Sounds like there are rumors Hayden Christiansen will somehow be appearing in Ep VII. Also one of those fancy 3d pan around video trailers showing off some sort of speeder run through Jakku came out:
http://bgr.com/2015/09/23/star-wars-the-force-awakens-jakku-360-video/

Edit: we tried to run that video, which lives on facebook, on our Occulus v2 dev kit at the office, and it doesn’t seem to be natively supported. I’m told that if you watch it on your phone, you can wave it around in the air to see what is happening but haven’t tried that yet.

Anyone else seen the “new” crazy theory going around?
https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/3qvj6w/theory_jar_jar_binks_was_a_trained_force_user/
I remember @doug saying Jar-Jar was probably force-sensitive before, but this is some crazy detail.

@bertoelcon oh man, I’m so sick of seeing that story in my feed. Yeah, Jar Jar is force sensitive, but an evil mastermind he is not. His good nature isn’t just some “act” to get ahead, because he doesn’t want (or get) anything! He’s evil to what end?! To become a low level senator? In a republic that votes to dissolve itself? Jar Jar got a fair shake in the EU. C’mon people. It’s time to look beyond the terrible framing and weird direction of TPM, and start looking at what the character SAYS and DOES versus trying to interpret the “meaning” of an action scene frame by frame.

Star Wars: Battlefront raking in those mediocre reviews:
http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-one/star-wars-battlefront

Found a better picture of that prop, I may have…jumped the gun.
What I thought it looked like in the trailer:

what the prop actually looks like, with a definite broom-handle:

I was on board with the new stuff in that gallery right up until I hit the bone-gun with the bone handle and bone shiv bayonet… that is something I’ll have to see in context I think.

and this one, which seems to be some kind of bone-derbus with features that don’t jive with blaster weaponry like the ramrod under the barrel:

Also this blaster with what appears to be a clear acrylic silencer/compensator on it seems like a dubious choice out of context:

“Rogue Star Wars fans threaten Spoiler Jihad if Disney doesn’t film the EU stories they want”

#Ridiculous
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/dec/16/star-wars-the-force-awakens-spoilers-expanded-universe?CMP=fb_gu