Star Wars in Concert heads to Japan

By Dominic Jones/The SWU

Anthony Daniels, the actor who played C-3PO in the six Star Wars films and on The Clone Wars Television series, revealed today at the C2E2 Convention in Chicago that the highly popular Star Wars in Concert will be touring in Japan at some point in the future. The concert features a full orchestra plying Star Wars music, a the world’s largest LED screen playing clips from the saga, a light show, and is hosted by Daniels.

Star Wars in Concert heads to Japan

By Dominic Jones/The SWU

Anthony Daniels, the actor who played C-3PO in the six Star Wars films and on The Clone Wars Television series, revealed today at the C2E2 Convention in Chicago that the highly popular Star Wars in Concert will be touring in Japan at some point in the future. The concert features a full orchestra plying Star Wars music, a the world’s largest LED screen playing clips from the saga, a light show, and is hosted by Daniels.

Second Lego Star Wars Special Coming!!

By Dominic Jones/ The SWU

Anthony Daniels, the actor who played C-3PO in the six Star Wars films and on The Clone Wars Television series, revealed today at the C2E2 Convention in Chicago that a second Lego Star Wars television special is in the works. The first Lego special, The Padawan Menace, aired last July and was very well received by fans of all kinds.

By Dominic Jones/The SWU

Dark Horse has released a preview for this summer’s upcoming comic series Darth Maul: Death Sentence written by Tom Taylor with cover art from Dave Dorman. The first issue of the series goes on sale on July 25, 2012.

Check out the preview below:

STAR WARS: DARTH MAUL–DEATH SENTENCE #1

By now the galaxy has learned the terrible truth: Sith Lord Darth Maul still lives. Worse, he has joined forces with his brother Savage Opress!

The Jedi are searching for them and, after Maul and Opress cut a murderous swath through the Outer Rim, so is an army of mercenaries hired by a wealthy mine owner.

Darth Maul has a price on his head, and for him there is only one way to deal with such a problem: go directly to the source!

Death Sentence #1 is on sale July 25, 2012. Written by Tom Taylor (Invasion) and cover by Dave Dorman (Dark Empire, Crimson Empire)

Star Wars Identities Update

By Dominic Jones/The SWU

The traveling Star Wars exhibit known as Star Wars: Identities opens in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on April 19, 2012 and in anticipation of this the exhibits official website has been updated with more details from the exhibit. It offers more in depth information about the journey fans will take in exploring their own identity as well as that of the Star Wars universe during the exhibit. It also previews some of the artifacts included in the exhibit. Some of the items are: The Millennium Falcon model, the R2-D2, Stormtrooper, Darth Vader and C-3PO costumes, The Droids in the Desert and Chewbacca concept Ralph McQuarrie art pieces, a Joe Johnston Yoda concept, the Han Solo in Carbonite prop and a early Killian Plunket Ahsoka Tano design.

Celebrity Hosts announced for Disney Star Wars Weekends 2012

By Dominic Jones/The SWU

Disney has announced that Clone Wars voice actors James Arnold Taylor and Ashley Eckstein will be returning as hosts for this years Disney Star Wars Weekends events. Taylor, who will also be the host of the Main Stage at Star Wars Celebration VI this summer, will be the Official Celebrity Host of Star Wars Weekends 2012 and Eckstein will be Celebrity Host of “Behind the Force,” which focuses on behind the scenes aspects of the Clone Wars television series. Also look for Ashley to debut some new Her Universe items during the show.

Dave Filoni to attend Celebration VI

By Dominic Jones/The SWU

It was announced on the official Star Wars Celebration website that Star Wars: The Clone Wars supervising director Dave Filoni will be attending Star Wars Celebration VI this August 23-26 in Orlando, Florida. Filoni has hinted in the past that he will be in attendance and promises to provide many sneak previews of the upcoming Season 5 of The Clone Wars. Filoni has stated in the past on his Facebook page that “if you can make it to Celebration 6 in Orlando you might get to see more Death Watch action than ever before.”




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Celebration VI: Artists Announced!

By Dominic Jones/The SWU

The official Star Wars Celebration VI website was updated today to announce the 40 artists who will be taking part in the official art show during the convention. The artists will all be producing exclusive prints for fans to purchase during Celebration. A preview of their works will be coming later this summer.

Art Auction for Baby Leah

By Dominic Jones/The SWU

Another wonderful initiative in order to raise money for Baby Leah has begun. As of now there are 112 pieces of artwork (mostly Star Wars) up for auction until April 8, 2012 with all of the money raised going to support Zev and Francesca Esquenazi whose baby daughter Leah has been sick with a Mitochondrial disease. The family has been in and out of hospital since May 2011 and have hospital bills of over 2 Million dollars. Zev and Francesca are both HUGE Star Wars fans, Zev is a member of the 501st Legion and Mandalorian Mercs costuming organizations. Among the auction items are a signed Dave Dorman print with an exclusive sketch on the border, a Star Wars: Knight Errant print signed by author John Jackson Miller, exclusive artwork and prints, and so much more.

"Star Wars: Scoundrels" Release Date, Cover and Synopsis Announced

By Dominic Jones

Entertainment Weekly announced today that Timothy Zahn’s new “Han Solo novel” will be titled Star Wars: Scoundrels and that it will be released on December 26, 2012. They also released cover, which features Han Solo, Chewbacca and Lando Calrissian as well as the first official synopsis for the novel:

The Death Star has been destroyed. The Rebellion has had its first big victory. And Han Solo, newly conscripted to the Rebel cause, is on the run from the Empire and the bounty hunters eager to turn him in for the huge reward being offered by Jabba the Hutt. Now a mysterious stranger offers Han the resources to execute a daring robbery from a major crime lord. The mission is impossible, but the prize will make Han a free man. With no choice but to accept, Han Solo and his Wookiee partner, Chewbacca, set out to assemble a cast of rogues, knaves, and cons with the right combination of wits, skills, and derring-do to pull off an operation of this complexity and scale—the best scoundrels the galaxy has to offer. And then the game is on: a rip-roaring, intergalactic, Ocean’s Eleven-style heist adventure starring Han Solo, Chewie, and Lando Calrissian, written by #1 New York Times bestselling Star Wars author Timothy Zahn!

Zahn has previously stated that the novel will be similar to the Ocean’s 11 films. This is Zahn’s tenth novel in the Star Wars Universe.

Celebration VI – Autographs, Collecting and Hosts - Oh My!!

By: Dominic Jones

Since its announcement last June, Star Wars fans have been dyeing to get some news regarding the upcoming Star Wars Celebration VI which will take place at the Orange County Convention Centre in Orlando, Florida from August 23-26, 2012. Prior to this week there had been very few announcements ranging from fan events to author appearances. However this week fans were treated to the first concrete news in some time. First it was announced on Tuesday that James Arnold Taylor, David Collins and Pablo Hidalgo would be the stage hosts. Secondly, it was announced yesterday that Gus Lopez and his team would be returning to Celebration to host collectors panels and events. Finally, today (March 16) it was confirmed that Official Pix will, once again, be in charge of bringing celebrity guests to Celebration.