DuracellEnergizer said:

gizzy2000 said:

I hope the new minor characters have cool names again, like Biggs Darklighter or Boba Fett or Max Rebo. I feel like as time went on all the background characters started getting completely stupid sounding names, like how they changed Walrus Man's name to "Ponda Baba".

"Walrus man" is more of a descriptor than an in-universe name, so I don't really think they "changed" it, but whatever.

Well, back in the early days of Star Wars toys, they sold his figure at toy stores, and the box said "Walrus Man". I'm not sure when they gave him a name, but my point is that pretty much all the characters who didn't have a name when the OT came out (regardless of whether it's said on screen or not) ended up getting completely weird names, and I do think it was the prequels that started this. It's almost like george randomly mixed up letters and took whatever word he got and made it a name. Like Gloomu Poognu, Ghorbon Moogufu, Lumon Klagnon...