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[Plywood]

Gave up on last names for the last two?

 

[sappyday]

Hopefully they grow on me because at the moment they sound terrible.

 

[Lan Dong Mik]

Darth Ren sounds pretty cool too, if he does eventually get dat exclusive Darth title of course.

 

[BearFlexington]

"Finn" . . . dat sidekick status.

 

[Calcium]

Kylo Ren is a pretty cool name. The others aren't all that great, especially Rey.

 

[FriendlyGoat]

Anyone wanna try matching up the original run of Star Wars cards and their numbers to these images?

Also, what if "Rey" is to her character like "Ben" was "Obi-Wan"

I went through the card names for the original 1977 Series 1 and 2 and got:

11 Artoo is Imprisoned by the Jawas
53 Battle in Outer Space! (shows x-wings)
67 See-Threepio and Luke
74 Luke Skywalker on Tatooine (shows Luke in speeder)
76 Artoo-Detoo on the rebel starship!
81 Weapons of the Death Star
88 Stormtroopers guard Solo's ship
96 The droids on Tatooine

For comparison:

#11 — BB-8 on the move
#53 — Poe Dameron in his X-Wing
#67 — Kylo Ren ignites his Lightsaber
#74 — Rey on her Speeder
#76 — Finn on the run
#81 — Stormtroopers prepare for battle
#88 — X-Wings in formation
#96 — The Millennium Falcon

I don't have photos, just titles but images for 11 matched up reasonable well, and 53 and 74 sort share a connection (xwing, luke in a speeder), but the rest kind of fell apart.

 

[Cheebo]

"Finn" . . . dat sidekick status.

He's the male lead

 

[Shpeshal Nick]

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source david goller twitter

Fucking stupendous

 

[Rogue_Ledr]

I like the use of cards to reveal the names.

That is a unique idea.

 

[Secret Fawful]

Anyone wanna try matching up the original run of Star Wars cards and their numbers to these images?

Also, what if "Rey" is to her character like "Ben" was "Obi-Wan"

The early ones match up, but some of the others don't seem to, such as Kylo Ren's, as the blue set of the original Topps don't go up to 67.

Also, noticed while posting this, but beaten by FriendlyGoat.

It's possible we were looking at the wrong card sets for some of these, though, but that makes no sense, as they're all based on the New Hope cards.

 

[Rogue_Ledr]

He's the male lead

Thats really just a rumor.

We don't really know who the "lead" is.

Some people say its Han Solo i this one.

 

[Imperial Bishop]

Popozao probably.

PD... say it fast enough it sounds like Petey

Blue Leader

Good ol' Damy.

All of these sound cooler than whatever-the-hell kind of name generator they used.

 

[Cheebo]

Thats really just a rumor.

We don't really know who the "lead" is.

Some people say its Han Solo i this one.

It's much more than a rumor. Came from same source who got everything in teaser right months before teaser came out.

 

[Shpeshal Nick]

I think the names are good. Probably better than the existing characters.

Id wager if the internet was around in the 70's, whiners would have stalked Lucas over effectively naming the main character after himself and using random names like Han, Leia, Chewbacca and Lando.

Those names look dumb too if you take their history away.

 

[BearFlexington]

He's the male lead

I'm saying the name "Finn" sounds sidekickish. I hope he's the lead.

 

[Ezalc]

But is it The Finn?

 

[Levi]

Good names. Rey Solo rolls off the tongue nicely.

Doubt the numbers are minutes since how likely is it that they have a cut that's even close to final? And if the Falcon scene is over an hour and half into the movie why blow it in a teaser?

 

[CloudyTuba]

BB-8 is cute and appropriate. Characters probably call him Beebee.

Poe Dameron. Well Dameron is cool but Poe is sorta funny. Hopefully everyone calls him by his last name.

Kylo Ren, I dunno about this one. Is it Keelo or Kai-lo? Either way sounds like a dog. Maybe it won't matter and he'll have a sith name.

Rey is fine, not much to say about it. Very plain, I can't argue. I'm cool with it.

Finn is a good name. It isn't the sort of name I expected for his character.

I think we can all agree that all of these are better than Sheev.

 

[OneEyedKing]

Lucas knew how to make evil sounding names that way the audience would never be confused about who's supposed to be the bad guy.

Like when he suggested Darth Icky and Darth Insanius as actual serious names

 

[Hagi]

Pretty obvious that the numbers correspond to the characters level on the midi-chlorian chart, lowest being the one with the highest concentration per cell.

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

The numbers may mean the amount of screen time each character will get.

Lol.

 

[BossRush]

Kylo Ren sounds like a fighting game character

 

[George Oscar Bluth II]

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source david goller twitter

 

[WrenchNinja]

Excuse me, his name is 'Kylo', and it's pronounced 'Kill-o', ok, so that means he's the most evil Sith of them all.

I can just imagine George Lucas saying this.

 

[Rogue_Ledr]

C'mon, why would Lando's son be a Stormtrooper?

Ahhh Lando wasn't exactly the most loyal or trustworthy of guys, dude.

 

[The Auxiliary]

I'm pulling for Finn Leonis, really.

 

[Valhelm]

BB-8 is terrible. C-3PO and R2D2 roll off the tongue much better.

 

[DrForester]

 

[Delusional Reality]

I wonder if Wedge Antilles will make a cameo? Only pilot to survive two Death Star runs.

Ooh, maybe Poe is his successor?

 

[Lebron]

Rey Rice and Finn Jackson please

 

[FrostuTheNinja]

Kylo Ren & Stimpy

 

[Unspeakable Evil]

Finn the Stormtrooper

 

[Hatchtag]

Kylo Ren & Stimpy

Kylo-Ren Ishii

 

[MagnaderAlpha]

Or Kylo Ren McCormack.

I don't know what to think about the times. I really have some bad memories attached to "Poe", considering just about every "wanna be dark" teen from when I was growing up would use white-out to paint it on their backpacks or scribble it on their folders(because if you liked Edgar Allan Poe, you were somehow "brooding", deep and artistic). Urgh, vapid youth!

Dameron sounds cool though. Considering he's in military(a Rebel pilot), I'm going to guess many are just going to refer to him by his surname. Question is, is it pronounced "Damn-er-on" or "DAY-mer-on". I'm fine with either way.

Rey, I'm fine with. Finn, I'd much rather prefer knocking off one of the "n"s and having it as "Fin", or taking a little more creative liberty, "Fyn"(or Fynn, adding back the "n" would keep people from confusing it was sounding like "Fine").

BB-8 is perfect. I'm guessing they are just going to call it "Beebee".

Kylo Ren sounds very SW-ish. Though, IMO, it sounds more like a heroic name than a villainous name. I'm am glad at the absence of the stupid Sith naming. Darth Vicious, or Darth Killemall!

 

[SargerusBR]

Finn? Are you kidding me.

 

[Nodnol]

A lot of the names in Star Wars sound dumb at first. These sound pretty solid though!

Is anyone else pronouncing Kylo to rhyme with Tie-Low?

 

[Dead Man]

Finn? Are you kidding me.

So everyone knows Finn is an actual name and not unique to adventure time, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finn_(given_name)

 

[molnizzle]

Man these names are bad

...so exactly like every other name in the Star Wars universe then.

 

[Jorok Goldblade]

Here's hoping Serkis' s character is Jake the Ewok.

 

[brandonh83]

Sounds fine to me. I like Rey.

 

[Tuck]

Finn... The Human?

Damn it, I was gonna say that.

 

[abadguy]

...so exactly like every other name in the Star Wars universe then.

Come on now, we all know that names like Kit Fisto just scream "badass"!

 

[CrankyJay]

Last time Abrams told us there was significance to a series of numbers it ended up being a load of fucking bullshit.

 

[antonz]

Poe reminds me of Rogue 2 from Empire Strikes back.

Rogue 2 Zev Senesca

 

[thecouncil]

Last time Abrams told us there was significance to a series of numbers it ended up being a load of fucking bullshit.

heh. hey now.

 

[Imperial Bishop]

 

[Doctoglethorpe]

Well I guess the rumor that that Sith is Solo's son, or Revan, is officially dead. Good, gooood.

 

[ghostmind]

 

[adj_noun]

Oog, I can't look at that animated Stormtrooper one very long.

 

[Steiner84]

Kylo Ren?`
wtf?

Darth Maul
Darth Sidious
Darth Vader
Kylo Ren?
really?