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It’s easy to see why Ouannii, the Rodian Lumosynth player performing live music aboard the Halcyon starcruiser, and star Twi’lek songstress Gaya have already generated a following. Although the experience just launched this month, voyagers have already been seen wearing Ouannii bounds — ensembles inspired by the color palette and style of the character. And on one test cruise, a passenger donned a Gaya T-shirt, complete with dates from a fictional planet-hopping tour, to show their love for the musician, says Wendy Anderson, executive creative director for Disney Live Entertainment.

The duo bring to mind elements that are quintessentially Star Wars, evoking a more polished and posh version of Mos Eisley’s cantina, teeming with galactic tunes and brimming with otherworldly aliens. And for the first time, they don’t just pass

It almost didn’t happen. Graham Hoete, a.k.a. multi-disciplinary Māori artist Mr G, had shifted his schedule to work on a dream commission: a wooden carving of Boba Fett’s iconic helmet. He crunched and finished the piece on time, always with the goal of presenting it to Temuera Morrison — the Māori actor, and one of Hoete’s greatest heroes, who plays the beloved bounty hunter in The Book of Boba Fett. But due to COVID-19 and the safety challenges it created, the exchange had been delayed several times. Yet there he was in Rotorua, Morrison’s hometown in New Zealand, gifting his art to the man behind the armor.

“It was a beautiful moment,” Hoete tells StarWars.com over Zoom. “It was a bit of an epic life moment for myself.”

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These are your first steps into the world of Obi-Wan Kenobi.

This week, Entertainment Weekly pulled back the curtain on the highly-anticipated limited series, coming to Disney+ on May 25, with an exclusive cover story.

The landmark issue — EW’s final print edition before the long-running magazine goes all-digital — features Ewan McGregor’s beloved (and gloriously bearded) Obi-Wan on the cover, while revealing tons of new photos, characters, and story details. Here are just some of the many highlights…from any point of view.

In an in-depth interview with Dalton Ross, McGregor recounted seeing Darth Vader turn up on the Obi-Wan Kenobi set for the first time, the ultimate embrace of the prequels by younger fans, and his Jedi Master’s current state at this point in the timeline —

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga promises to be the biggest LEGOⓇ Star Wars game, in terms of scope, ever. It features the most characters, movies to play through, and gameplay types for players to choose their experience. But there’s one more element that this highly-anticipated game is blowing out.

“We’re going to give them the galaxy,” says LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga senior designer Laurence Gee in a new behind-the-scenes featurette on the game’s planets, which StarWars.com is excited to debut below. And based on this peek under the hood, we’d say they pulled it off.

The game includes most planets seen and visited in the saga films, from Tatooine to Naboo to Ahch-To. As detailed in

If we didn’t know we were staring into the face of Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, we might have looked right past him. Since being forced into hiding after Order 66, Kenobi has been lying low, down and out on Tatooine, dealing with the trauma of the annihilation of many in the Jedi Order and losing his faith after his friend and former student, Anakin, fell to the darkness and helped give rise to the Empire. In our first teaser trailer from the forthcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi limited series, streaming exclusively on Disney+ starting on May 25, things are about to get a whole lot more complicated for the bearded and weary guardian of peace, justice, and the son of Skywalker. Here are five of our favorite moments from the trailer.

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When Seth Watkins, creative director at Funko, develops a new design style for a collectibles line, he almost always starts with Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, and Chewbacca. Even if those characters aren’t on the release slate.

“They each present very different challenges: facial likeness, hands and clothing, hard surfaces and details, and how to stylize hair and fur. I must have drawn these guys a thousand times in a hundred different styles!” he tells StarWars.com. “With these three characters you can answer almost all the questions that need addressing for any other character from any other license.”

It looks like that exercise will finally pay off in a more direct way for Funko’s SODA line, as the galaxy far, far away is set to join the vinyl figure-in-a-can series. First

Aurra Sing doesn’t miss.

In StarWars.com’s exclusive first look at Star Wars: Halcyon Legacy #2, with some help from the changing face of Zam Wesell, the bounty hunter takes a job as private security for a gambler in debt to the Hutts on the legendary vessel…

Halcyon Legacy #2, written by Ethan Sacks and illustrated by Will Sliney with a cover by E.M. Gist, arrives March 16 and is available for pre-order now on ComiXology and at your local comic shop.

Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, the 2-night immersive experience, is now open at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.

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As the Armorer in The Mandalorian, Emily Swallow portrays a character on par with other great Star Wars peacekeepers, sages, teachers, and wise clan elders. Like Yoda passing on his knowledge of the Force to countless classes of younglings, the Armorer oversees the Mandalorian culture. She forges the armor to protect her covert, teaches followers the Way, and  — when required — springs into action to defend her own.

In the skilled hands of director Bryce Dallas Howard, Swallow and her uniquely masked leader returned with a new lesson on the Darksaber and the history of Mandalore in Chapter 5 of The Book of Boba Fett, “The Return of the Mandalorian.” “Working with Bryce is such a dream for an actor,” Swallow tells StarWars.com. “She is that remarkable breed of leader