User blog comment:Ramikad Galaxywave/The Force Awakens: Issues/@comment-4841625-20141221022922

Oh dear.

The Ball Droid (actually called BB-8) is not replacing R2-D2. R2-D2 was one of the first characters to be confirmed for the movie. Artoo and Threepio are the only characters who are going to be in every film, and this has been confirmed by multiple sources.

When it comes to the lightsaber, I'm just going to point you in the direction to Ben and Ren's comments below, because they're speaking the truth.

Also, people really shouldn't be complaining about 88 seconds of footage as if they've seen the entire film already. Nobody knows anything about the film besides some of the characters.

And how come all I'm seeing is complaining about one lightsaber, and not compliments for that X-Wing shot?