- This week we're singing songs about
under-appreciated Star Wars characters with the Aquabats.
- Plus our first look at "Star Wars Resistance",
more from the "Solo" adaptation, and maybe, just
maybe a bit of video game news.
[THEME MUSIC]
- This is The Star Wars Show.
From the Lucasfilm headquarters in San Francisco,
here's your hosts, Andi and Anthony.
- Hello and welcome to the Star Wars show,
a show that much like "Star Wars Resistance,"
will be entirely cell-shaded from this moment forward.
- Really?
- Yeah, make it happen, Frank.
- Wow.
This is a special effect.
- Yeah, I thought this would look way cooler.
It looks like we're broadcasting the show from a Real Player.
- Kids, ask your parents.
Frank, can you switch us back?
Maybe pop on a couple of cooler special effects
before we go to the news?
- Wow.
- You can really tell that the dot com team and the ILM team
are separate.
- Let's just go to the news.
- Zen Studios is releasing a pack of three brand-new tables
based on "Solo: A Star Wars Story"
for Pinball FX 3 this fall.
- The tables include Battle of Mimban, Calrissian Chronicles,
and Solo.
- The pack will be available for download
on PS4, Xbox One, Steam, and Windows 10,
with individual tables for Zen Pinball and the Star Wars
Pinball app to be available on the App
Store, Google Play, and Mac.
- All three tables will arrive on September 12th,
and for more information, check out starwars.com
- And while we're talking about starwars.com and Solo,
for the second week in a row, they've managed to land more
excerpts from the upcoming novelization for "Solo:
A Star Wars Story."
- Three, in fact, all of which did not appear in the film.
The first deals with L3 becoming part of the Falcon
from her point of view, what happens to Kira after she's
returned to Lady Proxima after the botched escape
attempt from the Corellian spaceport,
and what Enfys Nest did with all that Coaxium from,
spoilers, the end of the movie.
- All three excerpts are available to read right now
on starwars.com, with the full novel written by Mur Lafferty
available on September 4th.
- Also if you're not into reading,
the audio book excerpts read by Mark Thompson
are up there, too, just a heads up.
- "Star Wars Icons: Han Solo" is a new, upcoming book
that covers the character's entire journey
from first drafts in the original trilogy,
to "The Force Awakens," to his rebirth
in "Solo: A Star Wars Story."
- The book also takes an in-depth look at his role
in other novels and comics and has interviews with Harrison
Ford, Alden Ehrenreich, Mark Hamill, Billy D. Williams,
Ron Howard, J.J. Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan,
Jonathan Kasdan, and more key creatives who had a role
in this character's life.
- Filled with illustrated and previously unseen imagery,
this is the definitive book for Solo fans across the galaxy.
- "Star Wars Icons: Han Solo" will
be available on November 13th.
- D23 Expo, Disney's biannual gathering, which has featured
lots of Star Wars panels, reveals,
and announcements in the past will
begin selling tickets for its 2019 iteration tomorrow.
- Tickets come in a multitude of varieties
from one to three day passes, as well as VIP packages.
- More details can be found at d23.com.
- "Star Wars Resistance," the new animated Star Wars
series, debuted its first trailer on Friday.
- Woo!
The new series takes place before the events of "The Force
Awakens" and follows the adventures of Kaz,
a newly-appointed spy onboard the Colossus,
a massive aircraft refueling platform on an Outer Rim water
planet, filled with colorful new droids, aliens, and creatures.
- While undercover, Kaz works as a mechanic
and lives with Poe Dameron's old friend, Yeager,
a veteran pilot who operates a starship repair
shop with his crew, Tam, Neeku, and Bucket,
a battered astromech droid.
- Kaz will find himself competing
in a series of dangerous sky races, all
while keeping his mission a secret,
and avoiding the First Order.
- "Star Wars Resistance" will premiere with a one-hour
episode entitled "The Recruit" on Disney Channel on Sunday
October 7th at 10:00 PM.
- And for more on "Star Wars Resistance,"
or any other story from this episode,
and any Star Wars news that breaks, check out starwars.com
I'm joined now in the studio by musicians, crime fighters,
and I guess, crowd-funded content
creators, the Aquabats.
- Yes!
- The majority of the Aquabats are here.
- Hello, Star Warsers.
- We've got MC Bat Commander.
We've got Eaglebones Falconhawk.
We've got Jimmy the Robot. - Odelay.
- For those of us who may not be familiar with your exploits,
can you tell us a little bit about the Aquabats
and "The Aquabats' Super Show?"
- We're the Aquabats.
We're a band who play music together.
We also fight evil, maybe space lords
from outer space, that are here on Earth that don't belong.
We'll help try to get rid of them.
- Maybe. - We try.
- There's no guarantee.
- That's right.
- We set out for the best of all possible scenarios.
- We had a television show called
"The Aquabats Super Show."
We did 21 episodes for a little network
that is no longer with us.
So the show's been floating in space,
and we're ready to do the show again.
We want to make the show.
And that's why we've embarked on this crowd-funding campaign
with a few friends, the Legion of Righteous Comrades,
and bring "The Aquabats Super Show" back.
Put the hyperdrive back in.
- And hyperspace to fun.
[LAUGHTER]
- I absolutely love "The Aquabats Super Show." it had
so many wonderful influences.
There's obviously a bunch of kaiju TV
show influence in there.
And there is some Star Wars in there as well.
Y'all are some big Star Wars fans.
- For sure.
- It's not very often that we have people here
in the studio who have superpowers,
and their superpowers are for creation of music.
So I wanted to see if y'all would play a game with me here?
- OK. - Absolutely.
- We did bring our instruments.
- In the helmet,
[SURREAL KEYBOARD SOUNDS]
We put the names of some Star Wars characters.
And we're going to ask you to pull a name out of the helmet
and create a song on the fly about the character.
- Wish me luck, boys.
- Good luck.
- Luck, boys.
- OK, I've got one.
I got one.
The first song is about Ponda Baba.
(SINGING) He worked for Jabba, smuggling spice.
This guy, he was not so nice.
He hung around in bars.
In the stars.
His name was Ponda, Ponda Baba.
I like to call him Walrus Man.
He would kill you if he could.
But then he lost his hand.
Walrus Man, he lost his hand.
Ponda Baba.
You're a walrus man.
Oo-oo-hoo.
- Beautiful, beautiful.
- See what kind of magic we can create together?
- I gotta turn it up. - The helmet!
[GUITAR SQUEALS]
- Jimmy the Robot will pick.
- Oh!
Aunt Beru.
- I like that one!
(SINGING) Aunt Beru, Aunt Beru, livin' with that uncle dude.
In the sand, hand-in-hand, that's where they live.
Trying to find some liquid in the desert of Tatooine,
Aunt Beru.
[CLAPS] Aunt Beru, Aunt Beru.
[CLAPS] Aunt Beru, Aunt Beru, what you gonna do, Aunt Beru?
Hey, Luke, you're my nephew.
I'm Aunt Beru.
I know what to do, I'll make some cookies for you.
Space cookies for you.
Aunt Beru, Aunt Beru.
Here comes the stormtroopers now.
[LAUGHS]
Here comes the stormtroopers now.
Maybe they want some cookies.
Maybe not.
Freaking stormtroopers.
[APPLAUSE]
- The Aquabats.
- It was really good for a second.
- Well, it gave us some good direction.
[CLATTERS]
- Calm down, sir.
The Aquabats, thank you for being here.
If people want to help bring back "The Aquabats Super Show,"
how do they do that?
- We got this Kickstarter going right now.
Go to bringbacktheaquabats.com.
It'll direct you right to our page.
Make a pledge, help us bring the show back.
September 1st in LA, we're doing a live show,
a live event at the El Rey.
Come down, it should be fun.
There'll be lots of fun friends, and it'll be a good time.
- Thank you for coming by.
Jimmy the Robot, Eaglebones Falconhawk,
and MC Bat Commander, the Aquabats, thanks again, guys.
- Woo!
[THEME MUSIC]
- Hi, I'm Amy Beth Christenson, and I'm an Art Director
for Lucasfilm animation, and I'm here
to give you some advice for the Star Wars Fan
Awards Visual Arts category.
There's a lot of reference material out there,
and there's a lot that's already been done.
So I think the most important thing is to make
your submission unique to you.
You've got your own unique style.
You've got your own unique outlook on life.
You've got your own unique perceptions as a Star Wars fan.
So marry all of those together.
Whether or not you've got an artistic background,
or whether or not you're feeling very strong at art, submit it.
Because it's all about expressing yourself
and your love for something in one image.
That's going to come through no matter what.
And that's what people are going to be looking for,
and people are going to appreciate.
Another thing to do is just pick characters
that you don't see on posters very much, like Willrow Hood.
But don't do that one, because that's what I'm going to do.
I'm not going to enter. I can't enter.
- Do you think Frank has upped his special effects game at all
in the last couple of minutes?
- Oh, boy you are playing with fire now.
- Frank, hit me with something amazing, man.
- Oh, wow.
He took me really literally there.
Does that burn?
- It tickles more than it burns, especially when it loops.
- That's what you get for messing with Frank.
- Lesson learned, let's end the show now.
- You sure? I like this look on you.
- Yeah, be sure to like the video,
subscribe to the channel, follow us on Twitter,
Facebook, and Instagram. The end.
- That was a little more truncated than usual.
- It tickles less and burns more now.
- OK, well thanks for watching and may the force be with you.
[RUMBLES]
- What I need now is a CG fire extinguisher.
[WHISTLES]
- That's a fire extinguisher sound.
- As long as we have the sound, we can add the visual later.