Ummm, ackshually :wheezy exhale: if you consider the Expanded Universe material Boba Fett and the Mandolorians play a significant part in the events of the Star Wars universe, or at least they did until

I once wrote a fanfic where the Mandolorians and the Midichlorians got together and produced a race called the Mandichlorians who drove around in Deloreans.

aren't they making an entire movie around him now

good lord

That's not really fair to Darth Maul, either. Maul is the antagonist in some of the cartoons, and he's got EU garbage that's still canon.

At this point can we just pretend that the prequel movies never happened and the cartoons are the "prequels" for all intensive (and logical) purposes?

Boba Fett looks cool. That's about it. He's got that For A Few Dollars More swagger...until he gets eaten by the desert dentata dong.

As a kid, I always thought it'd be cool if the good guys just paid Fett off and had him switch sides, since he's a bounty hunter and Jabba doesn't seem to value him. That would have been MY fan fiction if I'd had the Internet.

I think that the fact he doesn't really do anything kind of makes him a blank slate for people.

i've only seen the star wars trilogy once, and cannot remember boba fett.

I concur with Raggamuffin. The blank slate and featureless face allows kids to project whatever stories they want on to him. Plus, he's charged with taking out Han Solo, the most swaggering guy in the universe, so it lends him a little mystique.

Yeah, as a cartoon.

Its always cracked me up how all the high end multi hundred dollar action figure/statue people have to intricately recreate such hacked together, homemade looking costumes of all the original Star Wars characters.