Fans finally got to enter the colorful, action-packed world of Star Wars: Hunters — the upcoming multiplayer arena-combat game — at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim 2022. The Hunters booth, large-scale and decorated with the game’s quirky characters, featured stations for fans to play it ahead of release, and a panel with Lucasfilm Games and developer […]
SWCA 2022: Meet Marietta Ivanova, the Cosplay Competition Winner Who Brought a Geonosian to Life
From a towering General Grievous to kid-sized members of the Bad Batch, cosplayers of all shapes and sizes wowed the crowd at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim 2022. They came from around the world, including Brazil, Peru, the United States, and more, to show off months of hard work to an energetic audience. Judges Steve Sansweet […]
SWCA 2022: 5 Things We Learned from the Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi Panel
“Two paths and two choices.” Those are the words Lucasfilm’s Dave Filoni used to describe Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi, a new 6-part animated short series set to premiere this fall on Disney+. Here are five things we learned in a panel that offered the first known details about the upcoming show. 1. Tales […]
SWCA 2022: Marvel’s Star Wars: Yoda Miniseries Revealed
Yoda? You seek Yoda! And soon, readers can explore a new chapter in the Jedi Master’s journey with the Marvel Star Wars: Yoda miniseries. Just announced at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim, the new comic is set in the moments before Luke Skywalker’s arrival on Dagobah in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, as the Jedi reflects […]
SWCA 2022: 7 Hasbro Star Wars Reveals Fans Won’t Want to Miss
Spoiler warning: This article discusses characters from Obi-Wan Kenobi, now streaming on Disney+. The unofficial theme of Star Wars Celebration Anaheim 2022 seems to be “Hello there.” And this year’s highly-anticipated Hasbro Star Wars panel kept the theme going, introducing fans to fresh spins on classic characters and a wave of new products inspired by […]
SWCA 2022: 5 Highlights from ILMxLAB’s Making of Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge Panel
ILMxLAB is taking you behind the scenes of Batuu! At Star Wars Celebration Anaheim 2022, moderator Holly Frey led a panel of ILMxLAB and Lucasfilm luminaries as they discussed the making of Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge. Actor Matthew Wood, executive producer Mark S. Miller, producer Alyssa Finley, writer Ross Beeley, and manager of quality […]
SWCA 2022: 6 Things We Learned from the Light & Magic Panel
Today they’re legends of filmmaking, but back in the late 1970s they were special effects innovators just trying to make George Lucas’s vision a reality. On Friday at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim 2022, executive producer Ron Howard took the stage alongside VFX titans Dennis Muren, Phil Tippett, Joe Johnston, Rose Duignan, and Lucasfilm vice president and […]
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SWCA 2022: 7 Things We Learned from the Summer of LEGO Star Wars Panel
Today at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim 2022, Lucasfilm and the LEGO Group celebrated everything LEGO Star Wars, from toys to games to animation. Dubbed “The Summer of LEGO Star Wars,” the panel — moderated by Yvette Nicole Brown — featured many of those working behind the scenes of LEGO Star Wars, including Douglas Reilly (vice […]
SWCA 2022: 7 Things We Learned from the Lucasfilm Publishing Behind the Page Panel
What’s behind your favorite, group effort non-fiction Star Wars book? Probably a very intense spreadsheet and a lot of collaborative and supportive text messages exchanged amongst the authors. That’s just one of the not-so-secrets we learned at today’s Lucasfilm Publishing: Behind the Page panel at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim 2022. Panelists Ashley Eckstein, Kristin Baver, […]