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- On April 30, the galaxy lost a giant of a man.
- Peter Mayhew, the actor behind the iconic Chewbacca,
passed away at the age of 74.
- For generations of fans, he will
always be seen as the ferocious Wookie with a heart of gold.
- A character that with a simple head tilt
can conjure feelings of loyalty, trust, and strength.
- His performance can be terrifying
in one moment, joyous and friendly in the next.
Peter's deep blue eyes were filled
with more emotion than some of the most elegant prose.
- He loved the fans, and the fans loved him back,
always taking time to talk with them
and making sure that their Star Wars experience was just
as joyous as his performance.
- Star Wars will never be the same without you, Peter.
Thank you for everything.
- The force will be with you always.
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- Hello and welcome to The Star Wars show,
the only Star Wars show on the internet that is actually
on a top secret mission somewhere within the United
States right now and has pre-recorded this episode
so you will have your weekly fill
of Star Wars goofs and guffaws.
- So if things get a little weird during the on camera
segments, just sit back and know that you're in on a movie magic
secret.
- Wait, why don't we just pre-record
all of our episodes like this?
That way, we'd only have to work, like, one day a year.
Last Saturday was May the 4th.
And the internet collectively celebrated
the unofficial official Star Wars Day
with the gusto of a Hut biting the head
off a Klatooine paddy frog.
- The California state legislature
celebrated the Star Wars Galaxy and the opening of Star Wars
Galaxy's Edge with a formal resolution on the state
assembly and senate floors highlighting
Disneyland Resort for its economic impact
and job creation.
- Mark Hamill made a special message
to promote FIRST, the new Force for Change Initiative.
And registration opened for teams to compete in Star
Wars themed FIRST challenges.
- Star Wars Galaxy's Edge released the John Williams
symphonic suite for the land.
And LEGO announced LEGO Star Wars Boost Commander Set,
a new line of LEGO Star Wars toys
that build, code, and play with three different droids.
R2-D2, a Gonk Droid, and a Mouse Droid like our beautiful baby
boy Cheese.
- The droids have over 40 different interactive missions
and utilize steam learning skills to code.
The Droid three pack goes on sale on September 1.
- And while we're on the subject of Star Wars things,
Lucasfilm announced the complete list
of titles coming for the journey to the rise
of Skywalker publishing line.
- Titles like "Resistance Reborn" by Rebecca Roanhorse,
which follows Poe, general Leia, Rey, and Finn as they
struggle to rebuild the resistance after the end
of "The Last Jedi."
- "Force Collector" by Kevin Shinick
is set just before the events of "The Force Awakens"
about a restless teenager as he sets out
to discover what connections his mysterious Force
powers have to the fabled Jedi and what his future holds.
- There's also new titles from Marvel, IDW, books
for young adults and children, plus more behind the scenes
art books and visual dictionaries
that you've come to expect from the release
of a new Star Wars film.
- For that and more breaking news from around the galaxy,
check out StarWars.com/sws.
- I'm Pete [INAUDIBLE].
And we are going to stage a little prank
replacing the statues of Praetorian guards with actors.
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- [SCREAMS]
- Oh, my god.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
- Oh, goodness.
[LAUGHS]
- Oh!
[LAUGHTER]
[SCREAMING]
- Oh, my gosh.
- Oh, Jesus!
- Oh, my [INAUDIBLE].
- [SCREAMS]
- I did wear a Star Wars shirt underneath.
[SCREAMS]
- [SCREAMS]
[LAUGHTER]
- Oh, my god!
- Zoraida Córdova's here.
And she was just about to tell me all the secrets
she knows about Galaxy's Edge.
- Every single secret.
- Tell me all the things.
- Spilling all the tea.
- Your new novel, "A Crash of Fate's" coming out in August.
And it ties in directly to Galaxy's Edge.
- Yeah.
So the book is a love story set on Batuu.
It's about two best friends who were separated
when they were six years old.
And then all of a sudden, they're
brought back together literally crashing into each other.
And that is their meet cute.
And they spend an entire day basically
falling back into love.
- So this book actually does tie-in directly to the story
of Black Spider Outpost in Galaxy's Edge
that fans and readers can interact
with when they go to the parks.
What kind of collaboration process was there?
- I got a lot of material to look at and a lot
of behind the scenes images.
And going through all of that, I started
trying to place where my two characters
belong in this world.
What is their role in this planet?
Where do Izzy and Jules fit in all of this?
And creating their own story.
- Tell me a little bit about some
of the inspirations you drew or the challenges
that you encountered.
- I sort of went back to my favorite elements of Star
Wars, which is love stories.
I love those personal romantic moments.
Pulling that very specific inspiration
is interesting because you want to create something
new, a new love story.
But you also want to put it in a place
that also feels like Star Wars.
- Yeah.
Personally, I love the relationship
between Kanan and Hera.
- Yeah.
The couple that I always wished had happened
was Obi Wan and Satine.
That one destroyed me.
I wanted to create one where we want to pine
and we want to go through this journey.
But I want a happy Star Wars romance.
- Can you talk a little bit about being a fan
and now creating Star Wars and how
your perspective has changed?
- I think that I appreciate things from a different lens.
Liking it when you're a little kid, you like the action.
And then as you get older, you start seeing the relationships
and how those relationships work and how they change
and how we can take that idea of how one person can make
a difference or a small group of people can make a difference
and how that is elevated in the real world.
So now as an adult, I get to just live in these worlds
and help create them.
- What kind of real world details
did you work into "Crash of Fate?"
- Well, some of the real world things
is the moments where my characters get really hungry.
It's like, Let's go on a date.
Where can we go on a date on Batuu?
Oh, I know this place to eat.
So figuring out where they go, I got
to put in some of the things that they eat that you might be
able to eat at the theme park.
- That sounds interesting.
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- One of my favorite characters to write about was [INAUDIBLE],,
who is in charge of the black market of this outpost.
He has all the cool things in his shop.
Why do you even need to go to the rest of the galaxy
when he has pieces of the galaxy everywhere in his store?
- He'll take care of you. - Exactly.
He'll take care of you.
You take care of me, I take care of you.
- That's cool.
So when you were writing for them,
were you given any sort of breakdown
of their personalities?
Or were you kind of given free rein to--
- Kind of, yeah.
There are people at Imagineering who know
these characters inside out.
And so if I wrote a line of dialogue, and they'd be like,
this sounds too nice for this character,
or this doesn't sound like this character at all.
And so you got to have a collaborative back and forth
about what they sound like so that when you
go to the theme park, the experience sort of still
feels the same.
- I'm super excited to read it.
And it'll be super interesting for a lot of fans
to read it maybe after they've been to the park
or before the park.
- Right.
It'd be a nice Easter egg hunt of the places
when you take the book with you.
- Exactly.
It'll give a really nice, rich context to it.
It sounds super exciting.
Thank you so much for coming by.
- Thanks so much for having me.
- You're watching-- - --Star
- --Wars-- - --the show.
- Last week, we wanted to know how you celebrated May the 4th.
And we had so many submissions, we couldn't feature them all.
- Luckily, we're here to feature some of our favorites.
- Favorites like Daniel Gustagon's Day
of Lightsaber pancakes, blue milk,
Gorg cupcakes, Wookie cookies, and lots of Star Wars mugs.
Robert Wagner, Jr. had a 10 hour party
that included a game of Loopin' Chewie
and a first timer watching "A New Hope" saying it
was "a good movie."
- Daniel gave us an interpretive dance,
Liam Toms made a Crait cake, and our friends
over at the Younglings Podcast nabbed the free Star Wars
comics on Free Comic Book Day.
- Thanks to everybody for submitting
and for watching this week's episode.
- And as always, remember to like the video,
subscribe to the channel, follow us on Twitter,
Facebook, and Instagram.
- Thanks for watching.
And may the Force be with you.
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You know the ugly duckling that grows up to be a swan?
That swan turns into an old swan.
- With a beard.
- And brutal, brittle bones.
- And a lightsaber. - [GROANS]
- And his name's Frank. [BEEP]
- (HONKING) Frank. [BEEP]
- He's not even here to defend himself.
[LAUGHS] - Nope.
That's what makes it great.
He has to wash through all this footage
to see what the good footage is, and therefore
has to hear all of this.
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