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Check out the packaging for The Clone Wars merchandise. Interesting, no? But the really interesting thing? All that stuff is going to start appearing on shelves July 26. Does that mean we’ll actually be seeing the series soon?
In other thrilling CW news, AICN has now hopped into the story, and they’re reporting that the theatrical release will involve four episodes and be sometime in the spring. The spring? I call shenanigans. Minicons take time!
Word on the street (again) is that folks are claiming (again) that the first three episodes of the series will indeed receive a theatrical release. (Remember, in November Lucasfilm danced around the early reports with TFN.) Now, action-figure.com is saying that Hasbro is keeping Star Wars on the press downlow, and Time says that Lucasfilm Animation in Singapore will “spearhead Lucasfilm’s first animated feature film this year.”
And what to make of this supposed game tie-in? (Warning: Spoilers.) Not exactly the most reliable source in the world but interesting.
I can’t see this staying under wraps for too long. How long will we have to wait for official word? Hopefully not San Diego… The U.S. Toyfair later this month? And while WonderCon is later this month, have they ever done a major announcement there?
Jedi News has been hitting the UK Toy Fair, and among their finds is another new character from The Clone Wars:
The LEGO Rep let us into a few spoilers including the fact there will indeed be a feature release in early September here in the UK (a couple of weeks earlier in the US), and he also told us about the characters included with these sets – don’t read the next sentence if you don’t want to know! Rotta is Jabba the Hutt’s nephew or son (there seemed to be some confusion about this) and the first 2 or 3 episodes centre on his kidnapping!
Presumably, he’s not anyone’s secret apprentice. Phew.
Check out their pics of the LEGO Rotta and other Clone Wars characters.
StarWars.com introduces Anakin Skywalker’s Clone Wars cannon fodder padawan, Ahsoka Tano.
The internets are going apeshit over the news that Vader and Yoda will appear in Namco Bandai ‘s Soul Calibur IV. (Vader will appear on the Playstation 3 version, while Yoda graces the Xbox 360s.) The official site has the press release, and 1up has screen shots and a trailer.
Star Wars Addiction’s Top 10 Star Wars events of 2007. I’m not quite sure I agree with the ordering: No way can I buy Death Star being as high as it is when no one I know actually read it. (Seriously, we threw a chat and no one came!) but it’s an interesting look back at the year.
Perhaps we need a CJ version? Ponder on this I will…
Hasbro says animated series will debut in theaters next August and start on TV in the fall; Lucasfilm neither confirms nor denies. (At least to TFN.)
Slashfilm came across a fan-made poster that spans the entire saga. I’m usually not a huge fan of the collage aesthetic, but I gotta admit this one is pretty nifty.
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TFN has transcribed comments (reported in French) made by Rick McCallum at France’s Reunion 2 convention regarding the two TV shows and saga box set.
I wonder if we can expect any official reports on this…
