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Image: LucasfilmFans of the original Star Wars-inspired ride will now be able to travel through all the eras of the live-action stories from a galaxy far, far away. Disney Parks’ Star Tours - The Adventure Continues recently announced that characters and a new setting from Disney+ series The Mandalorian, Ahsoka, and Andor are set to join the current slate of galactic travel destinations at Disneyland, Walt Disney World, and Disneyland Paris. Even outside of Galaxy’s Edge, Lucasfilm’s original E-ticket ride is still one of…

Anthony Daniels poses with C-3PO at a Japanese Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker fan event on December 11, 2019.Photo: Christopher Jue/Getty Images for Disney (Getty Images)There are Star Wars collections—and then there are collections from people who are Star Wars. A very rare trove of franchise memorabilia is now up for sale at Los Angeles auction house called Propstore, and it’s direct from the collection of Anthony Daniels, who played C-3PO for over 40 years.Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, Daniels admitted he felt…

Image: Sideshowio9: How does the sculpting process work? What kind of tools are used, what is the original raw material, and how are the final pieces made?Arsham: The originals are sometimes a combination of 3D printed elements, some clay work, sometimes there’s some plaster sculpting involved. Then a mold is made of the completed positive. The molds are used to make the final artworks.Van Slee: It’s worth noting that there are three different types of artworks in the Star Wars x Arsham collaboration, each with a slightly…

Earlier this week Ubisoft dazzled gamers with a surprise fully fledged look at Outlaws, its upcoming open-world action adventure Star Wars game. In what we’ve seen so far, Outlaws wants to play with Star Wars in ways other recent games maybe haven’t so much—an intriguing mid-Trilogy setting, a smuggler protagonist instead of a Rebel or a Jedi. But for all the surprises, perhaps one has stood out most.People are mad thirsty for Outlaws’ robot ally.ND-5—a familiar Star Wars design in a Commando Droid from Star Wars: The…

Screenshot: LucasfilmGod bless you Crix Madine, for providing generations of action figures of politicians, diplomats, officers, and other general non-combatant Star Wars characters the gift of the ur-accessory when you can’t just give them a blaster. What is the stick for? Who knows, but Kenner and Hasbro certainly don’t mind it all these years later. Screenshot: LucasfilmGod bless you Crix Madine, for providing generations of action figures of politicians, diplomats, officers, and other general non-combatant Star…

Billie Lourd and Mark Hamill help give Carrie Fisher a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.Photo: David Livingston (Getty Images)Star Wars Day, May 4, always brings with it lots of fun activities. This year, though, the Star Wars galaxy centered on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, CA—where Princess Leia herself, Carrie Fisher, was finally given a star on the iconic Walk of Fame.Fisher sadly passed away in 2016, so the posthumous honors were handled mostly by Fisher’s daughter Billie Lourd, who joined her mom in the Star…

Star Wars’ relationship with droids has always been weird. Their portrayal has run the gamut from revolutionary to servant underclass, to killer foes and straight-laced allies. But no droid has ever felt more true to the ragtag heroic ethos of Star Wars than Hera Syndulla’s very own little freak, Chopper.‘I Started a Yoda Fan Club’Don’t get me wrong, Star Wars’ wider media universe has long had droids that lean towards going goblin mode rather than the stiff-lipped comedic foils seen in the likes ofC-3PO. R2-D2 of course…

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's weekly round-up of the greatest toy news the internet has to share. This week: Hasbro’s got a new Grogu figure with cheeks you can’t wait to pinch, Lego embiggens the heads of Return of the Jedi’s most memorable heroes, and Hot Toys returns to Darth Vader once again with a glowing, lightning-charged helmet. Check it out!‘I Started a Yoda Fan Club’Image: HasbroHasbro Star Wars: The Mandalorian Mixin’ Moods GroguIf you’re old enough to remember pulling Garfield off the weekend newspaper …

Are the droids of Star Wars people? From the moment Wuher glowered at C-3PO and R2-D2 and snarled “we don’t serve their kind,” the galaxy far, far away has danced around the powder keg of its android heroes and villains as a fully fledged sentient species. But the more The Mandalorian has engaged with the idea, the more it has put Star Wars’ proverbial foot in its mouth.Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard Nerd Out About Jurassic Park's Returning HeroesIn its earliest days, The Mandalorian at least wanted to try and…

When two very famous celebrities show up on this week’s episode of The Mandalorian, the viewer has a choice to make. Look at the sets, the characters, the costumes, and buy into the absurdity of what’s obviously about to happen, or get angry that clearly, this latest episode is very uninterested in forwarding the story of this season. Spoilers of the Week: July 1stAt first, I was in the second group. Angry that this seemingly unrelated, glossy, over-the-top, cameo-filled story was keeping us from seeing any meaningful…