(Rumor) Disney Stars Wars Could Be Removed from Canon (or simply ignored)

[Snarf Zagyg]

James Cameron's Avatar sat at #1 of the box office for a LONG time and yet nobody was collecting Avatar merchandise. Everybody went to see that movie and yet it left almost no footprint on pop culture except blue alien jokes. Box office scores are good (though it depends on how much you spent to begin with, and Star Wars probably has a HUUUUGE marketing budget), especially if you want bragging rights, but my own experience is that sequel merchandise is just a lot of pegwarmers.

Have you been to Animal Kingdom? They have a whole, gorgeous Avatar land.
Did you know that he has four sequels coming?

I'm just pointing out that most people would kill for this kind of failure.

But I'm glad kids enjoy Rey! That's good! Kids deserve their own heroes too.

They do. Although it's still kind of weird to me that there is a certain generation that grew up watching Star Wars cartoons that think of Stormtroopers as the heroes. That is just wrong.

 

[Retreater]

The article's source comes across as a whining fanboy in his videos (and I've seen many of them), regularly using politically-charged and sexist criticisms in his statements. He is an unreliable troll.
That said, I personally ignore what I don't like in any hobby or fandom. I don't prefer the prequel trilogies, Clone Wars, or much of the Disney-era Star Wars. I just don't watch them. I'll put on the original trilogy whenever I want and be happy. I'll play my WEG d6 Star Wars RPG and ignore the Fantasy Flight stuff I don't like either.
I encourage everyone else to enjoy the parts of the fandom they like and make Star Wars their own. I don't care what Lucasfilm says is canon, retcons, etc.

 

[Undrave]

Have you been to Animal Kingdom? They have a whole, gorgeous Avatar land.
Did you know that he has four sequels coming?

I'm just pointing out that most people would kill for this kind of failure.

Yeah I know about Pandora.

I just think there's a difference between making money at the box office and creating a fandom. Those are two different kind of success if you ask me that don't automatically correlate to one another.

They do. Although it's still kind of weird to me that there is a certain generation that grew up watching Star Wars cartoons that think of Stormtroopers as the heroes. That is just wrong.

Clonetroopers and Stormtroopers are different though!

I encourage everyone else to enjoy the parts of the fandom they like and make Star Wars their own. I don't care what Lucasfilm says is canon, retcons, etc.

Yes!

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Yeah I know about Pandora.

I just think there's a difference between making money at the box office and creating a fandom. Those are two different kind of success if you ask me that don't automatically correlate to one another.

Mmm.

I think that we often hear loud voices of people on the internet, and tend to discount other factors. Personally, I would have done a million things differently with the new movies. But I also respect the fact that there is a segment that will always be unhappy, and that the joy of young children who get to meet Rey at a Disney park overshadow the concerns of some b***-hurt 60 year old angry that Disney didn't follow his script.

Clonetroopers and Stormtroopers are different though!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

They got to you too!

 

[Undrave]

Mmm.

I think that we often hear loud voices of people on the internet, and tend to discount other factors. Personally, I would have done a million things differently with the new movies. But I also respect the fact that there is a segment that will always be unhappy, and that the joy of young children who get to meet Rey at a Disney park overshadow the concerns of some b***-hurt 60 year old angry that Disney didn't follow his script.

Sure... at the same time, I've seen people who enjoyed both Force Awakens and The Last Jedi be disappointed by Rise of Skywalker and the box office drop is still pretty significant for a movie that should have been a big deal. A big corporation like Disney won't outright state when stuff is underperforming or a disappointment. They'll just move on. I think what they'll do next with Star Wars will, if nothing else, be interesting. I don't think we'll truly know how well the Sequel Trilogy did for them and what the impact were for MANY years. We can just speculate at this point. We'll have to see when the Sequel memes show up and all the variations on 'They Fly Now.' we get (see: "Hello There!")

And my point earlier was that Jame Cameron's Avatar made banks but I don't think it created a fandom per se. For one thing, I don't think Pandora in Animal Kingdom has character greetings . That might change if the sequels present an interesting world people will want to explore, however!

 

[Umbran]

But I'm glad kids enjoy Rey! That's good! Kids deserve their own heroes too.

I just think there's a difference between making money at the box office and creating a fandom. T

Now, put these two together.

Those kids that like Rey? They will be paying into Disney pockets for decades longer than you or I will at this point. Old people are not the future of fandom.

If we older fans had thought it was perfect, an the kids didn't like it... that would be a problem for the future of the franchise.

 

[Undrave]

Now, put these two together.

Those kids that like Rey? They will be paying into Disney pockets for decades longer than you or I will at this point. Old people are not the future of fandom.

If we older fans had thought it was perfect, an the kids didn't like it... that would be a problem for the future of the franchise.

I think it'll be interesting to see in a decade or so what kind of nostalgia there is for these.

 

[Eilathen]

Rey is more or less the only thing i like out of Eps 7-9.... even if the uncovering of her..."backstory"...was effing rIdOnKuLoS.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Yeah, Bounding into Comics isn't exactly a reputable source, nor one without bias.

The chances of the sequels being decanonized are probably less than zero. There's more of a chance of a big-screen adaptation of Droid World happening (which, honestly I'd be all about).

Doomcocks not the most reliable FYI.

Only time he was somewhat accurate he was reporting after spoilers on Reddit

 

[Mercurius]

Well again, the article and person they're quoting thinks actually officially de-canonizing the Disney films is unlikely, but that what might happen is they focus on the "Mandaloria era" and thus essentially ignore 7-9. They could then build up different regions of the SW universe and never have to refer to the events of 7-9, even if the timeline advances that far.