The vitriol that initially met the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special has since morphed into a kind of deranged appreciation for just how fucking weird it was—Jefferson Starship, Bea Arthur, and Harvey Korman coming together for Wookie Christmas? Hell, we’ll take that over the bland and illogical Rise Of The Skywalker.
Consider us excited, then, for the Lego Star Wars Holiday Special, a sequel to Rise Of The Skywalker in which the Star Wars family gears up for Wookie Christmas (sorry, Life Day) as Rey and BB-8 are shot through time and space to experience some of the franchise’s most iconic moments firsthand. “But will she make it back in time for the Life Day feast and learn the true meaning of holiday spirit?” asks a synopsis. One can only dream.
As you’ll see in the below trailer, the special’s time-hopping premise means you’ll see everyone from Yoda, Darth Vader, and Emperor Palpatine to Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Qui-Gon Jinn in Lego form, perhaps the best of all forms. The special is also extending itself beyond the core franchise, with the Mandalorian and Baby Yoda appearing to melt a few hearts.
Check out the trailer below:
Kelly Marie Tran, Billy Dee Williams and Anthony Daniels will reprise their roles as Rose Tico, Lando Calrissian and C-3PO, respectively, while Clone Wars voice actors like Matt Lanter, Tom Kane, James Arnold Taylor, and Dee Bradley Baker round out the cast.
Whither Lumpy, you ask? We’ll find out when the special premieres on Disney+ on November 17.
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Hell, we’ll take that over the bland and illogical .As an aside to talk about how stupid Star Wars Episode IX: Palpatine Fucks is, I’m just gonna list some minor stupid things that annoy me that nobody talks about.How the hell did Ben get to Exogol in a standard, Rebellion-era TIE Fighter that survived the destruction of the Death Star II, spent the past 20 years in a presumably waterlogged and badly eroded hangar, and also lacks a hyperdrive? I can maybe accept the first two as a really big contrivance but the fact is that TIE Fighters do not have FTL capabilities outside of specific custom variants like Vader’s TIE Advanced.Shouldn’t Rey have been able to sense if Chewbacca was dead or not?Is Han a Force Ghost now? I thought only Force Sensitives could become Force Ghosts?How are Rey and Kylo Ren doing that Force commnication thing in this movie when Snoak specifically said he was one connecting the two in TLJ? There may have been an explanation for this one and I may be misremembering so feel free to correct me, but Kylo Ren told Rey that she the power require to connect the two of them would have killed her.
All J. J. Abrams movies are entertaining spectacles that don’t stand up to logical analysis. It’s who he is.
He could have easily had Ben going to Exogol in a beaten up Imperial Shuttle. They had have those on the Death Star II, they did have hyperdrives, and Luke even left on one in RotJ.
The answer is in the mystery box!!!
“WHAT’S IN THE BOX”JJ: “Ummmm…nothin!”
I doubt you can say any Disney live action movies ‘belong’ to their director. Its more like they belong to the corporate suits sitting on conference rooms who send memos to the production staff on every page of script they read.
It looks cool. Doesn’t make any difference if it makes sense or not. That is how that movie was put together. Here’s my favorite: Luke drowned his x-wing in the ocean so he wouldn’t be able to leave his exile, and even pulled off one of the wings to use as a door for his hut. ‘Lets have Rey destroy her ship so Luke has to lift out the x-wing and we can call back to the same scene from Empire. No, of course it still works. The missing wing? What missing wing? It’s right there on the ship.’
A wizard did it. It’s a wizard did it all the way down.
How do we know it was an old Imperial TIE fighter? (also, wasn’t it a TIE Interceptor?)FO TIEs are shown to have hyperdrives, and even though it’s never addressed I believe old Interceptors had them as well.
Per canon, Interceptors do not have hyperdrives. The TIE Fighter he took to Exogol had a box-like shape of a standard TIE Fighter and lacked the arrow-shaped panels of an Interceptor. It also lacked the white paneling of First Order TIE Fighters so it was clearly Imperial. So it had no hyperdrive.It would have made more sense if he showed up in beaten up Lambda-class Imperial Shuttle, which the Death Star II did in fact have a compliment of and definitely had a hyperdrive.
The Han and Ben scene, which I love, is pretty open to interpretation (not everything Force needs to be explained, that’s how you get midichorlians). I like to think that it’s Leia’s final act speaking through Han to Ben. It’s more stirring than “Hi, Ben! Don’t be evil!” *Gak*. So it’s one of those Force things, where the sacrifice of both of his parents is what breaks Ben out of the dark side. All things are of the Force, even Corellian scrumrats like Han Solo.
“Kylo Ren told Rey that she the power require to connect the two of them would have killed her.”That was for Force Projection, aka the trick Luke did in TLJ that wound up killing him. Snoke claimed he created the connection between Rey and Kylo but they still had a Force connection at the very end of TLJ after Snoke was dead, so Snoke lied.
*Wookiees / Wookiee
Anyone care to place bets on how the studio execs will manage to screw up this story like they do all the other stuff they touch?
The more they screw it up the more of an homage it will be to the original Star Wars Holiday Special. A horrible nonsensical ridiculous mess would be fitting.
I’m just glad a foolish and poorly-made money-grubbing corporate mishap is being refashioned into winking and polished money-grubbing corporate synergy.
Synergy and profit! Hooray!!
Everything but the Mandalorian, which remains solid and fun
Pushes up glasses.Pardon me, sir, but as anyone with more than five brains cells can tell you, it is quite obviously spelled “Wookiee.”Loudly slurps Mountain Dew through straw.
On the one hand, this seems like a “flog everything we can” approach to Star Wars, but on the other hand, I’m here for it when those who control a franchise pay tribute to elements that were once considered too cheesy/uncool to touch. Example: I got a big smile on my face when the “woo WOO woo woo woo woo woo” theme from the original Star Trek series theme song played over the credits in JJ Abram’s 2009 Star Trek movie.
Yeah, this move is pretty much genius or a disaster. As much as I love all the Lego movies, I’m guardedly optimistic.
I didn’t know cribbing from the ‘Lost in Space’ movie was a sign of some kind of genius
If the first 20-30 minutes isn’t gonna be in the Wookiee language without subtitles, I’m not interested
There better be a weird scene with an old Wookie watching porn!And Bea Arthur singing!
Hopefully, those are two different scenes. Otherwise it wouldn’t be Carroll… Diahann Carroll.
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Bea Arthur or GTFO.
he already has a comb, you heartless bastards!