Maybe a new TIE Advanced? [link snipped]
I'll give you that that's just a concept, and I'll give them points for attempting to actually design a new fighter in this movie. However it's no where near as cool as the TIE Advanced/Avenger, a design Lucasfilm already owns, which looks like a direct advancement of Vader's TIE technology.
http://i.imgur.com/nDFSqis.jpg
"Disney needs to come up with some original concept art!"
*Disney creates new concept art*
"Disney should use this old concept art!"
lol classic
To be fair, the TIE Advanced/Avenger wasn't concept art, but a fully realized design that appeared in three computer games, the Decipher card game, and several ship guides. This is more... grumbling about them coming up with "new" designs that are almost but not quite exactly like existing designs -- so why bother putting all that work in and not just use the design that's there for the using? Especially with the
also previously established TIE Defender coming along in Rebels.
Or else make it actually
original. I'm all for new TIE designs. I still wish they'd gone with the concept art for the new fighter that they came up with for TFA. It was new and interesting and a two-seater and unlike anything prior while still being obviously a TIE. Perfect for showing evolution within the setting.
--Jonah
