Tell me I'm not the only one that died inside when I saw the light slingshot

[ANAKIN SKYWALKER]

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Tell me what's wrong with that picture.   I seriously don't even want to try and understand their logic behind it either, because nothing anyone says can justify it.  Even if they explained the physics behind it in a perfectly acceptable way, it wouldn't change the fact that a light slingshot would have absolutely zero gain over a blaster, and would just be a waste of technology to even produce, since it wouldn't be able to do something that a standard blaster couldn't. 

If that stays, I will not even give the show a chance.   :-\

[QUI-GON JINN]

Nope, you're not the only one.... ::)

[Link]

Wow, talk about reaching! Even for a kids show that is just crossing the line. The  tron disc saber was one thing.... but now this????? Someone needs to be fired!!!

[Darth Hizzo]

I completely agree with your sentiment towards the light slingshot.

However, for boredom's sake, I'm going to try and justify it.  We know the show revolves around the beginning of the anti-empire rebellion.  It is a rag-tag bunch with vastly inferior technology compared to the galactic empire.  Perhaps the show creators wanted to reinforce the whole 'outmatched' mentality by giving the protagonist a weapon seemingly inferior to whatever the empire has.  It's like the whole David and Goliath concept -- you might be big and mighty but I can topple you with a slingshot with enough willpower.  Maybe he built the slingshot himself. 

My idea doesn't really hold up considering everyone else in the picture is using blasters and stuff.

[ANAKIN SKYWALKER]

The point is, with the same technology that you would need to build a light slingshot, you could definitely build a blaster, and maybe a lightsaber too (both simultaneously, not either/or). 

That's like taking an f-22 and putting the engine of an f-16 into it.  It requires way more engineering processes, and in the end, what you get is inferior to the original. 

[Darth Hizzo]

Yeah, but Disney needs a cool new Star Warsy thing to sell as a toy to kids, and a 'cool' slingshot would be perfect.  It'll make parents who think that guns (or anything that looks like a gun including blasters) shouldn't be toys happy.

[LUMINARA UNDULI]

I can't even express how stupid that is ::).

[Wildcard]

The "Light Spit Wads" and "Light Rubber Bands", on the other hand, would liven up the office cubies!

In all seriousness - I also can't, and don't even want to, contemplate what they were thinking regarding this creation.

The "Light Spray Can", for instant precision-etched graffiti, will probably follow next to make their new characters even more 'cool'. After he takes out a base with his light slingshot, he can etch his tag over the entrance with his light spray can.

[Bruce Wayne]

Let this sink in: According to Disney's new "canon" policy, this show, as it is a part of their new media going forward, will most likely be canon to the Star Wars universe, but The Force Unleashed won't be.

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Yeah, I know, right?!

[Mortoff]

A wrist rocket!!!  Awesome!  Actually, it's really not that awesome.  It's childish and somewhat incongruous with the technology of the Star Wars universe.  It's like somebody wasn't even really trying...

[LUMINARA UNDULI]

Let this sink in: According to Disney's new "canon" policy, this show, as it is a part of their new media going forward, will most likely be canon to the Star Wars universe, but The Force Unleashed won't be.

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Yeah, I know, right?!

 :'( :'( :'(

[Clark Kent]

no way!!! that's so cool, a light-slingshot. i always wanted one of those.

HAHAHAHAHAHA, there goes the neighbourhood. so much for the franchise.

well, it was fun while it lasted, lets pack up our things and leave. hahahahaha

[Askew Wai]

Those convergent beams - it's an early Death Star prototype! Lightshot Boy is probably almost as powerful as some hokey religion!

Oh wait he's targeting himself.

[madcow]

An idea which should be tossed into the same trash bucket as the black lightsaber blade IMHO.

Now a gauntlet mini rail gun, or nanobot shooter, or even an instant-distraction-deployment-system...

[KI-ADI-MUNDI]

As far as Star Wars tec it probably works similar to the pink energy beams that hold the pods on the POD racers together...