Star Wars

Even if Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’s “The Goonies, but in space” premise doesn’t sound like it’s up your alley, you gotta admit that this kid’s all-terrain hover bike is sick as hell. If this is the kind of heat the show’s bringing when it premieres tomorrow, it might be something really special.

Disney has pulled a Star Wars movie set for December 18th, 2026 from its upcoming film schedule, Variety reports. Ice Age 6 is now set to premiere that day.

The Mandalorian & Grogu is still scheduled for May 22nd, 2026. And an untitled Star Wars movie is still set for December 17th, 2027. There’s also a new film trilogy in the works.

The Twistsaber is exactly what it sounds like — a lightsaber prop you twist to extend and retract, with an ingenious nesting screw design that makes it open and close incredibly fast. The files aren’t free, and it doesn’t light up, but there’s nothing else quite like it.

Also see: the self-retracting Goliath Power Saber, which nearly became an official Star Wars toy.

James Bruton, an engineer and former toy maker, has spent the past few months designing and building a Star Wars AT-AT replica strong enough to carry a single rider.

It’s built from a mix of 3D-printed parts and aluminum extrusion and has a top speed of about one meter per minute, giving the Rebels plenty of time to get out of its way.

No, I don’t mean Order 66. But during a presentation for investors today, EA confirmed that Respawn is working on the conclusion to the Jedi franchise, which will end up as a trilogy. The news comes the same day that Jedi: Survivor is launching on last-gen consoles.

The Star Wars slimelord’s Sail Barge is 3,942 pieces and comes with 11 figs, including R2-D2 with drink tray, Leia in her infamous bikini, and a gigantic (by minifig scale) Jabba himself. It takes artistic liberties inside the ship, including a food-filled galley.

No Sarlacc pit or skiff to renact the Boba Fett / Han Solo / Luke battle, I’m afraid — that’s sold separately.

It’s the one that got away — from Star Wars toymaker Hasbro, that is! Hasbro acquired the rights and even patented it around the world, then abandoned it. It’s no “real Disney lightsaber,” but it’s the first to scratch the same self-retracting itch.

We knew Disney Plus’ new Star Wars: Skeleton Crew series (out December 3rd) would feature Jude Law as clever Force user, but the show’s first trailer is all about the kids getting into Goonies-style space mischief.

A multiverse kinda feels like the last thing Star Wars needs right now, but the first trailer for Disney Plus’ LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy mini(fig)series actually makes its premise seem like the rare modern Luke Skywalker story that might liven up the franchise when it premieres on September 13th.

Now that the first season of The Acolyte has wrapped, Lucasfilm is shifting attention to the next Star Wars spinoff, Skeleton crew. In addition to revealing the first images for the coming-of-age series, the studio also confirmed that it’ll start streaming on Disney Plus on December 3rd.

The years have been rough for bounty hunting Star Wars games; Boba Fett’s turn in 1313 was never released, and Respawn’s Mandalorian game has reportedly been cancelled as well. But we’ll always have the PS2 / GameCube-era Bounty Hunter starring Jango Fett. Now it’s getting a re-release on Switch, Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox — launching on August 1st.

We knew Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy, a four-part animated miniseries airing September 13th, would play amusingly fast and loose with canon.

But an entire Dark Falcon with Darth Jar Jar and Darth Rey and a Beach Luke?! Amazing. That’s the leak from Clay Bricks, who says it’ll cost $179.99. “X-Fighters” and “Tie-Wings” are reportedly coming too.

Disney’s “real” lightsaber wowed us with a glowing blade that extended and retracted, but since it refuses to sell it to Star Wars fans, the YouTube channel HeroTech made its own using LED strips, motors, and a magician’s cane. The effect is convincing, and if you’ve got the engineering skills you can even buy the plans to build your own.

Just as The Acolyte carves out a new space for Star Wars, the just-launched free-to-play shooter Hunters is going to plenty of familiar places. I’m not sure the world can handle another multiplayer arena shooter, but hey, this one does have a Wookie named Grozz.

Actually, no! io9’s ever-reliable James Whitbrook found legit reasons to love the Star Wars movie we don’t talk about. A slideshow that delivers:

In its first teaser, the new LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy (on Disney Plus September 13th) goes where no Star Wars production has gone before by entering Darth Jar Jar into the canon.

Just kidding, it’s not canon. But it does look like a fun DC Elseworlds or Marvel’s What If...? kind of approach, which I’d like more of (no multiverse though, please).

Here’s your reminder that Disney’s latest animated anthology series, Star Wars: Tales of the Empire, started streaming today.

The six-episode miniseries may not quite be enough to tide everyone over until The Acolyte’s June 4th release, though — the longest episode clocks in at just 19 minutes.

The contest (rules here) runs from May 4th through June 4th. Autodesk provides certain assets like the Star Wars alphabet and symbols, as well as 30 day free trials of Autodesk software.

Prizes include Autodesk fabricating the winning overall droid and a paid trip for the winning designer (with lodging and a plus one!) to San Francisco to tour Industrial Light and Magic Studios.