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soccerdroids Stormtrooper 03/12/15 (Thu) 16:03:45 No.976

Could BB-8 be an even cuter droid than R2-D2?

Stormtrooper 03/12/15 (Thu) 18:05:45 No.978

>>976
He's too cute, they really went overboard with that.

He looks like a soccer ball too.

Stormtrooper 03/12/15 (Thu) 20:00:24 No.983

he's got that abrams cuteness to him, but i don't consider r2 to be cute.

Stormtrooper 03/12/15 (Thu) 23:05:04 No.989

>>976
this is the only part of the teaser trailer that I didn't like

Stormtrooper 03/13/15 (Fri) 05:28:08 No.995

>>976
I'm pissed at Abrams for this thing.

Stormtrooper 03/13/15 (Fri) 13:08:40 No.997

I never thought of R2-D2 as cute. he's a robot.

BB-8 is alright, though.

Stormtrooper 03/13/15 (Fri) 20:22:02 No.1001

>>995
I doubt Abrams said "I want a Robot that moves on a ball". The writing was done for him. The characters already existed before he came along. He just gets to decide how it all comes together (in terms of how the actors act, camera angles etc.)

Stormtrooper 03/13/15 (Fri) 21:01:30 No.1002

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>>995
>>1001
Fun fact, BB-8 is actually based on Ralph McQuarie's original design concept for R2-D2.

Stormtrooper 03/13/15 (Fri) 22:46:10 No.1003

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>>1002
If he wasn't fucking bouncing around on it like he was trying to balance then it would be kinda cool. When I read the concept, I get more of a dwarven sphere vibe (Elder Scrolls series)

Stormtrooper 03/14/15 (Sat) 05:39:11 No.1006

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>>1003
That's probably closer to what McQuarrie envisioned, too.

The problem with culling things from cut material from the old films is that, for better or for worse, those things were cut for a reason, and reinserting them into the new Star Wars paradigm means changing them to work with things they were never intended to work with. Sure R2 was originally meant to balance on a ball, but had that design gone through, he wouldn't have been the same little astromech droid we learned to know. Now BB-8 exists and by necessity he's a little of both. R2's head on top of a ball, which just looks like a silly parody of both designs.

I get why they look back at old concepts, it's mining the original creative source that spawned Star Wars for more ideas. That way, you know the movie will "feel" similar to the old ones. However, whenever the prequel trilogy did this - bringing back concepts from the original drafts of SW '77 (Mace Windu) or early universe bible material that never really manifested anywhere (midichlorians, the Sith) - it always felt a bit ingenuine. Come up with an original idea already!

That being said, I'm keeping an open mind about BB8 because I love astromech droids and their lore. Helps that he's a cute little thing.

I'm very impressed that the prop is apparently real (and remote controlled!).

Stormtrooper 03/14/15 (Sat) 07:08:34 No.1009

>>1006
You've summed up pretty much how I've felt about the whole situation

Stormtrooper 03/14/15 (Sat) 07:21:08 No.1010

>>1002
And there was a damn good reason no one wanted to use that design.

Stormtrooper 03/14/15 (Sat) 18:03:35 No.1021

>>1002
>>1010
>if it wasn't good enough for your movie, it's good enough for ours

Bravo JJ

Stormtrooper 10/22/15 (Thu) 02:41:30 No.7276

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Bumping this thread to see if anyone's opinions have changed about BB-8 now that he's having the shit merchandised out of him. I imagine everyone's hatred for him has only grown.

Me, I still like him. I can't help it. He's one of the few new things for Episode VII that I actually can't get enough of.

Stormtrooper 10/22/15 (Thu) 04:26:13 No.7281

>>7276

no need to make a new droid

just have r2 fuck shit up as usual

furthermore, the plot should have been rey coming across r2 and finding luke's saber within him, thus leading to the shit. bb-8 is in for no other reason than making a new toy. i hope the little tin can kicks the bucket, astromechs all day son.

Stormtrooper 10/23/15 (Fri) 02:04:23 No.7346

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>think BB-8 is dumb because of his silly head

>find out it's a practical effect and actually functions

>mfw I ate my own words

Where's the porn, by the way?

Stormtrooper 12/26/15 (Sat) 00:55:09 No.9828

Fits perfectly into the shitty Ipod/android-generation we are living in….

Stormtrooper 12/28/15 (Mon) 11:53:54 No.9957

>>7346

I literally just saw a remote controlled toy of it on sale, a couple of hours ago. Apparently controlled via some kinda app mind you, not radio.

NiceDaemonette 12/28/15 (Mon) 17:40:33 No.9970

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>>7346

Yeah, this is the REAL reason R2 isn't a ball droid, they didn't have the tech to pull off the effect in the 70's…

Stormtrooper 01/04/16 (Mon) 21:46:31 No.10647

>>976

BB-8 is cute, R2D2 was never cute, he was always just a shitty Mary Sue.

>>978

Not really. BB-8's design is actually the original design meant for R2D2 as seen here:

>>1002

They just weren't able to make such a thing function in the old movies. Abrams had nothing to do with BB-8, he was just being a thief, stealing stuff and then trying to take the credit for it.

>>1003

Good thing BB-8 didn't end up looking like that though… that design is just some shitty steam Punk crap.

>>1006

>That's probably closer to what McQuarrie envisioned, too.

Doubtful. It looks too much like C3P0. There would be no point in such a robot if it was that much like the other one that was on legs.

rather the idea was probably closer to that "B.O.B" from "The Black Hole" which came out two years after the first Star Wars movie hit the cinemas.

>>7281

>just have r2 fuck shit up as usual

R2 fucking shit up is pretty much the only thing that shitty Mary Sue Scrappy does. In his own way, he is even worse than JarJar. I hope he gets destroyed in the next movie and is never seen again.

>the plot should have been rey coming across r2 and finding luke's saber within him, thus leading to the shit.

The plot about the Light Saber was crap and lazy writing. Finding R2 is a big nono as well since he is always being portrayed as a hero even though he was supposed to be a comic relief. Having Rey find Luke is also shit and should have been scrapped from the story.

>bb-8 is in for no other reason than making a new toy.

Why have any new characters at all? No need since we can just have the same characters do stuff instead… that way we don't have to build any more new toys!!

>>9970

This is the truth.

Stormtrooper 01/05/16 (Tue) 04:13:44 No.10682

>>1006

there's a droid in maz kanata's place that looks very metropolis-like.