I've got three or four Gamestops near me. I might have to check one out next time I'm going to get more Funko Pops.
Star Wars: Episode VII: The Nerd Rage Awakens
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I've got three or four Gamestops near me. I might have to check one out next time I'm going to get more Funko Pops.
And people give Lucas crap over dialog?
Gamestop was once known as Funkoland years ago... or was that Funcoland?
Just got around to listening to these. High quality my ass. I have a speak and spell that has better fidelity.
Kylo's dialog sounded pretty wooden and lifeless. Hopefully that has more to do with it being heard out of context than any problem with the performance.
, to me he sounds extremely bored and lifeless, I don't know, we'll see. Finn and the Trooper both sound good. I. Don’t. Know. What. To. Do! made me chuckle.
On the bright side, he'll probably get more lines of dialogue than Darth Maul had in both Episode I and all of that movie's theatrical and television trailers combined. 
If those are from talking dolls, do we actually know if that's Driver or Boyega? Isn't most of that sort or merchandise usually done by lesser known (cheaper) voice actors?
Kylo sounded a little mechanical, possibly due to the fact of his face being masked, or the recording process for the figure.
I didn't like all of the lines, but "Don't be afraid" was probably the one where I felt the most of what the character could be.
Finn's lines were interesting and fun. I'm hoping context of the film will better inform the characters. Right now, I find Kylo to be the most interesting, but that's just based upon what little we have seen,
I didn't like all of the lines, but "Don't be afraid" was probably the one where I felt the most of what the character could be.
Finn's lines were interesting and fun. I'm hoping context of the film will better inform the characters. Right now, I find Kylo to be the most interesting, but that's just based upon what little we have seen,
The CommTech voice chips packaged with the 1999-2000 Episode I action figures used movie dialogue (and occasionally even cut lines that didn't appear in the actual film), but Hasbro hired soundalike voice actors to record the dialogue for most of the chips. I think only some of the droid figure chips (R2-D2 and the Battle and Destroyer Droids) used the actual sound effects heard in the movie.
JJ has brought us to this - parsing the electronic snippets of dialogue from toys. 
Those definitely sound like they were taken from the film audio. Adam Driver has a very distinct voice that does usually make him sound kind of bored, stoned and petulant.
Which makes me wonder (and kind of dread) if Patrick Warburton is doing voices for the Stormtroopers. Several of those samples sound like someone doing an impression of him at a minimum.
Which makes me wonder (and kind of dread) if Patrick Warburton is doing voices for the Stormtroopers. Several of those samples sound like someone doing an impression of him at a minimum.
Joe Swanson the Stormtrooper: "Freeze, Resistance dirtbag! Now stand still while I roll over there and put these magnetic binders on you!
I said stand still! Hey, get back here!!"
I said stand still! Hey, get back here!!"
Finn was channeling his inner Shatner there for a moment.
Even at the tender age of 12 (or so) the voice acting was passable, at best on the Commtech. I think Qui-Gon's might have been the worst but that might be due to Liam Neeson's distinctive voice.
Regardless, there must be so sort of contract thing with it, because I always thought it was weird that lines from the movie could not be used.
Darth Maul's three different CommTech figures probably had more combined dialogue than the actual character did throughout the entire film.
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I remember those Comm Tech chips, I have a whole box of them somewhere. Couldn't tell you what they sounded like though, because I didn't care enough to allow myself to get screwed into buying the chip reader. If I recall correctly, it looked exactly like a giant freaky Lady Bic razor though.
Anyway on a side note, it occurs to me from Finn's dialogue that he may have taken his name from the first two letters of his Stormtrooper ID number, FN2187. The last four digits of course being an obvious homage to Leia's cell number from A New Hope.
I wonder if we'll meet his brother, FN1138.
Anyway on a side note, it occurs to me from Finn's dialogue that he may have taken his name from the first two letters of his Stormtrooper ID number, FN2187. The last four digits of course being an obvious homage to Leia's cell number from A New Hope.
I wonder if we'll meet his brother, FN1138.
So is he a clone?
