This week we’re talking to author Daniel Jose Older and looking at all of the incredible
cosplay from Star Wars Celebration.
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The Webby Awards recently announced the winners
for 2019, and the team from StarWars.com took home 5 awards!
The Red Carpet Live Stream for Solo: A Star Wars Story took home the people’s voice
award for video events and live streams, StarWars.com took home the peoples voice award for best
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And speaking of Star Wars fans, the Star Wars galaxy collectively cheered when Warwick Davis
announced that Star Wars Celebration would not only be returning next year in 2020, but
that it would also be returning to Anaheim California.
Which means you have about a year left to put together your own incredible Star Wars cosplay.
But what about those of you that dressed up in 2019 in Chicago?
Well luckily our good friend Chastity Vicencio was there and on the floor to check out some
of the best cosplay from Celebration Chicago.
Check it out!
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Can Star Wars fans transform themselves from a galaxy far, far away?
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The Star Wars Show is hitting the floor of Star Wars Celebration Chicago to talk to some
of the most unbelievable, over-the-top cosplayers and see how they made their costumes.
Let’s go!
(Music)
I’m here with Lucky McQueede, who is a Loader Droid.
Tell me about this cosplay, it’s incredible!
This cosplay was built in 12 hours in our studio truck outside the convention.
It took about 3 weeks to find all the parts and pieces.
We did this because I got to Skype with Kate, the actress that was in Big Red in Maz’s
Castle, and I went hey, that looks like fun.
I’m a stilt walker, I can do this.
I’m here with Jeremy and Jeremy very nice wookiee costume.
You’ve even got a porg.
You’re not going to eat it are you?
(Wookiee roar)
I’m here with Amelia who’s dressed as Padme Amidala.
Tell me about your costume, did you make this yourself?
I did make this costume myself.
I estimate about 350 hours for all the hand embroidery, hand dyeing that was involved.
I really love Padme.
She just does so much, she’s just a high achiever.
I found a bantha!
Hello!
It’s a gift giving bantha, the best kind of bantha.
I’m with Alex, Lizzie, and Don.
We got some Rebels cosplay here.
So you helped make them together?
We made them together, yes.
We did some of the sewing together, it was a way of teaching them sewing.
So it was a way of doing some family stuff together.
Just trying to teach them some of the cool stuff we like to do.
I found a Captain Phasma.
Araya, this is amazing! How long did this take to put together?
It took us about a month and a half to put it together.
My husband is the one that actually built it.
The kit is made out of AVS and the helmet is fiberglass.
I’m with Lauren, who’s dressed as Ahsoka Tano.
Why do you like Ahsoka?
She’s such a great character.
Which we see her journey from the very beginning.
What was the hardest part of the costume to create?
Of course the headpiece because the shape has to be correct.
I’m with Scott Jones, who made this amazing LEGO Boba Fett.
It took about 6 months.
It’s all made out of some kind of foam or another.
How comfortable is it in there?
It’s actually not bad.
Being foam, unlike the others that have hard legs, I can bend around and it’s easy to move.
I’m here with Chef Vader, who has a tray full of porgs.
Why have you done this?
Because they are porg-licous
These are the best porg-derves you will ever find this side of the galaxy.
I am very upset.
I’ll save you.
I’m here with Ashley, who’s dressed as Enfys Nest from Solo.
So tell me, how long did this take to make?
It took approximately 200 hours since November.
I did actually initially start researching when the first trailer came out.
The blade was actually my first very big detailed prop.
It’s made completely out of foam on a PVC base so it comes apart in a couple pieces.
Then I have the googly eyes for the rivets.
And then I finished it off with some EL tape.
Well that was some incredible cosplay here at Star Wars Celebration Chicago.
I already can’t wait to come back to another Star Wars Celebration to see more.
Thanks for watching.
I’m Chastity and I’ll see you next time.
(Porg sounds)
Sitting down now with the author of last year’s Last Shot, Daniel Jose Older.
Thank you for being here, man.
It’s so great to be here.
I love this show, it’s amazing to be here.
Last Shot was such a wonderful book.
So many things were going on in it that I absolutely loved.
First of all, I wanna talk about Peekpa.
(Laughing)
Peekpa might be my favorite.
Can we just make this entire segment about Peekpa?
We should just talk about Peekpa.
Honestly why talk about anything besides Peekpa?
Peekpa is that ewok.
I love this idea of an ewok hacker, an ewok slicer, right?
Mhmm.
Because people are always like how smart is an ewok?
What can an ewok do?
If you watch Return of the Jedi you know exactly how smart an ewok is.
An ewok can destroy the Empire, without all this fancy technology.
People are constantly underestimating them, from the Empire itself, to people who think
that ewoks aren’t capable of something like slicing.
And I also love that ewoks are still talking about Chewbacca.
Chewbacca’s a legend.
Like, I love that.
Yeah. (Laughing)
Peekpa is basically a fangirl of Chewbacca, as we all are.
I just love the idea of Peekpa and a bunch of other ewoks sitting down, remember that
one time that really tall ewok came by?
Right, that gigantic ewok.
That gigantic ewok came by?
That was amazing!
That ewok was so tall.
Yes, the best ewok ever.
(Laughing)
But I also love it because of all the ideas that the book had about droids and humans.
Mhmm.
And what is real, what is a life, what is an intelligence?
I think that’s something that’s very popular in Star Wars right now.
Totally.
Yeah and shoutout to L3 for that, right?
Yeah.
I feel like she brought a lot of that consciousness to us by way of her conversations, her activism.
And she was also an amazing character to write because she just embodies so much complexity.
She thinks deeply about who she is in the galaxy and what her role is.
She basically created herself.
That’s an amazing character.
So it was just kind of fun to get into that and go deep with it in the midst of, you know,
all these shootouts and space chases.
It was also fun to think about programming and changing programming in this story of
Han and Lando.
Right.
As these young men and these old men that are just like why can’t I change?
Like why can’t I do this?
Right, exactly.
They have such a classic and epic friendship.
And we don’t get to see a lot of male friendships and explore what that means in enough ways
I think, so to me it was just this great opportunity to look at these two different but also similar
men throughout their lives, and different moments in their lives when they’ve been
rogues, and pains in the butt, and fighting the Empire, and heroes.
And what does that mean and how do they react differently to that.
And what I love about Lando is that he’s really good with words.
Mhmm.
And there’s a very sincere depth to him.
What I wanted to get to in Last Shot was Lando, who is capable of deep love, in a friendship
sense and in the romantic sense.
Because I see that in him throughout.
I think that’s always in his character.
But we always get a lot more of just the player Lando.
Yeah.
But there’s clearly so much there.
So it was really fun to explore all that.
Yeah and I think it was great to see just a little bit of family-man Han as well.
Right.
Because that’s something after TFA, we were all just like wait.
What happened?
(Laughing)
When did he take off?
Right, exactly.
What’s going on? How was he as a dad?
Yeah.
And it was fun to see that glimpse to that family life for a little while.
Exactly.
My favorite compliment since that book came out was wow you must have kids.
And I don’t.
(Laughing)
Like, oh, I wrote that well.
You know, like eh.
(Laughing)
Because it’s a lot about the every day stresses of his life in terms of tripping over the
toys and the annoying cartoons that he sees over and over.
But coupled with his beautiful relationship with Leia and his love for his son.
I just think that’s an important element.
Like we tend to simplify narratives and just be like oh well it didn’t work out for them,
so whatever.
But they had these 30 years of who knows what, you know what I mean?
We don’t know what happened and what we do know is that there was a great love there.
So I just think there’s so much to look at.
Daniel, thank you so much for coming by.
My pleasure. Thank you for having me.
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Last week we asked you to send us your favorite Celebration moments, and boy howdy did you
have a lot of them.
Jade Nest got to meet Erin Kellyman while wearing her homemade Enfy’s Nest costume,
Mark Sutter was proud of being one of the first people with a Rise of Skywalker shirt…albeit
homemade and bootleg, but you can’t beat being the first, and Sun Joong Kim got to
do the Florida Gator chomp with Ahsoka Tano.
Lone Wolf McClaine ran into Jon Favreau on the show floor, David Taylor got starstruck
seeing big name after big name on our own Star Wars Show Live stage, but Sky Mauler
summed up Celebration best by saying, “Aside from meeting amazing people and all the news
that broke, my number one celebration memory is just being in a building with thousands
who all love Star Wars like I do!”
Couldn’t have said it better myself. And with that, I’ll end this episode.
Hopefully Anthony will be back next week, but WHO KNOWS?!
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