Beldri said:

Damn.

On December 21st I race off to my FLGS to pick up my reserved copy of the Basic set. I quickly pay for it, thank them, and start walking back to my car hoping to race home and crack it open. A scream pierces the parking lot and I notice people everywhere looking up. I stop and glance skyward to see a mega asteroid of death growing in the sky. As the blot grows larger above me, I look back down and stand in its shade as I quickly wrip off the shrink wrap of my treasure. I get only one whif of its cardboard newness and one glance of its contents before damning the Mayan sages for being correct.

Sturn said:

Hilarious.

copperbell said:

"His name is Kettch, and he's an Ewok."
"No."
"Oh, yes. Determined to fight. You should hear him say, 'Yub, yub.' He makes it a battle cry."
"Wes, assuming he could be educated up to Alliance fighter-pilot standards, an Ewok couldn't even reach an X-wing's controls."
"He wears arm and leg extensions, prosthetics built for him by a sympathetic medical droid. And he's anxious to go, Commander."
"Please tell me you're kidding."
"Of course I'm kidding. Pilot-candidate number one is a Human female from Tatooine, Falynn Sandskimmer."
"I'm going to get you, Janson."
"Yub, yub, Commander."

And December 21st sounds about what I was guessing. They've got a cutoff date of December 1st for feedback, so that give them time to compile the final changes and then off to the printers and to the stores. 

Kettch, Ewok Pilot… sounds like destiny in the making!

"What do you mean you were shot down by an Ewok?!, I bet it was Wedge Antilles again!"

copperbell said:

Funny story, I actually had a player in on of my more recent Saga Edition games play an Ewok by that name. He was frightening. His one goal was to "kill whitey (stormtroopers)" and he had probably the second highest body count after the sociopathic battle droid. 

Cyril said:

That was from Wraith Squadron, wasn't it? Loved that series!

As for the 21st December - not a chance in hell. If they finish taking feedback in December, it'll be February/March at the earliest for the release of the book. You've got the couple of weeks of changing all the rules in the book for the updated rules, then you have all the layout changes, and then you have to have booked the time at the printers way in advance, and then it takes about a month to be printed, shipped back to FFG, and then sent on to distributors, who then send it on to the shops.

Thinking they can get all that done in 20 days is insanity.

Donovan Morningfire said:

Personally I loved the Ewoks when I first saw the films in school. Age 10 or so they seemed awesome, beating the mighty Imperials. Now, the idea of fuzzy teddy bears with flint tipped arrows and spears beating guys armed with guns, let alone armoured guys with guns and armoured support, just irritates me (and the only part of the Star Wars trilogy that doesn't work for me now… the prequel trilogy just didn't happen). Why did George just not stick with the idea of the Wookies doing it? So what if they had been established as technologically capable. You can still have them being the poorly equipped underdog without them being armed with stone tipped weapons.

Currently listed as "on a boat", which means it is being shipped to FFG.  If the X-Wing game is any indicator, that leaves enough time to make sure it is in stores before the holidays.  I'm sure they will work especially hard to make this happen given the delay in wave 2 of X-Wing (previously scheduled for December, now scheduled for February).  At, least I hope they work hard to make it happen as I was able to preorder it for less than $20 on miniaturemarket.com.

So maybe February or March release date for this?

Out of curiosity have they thought about releasing packs with maps of say the various ships like that poster map they mentioned?

Might be worth pursuing if they want to make the most of their licence