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Originally Posted by trebleshot

There's some good stuff in the EU, but there's also some real crap too. As far as the toys are concerned, though, I'm with you at this point. Too deep of a rabbit hole for me if I started collecting EU stuff again.

I solved this conundrum by basically switching to ONLY EU with my figure collecting. I've got "good enough" versions of most of the movie characters I would want.

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Personally, I disagree. And I've read a good chuck of EU material (not much from the last 5-6 years, though). But I grew up with the original trilogy, so my opinion is most likely skewed by that - at least on some level.

EU comes in many flavors of quality ranging from "complete crap" to "legitimately great" across a wide variety of media. There's a lot of it that's DEFINITELY superior to the prequel films (IMO) and a fair bit of it that can at least stand alongside the original trilogy if not surpass it. I'd honestly have to say the fellow that said the EU in general surpasses the films must have been VERY lucky in his selections of material for viewing/playing/etc... 'Cause there's a lot of garbage out there, though I think a lot of the REALLY bad stuff is pretty much out of print nowadays.

For the most part, though, any EU stuff that takes place well before the movie era tends to be pretty good. As long as you can get past the idea that technology has been pretty much completely stagnant in the Star Wars galaxy for thousands of years.