The Emperor also seemed to dislike the use of lightsabers in Episode 6, even calling it a "Jedi weapon". The reason Vader had one was because he was a fallen Jedi. But then in the prequels not only does Maul have one but so does Palpatine which makes no sense.

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The same thing happens with Yoda as he doesn't seem interested at all in using a lightsaber in Episode 5 and relies more on the force but in the prequels he uses it all the time.

EDIT: I'll also have to add how every Jedi now uses robes in Star Wars. In the original trilogy Luke, his uncle and Ben Kenobi and a couple of people wore robes and it made sense cause they were in the desert. Now if you can identify Jedi Knights based on what they are wearing (like that droid in the beginning of Episode 1 somehow managed to find out that Qui-Qon and Obi-Wan were Jedi's without any indication other than they wore robes. In Episode 3 we were told that Obi-Wan went into hiding in the desert place which explains why he's there in Episode 4 but if you can identify a Jedi based on what they are wearing, why would he walk around in the open with it and the Stormtroopers in the famous "These are not the droids you are looking for" scene should easily have seen that he was a Jedi knight.

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The thing about the robes, I read somewhere that it's a humility thing. The Jedi are modest and humble and stuff so they wear simple clothing. Now, it looks out of place on a swanky planet like Coruscant or Naboo, but on places like Tatooine, that is the kind of clothes that people wear for everyday use. So on harsher or poorer planets, it does not look odd so people are not assumed to be Jedi just because they are wearing robes.
Also, most of the Jedi were dead by that time, so people just wouldn't expect to see a Jedi walking around in the open.

Why are we talking about this again?

Lucas made Yoda and Palpatine wield lightsabers because it would look cool. The same with everyone wearing capes. (To be fair, Lucas occasionally addresses the "capes are impractical when using a weapon that requires you to spin like a fairy" issue by having the Jedi strip whenever they intend to duel...although this, again, is merely because it looks cool having them toss their robes to one side as if to say "dis iz serius bizness bro")

Yoda did not wield a lightsaber in Episode 5/6 because there were no threats about, and because he had Frank Oz's right arm stuck up his backside. Similarly, Palpatine didn't need to use his lightsaber at any point during Episode 6 - and Sith Lighting is a much better way to torture someone to death than a weapon that can cut off limbs without making them bleed (plus, if he simply chopped Luke into rump steak then Vader would just be standing there like "Um..wasn't I supposed to conclude my character-arc?")

Every single Hollywood movie with the slightest chance of being a hit has a sequel 'planned' before its release. Dark Shadows is a recent example, and there are rumours that a Back to the Future 4 was talked about but, like Star Wars, wasn't developed because Back to the Future 3 ended so well (emphasis on the word 'rumours').

Though, in Hollywood, 'planned' means "some executive who said 'Durrr, lets do a sequel where we follow the story of their children' during the wrap party"

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Did you watch the interview I linked to? I don't consider a statement from the lead actor in a film that there were more sequels planned- especially one in which he gave specific dates (however wrong those may have been) as being equivalent to the ever persistent but to my knowledge completely unfounded rumors about a BTTF 4 film.

It was specifically shown that Han Solo brought it out from in his ship, it was like a play room they were in (the room were C3PO and Chewbacca were playing a game on a hologram projected by R2D2 so it made sense that Han Solo would have it for training. Also it wouldn't make any sense why Obi-Wan would have it... where would he have got it from and WHERE would he have had it in his clothing?

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So?  Star Wars has a huuuge storyline, and trying to explain every little detail would just make the films overlong, tedious and boring.  Honestly, it's a tiny detail, and there any number of ways Han Solo could have come into possession of the helmet.

Well, for a start, I suppose this means LEGO SW won't be ending anytime soon. (Which is incidentally a good thing. )  We can probably even expect a surge in popularity when the new films come out.