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This is madness! Ahead of Star Wars Celebration Anaheim this May, StarWars.com is excited to announce the first of many talented guests who will appear at the convention including the person who brought our favorite goldenrod droid to life, Anthony Daniels.

Daniels has the distinction of being the only actor to work on all 11 Star Wars feature films, appearing as C-3PO in all three trilogies in the Skywalker saga as well as Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Daniels also made a cameo appearance in Solo: A Star Wars Story in the role of Tak.

Another Star Wars mainstay, Ian McDiarmid — the actor who plays the nefarious Emperor Palpatine in the original, prequel, and sequel trilogies — will also appear, as well as Ashley Eckstein, the beloved voice actor for Ahsoka Tano’s

Over the years, the LEGO Group has released hundreds of LEGO Star Wars sets. But there was always one that the toy maker couldn’t quite crack.

“For years we’ve been scratching our heads about how to capture the Death Star trash compactor, an extremely iconic scene, in LEGO bricks,” Michael Lee Stockwell, LEGO Star Wars design manager, tells StarWars.com. “But what good is a trash compactor that doesn’t ‘compact’? We needed the function!”

Well, Stockwell’s trash compactor dreams have finally come true. He and the LEGO Star Wars team finally figured out how to bring the memorable sequence to brick form, turning toward an unexpected source for a creative spark. 

“Replicating a static mess is one thing, but building a function that works repeatedly without jamming, required coming up with a

Luke Skywalker didn’t seem too crazy about his homeworld. “Well, if there’s a bright center to the universe, you’re on the planet that it’s farthest from,” he once said. But a new book from Insight Editions looks to prove him wrong.

Star Wars: Exploring Tatooine, an all-ages book coming August 2022, will showcase all the landmarks, grand arenas, and watering holes made famous by the iconic, desert-covered locale. Written by Riley Silverman and fully illustrated in a large-scale format by Studio MUTI, the hardcover release features the Lars homestead, Mos Espa’s podracing Grand Arena, the krayt dragon’s nest, and much more, as well as characters from across the saga. You can get a first look at the cover and some interior spreads below, along with full front and back cover art.

Bounty hunting leaves scars. Including those you can’t see.

In StarWars.com’s exclusive first look at Marvel’s Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #21, T’onga relives past traumas that still linger in her mind. But they also inform a new anxiety: that she’ll once again lose someone she loves…

Bounty Hunters #21, written by Ethan Sacks and illustrated by Paolo Villanelli, with a cover by Giuseppe Camuncoli, arrives March 30 and is available for pre-order now on ComiXology and at your local comic shop.

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The bounty hunter flicks his toothpick to the ground as his other hand strays to the blaster to his side. Red eyes glare under a wide-brimmed hat, showing no uncertainty or hesitation. If Cad Bane has you in his sights, you’re about to be in a galaxy of trouble.

“We knew that this guy was going to be a very intense fighter, a very intense gunslinger, a very serious threat,” said Dave Filoni in 2009. “Cad Bane works for the highest bidder. I think he enjoys what he does.”

If you enjoyed Bane’s intimidating presence and blaster-slinging in The Book of Boba Fett, here are 9 essential episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: The Bad Batch (in chronological order) featuring the mercenary in action, all streaming now

Sara Thacher’s nephew was excited to help the First Order.

During a test voyage of Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser earlier this year, the 11 year old Star Wars fan set out to side with the antagonists, due in part to their cool costume appeal. Then he met some of the heroes of the Resistance. “And [suddenly] he’s having a real moral conflict,” says Thacher, experience designer for Walt Disney Imagineering Research and Development. The two sat in their well-appointed cabin aboard the Halcyon starcruiser to talk it out — a surprise for Thacher, to be sure, but a welcome one. “We had this wonderful moment of talking about morality and ‘how do you want to play?’” she says, a discovery that left Thacher in awe. Another colleague witnessed two young passengers so

Very few groups in the galaxy can intimidate a Jedi just with the utterance of their name — and the Pykes are one of them. The syndicate made the leap from Star Wars: The Clone Wars to the big screen in Solo: A Star Wars Story, and they haven’t stopped looking for their next profitable opportunity since.

Let’s meet the underworld gang that’s crossed paths — and weapons — with Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Ahsoka Tano, Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Boba Fett.

Behind the Scenes

Like most things in Star Wars, the Pyke Syndicate has an extraordinary origin story. Their creation began in 2007 with a sketch by concept artist David Hobbins.

“George Lucas plucked the design out of dozens (this one, in particular, a design for an alien

Crimson Dawn’s efforts against the Empire will soon reach their apex.

In StarWars.com’s exclusive first look at Marvel’s Star Wars: Darth Vader #21, Sabé, former handmaiden to Padmé Amidala and secret Crimson Dawn operative, confronts Ochi of Bestoon and Sub-administrator Moore — also agents of the criminal organization. She reveals the next phase in her plan against the Empire, but Darth Vader might just be one step ahead of them…

And in StarWars.com’s preview of Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #19, trouble brews — as it always does with the starring rogue archaeologist – when foe/friend Kho Phon Farrus seeks an ancient artifact that’s on Aphra and Sana’s checklist.

Darth Vader #21, written by Greg Pak and illustrated by Raffaele Ienco, with a cover by Paul Renaud, is available for pre-order now on