Attention, Star Wars fans. This year’s Force Friday has been canceled. Or, to be more precise, this year’s Force Friday never was. Disney and Lucasfilm decided to dial back the pomp of the 2015 event, which featured live-streamed unboxing videos, midnight madness store openings, insanely long lines, and excruciatingly low stock of The Force Awakens playthings. While stores will stuff shelves with new Rogue One: A Star Wars Story merchandise on Sept. 30 (yes, it’s a Friday), the day won’t be branded in the same way, and the rollout of announcements will be more gradual than last year’s 24-hour blitz.Related: First Look at Disney’s ‘Rogue One’ Toys and Role-Playing Gear (Exclusive)Beginning now and stretching over the next several weeks, the Star Wars YouTube channel will be airing a four-part loose adaptation of Rogue One introducing all the new toys via fan-created stop-motion animation. The first chapter, which you can watch above, features an action-figure version of Jyn Erso (played in the film by Felicity Jones but voiced here by someone else) hunting the plans of the Death Star — the Lego Death Star, that is.
The clip offers peeks at upcoming figures, vehicles, and playsets from Hasbro, Mattel, Lego, Jakks Pacific, Funko, and the Disney Store.Related: Here’s Felicity Jones Geeking Out Over Her First Jyn FigureAmong the toys tucked inside the Star Destroyer cargo bay: the Nerf-shooting AT-ACT from Hasbro; Lego’s AT-ST, Imperial Hovertank, and Krennic’s Shuttle; Mattel’s fleet of Hot Wheels-branded TIE fighters; and several different lines of action figures:Disney and Hasbro versions of the new Death Troopers flank a Funko Pop! vinyl Imperial Director Orson Krennic, while Mattel’s TIE striker and AT-ACT are parked on the shelves:Scores and scores of Stormtroopers fall in, from the ginormous Jakks Pacific “Big Figs” to the big-headed Funko Pop! figures to the teeny Lego minifig variety:Action figures of the dashing Rebel Captain Cassian Andor (modeled after actor Diego Luna) and his reprogrammed Imperial security droid, K-2SO — based on a quick survey of the new action figures, manufactures are banking on K-2SO, Jyn, and the Death Troopers as the most popular.
The clip’s best line comes courtesy of Jyn as she confronts a trio of Lego bucketheads: “Aren’t you a little short to be Stormtroopers,” she says, echoing the classic Leia line. “We prefer vertically challenged,” they respond.Once the toys arrive in stores on Sept. 30, Disney will launch a contest where regular fans can try their hand at creating similar skits. //MyRogueStory, with the winners being flown to Lucasfilm HQ in San Francisco for a special screening of Rogue One, which arrives in theaters on Dec. 16.Keep checking back at Yahoo Movies for exclusive Rogue One toy reveals throughout the week.LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars - Stop Motion How To VideoWritten, directed and produced by a team of Star Wars superfans, the final installment of the stop motion Go Rogue YouTube series debuts today. The four-part series previews key toys from the new "Rogue One" line before they hit stores Sept. 30, a.k.a. Force Friday. We also have three photos from this last stop motion video that you can check out below the short.
The Go Rogue video series follows the imagined adventures of Rogue One toys seeking LEGO Star Wars Death Star set building instructions that have been misplaced by the Empire (no film spoilers here!). In the exciting conclusion, the Rebels must rely on their wits, courage and building skills to rescue one of their own from Director Krennic and escape with the LEGO building instructions. The fate of the Galaxy hangs in the balance.The Go Rogue series conclusion will feature new LEGO Star Wars toys in action, such as AT-ST Walker, Krennic's Imperial Shuttle, along with new minifigure characters Jyn Erso, Director Krennic, Cassian Andor, K-2SO, Baze Malbus, Chirrut Imwe, Death Troopers and more. In all, more than 20,000 LEGO bricks were used in this production. Long favored by stop motion animators, LEGO-related videos account for more than 20 percent of Star Wars fan-generated content on YouTube.Chapter 4 brings the fan-created toy-sized adventure to a close and leads into a global user generated content (UGC) contest for fans to create and enter their own 2-minute videos beginning Sept. 30.
Winners will attend an advance film screening at Lucasfilm in San Francisco and see their own story on the big screen. Fans also can join the global #GoRogue conversation on social.The Go Rogue series was created by a team of superfans led by James DeJulio at Tongal, written by Kevin Ulrich, and brought to life by stop motion animators and directors Dan MacKenzie and Tucker Barrie. There will be many more Star Wars toys available for purchase on Force Friday in just a few short days, as we get closer to the December 16 release of Rogue One: A Star Wrs Story. Take a look at the final Go Rogue short and three photos from this short film series leading into Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, hitting theaters December 16.Star Wars is turning to stop-motion animation to reveal some of its new Rogue One toys. As merchandising for the Dec. 16 movie ramps up, September will feature weekly installments of a spoof-version of the movie called Go Rogue, in which action figures, minifigs, bobbleheads, and other playthings battle over who possesses the instructions for a giant LEGO Death Star kit.
The first installment dropped Tuesday night and can be seen above. The Jyn Erso and K-2SO droid are played by Hasbro Black Series figures, while Cassian Andor is depicted by a Disney Store Elite Series toy. The video was overseen by Tongal, a Santa Monica studio that crowdsources technical work on its projects, so its crew and creators count themselves as fans. Many of the toys will be available for pre-order on Sept. 2, and this video series kicks off a contest for fans to create their own “Rogue Stories” short films. The contest closes on Oct. 30. Winners will be invited to Lucasfilm headquarters at the Presidio in San Francisco to attend a screening of Rogue One, accompanied by their short on the big screen. Check out EW’sJyn Erso toys — from LEGO to Hasbro and more. For more Star Wars news, follow @Breznican. Mon 6 Jun 2016, 10:30am–12:00pm Eventfinda tickets no longer on sale Additional fees may apply Imagination Station Facebook Page
Listed by: Imagination Station Special Edition Queens Birthday Star Wars Stop Motion Animation! Our Star Wars stop motion classes were so popular on Star Wars Day, that we're offering another one! Use our Star Wars Lego and mini figures to create your own movie!! Whether you are a beginner or have done stop motion before, come along to this session to develop your stop-motion animation skills! In this course you will learn how to make your own Lego stop-motion animated movie. We will cover basic film-making principles, using iStopMotion and Lego specific techniques used in producing animations that stretch the imagination. If you already know this stuff - great! The class time is for you to make a film, or to continue work on one with an experienced tutor on hand to answer questions and help you polish your film!This class is 90 minutes long - plenty of time to make a 10-20 second long animation! Did you know that means taking 300 photos? That same day we email out a link to download your file so you can show it off!
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