Mandalorian S3 will make it the sequel trilogy.
Agree although it's a tangential story, it's somewhat been working to that end for me.
The ST was a double whammy for him. Not only disappointing film-wise, but, "The sales were awful."
It's no wonder we're seeing so much Hot Toys love poured onto The Mandalorian. For Howard it's a return to the very things that initially made him a Star Wars fan.
Hence anticipation for a Mando Luke, despite only slight tunic and robe change from ROTJ.
I think many (me included) want to commemorate the moment of the "rescue" on their shelf, not just of Grogu, but when Favreau and co.
rescued the still positive hope-filled Luke.
His appearance in the Rescue, and moment for now marks his last appearance in canon before the failed, hopeless, cowardly, fear driven, betrayal of the ST.
Given the above [bold], I imagined Howard would have jumped on that opportunity to put his figure out there.
I want him to pour the same onto Obi-Wan and Cassian.
Which is also why the neglect of R1 Cassian (not even a prototype) makes me wonder if Howard was ever a great fan of the character?
Even his droid, he programed to be more human, as his own humanity slipped away, got a figure before him.
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Recognizing he is not an easy character to like, (as are K2, or Chirrut) he's by design not that unique looking, and he's morally complicated.
Although to me his character and presence are somewhat the most symbolic reference to the one line culled from the original crawl-
"Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon, ...." That's him, for me he's become the visual face of that OT line. Which makes his continued figure absence all the more frustrating.
Without him that snapshot is incomplete. Unfortunately we may never get a R1 specific Andor.
Yet I imagine most certainly his new series will finally bring us a version of him.
if not, however this eventually got made, with Tony Gilroy show-running, I imagine Andor becoming somewhat the Star Wars equivalent of ...
