Thrawn's Office on Star Wars Rebels Was Full of Easter EggsYesterday 6:46pm“Through Imperial Eyes,” the latest episode of Star Wars Rebels, was intense. Grand Admiral Thrawn began to uncover the identity of the Rebel spy Fulcrum and Ezra and Agent Kallus did their best to stop him. The episode also showed us that Thrawn is great at uncovering other things too. Just look around his office.The Rogue One Blu-ray Is Filled With Features, But Somehow No Deleted ScenesWednesday 3:30pmIt’s no secret that a lot of footage was cut or changed in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Huge scenes in the trailers weren’t in the final movie. And while some of the how and why that happened has been revealed, fans hoped the eventual home release would include those scenes in full. It will not... at least not yet.Everything That Aftermath: Empire's End Reveals About the New Star Wars UniverseWednesday 11:16amChuck Wendig’s Aftermath books act as a sort of in-between trilogy, bridging a lot of the gap between the original Star Wars trilogy and The Force Awakens.
Each book has been better than the one before it, and Empire’s End is the best by far. It also brings a lot of changes and additions to the new canon. There Is a Knights of the Old Republic Shout-Out in Aftermath: Empire's End That Will Put a Giant Smile on Your Face2/21/17 5:00pmYou know when someone writes something that hits you right where you live and you had no idea it was coming? That’s what happened when I got to a certain moment in Chuck Wendig’s final installment of his Star Wars: Aftermath trilogy, Empire’s End. I actually yelled with joy reading this book.Obi-Wan Kenobi Suddenly Has a Religious Reason for Lying to Luke About Darth Vader2/21/17 1:15pmYou know how Luke confronted Obi-Wan Kenobi for saying that Darth Vader killed his father when the truth was that Darth Vader was his father? And Obi-Wan says that everything he said was true “from a certain point of view”? Well, thanks to the newest Star Wars novel, that’s not just a pile of bantha poodoo—it’s part…
The Millennium Falcon Is Packed in the First Cast Photo From the Han Solo Movie2/21/17 12:10pmThe first photo from the set of the still-untitled Han Solo film was posted Tuesday, and things are pretty cramped in the Millennium Falcon.All the Incredible Toys We Saw at New York Toy Fair This Weekend2/21/17 11:30am Every February, toy makers descended on New York for the annual Toy Fair event, giving us a taste of all the goodies that will inevitably have us emptying our wallets over the next year or so. As usual, io9 and Gizmodo descended right there with them. Here’s all our coverage, just in case you missed it.Josh Gad Ambushes Daisy Ridley with the Mother of All Star Wars Spoiler Probes2/20/17 12:45pmNo one is allowed to ask Daisy Ridley about Star Wars: The Last Jedi spoilers ever again.Hasbro's 40th Anniversary Star Wars Figures Are an Amazing Throwback2/19/17 12:45pmThe very first Star Wars movie turns 40 in 2017—as are, practically, the toys that have long been intertwined with the franchise.
To celebrate 40 years in the galaxy far, far away, Hasbro are breaking out the weaponized nostalgia with an homage to the classic Kenner era of Star Wars toys.This Giant BB-8 Toy That Follows You Like a Puppy Might Be the Ideal Robotic Pet2/19/17 10:00am In March of 2014, Sony announced it would stop supporting its impressive line of AIBO robot dogs, leaving many owners heartbroken. Countless toy companies have tried to create similarly capable robot pets since AIBO’s demise, but they’ve all been a disappointment—until now. Despite being a Star Wars toy, Spin…Star Wars Rebels Ended With a Bit of a Bombshell This Week2/18/17 9:00pm Star Wars Rebels has never shied away from emotion—and the latest episode, Legacy of Mandalore, offers up an extra-large serving. It puts us smack in the middle of a rare Star Wars conflict, a mother versus daughter, then hits us with a very big shake-up.ILM Will Blow You Away With Digital Breakdown of Rogue One Scarif Battle2/17/17 5:00pmIndustrial Light and Magic isn’t done showing us how the delicious sausage gets made.
Its latest Rogue One visual effects breakdown goes into how the company created the final space battle above Scarif, and it’s a feast for the eyes.The New Star Wars: Aftermath Novel Reveals the Pitiful Fate of Jar Jar Binks2/17/17 12:04pmAll the debate can finally be laid to rest. We’re about to finally know what happened to Jar Jar Binks after Revenge of the Sith, and what he’s been doing since Return of the Jedi.Star Wars: The Last Jedi Is Totally Plural (If You're Bilingual)2/17/17 9:23amFollowing on the heels of revealing Rey’s new hair on an empty box, another Star Wars: Episode VIII mystery has been answered—namely, whether The Last Jedi refers to a single Jedi or a group of Jedi, since both the singular and the plural form are “Jedi.” The solution comes to us via the release of several…Watch ILM Completely Digitally Create the Planets of Rogue One 2/16/17 5:00pmThe best visual effects are the ones we don’t even see. In Rogue One, we know Tarkin isn’t physically there and that the Death Star doesn’t really exist.
So it’s the landscapes that are the true magic: entire worlds created in a computer to build out and expand a little sliver of actual filming, or nothing at all.Does Something Have to Be Canonical to Be Good?2/16/17 3:00pmHalloa and well met, people on my post-apocalyptic mail route! Not gonna lie, this week’s group of questions forced me to think extra hard about canon vs. quality, why America doesn’t care about Judge Dredd, if Back to the Future’s Doc Brown is a time-traveling hypocrite, and more. Hopefully it’s worth it! The Incredible Mystery of Rey's Last Jedi Haircut Solved Thanks to Empty Toy Box2/16/17 10:01amBack in last July, we learned that whatever hairdo Daisy Ridley was sporting as Rey was somehow so important that Lucasfilm felt it needed to be hidden, even when Ridley was just working out. Now, thanks to a picture of empty toy packaging, this great mystery of our time has been solved.This Black Series Poe Dameron Helmet Is Too Small for Adults and It's Super Unfair (UPDATED)2/15/17 8:00pmHow come kids get all the coolest stuff?