Star Wars Weekly Buzz: Pablo Hidalgo Talks Kyber Crystals; The Cover for the Rogue One Novelization Revealed and More
This week on our Star Wars weekly buzz:
Del Rey reveals the cover of the Rogue One novelization, Topps cards share the name of the mysterious female X-Wing pilot, Pablo Hidalgo answers many questions about the Kyber Crystals and more…
This week we start with Del Rey’s official reveal of the cover for the Rogue One novelization, written by Alexander Freed:
Rebellions are built on Hope. Official cover for @AlexanderMFreed ROGUE ONE novelization. eBook on-sale 12/16, hardcover to follow afterward pic.twitter.com/7qwsGQhK7m
— Star Wars Books (@DelReyStarWars) November 9, 2016
As it was with The Force Awakens, the book uses the official movie poster for its cover.
We’re almost there. Stay tuned for our review of Catalyst in 4 days!
Only 5 more days! #Catalyst #StarWarsBooks @OriginalFunko #CaptionThis pic.twitter.com/z9vZk2xOcD
— Star Wars Books (@DelReyStarWars) November 10, 2016
An interesting discovery made by our friends at Prensa Imperial from the latest Rogue One international trailer :
Miren lo que descubrimos! El Cristal Kyber de Jyn dice “Fuerza” escrito en Aurebesh #RogueOne CC @StarWarsNewsNet @ManaByte @JediNewsUK pic.twitter.com/4pmOSOzVMh
— Prensa Imperial (@PrensaImperial) November 11, 2016
The official Star Wars site released two character cards from Rogue One:
Are you with her? #RogueOne pic.twitter.com/isWQPhq1hz
— Star Wars (@starwars) November 4, 2016
Meet Cassian Andor. #RogueOne pic.twitter.com/ISnIhHSYsD
— Star Wars (@starwars) November 8, 2016
You probably remember this article we posted back in 2015. It was showing a tiny statuette in Anakin’s home from The Phantom Menace that greatly resembled Maz Kanata. Now StarWars.com officially addressed that curious fact:
Could it be? pic.twitter.com/yRl85GoLSL
— Star Wars (@starwars) November 8, 2016
A few weeks ago several Topps cards have been revealed with characters from Rogue One. One of the cards featured a blond female X-Wing pilot, whose name was not shown. Many fans speculated that because of the visual similarities she could be Evaan Verlaine, who was first introduced by the Leai comic book. Now Topps revealed the name of the character putting an end to that theory:
A new upcoming sticker encyclopedia promises lots of Rogue One information:
You’ll find a Holocron’s worth of #RogueOne information in the upcoming Ultimate Sticker Encyclopedia. https://t.co/MlMGfBpV7t pic.twitter.com/gG47G7XGHM
— Star Wars (@starwars) November 9, 2016
Peter Mayhew shared a very cool old video on Twitter:
Wonderful bit of stuff from @jamieswb!! pic.twitter.com/oObW8Cll2f
— Peter Mayhew (@TheWookieeRoars) November 5, 2016
Very cool fan art by Matt Rhodes from ILM’s VFX Challenge:
That’s one way to take out a Death Star. Art for the @ILMVFX Challenge by Matt Rhodes. pic.twitter.com/nSCLQOuQ9o
— Star Wars (@starwars) November 7, 2016
The Star Wars Aftershow:
This week on The Star Wars After Show; Andi Gutierrez sits down with Lucasfilm employees and Star Wars Fans Justin Bolger, Mike Jutan, and Lucas O. Seastrom to talk about how much we love K2-SO, the new Rogue One TV Spot, Star Wars wax figures and more!
Brief offtopic with the great Mark Hamill.
Interview with Mark Hamill at 10th Annual Comedy Celebration. He briefly touches on his beard:
New trailer for Hamill’s upcoming Pop Culture show:
Lucasfilm’s Pablo Hidalgo answers fan questions on Twitter:
@Mrsmightyduck I hear JJ says something about this on the new commentary.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) November 5, 2016
@bhower1138 Yeah, I thin so. It was sent to Dark Horse for them to illustrate Son of Dathomir.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) November 5, 2016
@Jakoobi_o2 Yavin is over 300 times more massive than Yavin 4. It may not have been able to.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) November 11, 2016
@CT5555_Fives I don’t think so. He had a different helmet.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) November 11, 2016
@KarlAnderson_ The star is Hoth. Hoth the planet is actually Hoth VI, but no one calls it that.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) November 10, 2016
@cmbacon78 No. Just an interrogation room he’s used before. His Vader sulking room is aboard the Finalizer.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) November 10, 2016
And now some huge info dump on Kyber Crystals:
@ReyaShankar Unknown. In fact, Ahsoka was very surprised when it happened.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) November 11, 2016
@I_LoveStarWars_ @JediTimeSaiyan two separate crystals.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) November 10, 2016
@primagrine The crystal takes on a color when a Jedi achieves a bond with “his/her” kyber. No one knows what the colors signify.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) November 9, 2016
@battlefrontboss Sabers don’t change color.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) November 9, 2016
@NotWillWest Ahsoka was surprised to discover that the crystal changed color when she rebuilt that saber. That was unprecedented.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) November 9, 2016
@grouchy_harp Not just a cave. Anyone can find one. But finding the ‘right’ one is a Jedi ritual. But anyone can find one.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) November 9, 2016
@DannyDsWorld when a Sith builds a lightsaber, it can only ever be red.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) November 9, 2016
@kevinlindert They can find it the way anyone can. Digging them out of the ground.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) November 9, 2016
Stay tuned for more next week.
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Nice of lucasfilm to fan the flames regarding the Maz Kanata TPM issue….
Gotta have more juicy twists for Episode VIII.
wasn’t yavin a gas giant? i’m not sure how you’d blow that up in the first place, regardless of the size it.