- This week, we're taking a look at the new "Art of Rebels"
book.
- Plus, you'll get to meet some fans
who took their passion for "Star Wars" to the next level.
- This is my dog.
He's not in the show.
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- 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 "Star Wars"
show that has only nine more episodes
to go until "The Rise of Skywalker."
- Which, of course, is the ninth movie in the Skywalker saga--
- --a saga whose first episode debuted in theaters in '99--
- --and whose final film debuts in 2019.
- So many nines.
- What does it all mean?
- Probably that our writer is padding for time
before we go to the next segment.
- Should we go to the news? - Nine.
- Was that another mention of the number nine
or were you saying no in German?
- I'll never tell.
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- "Star Wars Rebels" may have left the air,
but the art from the series can live on in your home thanks
to the new "Art of Star Wars Rebels" book
from Dark Horse Books and Lucasfilm.
- The book, which is written by Dan Wallace,
will feature never-before-seen concept
art and exclusive tidbits from the show's creative team.
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- Plus, StarWars.com has landed a look at the limited edition
slip case, which will also include
two prints of sketches from Dave Filoni's personal sketchbook.
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- "The Art of Star Wars Rebels" will arrive on store
shelves on March 17, 2020.
Oh, hey, it's Wednesday, which means it's new comic book day.
- This week, we've got your first look
at "Journey to Star Wars--
The Rise of Skywalker, Allegiance, Number Three."
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- The latest installment in the Ethan Sacks-penned mini series
finds the diplomatic negotiations on Mon Cala
upended by a street brawl between Rey, Rose,
Chewy, and the local Quarren. [DING]
- But if you're looking for a more macabre "Star Wars" tale,
check out Cavan Scott's "Return to Vader's Castle,
Number Four," entitled "Vault of the Living Brains."
- The story follows Jabba's estranged cousin,
Crakka, as he arrives at Jabba's palace
bearing a sharp-toothed gift.
- Spooky.
- The full issues of both comics will
be available on October 23.
But you can check out the covers and preview pages
right now on StarWars.com/SWS.
- Finally, this week, people have been customizing
their cars for decades.
- From hot rods to magical vans with space wizards painted
on the side, people's cars are an extension
of their creativity.
- But would you believe it if we told you that an entire crew
of dedicated fans have transformed
their ordinary cars into full-blown "Star Wars-ified"
rides?
- Believe it.
They're called Road Squadron.
And this is their story, thanks to our friends at Geico.
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- The Star Wars tribute cars of Road Squadron
have descended here to Lucasfilm headquarters
to take over the galaxy and show off our art.
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Road Squadron is a "Star Wars" art
car tribute group that was founded in 1999
by myself and by Katie Horn.
And we've since grown to 120 members
all across the United States who are trying
to turn their passion for "Star Wars"
into a car club that shows everything they like
about "Star Wars" in something that they can drive
on the road on a daily basis.
- This is Black 1X, and it is based on Poe Dameron's X-wing.
We did the graphics with vinyl.
It was super cheap, super easy, super fast.
I decided on this design because Poe Dameron's X-wing,
quite simply, is the coolest starfighter
in the "Star Wars" universe.
And it just really translated well to the shape of our car.
On the side, we've got kill marks.
There's a TIE fighter for every time we've
exhibited the car somewhere.
And I like to think Commander Dameron
would be proud that we're keeping track that way.
- I think we just need to keep adding to it--
add laser cannons next, do some more damage to it.
There is never a time to stop, and I love
that we can do this together.
- This is my 2006 Mustang GT.
Blue is my favorite color.
And of course, when the "Clone Wars" came out,
Captain Rex, being such a star character,
that was definitely a key factor.
Throughout the car, there's some small details.
You'll look around, and you'll see I have
a dashboard hologram emperor.
I have some custom seat belts that are made.
They look like a trooper belt. I wanted
it to be a little more subtle than a lot of the other things.
Of course, I'd like to go a little more maybe,
but this is what I enjoy.
- What I've got here is a T-65 X-wing.
It's patterned off of Red Two.
Anywhere that I've been able to go accurate to the studio
scale model, I have.
I started gluing panels all over it,
and that's about 300 something of them.
I've got autographs all over the car.
The best one I have is Kenny Baker's.
That was really lucky, and I'm very
happy about getting that one.
Some people golf.
I mess up my car.
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- It makes a lot of people happy.
- If I'm in my suit like this and I get a little
five-year-old, I can just about convince him I flew
in from the moon that morning.
That makes it all worth it.
- This is the Z-wing carfighter.
We tried to find things that are inexpensive
but convey the sort of kitbash nature of "Star Wars"
that was used with all of the space ships in the films.
And so in my case, I'm using $3 pizza pans on the wheel covers.
The laser cannons are made out of baseball bats.
All sorts of things you wouldn't necessarily
think of as neat "Star Wars" details
are then reconfigured to convey exactly that.
Being able to take a road trip cross-country
and to be able to show off what we've
done for the people who've given us so much
cool stuff through the "Star Wars" saga
is pretty amazing for us and makes us feel like part
of the "Star Wars" family.
And with luck, maybe we can come back and do
something like this again.
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- Hal Hickel and Rachel Rose came all the way
from ILM to hang out with us and talk about "Galactic Builders."
So your episode of "Galactic Builders" comes out tomorrow.
It's such a neat series, teaching kids science
through "Star Wars," pairing up with the first robotics team.
Can you talk a little bit about what
you guys did with your first students in your episode?
- We had them come in and tell us
a little bit about the program that they're in
and what they've done.
And then we showed them how we built K-2SO in the computer,
how we handled the motion capture.
- And then we had a great time showing them
the stagecraft system that we have
for doing virtual production.
- I got to do the magic mirror thing once.
It's super cool.
Anthony and I were both doing it.
And we were looking at his wrists
and like inside his arm pits to see how his joints work
and everything.
I can imagine for a kid who's interested in robotics
that was a pretty interesting experience.
- They're engineering actual robots that have to function
and perform a task and all that whereas we're creating robots
that we hope people will think look very real and are real,
but we get to cheat.
[LAUGHS] Like all that mechanics you
were talking about inside the shoulders and hips,
it looks cool, and it looks like it should
do what it's supposed to do.
But it doesn't really do what it [INAUDIBLE] [LAUGHS]..
Shh. - You're ruining the magic.
- Don't tell anyone.
- You mean to tell me K-2's armpits
are just for decoration?
- Kind of, yeah.
But they're meant to look like--
we drew inspiration from the real world.
- They were amazing at being able to draw lines between what
they were doing physically with the real robots
and what we were doing digitally,
even though, yeah, it's not always grounded in reality.
- You guys are inspiring kids through what you make.
How important is it to you and for ILM,
you think, to partner with kids in these sorts
of organizations?
- I think it's really super important for us to do this.
"Star Wars" as a whole is very inspiring to young children.
So we have this great gift that we can use as a way to help
them get into more STEM.
And it makes me really excited.
- What they accomplish in their robot
building programs is way beyond me.
So I'm super inspired by that.
And then I hope that what we're doing in turn inspires
them and kids like them to get into STEM
fields or visual effects.
Hello.
That may not be exactly what you were picturing,
but it involves a lot of math and stuff too.
- It's like art and engineering all mixed together.
- Yeah, and a lot of what they're doing when I talked
to them was really mixing art and engineering even
within their robotics programs.
- It's pretty amazing seeing these young kids
who are already so into a field and developing these skills.
Do you have any advice on how they
could translate that into maybe a career here at ILM?
- Don't wait.
You can make flip books.
You can write.
You can shoot a movie on your iPhone.
There's no reason to stop yourself from getting
on with it and making things.
That's usually advice I give, because it's
easy to throw up your own roadblocks that stop you.
- What I always tell people, especially people who
are technical, is that many of the careers
that you might be used to while you're in school,
there are many, many other opportunities.
And if you have that interest in both the technical
and the creative, there's a wide variety of different things
you can be doing.
And this just happens to be one of them.
Get out there.
Talk to people that are in the industry.
Make some connections.
You don't have to have everything in front of you
completely spelled out right now.
There's so many different opportunities and ways in which
you can explore the world of the technical and the creative
together.
- Well, thank you guys so much for coming by.
And thanks for getting involved with "Galactic
Builders" and First Robotics.
It's super exciting.
Check out their episode of "Galactic Builders"
tomorrow on StarWarsKids.com and YouTube.com/StarWarsKids.
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- --watching-- - "--The--
- --Star-- - --Wars
- --Show."
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- Ooh, that was a humdinger of an episode full of "Star Wars"
content.
And speaking of "Star Wars" and content for the internet,
we want to see some of your vintage "Star
Wars" Halloween costumes.
- That's right.
We're talking homemade Lukes, store-bought Ben
Cooper flammable vinyl smocks.
As long as it's old and "Star Wars," we want to see it.
- So send us your old school photos
of you cosplaying "Star Wars" using
the hashtag #SpookyStarWars.
And we'll feature our favorites here next week
- And as always, remember to like the video,
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check your Halloween candy before eating it.
- Thanks for watching.
And may the force be with you.
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- Halloween used to be real dangerous.
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Candies were full of who knows what.
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- My dangerous Halloweens were because we would freeze
to death in Chicago October.
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You guys never had to deal with snowy Halloween, did you?
[BEEP] - No, hurricane Halloween.
[BEEP] - Really?
- Yeah. [BEEP]
Kids were just like, I don't care.
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