tubachris85x
Master Member
Before I say this I want to be very clear that I am in no way trying to be an ass about this movie. I am over the moon about it. I couldn't be more excited. It's just that The ANH Stormy is very close to my heart.
None of it from sculpting,trimming or assembly is ANH Stormtrooper accurate. Yes it looks like a Stormtrooper and most won't notice or care but the original armor flowed so well from part to part but this new armor has huge gaps between parts,oversized and disproportionate parts and also a more general fat profile compared to the originals more sleaker streamlined sculpt. The original was a true iconic work of art but this......well it's just a bad copy.
Not putting a dampner on the movie as I love what I see and I've heard all the excuses on why they changed the armor but it is what it is and this is Just my opinion on what I soooo hoped would be more true to the original. As for Vader,well anything is better than that damn EPIII mess. Lol
Do you think that perhaps the decision to make their own "version" of the ANH armor was more a choice of practicality on top of them also not wanting a go at a true-ANH replication out of pure film individuality?
The best way I thought of the differences is that it's a transitional armor-set, bridging the few similarities of the Clonetrooper armor into the OT Classic TK armor. If not that, I think for the level of action that's implied, to do a true ANH set would have been much more physically restrictive. To add, we don't know yet if the ones we've seen so far have just been "stunt" versions VS a potentially unseen Hero suit.
Speculation and theories aside, I wouldn't throw out the idea that they just wanted to make their own thing. It's just like questioning why ESB TK's and ROTJ TK's are so different between the other films despite the short time-frames. As of now, we only speculate that the operation to steal the death star plans was very short (probably is) but for all we know the time between them acquiring the plans and then seeing Leia on Tantive IV being chased by the star destroyer could have been a span of months to a year prior (maybe even longer)