CO said:

Now as I have said, this set will still sell like hotcakes, but I firmly believe the NOOO change was the turning point in the 'casual' fan getting fed up with all the OT changes. When the 04 Set came out, there was not as much anger as I have seen by fans and columnists.

Back then there was no Twitter of FB. I strongly believe that's the main reason so many people now know what crap the box set is before buying it.

Newscasts, reviews etc links could be shared in forums and blogs, but now those same blogs or posts or whatever go viral in a few minutes due to twitter, so even if you don't like or care about SW in this case but follow someone that follows someone that does and RT an article about how shit these are, BAM!

There you have the news/links available to people, where otherwise wouldn't have heard of all this any other way.

Just imagine what it would have been like if Twitter (and overall number of people using the internet) existed back in May 1999 or in 97 - I imagine the backlash against Lucas would have been even worse than it is now.

I'm really happy it's getting so bad reviews all over the place, Lucas, Lusasfilm and the people involved deserve the hate they're getting IMO.

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PS. BTW, I first heard about the changes from a tweet by @SWRevisited last Thursday. Had forgotten these were about to come out simply because I stopped caring a long time ago, so I'm one example of my post above hehe.