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A Look Inside the New Book Exploring the Making of Solo: A Star Wars Story

The story behind how Solo came to life is…well, a lot more intriguing than Lucasfilm would want it to be. And while Abrams Books’ latest Star Wars “making of” release may not have the full story you’d perhaps want to hear about Solo specifically, its plethora of behind-the-scenes images paint an intimate picture nonetheless. Written … Continued

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‘Exquisite Pajamas’

Video games are, occasionally, very silly. Star Wars is also, perhaps a little more than occasionally, very silly. Sometimes the confluence of these two entities being brought together creates a level of profound silliness that is truly incredible. Star Wars: Battlefront II’s latest, Clone Wars-inspired update went live today. It adds a bunch of things … Continued

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7 Things We Hope to See in Star Wars Resistance Season 2

Jedi aren’t supposed to look toward the future, but we are not Jedi. We’re Star Wars fans and looking to the future is one of the things Star Wars fans do best. With Lucasfilm’s latest animated series, Star Wars Resistance, having recently wrapped up its first season, we felt it was time to think about … Continued

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Padmé’s New Novel Is a Star Wars Story I Didn’t Know I Needed

Although it has come in fits and starts, Disney’s total reboot of the Star Wars canon—five years after it began in earnest—is still decidedly light in fleshing out the events between the prequels. So E.K. Johnston’s new novel promising to reveal Padmé’s life as she transitioned from Queen to Senator of Naboo seems like a … Continued

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A Star Wars Resistance Producer Answers Your Burning Questions After the Season One Finale

The first season of Star Wars Resistance ended Sunday night with a dogfight for the ages. Kaz and his friends took to the skies in an all-out battle to liberate the Colossus from the First Order, all while being mindful that the galaxy as they know it has completely changed with the recent destruction of … Continued

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Yoda Is a Tragic Trickster in This Star Wars Galaxy of Adventures Short

All of the Star Wars Galaxy of Adventures shorts are brilliant. But there’s one moment in this one, starring Yoda and Luke, that I absolutely adore. It occurs after Luke—in that classic Empire Strikes Back dialogue—explains that he’s looking for Yoda. Here, the creators of Galaxy of Adventures insert a pause, which they fill with … Continued

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The First Order Just Changed the Course of History on Star Wars Resistance

The moment Star Wars Resistance finally crossed over with The Force Awakens changed everything for both stories. In the movie, when Starkiller Base destroyed the planets of the New Republic, the Resistance realized it was all on its own. At the same time, on Star Wars Resistance, Kazuda Xiono just watched the same thing occur.  … Continued

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Star Wars Rebels Ended One Year Ago, So Let’s Celebrate the Ride

March 5 marks one year since the end of Star Wars Rebels. It’s the anniversary of us seeing one story of Ezra Bridger end, while another one began. You may have even been alerted to this because of the popular #RebelsRemembered hashtag trending on Twitter. In trying to figure out something to post to remember … Continued

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Star Wars Resistance Finally Showed Us the Hero We’ve Been Waiting to See

It took some time, but Star Wars Resistance finally gave us the hero we’d all been waiting for. And his name is Kazuda Xiono. After a whole season of Kaz being a rather polarizing character, what with his goofy demeanor and penchant for idiocy (as well as ace flying and heroics), the new episode, “Descent,” … Continued

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How the Studio Behind Star Wars‘ New Animated Shorts Brings the Lighter Side of the Movies to Life 

Galaxy of Adventures, the kids-focused line of Star Wars animated shorts, has been trucking along turning moments from the movies into delightful pieces of animation. But for Titmouse, the studio behind the shorts, they represent a chance to inject some brightness into the most iconic moments in the Star Wars saga. Another short in the … Continued

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Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge—The 77 Most Fascinating Things We Learned on Our Trip

Have you been dying to learn all the nitty-gritty details on what you’ll find inside Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge? That wait is over. Last week, io9 traveled from Lucasfilm in San Francisco, California to Disney Imagineering in Glendale, and finally to Disneyland in Anaheim, to find out everything we could about the upcoming Star Wars … Continued

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We’ve Been to Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge and Life Will Never Be the Same 

For Star Wars fans, two things have always been true. It’s a world we all dream of visiting but will never actually be able to. Star Wars is a movie, of course. Fiction. The sets and places only exist in far off studios for a few months at a time, or as ones and zeroes … Continued

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In the Latest Excellent Galaxy of Adventures Short, Luke Gets Some Good Training In

It’s a bit stunning how good the Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures shorts are. The basic idea, of taking audio from the movies and setting them to animation, honestly doesn’t sound that impressive, but each one is just full of style and energy. The latest, “Lightsaber Training”, is no different. It makes the moment from … Continued

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Hasbro Upgraded a Classic Star Wars Toy So You Can Learn How to Properly Swing a Lightsaber

There are lots of wonderful toys and gadgets in the Star Wars universe, but it’s the lightsaber that most fans would love to get a chance to try in real life. Imagination-powered lightsaber toys have existed as long as the films have, but Hasbro’s new Star Wars Lightsaber Academy adds some new tech to make … Continued

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Turns Out, the Star Wars Movies Sure Do Mention ‘The Force’ a Lot

After all, it does surround us and penetrate us. It binds the galaxy together. So it stands to reason that if you took every Star Wars live-action film’s namedrop of the mystical energy field and put it in one video, you’d hear “The Force” so often it loses any and all meaning. The Star Wars … Continued

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The Coolest Star Wars and Marvel Reveals From New York Toy Fair

New York Toy Fair descended on the Javits Center this past weekend, bringing us a new look at all the spectacular new toys (and games!) just waiting to plunder our bank accounts over the next year. As always, the show was a great and financially ruinous time for fans of Star Wars and Marvel—here are … Continued

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A New Virtual Experience Allows You to Raise Your Own Porg

Even before The Last Jedi came out, porgs were everywhere. Porg dolls, porg sneakers, porg backpacks…the world was porg obsessed, and that’s only continued since the release of the film. However, for obvious reasons, the one thing no one could really have was an actual porg. So Lucasfilm’s ILMxLab aimed to change that. Now, a … Continued

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With The Force Awakens Timeline Looming, Things Are Heating Up on Star Wars Resistance

Star Wars Resistance has had us wondering how the animated series fits in with the story being told in the sequel trilogy. “The Core Problem,” the latest episode, made the biggest connection so far. The show finally did it. It caught up to the beginning of The Force Awakens, putting the final few puzzle pieces in … Continued

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The Star Wars Twitter Posted a Weird Tweet, and Fans Are Freaking Out

Ah, promotional Twitters, a regular source of both great joy and great consternation to fandom everywhere. Sometimes they bring trailers, exclusive clips, interviews, all the joys the excited fan demands. Sometimes, they bring a bounty like today’s: tweets that don’t make any sense. Hello, Star Wars UK Twitter account, long-time listener, first-time blogger, I have … Continued

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Episode IX’s Shoot Comes to a Close as J.J. Abrams Posts an Emotional Cast Photo

Star Wars: Episode IX is in the can and we’re all crying about it. Director J.J. Abrams commemorated the end of shooting the final film in the Skywalker saga (which began way back on August 1) with the following tweet and emotional photo showing cast members Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, and Oscar Issac embracing on … Continued