With Disney kicking off Force Friday with an 18-hour live toy unboxing event, we've been treated to all sorts of new information and details regarding the upcoming film Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Yesterday, we got our first look at Kylo Ren without his cloak on — giving us full view of his helmet — and today we might have had some of our plot speculation confirmed.
Earlier today, Good Morning America hosted one of the toy unboxing moments. They revealed an impressive LEGO Star Wars Millennium Falcon and a remote-controlled BB-8 that you can roll around using your mobile device. That's all fine and dandy if you're a toy collector, but the real spoiler here is what the hosts revealed — possibly confirming our suspicion that The Force Awakens is pretty much A New Hope reskinned.
Upon unboxing the new droid, the GMA host revealed "BB-8 holds the key to the new Force Awakens movie."
That one line pretty much confirmed not only what many already believe, but what the recently leaked Star Wars LEGO commercial alluded to. In case you missed it, the LEGO commercial introduced new sets for Poe Dameron and Kylo Ren. In doing so, however, there was an entire plot to go along with the reveal. In the commercial, we're set up to have Kylo Ren chasing BB-8 presumably on the desert planet of Jakku (where we've already seen Finn and Rey), only to be rescued by Poe Dameron.
So the theory is that Finn, masked as a Stormtrooper (which we've seen in earlier trailers), helps BB-8 escape with vital information about Starkiller Base that could be used to help the Resistance in their fight against The Force Order. Sound familiar? Like R2-D2 holding the plans to the Death Star, BB-8 "holds the key," or the plans, to Starkiller Base.
Again, this is all merely speculation based on what has been revealed or teased, but what was said on GMA, plus what we've seen in trailers and the LEGO commercial, just all seems to make sense. Granted, I'm sure there will be some other surprises in store for us, but this seems to at least make up the bulk of what will kick off The Force Awakens when it hits theaters this December.
