badass, but i think the changes were necessary.No way the OG guard would have fought in those gowns.

  • July 24, 2017 at 8:56 am
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    they are really going for the Chinese market

    • July 24, 2017 at 10:28 am
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      They give impression via both casting and design that they’re trying to please everyone. That’s a mistake, IMHO.

      • July 24, 2017 at 10:37 am
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        Rogue One should have been an indication of that, it did not do very well in the Chinese and Asia market overall as compared to World of Warcraft or Transformers.

        Although, I will say that Baze and Chirrut were two of my favorite characters from that movie, at least they had personality unlike Cassian.

        • July 24, 2017 at 12:01 pm
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          Forget Markets…. Rogue One was a far better film than Warcraft or any of the Transformers.. by a factor of 100

          • July 24, 2017 at 12:19 pm
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            True. The Chinese market loves explosions, CGI and more explosions. They don’t really care about plot points. Oh and they don’t like poc.

          • July 25, 2017 at 11:34 am
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            I don’t know…. they love the Furious flicks…. like.. a lot lol

        • July 24, 2017 at 6:12 pm
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          First, I loved Rogue One with few complaints…having said that, they would have been better served to have used Kyle Katarn as the character that Cassian sort of played. A missed opportunity that could have done a little fan service and have been used in future movies as well.

          • July 24, 2017 at 10:19 pm
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            Bah

          • July 25, 2017 at 12:14 am
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            Bah, a word translated to mean EXACTLY! lol

          • July 25, 2017 at 12:35 am
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            haha not quite

    • July 24, 2017 at 6:09 pm
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      now, that is funny…I don’t care who you are!

    • July 24, 2017 at 8:21 pm
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      Yum! For my First Order, I’ll take two steamed pretorian-tails please!

  • July 24, 2017 at 1:26 pm
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    Skirt should be white

  • July 24, 2017 at 3:25 pm
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    Meh. Do the toys’ arms move? They’ll likely look different in the film.

    The comments are hilarious.

    Beg for something different. Get something different. Complain
    Others saying they’re not different. lmao.

    • July 24, 2017 at 4:50 pm
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      I know right? Besides, i love the design and i prefer these guys over royal guards.

  • July 24, 2017 at 4:42 pm
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    I was worrying Star Wars will not feel like Star Wars anymore, I guess it’s profit over story / design. Star Wars was popular because of its originality etc.. there won’t be profit if they forget and lose this!! Also just to get it off my chest again, the big 3 MISSED OPPORTUNITY. And where is the continuity? I know space is big but the OT had continuity!!!! Aliens!!!!
    I’m a hardcore fan of 40 years too!!!!

    • July 24, 2017 at 4:48 pm
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      Matt…did you just complain about lack of originality, and then not having the same species in the movies in the same post?

    • July 24, 2017 at 4:50 pm
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      Too late for that my friend… disney will milk SW to death. i think TLJ will be the most different movie of this new era and its already showing a lot of similarities with ESB

      • July 24, 2017 at 4:53 pm
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        It’s their intellectual property. It’s their right to milk it to death.

        George Lucas literally milked it to death. He alienated half his fan base and was going to do worse by preparing to make another 3 movies.

        Disney has put out good films so far. This one hasn’t come out yet. Perhaps you should stop crying and whining and wait for the film to come out, then complain all day long when you have some actual evidence to bitch about.

        • July 24, 2017 at 4:55 pm
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          your nick name says it all

    • July 24, 2017 at 5:14 pm
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      How is the fact that you don’t like the creative direction evidence of interference on the part of Disney to drive profit? Has Doug Chiang or his team voiced their concerns?

    • July 24, 2017 at 5:23 pm
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      I’m with you 100%. Though devil’s advocate could preach that the most un-oringinal thing would be to have a big 3 moment because that’s what everyone was expecting would happen. As much as I hated what they did to Han I also saw it as getting a dose of reality. Sometimes things don’t work out the way you want in life, sometimes you don’t get to see that one friend before it’s too late.

      Sometimes your son is just a douche and even though you have no reason to really believe he’s going to listen to you ya still decide to walk onto a platform narrow as fuck and try to appeal to whatever shard of decency might still be in your boy but not because you want to as it was really your wife’s idea and you feel you should do it before you go back to her but then the little bastard sticks you in the chest with some crappy lightsaber and you have to fall to your death thinking i shouldn’t have done that but what’s more before you hit the bottom beacuse you’re falling through an entire fucking hollowed planet the whole thing implodes so you really just got stabbed by your son fell for like half an hour and then basically burned in the inside of a star and that is just the most honorable way for a character like you to go out but its ok because disney.

    • July 24, 2017 at 7:42 pm
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      Wait….you want profit over design and somehow think that not having the Big 3 together fits that description?

      If they wanted to profit even more, wouldn’t they just have as much Big 3 as spatially possible in the known universe, instead of trying to add new characters to the mix?

    • July 24, 2017 at 10:18 pm
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      “Star Wars was popular because of its originality”
      This is news to me. A lot of the things in Star Wars were heavily influenced by many other things. It was presented in a new way, but originality is not something that people usually cite when they speak of their love for Star Wars.

  • July 24, 2017 at 4:51 pm
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    There’s a reason I never come here to tro- post anymore.

    The crying is reaching a fever pitch.

    The design of this guard is completely different than the one from the OT. The only shared similarity is the color red.

    Seriously. It’s still a guard, yes. It’s still clad in armor yes. They still protect the big bad yes.

    If you went out on the street and showed this picture to people and said “Hey, what movie does this come from?” My guess is most wouldn’t say Star Wars.

    But whine more. Please whine more. It makes a huge difference in the design and production of these films.

    • July 24, 2017 at 5:17 pm
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      Well I mean come on. Even you should know that in 30 years things are clearly sure to change drastically.Just look at the phone, the guitar, the car, hell look at the outfits worn by the president’s. Clearly all of these things have changed so much that if you look at them you wouldn’t be able to tell that the current version of these things are simply the product of small changes over the course of 30 years.

      lol you’re so right man. I don’t get why ppl are complaining. Do they even know how things in the world work? How things evolve over time? Maybe once they have at least 20 years on this planet they can understand the rate of change of products over time and how it works. I can see why little kids flip out about a look. Not adults though.

      • July 24, 2017 at 5:22 pm
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        Interestingly enough, T. Zahn was using X-Wings in his novells and AT-AT walkers, set five to fifteen years after RotJ, but no one complained about it. How come?
        Even the Stormtrooper design was not described different in his Duology. Why do we have the hype about new/old designs, now?

        • July 24, 2017 at 5:35 pm
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          I mean I honestly have no idea. I attributed it earlier to the fact that some people perhaps aren’t old enough to realize the rate of change of things overtime because relative to the things around them they have not lived long enough to observe enough iterations of evolution. I think the designs are fine. The only reason it would be fair to get upset at the designs would be if we clearly knew literally everything about the universe in that 30 year gap and everything about our characters. None of which we have information on so I think it’s just irrational to get upset. Why are people upset? Because something looks like something else? I don’t think anyone has a right to be upset about that. Why can ships, weapons, buildings, and to an extent certain uniforms look the same but when it gets to this specific instance there’s a major problem and lack of originality?

          • July 24, 2017 at 8:44 pm
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            True, I mean it all depends on how the movies play out. The prequels used a lot of familiar designs too. Heck I’m pretty sure the “senators guards” look more like royal guards then these new guys. There is nothing new under the sun, but I hope we get an increased quantity of things that HAVE radically changed. Some things like stormtrooper armor looking similar makes sense. Some people just use this particular toy as a staw-man for their overall frustration that other things also being similar such as starkiller base and the like. I think once TLJ and episode IX come out, people will look back more fondly on designs such as this because the overall asthetic of the ST will come into its own. One movie is too small a sample-size to judge the overall creative direction. If the first order suddenly changed from TFA to TLJ then that would be bad, so its good they try to stick close to what JJ did with a little extra visual flare here and there

        • July 24, 2017 at 8:29 pm
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          I think its a combination of Books not being a visual medium so you can imagine the tech growing or stagnating as much as you want. But more so I think its the fact that Zahn used EXACTLY the design of the OT. If there were OT stormtroopers and OT walkers people would be loving it, or at least less hate. Its the uncanny valley. It looks CLOSE to something familiar…but not close enough to fool you, but not different enough to feel different- hence some people have a negative instinct about it.

        • July 25, 2017 at 5:19 am
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          Not only that, but Zahn incorporated a lot of starships like the Interdictor and Lancer class Frigate that came out of a 1980’s pen and paper RPG.

          You sir, win the internet today. You deserve a million upvotes.

      • July 24, 2017 at 7:09 pm
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        Dipping my toes into an argument I don’t really care about … These designs look more like precursors to the original guards in the same way that a suit of armour has evolved into less elaborate forms of personal armament like, for example Kevlar.
        To my eye they look a bit 50’s era Robby the robot.

        • July 24, 2017 at 8:09 pm
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          You’re totally right man. The Royal Guards look much more sleeker and smoother in comparison to these guys. The only thing I can attribute to their look is that it is more than likely determined by the leader. Considering Palpatine was the Emperor of the Galactic Empire and Lord of the Sith and I’m sure a cocky/arrogant/narcissist it would make sense for him to want his guard to be elegant and regal looking. Don’t know if Snoke has the same elevated vision of himself but I’m guessing if TLJ gives us enough of a look into his character then the design of the guards will hopefully make more sense. Or maybe the form of their armor is designed around whatever type of creature they are underneath. Were all the Royal guards humans or humanoids?

        • July 24, 2017 at 8:52 pm
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          Well that reference is pretty Star Warsy.

          Unless you wanted more Apple-Steve Jobsized designs like the stormtroopers.

          • July 24, 2017 at 11:42 pm
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            The least said about the Itrooper, the better!

      • July 24, 2017 at 8:26 pm
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        I’m sure if someone in the 30 years ago saw a modern smartphone they would have no idea its a phone.

        • July 24, 2017 at 8:34 pm
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          Well of course there are exceptions right. But we can either point out the obvious ones or choose or focus the argument on where it should be placed which I think is the idea of change in relation to clothing/uniforms for functions of government or jobs. If the guard are a form of military for Snoke, then couldn’t the simple argument be made that they already showed us how the foot-soldiers’ (storm-troopers) uniforms have changed (not that much) and we bought that in TFA. So why should the new guards be any different?

      • July 25, 2017 at 5:17 am
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        Look at 30 years of our own military history.

        A plane still looks like a plane. A tank still looks like a tank. Our soldiers still carry assault rifles. What did you want the new guard to look like? A floating ball of electricity that attacks people with internet memes?

        The First Order is built on the remnants of the Galactic Empire, Snoke has decided to keep much of the aesthetic that Palpatine put into place. Is it because Lucasfilm wants to make sure that we can still recognize the Star Wars in a Star Wars movie and not offend viewers? Absolutely.

        Does it make sense given the origin of this new evil empire? Yes.

        Why cry?

        If this movie sucks, I will come here and say “Hey, this movie sucks.”

        I love Rogue One as Star Wars porn, but I didn’t think it was a good movie. So many problems. Do I think these new guards are mind blowingly awesome? Nope. Do I think they make sense as an evolution of the former Royal Guard? Yeap.

        Do I think that my not being UBER excited about the new Royal Guard look will lead me to not enjoying the movie that isn’t out yet? Nope. The movie will stand on it’s own legs based on the story. Not this one costume. Or two costumes, or three. Or a new X-Wing that’s still an X-Wing. Or Kylo’s fighter that LOOKS TOO MUCH LIKE AN INTERCEPTOR OMG.

        Except it’s really a hybrid between his command shuttle and a TIE, which I think is cool, since his shuttle was definitely different.

        I just don’t get why the angst over this image of a toy. So far, the movies that have come out have been pretty good, and people have enjoyed them, and Star Wars is in a new golden age.

        So I ask, why cry?

    • July 24, 2017 at 6:06 pm
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      there you are…lol

      • July 25, 2017 at 5:11 am
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        Been busy with work, fixing up the house, not upsetting my wife, being beaten up by children, and preparing to start a new job.

        Plus 8th edition Warhammer 40k came out and I’m totally back in to toy soldiers and dice on a table top.

        • July 25, 2017 at 6:56 am
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          all good stuff! Enjoy the time with your kids, you’ll spend the rest of your life trying to not upset your wife! (at least it’s a full time job for me)! Have fun with Warhammer!

          Glad to see you back on here!

          • July 25, 2017 at 8:45 pm
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            I’ll try to be less of a dick, good to see you too Cw.

    • July 25, 2017 at 3:31 am
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      If someone does decide to show pictures of the guards and get reactions from people on the street, I would be very curious what the results of said research would be.

      Some SW designs are a hit, others are a miss. Personally, this one is a miss. It does not look very menacing, nor like there was any real thought given to the design. It looks like a design that would be used in a low budget sci-fantasy film that is riding on SW’s coattails.

      • July 25, 2017 at 5:09 am
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        Star Wars originated as a low budget Sci-Fantasy film, of which the aesthetic remains.

  • July 24, 2017 at 5:14 pm
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    I think the design looks quite feminine with the skirt and it kind of looks like breasts from the side view. Maybe the new guards are women? This would indeed make a difference to the OT/Prequels, where most republican/imperial soldiers seemed to be men. (this is just an observation, not a judgement)

  • July 24, 2017 at 6:12 pm
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    Honestly not a fan of the design at all. I hope they look better on screen and less like phallic headed lobsters.

    • July 24, 2017 at 6:55 pm
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      Knowing how shit quality toys are nowadays, i think it’s pretty safe top say that the film version will be better.

      • July 24, 2017 at 6:56 pm
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        I hope you are correct!

  • July 24, 2017 at 6:16 pm
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    I usually pick apart this new stuff…but I have no issue with this what so ever. It looks like a natural progression of the original guard.

  • July 24, 2017 at 6:51 pm
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    Praetorian gaurd are droids – CONFIRMED! Look at all them screws holding them together.

  • July 24, 2017 at 8:35 pm
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    Whats with all this meta whining about other people whining? (oh no! I’ve added a third layer! lol) why come to this forum if not to discuss if you like or dislike the design of the new pratorean guard? Do most people click on the link and only think “yup, that is a picture” and nothing else? Expressing dislike for the new design because people feel its similar to something they have seen before is a valid opinion, as is feeling that this design is quite good and a natural evolution that is very different from the Royal Guard. Not instantly loving something doesn’t make you a hater any more than loving something makes you a sellout.

    • July 24, 2017 at 8:41 pm
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      I think the discourse between fans is fine also. I enjoy this so much more than the comic book movie fans. I made a comment this past weekend on the Justice League trailer (pros and cons) on youtube and first comment out of the block “go fuck yourself hater”. Followed by many more because people don’t know how to put the breaks on and recognize the comment section is to voice your opinions or make a statement on the video & other opinions can be valid as its much more fun to have a debate or try to see if you can persuade someone to see what you see or have them try to do the same to you.

      • July 24, 2017 at 8:50 pm
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        That trailer was pretty bad.

        *ducks under table with devilish grin

        • July 24, 2017 at 8:53 pm
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          Lol here they come!

  • July 24, 2017 at 9:01 pm
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    I like the design of the guards themesleves, I just don’t like their weapons. They feel too “fantasy”, in that they look like medival weapons.
    I think varations of the Magnguard staffs (even just use the staffs) would looks great.

  • July 24, 2017 at 9:02 pm
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    I think they look fine and for characters that will most likely stand still in the background there is a bit of an overreaction. Would love to a see a brief combat scene though!

  • July 24, 2017 at 9:33 pm
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    Cool! Something fresh!

  • July 24, 2017 at 10:05 pm
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    Go Go Gadget arms….

  • July 25, 2017 at 12:14 am
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    The guards look awful.

  • July 25, 2017 at 1:16 am
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    Woody Harrelson = Lobot

    • July 25, 2017 at 3:00 am
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      Never thought of it before, but I wonder if the name Lobot was coined as short for ‘lobotomy’ as the dude has all that machine crap on his head.

      • July 25, 2017 at 3:16 am
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        I never thought of Lobot being short for anything either, but I could totally see that being how the name came to be as Lucas did have a unique way of making a character’s name, such as Ree Yees (from ROTJ, whom had thREE EYES), and Bib Fortuna (which he thought of while dining at his favourite seafood restaurant, looked down at the bib he was wearing while eating tuna, and Eureka!).

  • July 25, 2017 at 1:43 am
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    The trouble with Poe Dameron among other characters in Ep. 7… Unlike ANH, Ep. 7 didn’t really give me any reason to want to care about the new characters, except for Rey to some degree. ANH was a character-driven story set in an amazing universe, as was 5 & 6, and to some degree, Rogue One. 1, 2, 3, and 7, while having their moments, failed at getting me to care about most of the characters on the canvas, but the movies were still entertaining nonetheless.

    • July 25, 2017 at 8:18 pm
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      well Rogue One failed precisely in the characters – I didn´t care at all they´r faith…..

  • July 25, 2017 at 2:37 am
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    Jarrad.

  • July 25, 2017 at 3:03 am
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    All the same shade of red? Design looks ok, but at least two tones might’ve made it look better. At least the guys in the Chinese sweat shop who paint these hasbro figures won’t have to do much work on this one, and it’ll be easier for them to churn out KO copies, which I expect will be on store shelves in Asia imminently.

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