For me, the biggest crime against Legends books (besides not selling them) is when audiobooks of them are abridged. Nobody should be paying full price for only part of a book, I want the entire thing, and that's why I got into the Fate of the Jedi series before something like Legacy of the Force because the former isn't chopped up. Also the narrator is really good.
I totally agree. I'm massively turned off from listening to audiobooks when they're abridged. Considering what you pay for a fun audio experience, I want the whole book.
@@lonelystrategos Dear lord I didn’t notice it until you just said it, I was about to call you a fool until I checked my audible and sure enough… Damn. I’m not mad, just disappointed.
I remember reading these as my first Star Wars books, I still remember these vividly but didn’t know they stopped printing them. They opened the gates to my appreciation of legends
I bought the entire ‘legends’ collection of novels SO CHEAP when Disney bought Star Wars and they made them redundant. I won’t read anything new. No comics or anything.
@@AshanBhatoa It's kind of a pitfall of getting so many new TV shows and films now, so understandably the novels would take a backseat to being the main driver of the post-film story. Stories back in the day like Mando were told primarily through the novels, so to say that the new canon's novels are on the same tier as the old canon's doesn't really make sense. Young Jedi Knights would be told as a TV show. Vector Prime or Star by Star would only occur in a crossover event or a feature length film. That's just the new motto. The positive tradeoff is, evidently, getting a full visual production of an important story. The negative tradeoff is that none of the new canon novels feel important to the overall narrative at all. There's some good stories of course (High Republic, Lost Stars, Thrawn Ascendancy come to mind) but none of them are really substantial or anything more than periphery material. The old EU had a good balance of important stories being told across ALL mediumsé
Media preservation is very important, and there are sadly too many great stories out there that have been almost or totally forgotten from multiple ip's. I'll check out the petition, try and do some good.
Yeah one thing I love about books, so many have been made way before movies became a thing so there are tons of stories that were made by various authors who most likely have something really good to tell.
@@owenparris7490 Yeah there are a ton of video games that just get lost since consoles or Microsoft either can't or just don't want to make sure those are still playable. Luckily there are still people out there who make them work still.
@@popo0129 Yeah no. I used to love EU but alas, 90% of it was pure trash. There were maybe 4-5 good authors and 7-8 passable ones. I find it really funny how KJA books went from being seen as worst of hated author to "beloved series" now. I you asked SW fan in the 90s (or Dune fan right now) what they think of his works, the "unadulterated garbage" would be among the most flattering words they would find. Rose glasses much?
@@KuK137 If 90% of it was garbage, why did you read all of it? Who spends so much money and time on garbage? And if you haven't, how do you know that 90% was garbage? You sound like a 2014 Disney fanboy.
I managed to track down the entire YJK series in an eBay lot, but would still collect the rereleases should they come out. That being said, I feel these should bee released after the inevitable Jedi Academy Trilogy hits the Essential Legends Collection, for continuity's sake.
Disney doesn't care nor want the "loyal" neckbeards that moan and complain about everything, they already make absolute mad bank selling toys to kids, you know, the target demographic of the franchise, rather than trying to appease 40 year olds that live in their mom's basement.
@@bkane573 you obviously don't know much about Star Wars being at the peak of its historical profitability because guess what, those neckbeards still buy the product despite going into their online echo chambers to moan.
Preservation of media is much more important than some people think. They NEED to be put on e-book. Even if you don’t like e-books, they are incredibly important for the preservation of the books.
The big problem I have with e-books is they are digital. And when you have a digital market, it makes it very easy for someone to edit out parts they don’t like no matter how obvious. A lot of movie buffs were sounding the alarm when they noticed some movies from the ‘80s were getting stealth edits on streaming services. For no other reason than they have “problematic elements”. As a guy who also advocates preservation, going physical is the best way to preserve these classics. If for no other reason to make sure the digital experience is authentic.
@@NathanCassidy721 only issue is that restarting a print run is probably going to be concerningly expensive for the people in charge of the IP who barely care about the EU in the first place.
@@Appletank8 Honestly, it's never been easier to do. Particularly thanks to print on demand that has helped the independent author scene out immensely. Disney has the resources to do it, they just don't want to.
The lack of Galaxy of Fear also really upsets me, honestly. Those novels are shockingly good, significantly better than they get assigned as 'goose bumps clones.' Frankly they tend to exceed Goose Bumps, at least from adult eyes?
I've never read them nor do I know if they're any good at all, but the Jedi Apprentice series is rarely ever spoken of, and there are 18 books in that series. It's been forgotten completely and they're just another example of why Disney needs to do this
@@saberiandream316 That's b/c the Luke in the books is an evolution of the character from New Hope to Jedi. The sequel trilogy was Disney trying to do a soft reset on Star Wars.
Darth Disney: "The EU and their obscure novellas must never again leave Disneyland." Me being an EU Fan : "That wasn't a condition of our arrangement, nor was giving this copyright to a mou-" Darth Disney: "I have altered the deal, pray I do not alter it any further." >Door shutters Me: "This deal is getting worse all the time!" >Door opens Darth Disney: "Furthermore, you must now buy EU books used since we will not go through the trouble of reprinting them." Me: "That was *never* a condition of our arrange-" Darth Disney: "I have altered the deal, pray I do not alter it any further!" >Door shutters. Me: "THIS DEAL IS GETTING WORSE ALL THE TIME!" >Door opens Darth Disney: "Here is a unicycle, you will ride it to every Star Wars Premiere!" Me: "What?! I am NOT riding no fucking unicycle!" Darth Disney: "I have altered the deal, pray I do not alter it any further!" >Door shutters Me: "This deal.....is very *fair* and i am happy to be part of it!" (God am I familiar with out of print books in a super popular franchise.... Magic and Star Wars are now like cousins, in that regard.)
Don’t remind me of Magic’s out of print obscurity… Besides both SW and magic have it easy. I bought brand new books in 2014 that are now worth 3x what I paid. And paid 70 for an obscure book from the 50s to get three lines of text for an article…
@@captiannemo1587 This intrigues me. What franchise/story and what were the titles? I am not surprised in general since for better or worse, books being out of print is not the rarest thing.
@@twenty-fifth420 Very specialty print. A Gun for all Nations the 37mm Gun and Ammunition VOL I & II Set 1870-1913 & 1914-1926 Robert A. Mellichamp. In 2015 a set ran 45 ea or 90 USD. In 2020 a set on ebay was selling for 450 usd. It had a slight reprint (about 50 copies of each volume) in 2020 but its still difficult to find. The book from the 50s was a copy of The Story of the Royal Army Service Corps 1939-1945 printed in 1955. Cost me 70 at the time, back in 2019. It's just a bit hard to come by.
These books were also my intro to the Star Wars EU and probably the biggest reason I dislike the sequel trilogy to this day. Disney cast away perfectly ready-to-use characters from these as well as the Thrawn books for their money grab series.
@@AshanBhatoa Idk, why did Lord of the Rings work? Why did Harry Potter work? Why did Hunger Games work? Why did Twilight work? Why didn't Eragon work? Why didn't Divergent work? It's about staying true to existing lore and good production value. I'm not saying the movies had to follow each of the various book series, but why discard the characters (and thus their stories) that your most hardcore fans have invested their time and money into. Your average person on the street won't know who Darth Caedus is, but a long time fan seeing that on screen is going to be so excited. And the average person from the street is still in that same theater, whether the characters are Rey and Ben or Jacen and Jaina, they're just going to go see "the next Star Wars movie" regardless.
Disney will not do that because Disney and the authors have been fighting about royalties. The whole point they made galaxies edge the NEW star wars stuff and not OG is because they are distancing all the older material as much as possible to save costs.
@@kou335 those same fans still consume new canon material, they just like to complain online. Star Wars has never been as profitable as it is right now.
@@JediAcolyte94 you can keep fooling yourself, neckbeard, but sales figures don't lie, all Disney-era SW movies beat revenue records one after the other with the exception of Solo.
@@JediAcolyte94 The only new cannon are the sequels, R1, Solo, Mandoverse and a few comics/books. All of them, except for Solo and 2 comics, have beaten sales record after sales record. Star Wars has never in history been as profitable as it is right now. Sad neckbeards like you can cry and moan for the rest of your pathetic existences, Disney is laughing all the way to the bank.
The Stackpole/Allston +/- Anderson erasure has been...weird. The Zahn trilogy at least gets some love, but it's like Disney has forgotten that it was this era of novels that kept Star Wars alive.
I think that Disney/Lucasfilm want to entirely replace the "Legends" books/works with their new politically correct works. Fits with them going woke - wipe out the past.
@@Wien1938 Instantly lost me with the "it's because they went woke" stuff. 2014 was a long time ago dude, it's cynically-minded corporate behavior, not your thinly-veiled Replacement Theory substitute or whatever the fuck
I honestly wished they continued some of the Legend series. I read Legacy a year ago as well as this one comic that has to do with the beginning of the Jedi and Sith in their home planet and it was really cool and interesting. I kind of get they want to continue their own version but I feel like there isn't any harm in continuing them. I read this series that was based on Obi Wan called Star Wars, Last of the Jedi and I honestly thing its way better then what we got from the TV series. Basically Obi Wan goes on one last mission to rescue a Jedi who he finds out is still alive and after book two, the story continues with this Jedi. The first two books were like two books I loved reading as a kid and they didn't nerf Obi Wan and just copy and paste Luke from episode 8 into it. It was just a fun adventure to read about and picture in your head. I would maybe want that to see a rerelease but I would see why they wouldn't do it.
It's always sad when the only way to get something is to pirate it. These books were my first introduction into any sort of expanded universe, and I wish they'd get a proper rerelease, or at least a reprinting.
Hey Justin, thanks a lot for sharing the petition brother! It was my goal from the start to get the big channels in our community to take notice and spread the word. It's extremely hard with my small channel but we keep pushing. 🙏
So can we go all Darth Malgus on the Sith Dark Council of Disney to get this done? LOL Seriously though, I grew up with the old EU. Tom Veitch just died a few months ago too, and it's a shame that his work, like so many others, was treated so callously and disrespectfully by the pundits we're stuck with now. More power to ya Eck.
Why are you surprised? Disney has been dropping the ball on the EU since day 1 of acquisition. From needlessly publicly stating its new definition of canon (no one asked, no need to piss off half the community who spend money too) to refusing to update existing material and outright canceling very promising concepts and projects. Disney has mishandled almost every aspect of the franchise to the point of alienating most of the existing fanbase which promptly retreated to established "Legends" media. And they're still doing it.
@@abrashio I'll never forgive him for what he did to the clones and the mandalorians. But like I said, his stuff is at least watchable most of the time. Hence mediocre at best.
@@XeroTenjin93 yep. He can only win me over in full if delta and omega show up with the nulls in bad batch season 2 or the Mandalorian. We were already screwed over in regards to Luke's Jedi Praxeum thanks to JJ but if we can get Clan Skirata and Jusik Bardek I will be ecstatic.
My public library had one of these books and I was always sad that they didn't have the rest of the series. It was a great story and I will never forget the excitement of finding out about the next generation of Star Wars characters.
I still distinctly remember the Tenel Ka losing an arm storyline... these were excellent books, it's nuts that they're not accessible today. Thank you for bringing this to your fanbase's attention Justin!
I loved the young jedi knights series and I know it's expanded universe like thrown, tales of the jedi, dark empire and the like. But they are so rich with amazing stories they need to be preserved and kept alive. I also feel they are far better than the last 3 films we got.
Perhaps it's time for Star Wars fans to start making media conservation sites. If Disney's going to take away the history of the brand, the history must be saved before it's too late. If copies of these books are saved online, then people can continue to read them and enjoy the stories they tell for years to come, preserving the community around said IP. Just look at Lego Bionicle. The theme's been gone for years. Lego mostly tries to ignore it. But there's still a strong fan community, building new Lego creations, 3D printing new parts, and even making their own media in the form of movies, video games, and tabletop games. And it's all supported by a massive community effort to preserve the brand's history. Go on to Mask of Destiny, Bionicle Wiki, or Bionicle Sector 01 and you can find all sorts of resources to learn the story of Bionicle. If you want to learn the story, all you have to do is go to Wall of History on the Mask of Destiny home page, where, to my knowledge, every chapter and comic book about Bionicle is preserved. There are no new sets of Bionicle going on to shelves. Lego doesn't seem to care about it anymore. But the fanbase is alive, and stronger than many of the others I've known, in large part because the community took the time to preserve what they were given. And if the same care is given to Star Wars, I believe that this fanbase can survive the dark age it seems to be going through as well.
Well to be fair, I moved from Warhammer from Star Wars. I say it is slightly easier to get the core 40k books then Star Wars EU books. The only franchise I think that is somehow worse is Magic, who has stopped outright reprinting their books and sometimes only printed one edition. You can get 40k books and ebooks. Their problem is GW is just evil british disney and profit gouge the fuck out of us fans. The only hard books to get are the rarer novellas or one-off stories that are not Horus Heresy or modern 40k.
This is why I feel Disney has just turned Star Wars into a War of the Fandom. There really is no reason that they couldn't keep the old Canon (yes I understand they can be messy because some books and short stories don't always fit perfectly, but I would have assumed that would have been someone's job at Lucasarts to keep track of that stuff) other than it didn't fit J.J. Abram's fan script.
Those were the books that got me into reading! They were lots of fun! Loved the original trilogy he wrote too for the founding of the academy, even though so many parts were cheest
I liked the star wars movies as a kid but it wasn't untill I read the young Jedi knights series that I became a fan of star wars. Really hope Disney gives these legends stories thier due. They kept star wars alive for nearly a decade
I own about 40 (legends) Expanded universe books including the Young Jedi Knight series. If there is any way I can help preserve these works (legally) I would. These stories should not get lost to the sands of time.
I want to hear Eck read a book! And I never got the chance to read these books and would love to go through the series myself, thanks for shouting out the petition!
Man, I remember spending far too much time looking for the cheapest offer for used Star Wars books and still spending too much (especially NJO books in my country).
Disney had a pile of Harry Potter money staring them in the face and they passed it up. They burnt down a potential "Space Wizard School" IP. Seriously, YA Space Wizard School Adventures. Even as a *bad* movie it would have made bank because that stuff is TIMELESS with youth. Didn't even need the Solo twins. Just, lets set up movie 7 with LukeDumbledore and his next-generation of Jedi heroes. Make it a refuge for those 30 something Harry Potter fans fleeing it as it burns down as well.
There's another series called Junior Jedi Knights which follows the third solo sibling Anakin solo and those books are also out of print and the final one is ridiculously expensive to get like it's average selling price is $80
At my old job I found a collection of the Young Jedi Knights books. I read the first and loved it but was unable to access the collection later on. I’ve been looking for the series and would buy it in a heartbeat if it were to be re-released. Thank you for sharing!
@@Finoid_ TRUE! Other than pumping the algorithm it is indeed a shallow achievement. But hey, engagement is engagement. Better than youtube crypto comment spam
I just listened to the Revan audio book. It is about what happens to him after the kotor game. It also goes into what the sith were doing between kotor 2 and the old republic mmo game. It is a good book and goes deeper into how powerful the sith emperor was and that not all sith agreed with what he was doing.
The Revan novel is terrible. It actively goes against everything the KOTOR games established about that character which made him so interesting. To say nothing of the Jedi Exile, who's treatment was fucking insulting. I fully believe Bioware has made an active effort to undermine what obsidian was trying to do in KOTOR 2 with how those elements have been treated in SWTOR. That or they truly did not understand any of it
@@saberiandream316 100% agree. I want to see the sword of the jedi trilogy we were promised before the buy out. I don't see why legends can't exist along side disney cannon. Other than money of course.
Thanks for drawing attention to the X-Wing audiobooks, the sound effects from the films really bring them to life. As a kid in school I had the occasional star wars book, but mostly got star wars books from the school and local libraries, so there are huge gaps in the EU books I've read. If they keep bringing out EU audiobooks I'll probably keep buying them
The Legacy of the Force series was some of my favorite Star Wars content to ever exist, and I'd like it to not be forgotten. Same with the Jedi Academy Trilogy with Kyp Durron.
I bought book one and I still have to start it lol. I heard about some of the stuff that happens in that series and it sounded super interesting that I bought the first book in hopes to maybe get into it. Honestly felt like the EU did more justice with Luke then the movies did.
Eck, great usage of Jedi Academy as your visual for this video lol. I had it for GameCube and although I wish I had the PC Version with the cheat codes to enable blood and loss of limbs (because c'mon, we never really got to see what a Lightsaber could do in ACTUAL (VIRTUAL) Combat). But I loved the game and it is how I learned about Marka Ragnos and Dark Jedi ajd then launched my interests into the early Star Wars EU. But great channel and keep up the good work!
These books are the reason I got really into sci-fi and am a reader. I had seen the Star Wars movies and Star Trek TNG but to have story lines about people my age was really cool to me. Having it in book form made reading fun for me. These are the first books I remember being excited to read. I would love to have copies of these again.
Always huge supporter of keeping legends stories alive and i really hope that new Star Wars fans will realize how important that is for new stories too.
They do. Especially since the new narratives reference the old often. Fans of the new comic series attain greater knowledge of the West End Games callbacks the comics do every once in a while.
I remember reading young jedi knights as a kid. I think I was 13 or 14. I loved them! But even then it was so painful to find all the books. It was pretty much impossible. A friend had the first book, while I had book 2-12(I don't 100% remember which books I had). There is so many great moments and stories in that series. I still remember Diversity alliance and how that was so interesting to read, and I also liked the character of Anja Gallandro. I hope one day I will be able to have them as audiobooks.
As a fan of Star Wars who only recently got in to the legends thanks to tapcaf transmission it really annoying that a lot of legends story like the truce at bakura, Jedi academy, Callista,I jedi, Corellian trilogy and Black fleet crisis just to name some aren’t available in UK E book stores luckily I have a VPN and made a US Amazon account and suddenly I’m able to buy and read them but to have such a large part of Star Wars block form fans is really annoying
These were my second star wars books. My very first SW book was Heir to the Empire. 'Legends' is very dear to my heart and I was sad to see the expanded universe decanonized. Especially given the half ass job Disney ended up doing with the sequel trilogy. Legends timeline had its problems. Caugh, caugh Second Galactic Civl war caugh, caugh, but in general its characters were very well written. Nothing would make me sadder than to see these stories lost.
Equally concerning is the replacement of the original EU ebook cover art with the bland new art they’ve been rolling out this year. Amazon has been quietly and forcibly replacing the covers of already purchased books in updates. Imagine my annoyance when the X-Wing covers got swapped.
Well shizzzz* now you got me feeling guilty, as we have some many of the young Jedi Knights series, but only my older brother read them not me, and now we are just donating them away.... not knowing if they will ever be read again.... like flip, idk even know where my older bro got them, cause they sound like they might have been before he was even born, or certainly before he was 6 yrs old....
Rogue One, The Mandalorian, some of Kenobi were flukes. Rest of it is a fail. Solo would've been much better had they used Prince Xizor and Black Sun at the end instead of a certain Sith Obi-Wan bisected via lightsaber on Naboo. That was literally the only movie I seen where, though it was just 5 minutes or so left, I almost walked out of the theatre in disgust.
There are some books that exist as special audiobooks for the blind. The problem with these is only the blind are allowed access to them, which I really don't understand. It's great that they are accessible, but why do they need to be exclusive?
Actually last year, I scoured ebay and a bunch of shops and got all 14 books. I read the first 5 at my local library as a boy because someone had donated them, like you they were one of my first steps into the EU. I think they are some of the greatest stories ever. If I wasnt studying so hard Id be further into the series. They dealt with some very adult ideas which were so expertly done and they introduced some amazing characters
Last year I picked up all my old EU Star Wars novels from my parents’ house. The collection includes all the Young Jedi Knight books. I loved them back in the day, I need to put aside the time to give them a re-read.
I grew up on those stories!!!! I remember I ran I to a guy at the comic book store who did too. You're absolutely right, most people who weren't around in the 90s missed out. I will say it's only flaw seemed that it seemed to get a little convoluted toward the end, but hell, it's 14 books. It's tough to keep being creative after a certain point. But it's a shame, if more people knew about these books, they'd be more upset with the disappointment of 7, 8, and 9 and frustrated with what we could have had. Jaina picking up Han's natural affinity for mechanics. And Jacen's connection with wildlife through the force, their younger brother Anakin dealing with the weight of his grandfather's legacy being his namesake but still afraid to fall to the dark side like him. And then as the reader sitting back and realizing how each of their life choices affect the others, the series is truly well done. You can tell how they took attributes from the 7 8 and 9 characters directly from these stories. And don't worry...... Nobody ever inexplicably says "Somehow....... Palpatine returned...."
For warhammer I wanted to get this one book from the horus heresy which was no longer being printed. Fortunately it was available in e-book form too but I really wanted it in paperback. But because it was no longer being printed, the few copies that were for sale on amazon, were second hand for 200 euros. That's a book that costs 12 euros new. So just imagine how expensive books like this can get.
Am trying to collect as many EU books as I can. So far I have the Thrawn Trilogy, Jedi Academy, and Callista. All pretty good compared to Disney’s movies lol.
Hi, I searched for those books and I find then in a famous online library but I'm not going to share the link for fear that they will sue the bookstore and force them to remove this book from their list. Greetings from Venezuela
When I was in high school, I made an expansive book report, including editing my own video (which was pretty new at the time), about Shadows of the Empire!
EckhartLadder, How down would you be to recode/ read the young jedi knights on your channel? I have one of the books but I believe it is actually the 1st 3 or 4 books rolled into 1. I have dyslexia and would absolutely love to have a recording of my book to help me read along with it.
Just give me the DH comic omnibuses, dammit! I don't want to pay a randos $300 to hold a grubby ass graphic novel. I just need Dark Times 1 and clone wars 2
Neither did George Lucas. It's not a "Disney" thing. LFL is still a separate company. Whether or not you like the content, it doesn't change the facts.
I would totally start reading an eckhartsladder star wars book I haven't read many star wars books, but the ones I did were pretty good, so I would love to listen to them in audiobook format (especially ready by eck lol)
Similar to what Tenel Ka once said after an attack on the Jedi Appracium: We need to leave before everyone comes with us [to Disney]. If not, Master Skywalker won't have any patients left! I loved Tenel Ka's character during the Young Jedi Knight series! So glad I kept all my books. Currently letting my nephew enjoy them :) Will have to ask for them back though so I can make sure I update with Ka's quote correctly lol
The "Disney Empire" owns Star Wars now. All eventually will belong to the Galactic Disney Empire. My first books I read were what are now called the "Thrawn trilogy". Heir to the Empire Dark Force Rising The Last Command By Timothy Zahn
I bet Disney is going to make Lucasfilm give Young Jedi Knights the Tales-of-the-Jedi-treatment... They will probably make an animated series/comic book run that will feature Yoda, young Dooku, young Qui-Gon Jinn or young Obi-Wan Kenobi, slap the "Young Jedi Knights" brand on it (up to a point that the logo would be almost the same), and I bet they will manage to shove Ashoka Tano, Kanan Jarrus, Kal Kestis and TCW jedi younglings into it somehow, and they will behave like the Legends book series never even happened... -_- And there certainly will be prominent, vocal members of fandom that would still applaud them for "because it is now all connected" BS, "insider info" perks or exclusive early viewing to a 276th-minor-background-DisneySW-character-movie/show... -_-
Agree many star wars fan didn’t realize that tales of the Jedi is an old republic content and belong to Tom veitch and Disney didn’t even mention him, instead they used the title to make story about ahsoka and dooku. honestly I’m a bit tired of ahsoka because he was everywhere not every detail should be explained and for dooku I think it’s fine for me but I heard a rumor that they will retcon the dooku Jedi lost novel.
As somebody who owns pretty much every unabridged star wars audio book on audible i can't help but shake my head at disney's incompetence in the ebook department.
I bought these for my daughter last year through abe books. The books mostly ended up coming from various thrift stores and a couple sent the wrong book so I had to reorder, but they were all under 10$ a piece so if you have a kid that would like to read them or to read them yourself abe books is a good resource!
For me, the biggest crime against Legends books (besides not selling them) is when audiobooks of them are abridged. Nobody should be paying full price for only part of a book, I want the entire thing, and that's why I got into the Fate of the Jedi series before something like Legacy of the Force because the former isn't chopped up. Also the narrator is really good.
I totally agree. I'm massively turned off from listening to audiobooks when they're abridged. Considering what you pay for a fun audio experience, I want the whole book.
Didn't notice the audiobook for Outbound Flight was abridged until it was too late. It's really bad.
That sounds so classically Disney I don’t even know which emotion to start with
@@lonelystrategos Dear lord I didn’t notice it until you just said it, I was about to call you a fool until I checked my audible and sure enough… Damn.
I’m not mad, just disappointed.
@@bkane573 Do I sense a sarcastic disturbance in the force? XD
I remember reading these as my first Star Wars books, I still remember these vividly but didn’t know they stopped printing them. They opened the gates to my appreciation of legends
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Star Wars recent lore just reads as cookie cutter version. My paperback collection of old books is a FINE addition to my collection.
I bought the entire ‘legends’ collection of novels SO CHEAP when Disney bought Star Wars and they made them redundant.
I won’t read anything new. No comics or anything.
What examples do you have?
Individuals tend to claim this concerning the canonical continuity and yet provide nothing to substantiate the perspective.
@@Lanterns_light Missing out.
@@AshanBhatoa It's kind of a pitfall of getting so many new TV shows and films now, so understandably the novels would take a backseat to being the main driver of the post-film story. Stories back in the day like Mando were told primarily through the novels, so to say that the new canon's novels are on the same tier as the old canon's doesn't really make sense. Young Jedi Knights would be told as a TV show. Vector Prime or Star by Star would only occur in a crossover event or a feature length film. That's just the new motto. The positive tradeoff is, evidently, getting a full visual production of an important story. The negative tradeoff is that none of the new canon novels feel important to the overall narrative at all. There's some good stories of course (High Republic, Lost Stars, Thrawn Ascendancy come to mind) but none of them are really substantial or anything more than periphery material. The old EU had a good balance of important stories being told across ALL mediumsé
@@Lanterns_light I'm not against reading anything new, but pretty much every book they have printed since Disney took over seems boring
Media preservation is very important, and there are sadly too many great stories out there that have been almost or totally forgotten from multiple ip's. I'll check out the petition, try and do some good.
Yeah one thing I love about books, so many have been made way before movies became a thing so there are tons of stories that were made by various authors who most likely have something really good to tell.
@@popo0129 Video games, too, can become lost. Cryostasis and Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem were great games that are sadly lost.
@@owenparris7490 Yeah there are a ton of video games that just get lost since consoles or Microsoft either can't or just don't want to make sure those are still playable. Luckily there are still people out there who make them work still.
@@popo0129 Yeah no. I used to love EU but alas, 90% of it was pure trash. There were maybe 4-5 good authors and 7-8 passable ones. I find it really funny how KJA books went from being seen as worst of hated author to "beloved series" now. I you asked SW fan in the 90s (or Dune fan right now) what they think of his works, the "unadulterated garbage" would be among the most flattering words they would find. Rose glasses much?
@@KuK137 If 90% of it was garbage, why did you read all of it? Who spends so much money and time on garbage? And if you haven't, how do you know that 90% was garbage? You sound like a 2014 Disney fanboy.
I managed to track down the entire YJK series in an eBay lot, but would still collect the rereleases should they come out. That being said, I feel these should bee released after the inevitable Jedi Academy Trilogy hits the Essential Legends Collection, for continuity's sake.
YJK was pretty easy to get for a good price, now Junior Jedi Knights on the other hand.
Scan and OCR them
Disney can't give generic quality effort and expect the same loyalty that Star Wars once commanded.
Disney doesn't care nor want the "loyal" neckbeards that moan and complain about everything, they already make absolute mad bank selling toys to kids, you know, the target demographic of the franchise, rather than trying to appease 40 year olds that live in their mom's basement.
@@bkane573 you obviously don't know much about Star Wars being at the peak of its historical profitability because guess what, those neckbeards still buy the product despite going into their online echo chambers to moan.
@@saberiandream316 Neckbeard. Imagine being a 300kg Star Wars neckbeard attached to nostalgia of terrible writting.
@@supermaster2012 Me when the multibillion dollar company needs defending in the youtube comments section
@@rominesque2921 TT games is not a multibillion company, incel.
Preservation of media is much more important than some people think. They NEED to be put on e-book. Even if you don’t like e-books, they are incredibly important for the preservation of the books.
The big problem I have with e-books is they are digital. And when you have a digital market, it makes it very easy for someone to edit out parts they don’t like no matter how obvious.
A lot of movie buffs were sounding the alarm when they noticed some movies from the ‘80s were getting stealth edits on streaming services. For no other reason than they have “problematic elements”.
As a guy who also advocates preservation, going physical is the best way to preserve these classics. If for no other reason to make sure the digital experience is authentic.
@@NathanCassidy721 only issue is that restarting a print run is probably going to be concerningly expensive for the people in charge of the IP who barely care about the EU in the first place.
@@Appletank8 Honestly, it's never been easier to do. Particularly thanks to print on demand that has helped the independent author scene out immensely.
Disney has the resources to do it, they just don't want to.
"Star Wars is making a huge mistake" could have been said literally any time in the last decade and been correct
Except for the mando show
besides rogue one, mando, clone wars season 7, bad batch etc
@@hyper_6761 bad batch is cringe af so is season 7
@@finger3306 ok and? many other people liked it unlike you
Last two decades
The lack of Galaxy of Fear also really upsets me, honestly. Those novels are shockingly good, significantly better than they get assigned as 'goose bumps clones.' Frankly they tend to exceed Goose Bumps, at least from adult eyes?
I remember that series fondly from my school days. I hope this is fixed soon- I'd love to share the love I had for the stories with others.
Boba Fett vs Zombies. Pure awesomeness.
I've never read them nor do I know if they're any good at all, but the Jedi Apprentice series is rarely ever spoken of, and there are 18 books in that series. It's been forgotten completely and they're just another example of why Disney needs to do this
That's the Obi-Wan one right? I loved the those books as a kid.
@@2mccue4u27 I think they focus on Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon, yeah. Not sure
They're for kids and tweens, but yeah they were fun books
Never even heard of these books
Read the first one, it's a good book
Another day, another example of better storytelling than the Sequel Trilogy we all got.
@@saberiandream316 That's b/c the Luke in the books is an evolution of the character from New Hope to Jedi. The sequel trilogy was Disney trying to do a soft reset on Star Wars.
Darth Disney: "The EU and their obscure novellas must never again leave Disneyland."
Me being an EU Fan : "That wasn't a condition of our arrangement, nor was giving this copyright to a mou-"
Darth Disney: "I have altered the deal, pray I do not alter it any further."
>Door shutters
Me: "This deal is getting worse all the time!"
>Door opens
Darth Disney: "Furthermore, you must now buy EU books used since we will not go through the trouble of reprinting them."
Me: "That was *never* a condition of our arrange-"
Darth Disney: "I have altered the deal, pray I do not alter it any further!"
>Door shutters.
Me: "THIS DEAL IS GETTING WORSE ALL THE TIME!"
>Door opens
Darth Disney: "Here is a unicycle, you will ride it to every Star Wars Premiere!"
Me: "What?! I am NOT riding no fucking unicycle!"
Darth Disney: "I have altered the deal, pray I do not alter it any further!"
>Door shutters
Me: "This deal.....is very *fair* and i am happy to be part of it!"
(God am I familiar with out of print books in a super popular franchise.... Magic and Star Wars are now like cousins, in that regard.)
I love that skit!
Don’t remind me of Magic’s out of print obscurity…
Besides both SW and magic have it easy. I bought brand new books in 2014 that are now worth 3x what I paid. And paid 70 for an obscure book from the 50s to get three lines of text for an article…
Unicycle?
I don't like it.
I don't agree with it.
But I accept it.
@@captiannemo1587 This intrigues me. What franchise/story and what were the titles? I am not surprised in general since for better or worse, books being out of print is not the rarest thing.
@@twenty-fifth420 Very specialty print. A Gun for all Nations the 37mm Gun and Ammunition VOL I & II Set 1870-1913 & 1914-1926 Robert A. Mellichamp.
In 2015 a set ran 45 ea or 90 USD. In 2020 a set on ebay was selling for 450 usd. It had a slight reprint (about 50 copies of each volume) in 2020 but its still difficult to find.
The book from the 50s was a copy of The Story of the Royal Army Service Corps 1939-1945 printed in 1955. Cost me 70 at the time, back in 2019. It's just a bit hard to come by.
These books were also my intro to the Star Wars EU and probably the biggest reason I dislike the sequel trilogy to this day. Disney cast away perfectly ready-to-use characters from these as well as the Thrawn books for their money grab series.
Why would being unoriginal have worked?
@@AshanBhatoa Idk, why did Lord of the Rings work? Why did Harry Potter work? Why did Hunger Games work? Why did Twilight work?
Why didn't Eragon work? Why didn't Divergent work?
It's about staying true to existing lore and good production value. I'm not saying the movies had to follow each of the various book series, but why discard the characters (and thus their stories) that your most hardcore fans have invested their time and money into. Your average person on the street won't know who Darth Caedus is, but a long time fan seeing that on screen is going to be so excited. And the average person from the street is still in that same theater, whether the characters are Rey and Ben or Jacen and Jaina, they're just going to go see "the next Star Wars movie" regardless.
My elementary school library had the entire young Jedi series in stock. This was about 10 years ago.
Just ad it to the piles of problems it has now ever since Disney took over!
Facts.
I fear the decanonization of legends will lead to the loss of multiple star wars titles in the future
And multiple fans. (In addition to the ones who already walked away.)
Disney will not do that because Disney and the authors have been fighting about royalties. The whole point they made galaxies edge the NEW star wars stuff and not OG is because they are distancing all the older material as much as possible to save costs.
Ironic, seeing as how Disney is now losing money from the Legends fans who want nothing to do with the new canon stuff.
@@kou335 those same fans still consume new canon material, they just like to complain online. Star Wars has never been as profitable as it is right now.
@@JediAcolyte94 you can keep fooling yourself, neckbeard, but sales figures don't lie, all Disney-era SW movies beat revenue records one after the other with the exception of Solo.
@@JediAcolyte94 The only new cannon are the sequels, R1, Solo, Mandoverse and a few comics/books. All of them, except for Solo and 2 comics, have beaten sales record after sales record. Star Wars has never in history been as profitable as it is right now.
Sad neckbeards like you can cry and moan for the rest of your pathetic existences, Disney is laughing all the way to the bank.
The Stackpole/Allston +/- Anderson erasure has been...weird. The Zahn trilogy at least gets some love, but it's like Disney has forgotten that it was this era of novels that kept Star Wars alive.
I think that Disney/Lucasfilm want to entirely replace the "Legends" books/works with their new politically correct works. Fits with them going woke - wipe out the past.
@@Wien1938 ah yes, the classic "blame the gems". Looks like 1939 is back in the menu boys.
@@supermaster2012 what do you mean by blame the gems? Is he a NAZI?
@@JediAcolyte94 I'm not saying it's not, it just shows you hate gems.
@@Wien1938 Instantly lost me with the "it's because they went woke" stuff. 2014 was a long time ago dude, it's cynically-minded corporate behavior, not your thinly-veiled Replacement Theory substitute or whatever the fuck
I honestly wished they continued some of the Legend series. I read Legacy a year ago as well as this one comic that has to do with the beginning of the Jedi and Sith in their home planet and it was really cool and interesting. I kind of get they want to continue their own version but I feel like there isn't any harm in continuing them.
I read this series that was based on Obi Wan called Star Wars, Last of the Jedi and I honestly thing its way better then what we got from the TV series. Basically Obi Wan goes on one last mission to rescue a Jedi who he finds out is still alive and after book two, the story continues with this Jedi. The first two books were like two books I loved reading as a kid and they didn't nerf Obi Wan and just copy and paste Luke from episode 8 into it. It was just a fun adventure to read about and picture in your head. I would maybe want that to see a rerelease but I would see why they wouldn't do it.
It's always sad when the only way to get something is to pirate it. These books were my first introduction into any sort of expanded universe, and I wish they'd get a proper rerelease, or at least a reprinting.
Hey Justin, thanks a lot for sharing the petition brother! It was my goal from the start to get the big channels in our community to take notice and spread the word. It's extremely hard with my small channel but we keep pushing. 🙏
Reads the title...
Me: Tell me something I don't know
So can we go all Darth Malgus on the Sith Dark Council of Disney to get this done? LOL
Seriously though, I grew up with the old EU. Tom Veitch just died a few months ago too, and it's a shame that his work, like so many others, was treated so callously and disrespectfully by the pundits we're stuck with now.
More power to ya Eck.
*Tom Veitch
Disney once again proving they’re out of touch and deserve none of our money.
Why are you surprised? Disney has been dropping the ball on the EU since day 1 of acquisition. From needlessly publicly stating its new definition of canon (no one asked, no need to piss off half the community who spend money too) to refusing to update existing material and outright canceling very promising concepts and projects. Disney has mishandled almost every aspect of the franchise to the point of alienating most of the existing fanbase which promptly retreated to established "Legends" media.
And they're still doing it.
Yep.
@@TheLastKentuckyIrregular9524 Probably why filoni's stuff has only ever felt mediocre at best.
@@XeroTenjin93 people love him but I dislike the idea of the chip implants and what was done to Mandalore
@@abrashio I'll never forgive him for what he did to the clones and the mandalorians. But like I said, his stuff is at least watchable most of the time. Hence mediocre at best.
@@XeroTenjin93 yep. He can only win me over in full if delta and omega show up with the nulls in bad batch season 2 or the Mandalorian. We were already screwed over in regards to Luke's Jedi Praxeum thanks to JJ but if we can get Clan Skirata and Jusik Bardek I will be ecstatic.
Companies often have all the simple answers laid before them, they just simply choose not to for reasons beyond me
My public library had one of these books and I was always sad that they didn't have the rest of the series. It was a great story and I will never forget the excitement of finding out about the next generation of Star Wars characters.
I still distinctly remember the Tenel Ka losing an arm storyline... these were excellent books, it's nuts that they're not accessible today. Thank you for bringing this to your fanbase's attention Justin!
I always wanted to read the Jedi Apprentice and Young Jedi Knights series, but they're both out of print and not even available as ebooks.
I wish they would reprint every old Star Wars book. Reading e-books has only half the charm.
I loved the young jedi knights series and I know it's expanded universe like thrown, tales of the jedi, dark empire and the like. But they are so rich with amazing stories they need to be preserved and kept alive. I also feel they are far better than the last 3 films we got.
Perhaps it's time for Star Wars fans to start making media conservation sites. If Disney's going to take away the history of the brand, the history must be saved before it's too late. If copies of these books are saved online, then people can continue to read them and enjoy the stories they tell for years to come, preserving the community around said IP.
Just look at Lego Bionicle. The theme's been gone for years. Lego mostly tries to ignore it. But there's still a strong fan community, building new Lego creations, 3D printing new parts, and even making their own media in the form of movies, video games, and tabletop games. And it's all supported by a massive community effort to preserve the brand's history. Go on to Mask of Destiny, Bionicle Wiki, or Bionicle Sector 01 and you can find all sorts of resources to learn the story of Bionicle. If you want to learn the story, all you have to do is go to Wall of History on the Mask of Destiny home page, where, to my knowledge, every chapter and comic book about Bionicle is preserved.
There are no new sets of Bionicle going on to shelves. Lego doesn't seem to care about it anymore. But the fanbase is alive, and stronger than many of the others I've known, in large part because the community took the time to preserve what they were given. And if the same care is given to Star Wars, I believe that this fanbase can survive the dark age it seems to be going through as well.
Warhammer has the same problem, I don't understand why these books can't be made to order. I wouldn't mind paying extra .
Well to be fair, I moved from Warhammer from Star Wars. I say it is slightly easier to get the core 40k books then Star Wars EU books.
The only franchise I think that is somehow worse is Magic, who has stopped outright reprinting their books and sometimes only printed one edition.
You can get 40k books and ebooks. Their problem is GW is just evil british disney and profit gouge the fuck out of us fans. The only hard books to get are the rarer novellas or one-off stories that are not Horus Heresy or modern 40k.
Palpy: Did you ever hear the……
New Star Wars fans: Yes, we already heard.
Palpy: Adventures of the Solo twins?
New fans: What?
This is why I feel Disney has just turned Star Wars into a War of the Fandom. There really is no reason that they couldn't keep the old Canon (yes I understand they can be messy because some books and short stories don't always fit perfectly, but I would have assumed that would have been someone's job at Lucasarts to keep track of that stuff) other than it didn't fit J.J. Abram's fan script.
Those were the books that got me into reading! They were lots of fun! Loved the original trilogy he wrote too for the founding of the academy, even though so many parts were cheest
I still haven't read Young and Junior Jedi Knights..
I wish the remaining over 100 books were released as audio books..
I met Kevin J Anderson at a Comic-Con in 2015 and got the 1st YJK Book signed!
He is my favorite writer alone tom veich and James luceno
I liked the star wars movies as a kid but it wasn't untill I read the young Jedi knights series that I became a fan of star wars. Really hope Disney gives these legends stories thier due. They kept star wars alive for nearly a decade
I own about 40 (legends) Expanded universe books including the Young Jedi Knight series. If there is any way I can help preserve these works (legally) I would. These stories should not get lost to the sands of time.
As published: "and cut off his arm."
As transcribed:...
I want to hear Eck read a book! And I never got the chance to read these books and would love to go through the series myself, thanks for shouting out the petition!
Man, I remember spending far too much time looking for the cheapest offer for used Star Wars books and still spending too much (especially NJO books in my country).
I'm convinced that the current brass for Star Wars hold active disdain for Legends material and want to kill it.
Disney had a pile of Harry Potter money staring them in the face and they passed it up. They burnt down a potential "Space Wizard School" IP.
Seriously, YA Space Wizard School Adventures. Even as a *bad* movie it would have made bank because that stuff is TIMELESS with youth. Didn't even need the Solo twins. Just, lets set up movie 7 with LukeDumbledore and his next-generation of Jedi heroes.
Make it a refuge for those 30 something Harry Potter fans fleeing it as it burns down as well.
There's another series called Junior Jedi Knights which follows the third solo sibling Anakin solo and those books are also out of print and the final one is ridiculously expensive to get like it's average selling price is $80
At my old job I found a collection of the Young Jedi Knights books. I read the first and loved it but was unable to access the collection later on. I’ve been looking for the series and would buy it in a heartbeat if it were to be re-released. Thank you for sharing!
Woah 19s... a new record of early for me
Congrats
@@nicktechnubyte1184 I have completed my purpose in life....I can now rest
Doesent really make you better at anything
@@Finoid_ TRUE! Other than pumping the algorithm it is indeed a shallow achievement. But hey, engagement is engagement. Better than youtube crypto comment spam
I just listened to the Revan audio book. It is about what happens to him after the kotor game. It also goes into what the sith were doing between kotor 2 and the old republic mmo game. It is a good book and goes deeper into how powerful the sith emperor was and that not all sith agreed with what he was doing.
The Revan novel is terrible. It actively goes against everything the KOTOR games established about that character which made him so interesting. To say nothing of the Jedi Exile, who's treatment was fucking insulting.
I fully believe Bioware has made an active effort to undermine what obsidian was trying to do in KOTOR 2 with how those elements have been treated in SWTOR. That or they truly did not understand any of it
@@rominesque2921 We deserved a true Kotor 3 instead of that damn MMO.
And both Revan and the Exile deserved better.
The entire legends domain is money that disney is sitting on. They need some good will with older fans and re-releasing legends would go a long way.
@@saberiandream316 100% agree. I want to see the sword of the jedi trilogy we were promised before the buy out. I don't see why legends can't exist along side disney cannon. Other than money of course.
Thanks for drawing attention to the X-Wing audiobooks, the sound effects from the films really bring them to life. As a kid in school I had the occasional star wars book, but mostly got star wars books from the school and local libraries, so there are huge gaps in the EU books I've read. If they keep bringing out EU audiobooks I'll probably keep buying them
UA-cam actually notified me of this upload exactly on time.
The Legacy of the Force series was some of my favorite Star Wars content to ever exist, and I'd like it to not be forgotten.
Same with the Jedi Academy Trilogy with Kyp Durron.
I bought book one and I still have to start it lol. I heard about some of the stuff that happens in that series and it sounded super interesting that I bought the first book in hopes to maybe get into it. Honestly felt like the EU did more justice with Luke then the movies did.
Man Episode 7 about the Solo twins. Now I am extra depressed about the shit we got
Eck, great usage of Jedi Academy as your visual for this video lol. I had it for GameCube and although I wish I had the PC Version with the cheat codes to enable blood and loss of limbs (because c'mon, we never really got to see what a Lightsaber could do in ACTUAL (VIRTUAL) Combat). But I loved the game and it is how I learned about Marka Ragnos and Dark Jedi ajd then launched my interests into the early Star Wars EU. But great channel and keep up the good work!
These books are the reason I got really into sci-fi and am a reader. I had seen the Star Wars movies and Star Trek TNG but to have story lines about people my age was really cool to me. Having it in book form made reading fun for me. These are the first books I remember being excited to read. I would love to have copies of these again.
Always huge supporter of keeping legends stories alive and i really hope that new Star Wars fans will realize how important that is for new stories too.
They do. Especially since the new narratives reference the old often. Fans of the new comic series attain greater knowledge of the West End Games callbacks the comics do every once in a while.
George Lucas made the biggest mistake of selling Star Wars to Disney
I remember reading young jedi knights as a kid. I think I was 13 or 14. I loved them! But even then it was so painful to find all the books. It was pretty much impossible.
A friend had the first book, while I had book 2-12(I don't 100% remember which books I had). There is so many great moments and stories in that series.
I still remember Diversity alliance and how that was so interesting to read, and I also liked the character of Anja Gallandro. I hope one day I will be able to have them as audiobooks.
As a fan of Star Wars who only recently got in to the legends thanks to tapcaf transmission it really annoying that a lot of legends story like the truce at bakura, Jedi academy, Callista,I jedi, Corellian trilogy and Black fleet crisis just to name some aren’t available in UK E book stores luckily I have a VPN and made a US Amazon account and suddenly I’m able to buy and read them but to have such a large part of Star Wars block form fans is really annoying
These were my second star wars books. My very first SW book was Heir to the Empire. 'Legends' is very dear to my heart and I was sad to see the expanded universe decanonized. Especially given the half ass job Disney ended up doing with the sequel trilogy. Legends timeline had its problems. Caugh, caugh Second Galactic Civl war caugh, caugh, but in general its characters were very well written. Nothing would make me sadder than to see these stories lost.
God toxic fans
Equally concerning is the replacement of the original EU ebook cover art with the bland new art they’ve been rolling out this year. Amazon has been quietly and forcibly replacing the covers of already purchased books in updates. Imagine my annoyance when the X-Wing covers got swapped.
This feels like such classic Disney’s Star Wars, it’s insane
Well shizzzz* now you got me feeling guilty, as we have some many of the young Jedi Knights series, but only my older brother read them not me, and now we are just donating them away.... not knowing if they will ever be read again.... like flip, idk even know where my older bro got them, cause they sound like they might have been before he was even born, or certainly before he was 6 yrs old....
A mistake handling the Star Wars franchise from Disney? But they have such a stellar track record so far!
Rogue One, The Mandalorian, some of Kenobi were flukes. Rest of it is a fail.
Solo would've been much better had they used Prince Xizor and Black Sun at the end instead of a certain Sith Obi-Wan bisected via lightsaber on Naboo. That was literally the only movie I seen where, though it was just 5 minutes or so left, I almost walked out of the theatre in disgust.
Thanks for referring to the Expanded Universe. I like this WAYYYYY better than legends.
"Star Wars is making a HUGE mistake"
Gonna...have to be a little more specific, I'm afraid.
Found all of them at my local comic book store for $1 a piece. Not sure they had any idea what they had.
YJK was a great series and it's criminal the series isn't printed anymore.
There are some books that exist as special audiobooks for the blind. The problem with these is only the blind are allowed access to them, which I really don't understand. It's great that they are accessible, but why do they need to be exclusive?
Actually last year, I scoured ebay and a bunch of shops and got all 14 books.
I read the first 5 at my local library as a boy because someone had donated them, like you they were one of my first steps into the EU.
I think they are some of the greatest stories ever. If I wasnt studying so hard Id be further into the series. They dealt with some very adult ideas which were so expertly done and they introduced some amazing characters
Hmm
Star wars is always doing this and it hurts when everything went non-cannon and only the movies survived
Last year I picked up all my old EU Star Wars novels from my parents’ house. The collection includes all the Young Jedi Knight books. I loved them back in the day, I need to put aside the time to give them a re-read.
Sounds like fans should hitch a ride with Hondo Ohnaka, if you catch my drift.
Josh Adams on YT has produced audio books for the Republic Commando novels. Complete with music and sound effects!
I grew up on those stories!!!! I remember I ran I to a guy at the comic book store who did too. You're absolutely right, most people who weren't around in the 90s missed out. I will say it's only flaw seemed that it seemed to get a little convoluted toward the end, but hell, it's 14 books. It's tough to keep being creative after a certain point. But it's a shame, if more people knew about these books, they'd be more upset with the disappointment of 7, 8, and 9 and frustrated with what we could have had. Jaina picking up Han's natural affinity for mechanics. And Jacen's connection with wildlife through the force, their younger brother Anakin dealing with the weight of his grandfather's legacy being his namesake but still afraid to fall to the dark side like him. And then as the reader sitting back and realizing how each of their life choices affect the others, the series is truly well done. You can tell how they took attributes from the 7 8 and 9 characters directly from these stories. And don't worry...... Nobody ever inexplicably says "Somehow....... Palpatine returned...."
The greatest mistake where Lukasfilm did under Disney, was the dicannonisation of STAR WARS EU.
For warhammer I wanted to get this one book from the horus heresy which was no longer being printed. Fortunately it was available in e-book form too but I really wanted it in paperback. But because it was no longer being printed, the few copies that were for sale on amazon, were second hand for 200 euros. That's a book that costs 12 euros new. So just imagine how expensive books like this can get.
I thought these books were legendary as a kid! Sucks that they’re being relegated to unobtainable legends.
Am trying to collect as many EU books as I can. So far I have the Thrawn Trilogy, Jedi Academy, and Callista. All pretty good compared to Disney’s movies lol.
I found a collection of all star wars books 1978-2015 as e-books you just have to know where to look
Hi, I searched for those books and I find then in a famous online library but I'm not going to share the link for fear that they will sue the bookstore and force them to remove this book from their list. Greetings from Venezuela
Try your local library. They can also check other libraries for them as well
I'm so glad I stumbled upon some legends books at a thrift store, because I don't think they have e-book versions
When I was in high school, I made an expansive book report, including editing my own video (which was pretty new at the time), about Shadows of the Empire!
I am now regretting donating my Young Jedi Knights set to the library all those years ago. But there's only so much shelf space in my apartment. 😞
I think that depends primarily on the publisher. Young Jedi Knights are available as a german ebook.
EckhartLadder,
How down would you be to recode/ read the young jedi knights on your channel? I have one of the books but I believe it is actually the 1st 3 or 4 books rolled into 1. I have dyslexia and would absolutely love to have a recording of my book to help me read along with it.
Just give me the DH comic omnibuses, dammit! I don't want to pay a randos $300 to hold a grubby ass graphic novel. I just need Dark Times 1 and clone wars 2
That's another thing Disney is going to mess up, because they don't care about a legacy.
Neither did George Lucas. It's not a "Disney" thing. LFL is still a separate company. Whether or not you like the content, it doesn't change the facts.
@@Bad_Wolf_Media but George had a vision and the legacy an EU he liked very much.
@@paulsteinhauser434 lmfao sure he did, keep huffing that copium
@@remainprofane7732 The EU at least has better lore
I would totally start reading an eckhartsladder star wars book
I haven't read many star wars books, but the ones I did were pretty good, so I would love to listen to them in audiobook format (especially ready by eck lol)
Similar to what Tenel Ka once said after an attack on the Jedi Appracium:
We need to leave before everyone comes with us [to Disney]. If not, Master Skywalker won't have any patients left!
I loved Tenel Ka's character during the Young Jedi Knight series! So glad I kept all my books. Currently letting my nephew enjoy them :)
Will have to ask for them back though so I can make sure I update with Ka's quote correctly lol
You should ask your discord what they think about this "huge mistake" in the QOTD channel, out of nowhere, Revan would love this lol
The "Disney Empire" owns Star Wars now. All eventually will belong to the Galactic Disney Empire.
My first books I read were what are now called the "Thrawn trilogy".
Heir to the Empire
Dark Force Rising
The Last Command
By Timothy Zahn
I bet Disney is going to make Lucasfilm give Young Jedi Knights the Tales-of-the-Jedi-treatment... They will probably make an animated series/comic book run that will feature Yoda, young Dooku, young Qui-Gon Jinn or young Obi-Wan Kenobi, slap the "Young Jedi Knights" brand on it (up to a point that the logo would be almost the same), and I bet they will manage to shove Ashoka Tano, Kanan Jarrus, Kal Kestis and TCW jedi younglings into it somehow, and they will behave like the Legends book series never even happened... -_-
And there certainly will be prominent, vocal members of fandom that would still applaud them for "because it is now all connected" BS, "insider info" perks or exclusive early viewing to a 276th-minor-background-DisneySW-character-movie/show... -_-
Agree many star wars fan didn’t realize that tales of the Jedi is an old republic content and belong to Tom veitch and Disney didn’t even mention him, instead they used the title to make story about ahsoka and dooku. honestly I’m a bit tired of ahsoka because he was everywhere not every detail should be explained and for dooku I think it’s fine for me but I heard a rumor that they will retcon the dooku Jedi lost novel.
As somebody who owns pretty much every unabridged star wars audio book on audible i can't help but shake my head at disney's incompetence in the ebook department.
Really what’s the problem lol
I remember as a kid reading the Jedi Apprentice books, following Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan pre-prequel. Good fun. Probably can't find them anymore.
Since the acquisition by Disney, it has all been one big mistake. Stick to EU lore, new canon is a puppet government of our occupied homeland.
The EU is just so much better than the current content - makes sense why they want to hide it!
I bought these for my daughter last year through abe books. The books mostly ended up coming from various thrift stores and a couple sent the wrong book so I had to reorder, but they were all under 10$ a piece so if you have a kid that would like to read them or to read them yourself abe books is a good resource!