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This Star Wars Day, you can celebrate with five new friends.

Star Wars: The Bad Batch, the new animated series starring an elite team of clones — Hunter, Wrecker, Tech, Crosshair, and Echo — has arrived on Disney+! Premiering in honor of May the 4th, the first episode is now streaming, with the second arriving Friday, May 7. Subsequent episodes will premiere on Fridays. 

The Bad Batch follows the elite and experimental troopers of Clone Force 99 (first introduced in Star Wars: The Clone Wars) as they find their way in a rapidly changing galaxy in the immediate aftermath of the Clone War. Members of Bad Batch, as they prefer to be called — who vary genetically from their brothers in the Clone Army — each possess a singular exceptional skill,

Star Wars: The Bad Batch is finally here! The new Original Series, available only on Disney+, tells the story of the elite squad Clone Force 99, a.k.a. the Bad Batch, in the immediate aftermath of the Clone War. The epic 70-minute premiere, “Aftermath,” is now streaming; before you jump in, check out a selection of preview images from the debut episode below!

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Happy Star Wars Day to all fans of a galaxy far, far away! 

Whether you’re watching the first episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch on Disney+, marathoning the movies, cooking a Star Wars recipe, or just wearing your favorite Star Wars T-shirt, we hope you have a great day celebrating any way you see fit.

There’s a lot happening for Star Wars Day, and we don’t want you to miss any of it. So set your scanners below for a full rundown of what you can do today:

Watch the premiere of Star Wars: The Bad Batch on Disney+! Check out The Force Awakens from Its Nap, a special Star Wars Day release on Disney+ starring Maggie Simpson! Look for new Star Wars fan art on Disney+! Discover new ideas for how to

Add the muscle of Clone Force 99 from Star Wars: The Bad Batch to your Funko Pop! collection.

Star Wars is magic. We don’t mean just on-screen, although the galaxy far, far away is certainly a mystical place. But the filmmakers who have told the stories of Star Wars for the last four decades make just as much magic in the real world bringing their visions to life.

Star Wars has been changing moviemaking since 1977 and it shows no signs of ever stopping. Thanks to Disney+, you can get an up-close look at the sets, visual effects, technology, and so much more any time you want. Here are 10 documentaries and featurettes for your all-access pass behind the scenes of Star Wars, currently available on Disney+.

1. Empire of Dreams

This two-and-a-half-hour documentary is an unparalleled deep dive into the three movies in the original

StarWars.com is shining a light on those who truly give the saga its power: the fans. In the StarWars.com Fan Spotlight, we’re honored to tell their stories.

There is something empowering about Padmé Amidala. On screen, the character embodies an independent woman willing to fight for her ideals and provide a voice for the voiceless, a stylish and sophisticated leader who exudes confidence and class.

In the hands of cosplayer Momo Naberrie, the fashion icon from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is transformed into La Catrina in a celebration for La Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, a fitting tribute to the young mother, former queen, and galactic senator. The cosplay mash up allows Naberrie, who was born and raised in Mexico where she lives today, to

Some top-secret Star Wars: The Bad Batch posters have been declassified.

In celebration of the upcoming debut of Star Wars: The Bad Batch, the new Star Wars animated Original Series coming to Disney+ on May the 4th, Lucasfilm and The Walt Disney Company have released striking posters for fans to enjoy. Fans voted on Twitter for which character they wanted to see next, and the final collection — featuring Hunter, Echo, Tech, Crosshair, Wrecker, and a surprise poster of Omega, the mysterious child seen in the series’ trailer — sets the stage for a new Star Wars adventure. Check them out below!

For more on Star Wars: The Bad Batch, check out StarWars.com’s in-depth coverage:

Go inside the series with supervising director and executive

It began with a stop at Burger King. In 1980, Brad Rau was five years old and his mother decided to take him and his brother to see Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Brad had never seen Star Wars, but that didn’t seem to matter. Like most kids, he loved movies, and a trip to the Home of the Whopper made the outing even more of an event. 

“I got some chicken tenders, the barbecue sauce, and the Empire Strikes Back glass. I had no idea who any of these characters were, but we each had our glass and we went to see the movie,” Rau tells StarWars.com. “I’m not overstating it when I say it just changed our lives. It changed our lives! Everything after that was Star Wars.”

Darth Vader has no patience for posturing. He has no interest in baseless threats to Imperial rule. And he certainly has no fascination with training exercises.

In an excerpt from the short story “Orientation” by John Jackson Miller — part of the new Star Wars Insider Fiction Collection compilation featuring Legends tales and modern lore — with art by Brian Rood, we find the Dark Lord of the Sith aboard the Imperial cruiser Defiance, where Commandant Pell Baylo is trying his best to impress the new leaders of the Empire with varying degrees of success. Ultimately, Vader’s attentions lie with a young cadet whose anger is palpable…

“Battle stations! Hostiles off the starboard bow!”

In the command well of the Imperial cruiser Defiance, 20 members of the skeleton crew hastily

Loyal astromech R2-D2 has been called many things: Nearsighted scrap pile. Artooie. Clone Wars veteran. Rebel hero.

Jana Matheson, the chief creative officer of Judith Leiber Couture, humbly offers up her own take from this galaxy: cultural icon. The designer and her team have spent more than a year creating a fitting tribute to the squat droid that routinely helped keep the Republic, the Rebellion, and the Resistance out of trouble throughout the Skywalker saga.

The final piece is functional fine art at its best, a feat of engineering and artistic execution worthy of the droid’s status in pop culture. But it’s more than the thousands of dazzling hand set European and 24K gold crystals that set this high-end handbag in Artoo’s image apart from the crowd. Beyond its beauty, each one