As far as the movies go - he's dead, and will stay in the sarleccs belly forever.
I have The Mandalorian Armour, it's a damn fine book, but it's merely nothing more than a published fanfic. It isn't canon.
It's nice to think he survived, but dude, come on, he's dead. The books are Expanded Universe and are not official unless Lucas says they are.
I don't think, and this is of course my opinion, he was meant to be such a big hit. I think people gravitated towards him because in a time/place where almost everything is neat and clean, shiny white armor and Vaders polished armor, he looked......."rough". Like he had been through alot. He was also mysterious. All we had to go by was his voice and that he was the only one good enough to catch the Falcon. Then after he "blew up so-to-speak, thats when GL wanted to do the whole Jango Fett role and show more of boba. Of course its just my take of it, but yeah he's dead and never coming back.
Red, are the novelizations the only canon books, or do visual directories count as well? I know they don't have stories, just short explanations, but just curious.
From what I read in the book, Dengar finds the Sarlecc monster, destroyed, and then finds Boba, his armour all burnt from the stomach acid.
The myth about being digested over a thousand years was BS, Boba was already being killed in that short time.
That's the story. It ain't legit. None of the EU books are legit, but are nice stories.
As for my opinion of Fett goes, he was a cool character. He was so mysterious, like Lucas says, he was the man with no name from the old westerns. He obviously ruined the character by revealling the fact that he had everything handed down to him by his father, and was an annoying little brat. Before the PT came along, I really liked Fett. He was a bit-part character that had an awe about him. You knew he had stories to tell just by looking at his swiss army knife of a costume, and its various parts and decorations. The audience didn't have to know his backstory to know how cool he was - the fact that he was a mysterious bounty hunter, with no ties or mercy, was cool enough.
Now it's like he's a full time player and a major part of the series and I don't like him as much. His mystery is ruined, his voice has been alterred, and he's nothing more than a Stormtrooper. Boba Fett sucks now.