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“Chatter Back Chopper Animatronic” Nominated for Action Figure of the Year

Our favorite grumpy astromech has reason to make some happy beeps!

Hasbro’s Star Wars Chatter Back Chopper Animatronic has been nominated for Action Figure of the Year in the Toy of the Year Awards, it was announced this week by the Toy Association. Inspired by the Ahsoka live-action series on Disney+, the toy features character design and weathered deco based on his look in the show. Even more fun comes from interactivity, as Chopper springs to life with more than 40 sound and movement combinations, unlocked by pressing the button on his body, posing his front arm, or by making sounds of your own. But Chop needs your help!

You can visit ToyAwards.org to vote for Chatter Back Chopper through September 8. The category winners, determined by votes from consumers, Toy Association

The Mandalorian Seasons 1 and 2 Blast Onto 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray

The Mandalorian fans and physical media enthusiasts have a new bounty to collect.

Seasons 1 and 2 of The Mandalorian are coming to 4K Ultra HD disc and Blu-ray, it was announced today. Star Wars: The Mandalorian: The Complete First Season and Star Wars: The Mandalorian: The Complete Second Season will arrive December 12, 2023, with each collection available nationally in Steelbook packaging. (Better than beskar, we think!)

This is the first release of the Disney+ series on home video, and both sets come packed with new extras and surprises, including original box art by Attila Szarka, concept art cards, and never-before-seen featurettes. You can get a first look below!

Start your hunt early when pre-orders launch on August 28. We have spoken.

10 of Sabine Wren’s Greatest Moments

Sabine Wren is an incredibly cool character, even by incredibly cool Mandalorian standards. A graffiti artist, explosives expert, and Darksaber wielder who is loyal, strong-willed and free-spirited, Sabine won many fans during the four seasons of Star Wars Rebels.

As we get ready for Sabine’s live-action debut in Ahsoka, the series debuting on Disney+ August 22, it’s the perfect time to look back at some of her greatest moments, which made us fall in love with the rebellious Mandalorian in the first place.

1. Blowing things up with flair.

Blowing things up is arguably one of Sabine’s greatest loves. It’s hard to pick a single explosion, but Sabine’s introduction gives us a great example of what she is all about. Providing a diversion for the Ghost team, Sabine sets off one of

Ahsoka: Fans Celebrate Their First Look at New Disney+ Series

Brad Leccia has been a fan of Ahsoka Tano since he started watching Star Wars: The Clone Wars with his two young sons 15 years ago. “The first time we saw her in The Mandalorian, Rosario [Dawson] just nailed it,” Leccia told StarWars.com.

However, when he saw the first trailer for Ahsoka in April, it was newcomer Baylan Skoll that caught the bearded fan’s eye for his next cosplay project.

Brad Leccia practices a Darth Vader-inspired move while dressed as Baylan Skoll.

Ray Stevenson looks like me! And I thought, ‘I could do that,’” Leccia, dressed head-to-boot in a Baylan cosplay, said Thursday night at Lucasfilm headquarters in San Francisco. The occasion was one of five screenings in the multi-city Ahsoka Fan Event that celebrated the new series with hundreds

Ahsoka Premiere Moves Up to Tuesday, August 22

Ahsoka Tano is getting a head start on her latest adventure.

The two-episode premiere of Ahsoka will now arrive on Tuesday, August 22 at 6 p.m. PT on Disney+, it was announced today — one day earlier than originally scheduled. Subsequent episodes in the Original series will debut on Tuesdays at 6 p.m. PT, as well. (A Jedi can never start a mission too early.)

Set after the fall of the Empire, Ahsoka will follow the former Jedi Knight Ahsoka Tano as she investigates an emerging threat to a vulnerable galaxy.

For more on Ahsoka, watch or rewatch the latest teaser for the series, go on a „Hero’s Journey“ with Rosario Dawson, and look back at the „Master and Apprentice“ relationships throughout Star Wars.

New Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures Episodes Coming Soon

Kai, Lys, and Nubs are back.

Our favorite younglings and their friends will return when new episodes of Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures arrive November 8 on Disney Junior and Disney+, it was announced today. Among the upcoming installments is a Life Day special, which finds series stars Kai, Lys, and Nubs, along with Masters Yoda and Zia, on a trip to Kashyyyk to celebrate and learn more about the Wookiees’ holiday traditions. In addition, even more episodes of Young Jedi Adventures Season 1 are confirmed for 2024.

Set 200 years before Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and during the High Republic era, Young Jedi Adventures follows Jedi younglings as they study the ways of the Force, explore the galaxy, help citizens and creatures in need, and learn valuable skills needed

Quiz: Which Ahsoka Tano Are You?

Ahsoka Tano inhabited many roles in her life. As Anakin Skywalker’s Padawan, she learned the ways of the Force from one of the best in the Jedi Order. During the Clone Wars, she commanded entire battalions of soldiers in the fight to defend the Republic. And after she walked away from the Jedi and the Empire took control, Ahsoka Tano became a spy for the rebellion. As she enters a new chapter in Ahsoka, the new series on Disney+, we’re wondering: which Ahsoka are you? You don’t have to look tough to be tough, but you do have to take this quiz to find the answer…

Dexter Jettster Remembers a Fallen Friend in From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi – Exclusive Excerpt

For Dexter Jettster, there’s a weight that comes with experience.

From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi arrives August 29, a celebration of 40 years of Episode VI, and the latest in a series of books featuring short stories told from the perspectives of supporting characters. StarWars.com is excited to present an excerpt from „The Veteran“ by Adam Lance Garcia, which finds the usually jovial Dexter —friend of Obi-Wan Kenobi and proprietor of a popular Coruscant diner in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones — reflecting on what’s been lost in the battle against the Empire. Even in the wake of victory.

Dexter Jettster thought of the boy he had met on Lenahra and all that the boy would never see. He thought of the warrior the boy had become

New Star Wars: Visions One-Shot Coming from Marvel and Peach Momoko – Exclusive Reveal

Superstar comics creator Peach Momoko is being set free in the galaxy far, far away.

StarWars.com is thrilled to announce that Momoko will helm a new Star Wars: Visions one-shot from Marvel, writing and drawing her own original story. Currently titled Star Wars: Visions – Peach Momoko #1, the issue will be the first in a new series of tales from comics creators untethered to previous Star Wars storytelling, very much in the spirit of Lucasfilm’s animated anthology of the same name.

“I really enjoy thinking about how to tell my own version of Star Wars, while keeping in mind the concepts of the original universe,” Momoko tells StarWars.com.

Star Wars: Visions – Peach Momoko #1, arriving November 2023, picks up centuries after the death of a major Sith Lord, with

10 of Ahsoka Tano’s Greatest Moments

Ahsoka Tano may no longer consider herself a Jedi, but her many adventures remain some of the most exciting and important tales of any Force user in the Star Wars galaxy.

In the lead-up to the August 23 two-episode premiere of Ahsoka on Disney+, StarWars.com is taking a look at just 10 of her greatest moments in celebration of a modern Star Wars icon.

1. The child and the Force.

In the first moments of the first episode of Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi, “Life and Death,” a baby Togruta is born to a welcoming, joyous village. That child is, of course, Ahsoka Tano.

After a year, Ahsoka’s mother, the graceful Pav-ti, carries her infant out of their village and into the woods for the child’s first hunt. While in those woods,