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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

None of the new character designs for Rogue One are doing anything for me. The rebel characters are just so bland and plain so until I see the movie they're just boring human characters...

I feel similarly. They're drab. The first press photos remind me of scenes from a local tent city. All that's missing is a shopping cart or two.

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...The biggest [concern] to me though is that I've seen that the main Imperial guy in this movie has his own special shuttle which looks different than the standard Imperial shuttle (it looks kinda like Kylo Ren's shuttle actually). So the Emperor himself, the leader of their government, gets shuttled around in a standard Imperial shuttle (the likes of which the Rebels managed to steal one of) but the guy in this movie gets his own special black and evil looking version?!

I have a similar gripe about Phasma and Ren. If I was their C.O. and I saw them prancing around in custom-modified armor or wearing a goofy mask and other non-standard-issue accoutrements, I'd jerk them sideways and tell them to take that shit off and get back in proper uniform. Vader was an exception because most of his black body was basically a machine, and anyway, nobody tells Vader what to do, but Phasma and Ren seem like a pair of prima-donnas and need to be dealt with accordingly. Ren in particular seems like a whiney little puke, not even part of the command structure. And yet he gives orders to the rank and file!

I kinda like the tank trooper, so might scoop one of him. Good context, characterization and storytelling will be important to give all the figures more appeal as collectibles.