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The day might be over in Orlando at Star Wars Celebration, but that doesn't mean that news and updates have stopped emerging Fandango's managing editor Erik Davis managed to speak to Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Episode VIII) star Daisy Ridley about the film Sounds like she hasn't seen it yet, but that doesn't mean[...]

Star Wars Celebration Orlando is the smallest of three major stages Disney and Lucasfilm could take this year, with D23 and Comic-Con International being much more conducive to huge reveals That didn't seem to bother many of the people walking out of the room The general atmosphere of the room was that it was worth[...]

Star Wars Celebration Orlando is proving to be no different as the line to get into the panel for Star Wars: The Last Jedi started many hours earlier than it was originally supposed to While ReedPOP and Lucasfilm tried to keep people from starting a line before the originally announced 8pm starting time, there were too[...]

Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson announced the name of the brand new planet seen in the teaser trailer released earlier today. If you missed the trailer: https://youtu.be/zB4I68XVPzQVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Star Wars: The Last Jedi Official Teaser (https://youtu.be/zB4I68XVPzQ) Crait! So that weird looking blood dust planet we get the race on?  Rian[...]

Following news just last week that Carrie Fisher's family had granted Disney rights to use recent footage of Fisher for the final film in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, Kathleen Kennedy has shot down hopes that General Leia will appear in Star Wars Episode IX The news comes from an interview on ABC, in which Kennedy says: He[...]

Just announced at Star Wars Celebration Orlando, IDW is making a Star Wars comic for an all ages audience, to hit stores in September Star Wars Adventures will be geared toward readers 7-10 and feature one and two part stories that aren't steeped in continuity It's a major coup for IDW. UPDATE: IDW sent out press[...]

Sure, we got a tease of it with the leaked Star Wars: Battlefront II art, but we now have official confirmation that her saber is blue On the poster, her saber is blue where she's holding it and red up toward the top. But that's clearly just some clever poster art In the trailer we see Rey[...]

The world may currently be focused on Star Wars: The Last Jedi today, but that doesn't mean that we can't still fall back on old favorites while there's a lull in clickbait article opportunities You know what that means, readers It means it's time for another edition of our favorite segment, Jumping The Gunn! Guardians of[...]

That being said it appears that the people handling Star Wars Celebration Orlando were unprepared for the sheer amount of Rebel scum that descended on the Orange County Convention Center. The chaos began late last night with stories of the overnight stay being unorganized and several hundred people cutting in line That mean that people who[...]

There were a lot of high profile guests at the Last Jedi panel hosted by Josh Gad at Star Wars Celebration Orlando today Mark Hamill Daisy Ridley John Boyega Director Rian Johnson New addition Kelly Marie Tran Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy. But the biggest star of all? The adorable, merchandise moving, click baiting BB-8, of course[...]

Jeremy Konrad is on the ground at Star Wars Celebration in Orlando, and just happened to be leaving the Last Jedi panel when Disney/Lucasfilm merch was being broken out He says: Hot off the presses at Celebration are the first available merch for The Last Jedi Benefitting Force For Change, these are available on the show[...]

At the Last Jedi panel at Star Wars Celebration Orlando today, Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson revealed that he was the only other person on set besides the official photographer who could take photos without being tacked Bringing his trusty camera along, Johnson took lots of shots of the cast and crew[...]

We knew we'd get the new Star Wars film trailer today, The Last Jedi during the panel of the same name during Celebration. What we WEREN'T expecting was this GLORIOUS MAGNIFICENT POSTER The sounds I made when LucasFilm president Kathy Kennedy and Last Jedi director Rian Johnson presented the audience with this poster, oh goodness[...]

  Well, for months we have begged and pleaded for anything, literally any glimpse of Star Wars The Last Jedi, the new saga film coming out this December, and now we have it straight from the Last Jedi panel at Star Wars Celebration in Orlando It's got Luke, Rey, Lightsabers, the Force, The Falcon… Ok, time[...]

As the Last Jedi panel at Star Wars Celebration Orlando, the crowd (and live stream viewers) have been treated to photos from the upcoming film, Star Wars: The Last Jedi We've been furiously screencapping them to fuel clickbait articles, and we've just seen the best one yet It's the first look at Mark Hamill as[...]

At the Last Jedi panel at Star Wars Celebration Orlando, they just revealed a new character for Star Wars The Last Jedi: Rose, who is played by Kelly Marie Tran Tran said of Rose: "She's part of the resistance And she works in maintenance I can't wait for you to meet her." At the Last[...]

For those of you who don't know, The Chive Cast is a monthly Star Wars Collecting podcast that defys most descriptions One part a look back at figures from the original Kenner Star Wars line, they also write haikus and parody songs about figures ( I still have TIE Pilot stuck in my head) and[...]

Jeremy Konrad is on the ground out there in Orlando at Star Wars Celebration and he managed to battle through the lines like a champ and get to the relative safety of the Hasbro booth (they're in the exhibitor hall at location 2744) They have revealed one exclusive so far: a Luke Skywalker 6" action[...]

New variant covers have been revealed today for the big Star Wars/Doctor Aphra crossover event in Star Wars: The Screaming Citadel The whole shebang starts on May 10 with The Screaming Citidel one-shot, which is what these variants are for I have to admit, it is pretty cool to see Luke Slywalker and Aphra together[...]

Funko Director of Marketing and Seattle dive bar bouncer Mark Robben appeared just a few moments ago on The Star Wars Show Live Presented By Verizon, which has been streaming live all day from Star Wars Celebration Orlando He brought with him some of the Star Wars celebration EXCLUSIVES and other neat Funko goodies that are[...]

Following a touching Tribute to Carrie Fisher that aired at Star Wars Celebration Orlando's 40th Anniversary Panel today, legendary composer John Williams took to the stage to lead the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra through a live rendition of some of the most memorable tracks from the Star Wars catalogue, beginning, of course, with Princess Leia's Theme[...]

A touching tribute to Carrie Fisher played during the 40th Anniversary Panel at Star Wars Celebration Orlando just a few moments ago The official video was quickly released right after it played Watch it below: May the Force be with you #SWCO #StarWars40th pic.twitter.com/10zZ4TXqpQ — Star Wars (@starwars) April 13, 2017 Following the video, John Williams led the[...]

Harrison Ford appeared onstage at the 40th Anniversary Panel at Star Wars Celebration Orlando today, to the delight of the crowd in attendance The loudest cheer came when Ford shared a hug with co-star Peter Mayhew, who played his Wookiee life partner in the Star Wars saga. Whoops, sorry That's actually Ford hugging Star Wars creator[...]

Jackson appeared at Star Wars Celebration Orlando vie prerecorded message today in order to take his case for Mace Windu surviving his apparent death in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith In the scene, Windu's arm was sliced off by Anakin Skywalker, he was electrocuted with force lightning by Darth Sideous, and then he fell out[...]

George Lucas has surprised fans by appearing at the 40th anniversary panel at Star Wars Celebration Orlando Bleeding Cool reported Jeremy Konrad is on the scene, and has sent us photographic evidence, reporting, "George Lucas has returned to Celebration, and the crowd has gone wild He also said Star Wars is for 12 year olds,[...]

As announced last night, Lucasfilm is partnering with Disney YouTube to release new shorts following the adventures of the women of Star Wars All of the major players will be represented: Princess Leia, Padme Amidala, Rey, Jyn Erso, Sabine Wren, Hera Syndulla, and Ahsoka Tano will be kicking butt and taking names in July, sometimes[...]

The doors are open, the fans are rabid, and we are live on the ground at Star Wars Celebration all weekend Thank you for flying the friendly skies. The doors are open, the fans are rabid, and we are live on the ground at Star Wars Celebration all weekend Thank you for flying the friendly[...]

  Star Wars Battlefront II hasn't even had it's official reveal yet, but after the trailer leaked two days ago, well People's reactions were mostly excited or just critical of EA But a few just had to ride in with their fedoras and straw man arguments at the ready to spread some infantile hate. Yes, I am[...]

MakingStarWars managed to get their hands on some of the exclusive cards for the Topps Star Wars Card Trader app that will be dropping this weekend. Just because something is digital doesn't mean that it can't have exclusives MakingStarWars managed to get their hands on some of the exclusive cards for the Topps Star Wars[...]

The percentage of shared exclusives to exclusives has been shrinking but for the first time (in memory feel free to correct us if we are wrong) all of the Funko products at Star Wars Celebration will be shared In a blog post a mere twenty four hours before the convention begins Funko revealed that all[...]