Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer: as it happened It's been a long, Star Wars-centric day. But, overall, we're feeling rather pleased with the new trailer. It may have been tantalisingly short, but, from the music, to the new droids, to the re-appearance of The Falcon, it had pretty much everything we wanted. Well, apart from Harrison Ford. Before we head off, we'll leave you with this alternative reaction to the Star Wars trailer from The Telegraph's Rupert Hawksley, who admits to never having seen a Star Wars film before. (I know. I know.) Goodbye, everyone! May the force be with you. Did you spot the new Stormtrooper suit design? Or the Falcon's new satellite dish? For those of you who didn't (we'll admit to being among that number), Hit Fix has listed 8 tiny universe changes revealed by the trailer. It's well worth checking out. Ooh, looks like we weren't the only ones who spotted the resemblance between Daisy Ridley and Leia. Will definitely help fuel those rumours that Ridley's character will be Han Solo and Leia's daughter. After establishing earlier today that Yoda definitely wasn't live blogging the trailer launch, we thought we should take a look and see what he actually has been up to. With his latest tweet, concur we must. Very intense. Millennium Falcon is trending too. The appearance of the ship in the trailer appears to have induced a range of pretty intense emotions from fans. Three hours after the trailer first hit, Star Wars and The Force Awakens are still trending. Twitter today is essentially just one big geek out. It was the brief shot of a shadowy, hooded figure holding a lightsaber, which then revealed itself to be a triple lightsaber that set the audience off, an impassioned, 'YEAH!' bursting from one viewer. Here's a piece from Olly Richards, who was lucky enough to attend one of the cinema screenings over in the US (as opposed to the rest of us, who spent the most of today frantically refreshing the Apple trailers site). The Telegraph's lovely Kat Brown has made a video, giving her verdict on the trailer - "JJ Abrams' take on Star Wars looks amazing" - and listing five things we've learned. The official Star Wars twitter account has confirmed that the music heard in the trailer was a brand John Williams score. Apart from the bit at the end, which was obviously an old score. Time for a quick round up of what we learnt from the trailer: Boyega is very likely playing a stormtrooper - albeit not a conventional one. The MILLENNIUM FALCON is back (Well, we already knew this. But still.) The new droid is cute. Oscar Isaac's character can fly an X-Wing Daisy Ridley looks (just a little) like Princess Leia There's a new villain, with a cool (we're going to stand by this) light saber Lots of discussion about John Boyega's stormtrooper suit, and about whether Boyega will be playing a stormtrooper, or just someone dressed as a stormtrooper. Alleged plot leaks circling about the internet, which we'll not repeat here due to spoilers, may offer some clues. Sadly, not everyone is quite as impressed with the new trailer. Here's a quick round up of some of the more negative reactions. In what might be his first-ever review of a trailer, rather than an actual film, our film critic Robbie Collin has written a piece about the Star Wars trailer. He liked it, detecting a franchise "getting back in touch with its sense of swashbuckling fun." He also didn't say anything mean about the new light saber, which is nice. On a random note, just realised someone named Katya sent us this earlier today. We approve of Katya. The Force is strong with this one. Just quickly catching up wiith all the latest from the Alamo Austin in Texas, where they're holding panel discussions in between screenings of the trailer. They seem pretty sold on the Andy Serkis theory. Well, we still liked it. And want one for Christmas. Turns out not everyone thinks the light saber is "snazzy." Some fans have opined that decidely un-snazzy. This saddens us. Here's our mysterious villian, complete with his snazzy (albeit possibly quite dangerous) new crucifix-sword-giant-glowing-T-thing light saber. We think this guy makes an excellent point: Film Studies class was never this exciting for us. Could it be Andy Serkis? Just had another listen. Still on the fence, although leaning more towards von Sydow than Cumberbatch (which suggests it probably is Cumberbatch, to be honest). Intense debate going on about who did the voiceover. Lots of fans claiming Cumberbatch, others are saying it could be Max von Sydow. Over on Twitter (which we temporarily forgot about, but have now remembered), the fan reaction so far is pretty ecstatic: And here's the new droid, casually rolling along. Nawww. <3 Here's Daisy, on what is very definitely not a bicycle made for two. Here's one of <3 The Falcon <3 (There's a copy of The Telegraph Style Guide on our desk. Oddly, it says nothing about the use of multiple heart symbols, but we've decided that in this particular case, they're more than appropriate.) We're back! And breathing again. Just. Our first reaction? This looks good. Very good. Plus, it looks (and sounds) like a Star Wars movie. John Boyega in a stormtrooper suit, Daisy Ridley, more stormtroopers, a rather neat R2-D2 esque droid, Oscar Isaacs (we think?) in a X-Wing, a dark, deep voiceover, a dark, cloaky Sith Lord with a NEW LIGHT SABER, and (deep breath) the Millennium Falcon. It's here! Can't breathe. We're frantically hitting refresh on the itunes trailers website. Nothing yet. Getting a bit fed up of seing the link to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles trailer. Argh! The trailer has apparently started screening in US cinemas! Here's one fan's reaction: Have got to admit, as fake trailers go, it was a fairly convicing one. Kudos to whoever made it. After some frantic watching/screen-grabbing, we've found this (that's the real Return of the Jedi footage on the left, the apparently fake "leaked" trailer on the right). And, to paraphrase Shakira, hands don't lie. Or do they? Latest word on the street (word on the tweet?) is that part of the "leaked" Darth Maul trailer was taken from this Return of the Jedi scene. Just checked to see if that last statement was factually correct, and am happy to report it is. Yoda is very clearly not live-blogging the trailer launch. Yoda would say: "Do. Or do not. There is no try. But did Yoda ever live-blog the launch of a Star Wars trailer? No he didn't. Arghh! So many rumours. So many lies. So many fake trailers. We're trying to stay on top of them, but it's getting quite confusing. If the rumours surrounding the 3.15pm launch time are correct, then we'll know for sure in an hour's time. Lots of people on Twitter seem to agree, including Slash Film's Peter Sciretta.... In a comment below, one of our readers just observed: "the 'leaked possibly legit trailer' that people think Darth Maul is in, it's a fake. Mostly comprised of game cut-scenes. Interesting! And exciting, as it suggests the real trailer still hasn't leaked. We're looking into it now. Still no word from the official Star Wars Twitter account, or from the official Star Wars UK account. Or the official Star Wars Latin America account, which we've only just discovered. Yesterday, they tweeted this. We've got no idea what it means (if anyone does, feel free to let us know) but we like it. Y aquí, los troopers destacados de la semana junto a su líder! This also isn't strictly trailer-related, but we'd like to observe that Harrison Ford was (and still is) a delightful-looking man. And a life member of Shropshire Aero Club, which obviously makes him even cooler. So, this isn't strictly trailer-related, but Film Dialogue just tweeted us with this rather lovely picture. Just had a panicky office discussion about whether or not we need an itunes account to watch the trailer when it launches (which might or might not be at 3.15pm). Have found out that we don't, and are consequently feeling a bit silly and uninformed. For anyone equally silly and uninformed: go to http://trailers.apple.com/, and it'll appear there. Like magic. Meanwhile, this fan is feeling pretty torn: Twitter has started speculating about the identity of the villain in the "leaked," possibly legit trailer: many fans seem pretty sure that the cloaked, red-faced figure is an older Darth Maul. To be fair, cloaked and red-faced are pretty much Maul's defining characteristics. We're still awaiting official news on exactly when the trailer will launch. But a tweet from Disney France president Jean-Francois Camilleri suggested that the trailer might debut at 15:15 GMT (10:15 EST, 7:15 PST, and 16.15 French time). The tweet was deleted shortly after it was posted. This one is our personal favourite: While we wait for further news, here are some rather less convincing trailers that have appeared online. Yesterday, the team manning the official Star Wars Twitter account were responding to all the fan-made fakes. But, as yet, there's no word from them on the latest "leaked" trailer, suggesting it could well be real. Has the trailer leaked already? A version that looks as if it could be legit is currently doing the rounds. We can't link to it here, for legal reasons. But, if it's real, it looks as if an old Star Wars villain is hungry for revenge... Is that the voice of Peter Serafinowicz, playing an old Darth Maul? It's Star Wars Trailer day, and everyone is very, VERY excited. We'll be bringing you the latest news and rumours throughout the day, and will keep you updated on the fan reaction after the trailer launches.