Star Wars Celebration 2016 Recap

Star Wars Celebration Europe happened over the past weekend and Chris and Casey get on the mic to chat about it. The highs and the lowest of the lows. Take a listen as they express their geekly opinions about their most beloved of movie series!

Show Notes:

Rogue One

• Sizzle reel -multiple times… what else did they see? How they handled livestream
• Trailer EXCLUSIVE
• Vader revealNew troopers
• • New ships, tank troopers, tanks!
  • The beach
• Thoughts on film so far
• Little gunner character played by Warwick

Rebels

• Ezra’s path… Speculation 
• Thrawn in show and book
  • Ysalamiri - force dampening creatures
• Wedge as a tie fighter pilot and maybe Shara Bey?
• Darktroopers
• Mandalorians 
• Darksaber and Sabine 
• An end in sight?

Commercial

Video games

• Battlefront announcements: Death Star, R1
• Viceral’s secret game (uncharted-esque)
• TOR - is it cannon? New expansion “Knights of the Eternal Throne”
• Galaxy of heroes: Tank Takedown raid & Greivous added. Beating them will lead to exclusive Game Mods.

Toys

• Rey Resistance Hot Toy

• Jyn Urso black series figure
• Princess Leia ugliness 
• Force band for BB8 wearable

Books

• Ahsoka
• Thrawn 
• Talk a bit about Life Debt

Comics 

• No news?! Why? 
• Waste of time of a panel 
• Only reveal was about Vader Comic #21 inside panels and #25 variant covers

Han Solo

• Alden Ehrenreich OFFICIALLY cast as Han Solo

Misc

• Goyer, VR Vader?! Movie, game? Makes no sense, the usual Goyer way 

Closing

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