- This week, we celebrate the legendary Doug Chiang,
reveal some new Funko Pops, and more.
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Let's just go to the news.
Doug Chiang has come a long way from scrawling stick figures
in the dirt to become an Academy Award winning
designer, handpicked by George Lucas
to lead the Lucasfilm art department for Star Wars:
The Phantom Menace.
In honor of Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month,
the Lucasfilm Legend recently sat down with StarWars.com
to talk about his own cultural identity,
imbuing Asian motifs into the designs for the Star Wars
prequels, and how he and Obi-Wan Kenobi showrunner Deborah Chow
are leaning into that same philosophy
to ground the upcoming Disney+ show in reality.
Check out the full interview right
now on starwars.com/thisweek.
Funkos popping their way into season two of the Mandalorian
with a fresh and hot wave of Pop! bobbleheads.
See what I did there?
We've got Grogu--
Aww-- with his little cookie crumbles on his shirt
and his little chin.
I just want to wipe it off.
Ahsoka hooded and ready for a fight,
my girl Bo-Katan, Boba Fett.
Where?
Moff Gideon's ominous dark troopers.
Awesome theme music sold separately.
And last but not least, an adorable family portrait
of Mando and a bouncing baby Grogu.
Oh, my heart just grew seven sizes.
For a closer look at all these Funko Pops!
and a new animated short, head to starwars.com/thisweek.
You know how I like to yell?
- It's a trap.
- Well, yesterday, we got not one,
but two shiny new previews for two upcoming Marvel comics.
First up, Darth Vader #12 with pages from the prelude
to War of the Bounty Hunters, titled,
appropriately, Into the Trap.
The series will return to Coruscant where Vader has
to hop back on the operating table for a tune up
after that business on Exegol.
Plus we got our first look at Dr. Aphra
#10, which begs the question, has
Aphra's luck finally run out?
For a closer look at these pages, head
to starwars.come/thisweek now.
On Friday replacements, the latest Star Wars: The Bad Batch
episode landed on Disney Plus.
After years of saying--
- That's no moon.
- Thanks, Obi Wan.
Clone Force 99 crash landed on what?
A moon, the Ordo Moon to be exact.
While their Omega and the Batchers, also
the name of my 70 synthpop cover band,
went up against an electrifying creature.
And back on Kamino, Crosshair got
a new assignment to command the next generation
of conscripted soldiers.
Could these be proto stormtroopers?
We'll see where the adventure takes us
when a new episode premieres tomorrow,
streaming only on Disney+.
We are only three episodes deep into The Bad Batch.
And I'll say it.
I am obsessed with Omega.
She's so cute.
- Well, what do you think?
- It's perfect.
Thank you, Wrecker.
- But I know I'm not alone.
In fact, in a special message from Star Wars:
The Bad Batch, head writer Jennifer Corbet and supervising
director Brad Rau, let's see what
they have to say about Clone Force 99's newest member.
- I think she's unique, because even though she's
a clone and a defective clone like the Bad Batch,
she's experienced very little, whereas the Bad Batch and all
the clones have been on different war fronts,
have seen all parts of the galaxy.
All she knows is Kamino.
But that being said, she's very intelligent.
She's very wise for a young child,
because she was raised on Kamino.
And just seeing her interactions with the Batch
is engaging, because she sort of challenges their perspective.
And they do the same with her.
- Omega is really interesting, because she does have a really
unique point of view from any other Star Wars character I
could think of, where it's almost as
though the audience is seeing the Star
Wars world through her eyes.
It's really interesting.
We wanted to have her be really capable, and very smart,
and interesting, but also fail, not always
succeed, and have to learn.
And we go to great lengths in our show to see her training,
and learning, and not always accomplishing everything,
so it doesn't always wrap up in a neat bow,
as I think really important to make it grounded and realistic.
- Thanks, you two.
That's it for this week.
But for more on these stories and other news from around the
galaxy, check out starwars.com.
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Thanks for watching, and may the Force be with you.