Darth Maul Returns, But how?

This weekend The Phantom Menace returns to the big screen but this time in 3D. Lucasfilm is promoting the re-release with packaging and advertising featuring Darth Maul. Darth Maul was cut in two and plummeted to his death in the final act of the movie.
But this spring he returns to the small screen in The Clone Wars on Cartoon Network. Since the Clone Wars takes place after Phantom Menace you probably have some question like, How did he survive? If he survived why is he just now showing up? legs? or Does George Lucas know what continuity means?

see Darth Maul Returns trailer

We’d like to help answer one of those questions, here’s our first prediction of what Darth Maul’s new legs will look like.

and yes Darth Maul did return in comic books in Star Wars: Visionaries but that was a What if? story.