Get Ready for the Premiere of Star Wars: The Bad Batch with New Character Posters!

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:

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“It’s a Dream Come True”: Brad Rau’s Road to Star Wars: The Bad Batch

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.”

From the Pages of Star Wars Insider: Darth Vader Returns in an Excerpt from The Fiction Collection

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

How Judith Leiber Turned Fan-Favorite Astromech R2-D2 into Fine Art

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

Disney+ to Celebrate Star Wars Day with Fan Art Takeover

The Force — and fandom — will be strong with Disney+ this Star Wars Day.

In celebration of the galaxy’s greatest fan holiday, Lucasfilm and The Walt Disney Company have commissioned fan artists from all over the world to create new pieces for Disney+. Kicking the series off today is a breathtaking mural by Zi Xu, a poster illustrator and cover artist, depicting the heroes and villains of the saga. You can find the artwork on the main Star Wars landing page on Disney+, and check it out below!

The artwork celebration will continue on Disney+ from Tuesday, May the 4th, until Saturday, May 9, with more commissioned fan art taking over the landing pages of Star Wars movies and series, including:

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