I like your non prequel classic card backs and expanded universe ones quite a lot actually. But i noticed you never made one for Luke as a Jedi in Return of the Jedi in the so called "vaderish" tunic.
My favorite figure was always that Luke figure with the green lightsaber and cloak, but the early version had a blue lightsaber. I guess that would be the revenge of the jedi version.
I never bought any prequel figures though i almost bought the maul master replicas FX swords. Maul is one of the few things i like about the prequels including Padme. Hayden had the look well enough he just could not act, or perhaps acting like a child and being a young bratty teenager was George's design, i don't know.
The Look of Episode II and III i have very liitle problem with. The plot and scripts and dialogue leave a lot to be desired, but a few rewrites and another screenwriter could have salvaged things.
Anakin being a sullen and creapy asshole really does not match the Good Anakin Obi Wan told us about in the originals. Perhaps now we are to infer obi wan is a liar of the first magnitude right up there with Palpatine.
If you read the secret history of star wars you find the Phantom Menace had quite a few drafts whereas in II and III its started in the art department and pre viz and Lucas script came very late, and there were much less work and attention paid to the script. Lucas got all the raw footage he needed and coverage and decided to craft the story during the editing.
I see the prequels as a version of the backstory and more of an EU add on than anything and a mediocre to decent one at that. That does not mean i accept them as the canon beginnings of the ot that should not have been left aside for 20 years. The man got rusty and forgot the oot.
To me the real backstory has yet to be revealed. If and that is a big if Lucas ever allows the old story plots to be published as notes or scripts and outlines kind of like the annotated screenplays. A book that shows the genesis of the prequels from the seventies concept up to what we ultimetely got.
If we take Kurtz on his word Episodes 1-3, and VI VII VIII and IX would have been very different. Leia not the sister, Emporer not seen til much much later. Leia becomes a queen of her people and ends up with neither luke or han. Luke Becomes the new Kenobi type character who passes the torch down to the next generation of jedi in episodes 10, 11 and 12.
Of course Empire Strikes Back altered the original I-II and III because Vader was the killer of Lukes father and not his father and the first 3 would have dealt with Lukes Father, Vader and Obi Wan Kenobi and the old republic and the clone wars as well as revealed the mandalores the people of fett.
Other people would say we ended up with a more closed universe because of the changes in empire strikes back and return of the jedi. I actually think Having Vader as the Father and Leia as the sister makes things more interesting. It gives star wars mythic depth like the old greek stories. where before the episodes 1-12 arc was just random sci fi adventure tales like burroughs mars or flash gordon.
Oh yeah and if padme lived until the years between III and IV Return of the Jedi would not have to be ruined but that is a story for another time.
Having Luke trained to kill the killer of his father makes the story very cut and dry. All Luke has to do is kill vader and avenge his father, rather than Vader is his father and therefore Luke has to examine the darkness within himself.
