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New Star Wars TROS Merch Replaces New Alien Klaud with Rose Tico


A few months ago, before any official reveals, there was some promo art for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker that leaked online, giving us a look at some new characters. One of the new faces was an alien named Klaud, and as per Star Wars News Net, some new merch has taken the same poster and replaced Klaud with Kelly Marie Tran's Rose Tico.

Here's the post:

Admittedly, Rose was one of my favorite characters from The Last Jedi, and I was kind of disappointed that she didn't make it to the TROS promotional material. I'm completely aware that a huge chunk of the fanbase doesn't like Rose, but having her removed from the poster just seemed like Lucasfilm bending to the angry fanboys. I'm glad that she actually gets to share the spotlight this time around.

Then again, the image with Klaud isn't going completely unused. Some merch still has Klaud in the photo, so that means there will be two versions of this image available.

We don't know what Klaud brings to the story yet, but rumor has it that he's a Resistance informant. Hopefully we get a look at him in a full trailer for the movie, which could be dropping anytime now. With a lot of big Star Wars titles coming out at the end of the year, it looks like Lucasfilm has one hell of a juggling act to pull off, making sure that promos for TROS, The Mandalorian, and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order don't overlap each other.

Catch Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in theaters Dec. 20.

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