Kdapt-Preacher

I actually prefer for them to give helmeted characters plain black heads rather than faces. Especially for someone like a clone or stormtrooper, how often do you want to unmask them? Very rarely, if ever. Having a flesh-colored head means they have a visible flesh-colored neck, which is a bad thing nearly all the time, particularly for TIE pilots and AT-AT drivers, whose helmets leave most of the back of the head exposed. Those heads they've given to some scout troopers with the face printed onto a black head piece is a good solution, but they seem hesitant to adopt that for most figures. Maybe the TFA sets will change that.

Pretty much everything that shows up here tends to change so dramatically from the first pictures we get to the final product that I can't understand why there's so much hate in this thread. Look at what happened just days ago with the Sith Infiltrator--it was absolutely despised and used as an example of what never to do and a set never to buy on the basis of the first photos, and then when we see the actual set everybody agrees that it's fine. This will be the same way.

Avoiding spoilers is a perfectly reasonable goal, and everyone should respect that, but if you really care about that a thread explicitly devoted to discussion of future Star Wars stuff is a really dumb place to hang out. Phasma looks good, IMO. I don't mind the lack of chrome on the minifig; I suspect that she's gonna stick out like a sore thumb in the movie since that isn't an aesthetic we see a lot of in Star Wars, and I don't mind them making the figure a bit more consistent with every other one as long as we get the full, accurate version at some point. The helmet mold looks nice. I think it looks more proportionate to the figure--the current TK helmets always seemed huge, partially just because they cover the whole shoulders.

Can anyone tell whether the raised ridge on top of the helmet is molded or just printed on?

No, that isn't accurate. It's been explicitely stated since Revenge of the Sith came out that the clone troopers of the GAR became the first stormtroopers (Here), and that they were gradually replaced by clones of other individuals (such as Erv Lekauf, although he's not a great example as he was an Imperial Army officer, not a stormtrooper, he was cloned only six times, and none of his clones actually became stormtroopers--I can't find a better specific individual) and by human recruits (such as Davin Felth) as the Fett clones died of old age (accellerated aging doesn't stop later in life), so that by around 9 BBY there weren't many Fett clones left in service. Wookieepedia says that As the war dragged on, especially after the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY and the destruction of the primary stormtrooper academy on Carida in 11 ABY, the Empire began running short of properly trained and equipped stormtroopers and turned to lower and lower quality substitutes. Eventually this resulted in the Empire of the Hand and Imperial Remant allowing for nonhuman stormtroopers, which looks like this. So in fact, while we had a pretty good handle on what stormtroopers were before the reorganization, given that The Force Awakens is set well into what would have been the Imperial Remnant era in the old chronology, the field's still pretty much open right now. We haven't seen any stormtroopers that aren't wearing human armor in the trailers, but there could easily be, for a random example, Chiss or Neimoidians under those helmets.

Dutchess Satine was featured fairly heavily in The Clone Wars, but you're right: I've been looking through the lists of characters on Wookieepedia and haven't found any in the movies yet. EDIT: Amee, one of Anakin's friends in Mos Espa, is listed as having blonde hair, although it's still pretty dark.

The sticker shows a Rebel emblem on the display, but the text just reads 'Endor' (in Aurebesh, and at an odd angle, so I could be wrong there, but I'm pretty sure), and it would make total sense for an Imperial tactical display to use emblem that to designate enemy units. I don't think there's anything there to keep it from being an Imperial-operated shuttle.

That's a repainted Pelta-class frigate from The Clone Wars. Given that it was featured pretty heavily there and we never saw it as a set, I'd be surprised if they made the Rebels version. It's possible, of course, but I'd guess unlikely unless one of them becomes a major plot point in Rebels. Then again, the Wookiee gunship was made, so who knows.