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I'll say straight up that this would bug the hell out of me. It's literally his only mission in life after the prequels to protect Luke, so that would destroy canon far worse than anything else for me.

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I honestly don't recall if he said he'd "protect" the child, I was only thinking he would watch over him.

Day to day, he's not on him 24-7 for sure, I don't think.

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Who tf is Ashoka

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Taking your post at face value, I have to ask if you've at least watched Mandalorian and Boba Fett? She's in a few episodes of those.

Beyond that, the majority of her story comes from the Clone Wars animated movie/series. Was Anakin's padawan, and became one of the most popular characters in Star Wars.

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When they trashed Legends I kind of gave up. I had a huge personal investment in all that old material, as flawed as much of it was. Still have a vivid memory of the first time I borrowed a Star Wars book on the way to Scout camp (the first book in the X-Wing series). Eventually I'll do a trial of Disney plus and catch up on all the tv shows.

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It's that time of night.

Who tf is Ashoka. I've never consumed any media that this character is in. You guys talk about her all the time, but everything I know is from the movies and Legends, so the idea of throwing her into the main plot line like she's on par with Luke or Obi-Wan or Qui-Gon or Jocasta Nu sounds like crazy town. I am aware that there is a counter argument to this and you are welcome to make it.

Second, the sequel trilogy after TFA is not canon in my head, so using it to make character arguments causes complete cognitive dissonance. You might as well quote the fanfic you wrote at age 11.

Third, TLJ still sucks.

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Go watch Clone Wars and Rebels which while animated are arguably the best things in Star Wars outside of the OT and R1.

She really is a great character.

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This is a persuasive argument. I need to try to get into the new stuff. I think i mix her up with Asajj Ventress a little, but only because their names are similar and I know nothing about Ashoka.

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Always cool to see kids or teens watching SW for the first time.

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Maybe this is me officially being old and out of touch but I will never understand how there's a market for this stuff. Watch a new hope on a tiny screen as some influencer and his kid watch Star Wars.

Maybe I'm the same as the folks who said Elvis was sewer trash

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Totally agree. Watching other people watch shows is simply dumb and means you have no life if you actually make time for that.

It does help if your tv is level though which might be throwing off your experience.

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The height of irony is saying this as you "make time" to post on an internet message board, an act that is objectively just as "dumb" and "means you have no life" to the 99% of people on this planet who don't waste their time arguing with nerds online. Have some self awareness, and maybe don't be the pot calling the kettle black.

Also, sometimes it's fun to watch people experience joy as they watch something for the first time. What kind of soulless curmudgeon sh*ts on that?

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YouBet said:

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Ulrich said:

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It's that time of night.

Who tf is Ashoka. I've never consumed any media that this character is in. You guys talk about her all the time, but everything I know is from the movies and Legends, so the idea of throwing her into the main plot line like she's on par with Luke or Obi-Wan or Qui-Gon or Jocasta Nu sounds like crazy town. I am aware that there is a counter argument to this and you are welcome to make it.

Second, the sequel trilogy after TFA is not canon in my head, so using it to make character arguments causes complete cognitive dissonance. You might as well quote the fanfic you wrote at age 11.

Third, TLJ still sucks.

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Go watch Clone Wars and Rebels which while animated are arguably the best things in Star Wars outside of the OT and R1.

She really is a great character.

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This is a persuasive argument. I need to try to get into the new stuff. I think i mix her up with Asajj Ventress a little, but only because their names are similar and I know nothing about Ashoka.

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The interesting thing here is that as big of a Star Wars fan that I am I've read very little of what is now Legends. I read the very early stuff that most on here probably haven't heard of: Adventures of Han Solo, Splinter in Mind's Eye, Lando stories...that stuff was objectively crap so I never read any stuff beyond that because it was so bad.

So, we are coming from two very different places. However, Clone Wars and Rebels are both really good. Power through S1 episodes 1-5 or so and it pays off.

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Always cool to see kids or teens watching SW for the first time.

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Maybe this is me officially being old and out of touch but I will never understand how there's a market for this stuff. Watch a new hope on a tiny screen as some influencer and his kid watch Star Wars.

Maybe I'm the same as the folks who said Elvis was sewer trash

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Totally agree. Watching other people watch shows is simply dumb and means you have no life if you actually make time for that.

It does help if your tv is level though which might be throwing off your experience.

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The height of irony is saying this as you "make time" to post on an internet message board, an act that is objectively just as "dumb" and "means you have no life" to the 99% of people on this planet who don't waste their time arguing with nerds online. Have some self awareness, and maybe don't be the pot calling the kettle black.

Also, sometimes it's fun to watch people experience joy as they watch something for the first time. What kind of soulless curmudgeon sh*ts on that?

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Your mom!

Splinter was awful. I still have a lot of nostalgia sympathy for Adventures of Han Solo… thinking of the Brian Daly book with three novellas, not the trilogy of novels. Mindharp of Whomever was less inspiring.

Shatterpoint, Traitor, The Unifying Force, X-Wing, anything byTim Zahn, and a few others are still fun reads though.

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Who tf is Ashoka

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Taking your post at face value, I have to ask if you've at least watched Mandalorian and Boba Fett? She's in a few episodes of those.

Beyond that, the majority of her story comes from the Clone Wars animated movie/series. Was Anakin's padawan, and became one of the most popular characters in Star Wars.

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When they trashed Legends I kind of gave up. I had a huge personal investment in all that old material, as flawed as much of it was. Still have a vivid memory of the first time I borrowed a Star Wars book on the way to Scout camp (the first book in the X-Wing series). Eventually I'll do a trial of Disney plus and catch up on all the tv shows.

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I understand your point, but the Clone Wars (and Ahsoka) were around for like 7 years before legends was trashed.

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Who tf is Ashoka

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Taking your post at face value, I have to ask if you've at least watched Mandalorian and Boba Fett? She's in a few episodes of those.

Beyond that, the majority of her story comes from the Clone Wars animated movie/series. Was Anakin's padawan, and became one of the most popular characters in Star Wars.

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When they trashed Legends I kind of gave up. I had a huge personal investment in all that old material, as flawed as much of it was. Still have a vivid memory of the first time I borrowed a Star Wars book on the way to Scout camp (the first book in the X-Wing series). Eventually I'll do a trial of Disney plus and catch up on all the tv shows.

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I understand your point, but the Clone Wars (and Ahsoka) were around for like 7 years before legends was trashed.

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Respect my arbitrary fandom boundaries.

Lol, Roger that

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BenFiasco14 said:

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Always cool to see kids or teens watching SW for the first time.

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Maybe this is me officially being old and out of touch but I will never understand how there's a market for this stuff. Watch a new hope on a tiny screen as some influencer and his kid watch Star Wars.

Maybe I'm the same as the folks who said Elvis was sewer trash

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Totally agree. Watching other people watch shows is simply dumb and means you have no life if you actually make time for that.

It does help if your tv is level though which might be throwing off your experience.

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My kids watch videos of people playing video games. And they like it. I'm old I guess but that has to be the worst programming I can imagine.

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Splinter was awful. I still have a lot of nostalgia sympathy for Adventures of Han Solo… thinking of the Brian Daly book with three novellas, not the trilogy of novels. Mindharp of Whomever was less inspiring.

Shatterpoint, Traitor, The Unifying Force, X-Wing, anything byTim Zahn, and a few others are still fun reads though.

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Correction: I've read Zahn's Heir to the Empire trilogy somewhat recently for the first time. It was ok to good. I thought it started weak and progressively got better although I did not like Luke character's in it.

However it did give us Thrawn and Talon Karde who are two of the best characters in Star Wars. At least the first one was so good they made an exception for him to pull him out of Legends and make him canon.

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YouBet said:

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Always cool to see kids or teens watching SW for the first time.

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Maybe this is me officially being old and out of touch but I will never understand how there's a market for this stuff. Watch a new hope on a tiny screen as some influencer and his kid watch Star Wars.

Maybe I'm the same as the folks who said Elvis was sewer trash

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Totally agree. Watching other people watch shows is simply dumb and means you have no life if you actually make time for that.

It does help if your tv is level though which might be throwing off your experience.

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My kids watch videos of people playing video games. And they like it. I'm old I guess but that has to be the worst programming I can imagine.

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My nephews do this and I make fun of them for it.

And I play video games as a dude pushing 50.

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Lol, Roger that

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I don't think I had heard of the cartoons until a couple years ago, or maybe I did but assumed they were some sort of knockoff fan art.

YouBet said:

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Belton Ag said:

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YouBet said:

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BenFiasco14 said:

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Always cool to see kids or teens watching SW for the first time.

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Maybe this is me officially being old and out of touch but I will never understand how there's a market for this stuff. Watch a new hope on a tiny screen as some influencer and his kid watch Star Wars.

Maybe I'm the same as the folks who said Elvis was sewer trash

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Totally agree. Watching other people watch shows is simply dumb and means you have no life if you actually make time for that.

It does help if your tv is level though which might be throwing off your experience.

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My kids watch videos of people playing video games. And they like it. I'm old I guess but that has to be the worst programming I can imagine.

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My nephews do this and I make fun of them for it.

And I play video games as a dude pushing 50.

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It's the next iteration of waiting for your turn on the SNES controller.

Sigh.

I recently got into a YouTuber playing through all the Zeldas...

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Lol, Roger that

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I don't think I had heard of the cartoons until a couple years ago, or maybe I did but assumed they were some sort of knockoff fan art.

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to be fair, the early seasons of Clone Wars (and the movie) have a lot of hokey stuff. Somewhere in season 3 it finds its groove and puts out some damn good stories.

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Belton Ag said:

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YouBet said:

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BenFiasco14 said:

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Always cool to see kids or teens watching SW for the first time.

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Maybe this is me officially being old and out of touch but I will never understand how there's a market for this stuff. Watch a new hope on a tiny screen as some influencer and his kid watch Star Wars.

Maybe I'm the same as the folks who said Elvis was sewer trash

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Totally agree. Watching other people watch shows is simply dumb and means you have no life if you actually make time for that.

It does help if your tv is level though which might be throwing off your experience.

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My kids watch videos of people playing video games. And they like it. I'm old I guess but that has to be the worst programming I can imagine.

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My nephews do this and I make fun of them for it.

And I play video games as a dude pushing 50.

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I'll give you this. I absolutely cannot, under any circumstances, watch other people play video games.

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Sigh.

I recently got into a YouTuber playing through all the Zeldas...

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I recently learned that your user name is tied to F&F so we are just in different planes of life.

Mine is cooler btw.

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Mine is cooler btw.

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That is debatable since you post on this forum with the rest of us no life losers that watch YouTube reaction channels

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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I probably will watch it before Ahsoka comes out at some point.

My current plan is to watch all the major Obi-Wan / Satine / Mandalore arcs of Clone Wars in preparation for Obi-Wan, and I'll probably do the same with Rebels next year before Ahsoka.

Admittedly, I have very little interest or patience for the filler, so I'm just gonna do the essential arcs.

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Please read this aloud in comic book guys voice. If you guys need me, I'll be at galaxys edge sunday.

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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I probably will watch it before Ahsoka comes out at some point.

My current plan is to watch all the major Obi-Wan / Satine / Mandalore arcs of Clone Wars in preparation for Obi-Wan, and I'll probably do the same with Rebels next year before Ahsoka.

Admittedly, I have very little interest or patience for the filler, so I'm just gonna do the essential arcs.

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Please read this aloud in comic book guys voice. If you guys need me, I'll be at galaxys edge sunday.

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Jealous, still about a month out for me.

But I did get passes to Guardians of the Galaxy Galactic Rewind previews.

YouBet said:

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BenFiasco14 said:

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Always cool to see kids or teens watching SW for the first time.

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Maybe this is me officially being old and out of touch but I will never understand how there's a market for this stuff. Watch a new hope on a tiny screen as some influencer and his kid watch Star Wars.

Maybe I'm the same as the folks who said Elvis was sewer trash

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Totally agree. Watching other people watch shows is simply dumb and means you have no life if you actually make time for that.

It does help if your tv is level though which might be throwing off your experience.

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heeeey oooooo pump the breaks

What's amazing (and at times terrible) is with the technology we have we've got so many different forms of entertainment now that we never knew we could've wanted. All these reaction videos are just another version of a genre. Sit-coms, sketch comedy shows, late night talk shows, cop/crime dramas, reality TV, fantasy, comic book, blah blah blah it's endless.

I'm not going to say every reaction video is good....and hell there's some that you can safely assume are staged.

But as soon as you add a medium that you love or you're passionate about, and seeing someone experience the same joy and passion you felt upon your first viewing....I challenge you to not have empathy and feel that same love and joy all over again.

These have been posted before but just because it is fun as hell, here:

Exhibit A:


Exhibit B:


Music is another one. Seeing people have a genuine emotional reaction to music they've never heard that I love (granted I find some of these a little harder to believe) and getting to see their love for that same music just brings me nostalgic joy all over again.

Video games I feel are honestly harder....the good ones (and I'll watch those at times) almost need to become stand up comics reacting on the spot to what they're watching/playing.

It's the main reason why now that I'm going through the entire MCU for the first time that I decided to post my breakdown of phase 1 and while I'll do the same through phase 4. I know there's a lot of people that love those films and with having that strong attachment, getting the opportunity to simply read about someone experiencing that same joy (and knowing what's to come) can bring back all those cherished feelings and emotions. But I ain't making videos....maybe not.....

So as a whole I love 'em. I watch very few of them, but I appreciate people who genuinely record their reactions to things they're passionate about cause it does allow people to re-live those same emotions all over again.

Ok short essay over....here's an article from 7 days ago about bad batch 2 and apparently there will be a panel specifically for this show at celebration this year! YES!

https://thedirect.com/article/star-wars-bad-batch-season-2-updates-when

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helloimustbegoing said:

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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I probably will watch it before Ahsoka comes out at some point.

My current plan is to watch all the major Obi-Wan / Satine / Mandalore arcs of Clone Wars in preparation for Obi-Wan, and I'll probably do the same with Rebels next year before Ahsoka.

Admittedly, I have very little interest or patience for the filler, so I'm just gonna do the essential arcs.

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Please read this aloud in comic book guys voice. If you guys need me, I'll be at galaxys edge sunday.

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Jealous, still about a month out for me.

But I did get passes to Guardians of the Galaxy Galactic Rewind previews.

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I've just accepted the fact that my paychecks should go straight from my employer to the mouse. This is our 7th disney property trip in 5 years.

helloimustbegoing said:

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Saxsoon said:

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helloimustbegoing said:

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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I probably will watch it before Ahsoka comes out at some point.

My current plan is to watch all the major Obi-Wan / Satine / Mandalore arcs of Clone Wars in preparation for Obi-Wan, and I'll probably do the same with Rebels next year before Ahsoka.

Admittedly, I have very little interest or patience for the filler, so I'm just gonna do the essential arcs.

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Please read this aloud in comic book guys voice. If you guys need me, I'll be at galaxys edge sunday.

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Jealous, still about a month out for me.

But I did get passes to Guardians of the Galaxy Galactic Rewind previews.

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I've just accepted the fact that my paychecks should go straight from my employer to the mouse. This is our 7th disney property trip in 5 years.

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They have their hooks in you real good. I thought we were bad. I think I've been there every 2 years since 2010

us as a family have only been once and that was in 2017. we'd like to try and go again next year and experience all the new star wars stuff (except the hotel)

I've never been.

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Holy frack we need new content now!

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Lego Star wars the Skywalker saga is scratching the itch ahead of the Obi Wan series

redline248 said:

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helloimustbegoing said:

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Saxsoon said:

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helloimustbegoing said:

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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I probably will watch it before Ahsoka comes out at some point.

My current plan is to watch all the major Obi-Wan / Satine / Mandalore arcs of Clone Wars in preparation for Obi-Wan, and I'll probably do the same with Rebels next year before Ahsoka.

Admittedly, I have very little interest or patience for the filler, so I'm just gonna do the essential arcs.

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Please read this aloud in comic book guys voice. If you guys need me, I'll be at galaxys edge sunday.

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Jealous, still about a month out for me.

But I did get passes to Guardians of the Galaxy Galactic Rewind previews.

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I've just accepted the fact that my paychecks should go straight from my employer to the mouse. This is our 7th disney property trip in 5 years.

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They have their hooks in you real good. I thought we were bad. I think I've been there every 2 years since 2010

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Happy wife... etc