The Chewbacca action figure seems to have dispelled the early spoilers that Chewie would have a robotic arm in VII.

We've seen Tie Fighters, Stormtroopers, X-Wings, and now an obvious Darth Vader clone. I don't think watching these sequels will be particularly necessary since we've seen this all before.

The problems with the prequels wasn't that they gave us new material. It was that they gave us bad new material. It looks like the sequels are going to play it completely safe and offer nothing new.