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Just Look Inside This Gorgeous Star Wars Picture Book
Earlier this year, io9 brought you the news that Princess and the Scoundrel writer Beth Revis was teaming up with artist Sophie Li for a brand new Star Wars picture book inspired by the early events of the novel, setting the stage for Han Solo and Leia Organa’s wedding on Endor. Now, we can give…
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What Happened the Last Time Star Wars Did ‘Somehow, Thrawn Returned’
In Star Wars’ current canon, we stand on the precipice of a return years in the making: at the end of Ahsoka’s first season, Grand Admiral Thrawn had made his way back from a galaxy even further away to restore a remnant Empire to glory and imperil the New Republic. But what happened when Thrawn…
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Remembering the Godawful Star Wars Action Figures of Yesteryear
It seems hard to imagine now, but there was almost a full decade when Star Wars toys didn’t exist. After the 1986 end of the Kenner action figure line, it took until 1995 for Hasbro to bring toys back to shelves with the title “Power of the Force,” and the results were… terrible. Just terrible.…
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How Hasbro Brought Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Little Droid Star to Toy Life
Star Wars is definitely no stranger to cute, toyetic designs. From the droids of A New Hope all the way to the collectibles tastemaker that is Grogu, the franchise has a knack for cutesy designs easy to transform into must-have toys. So that its latest series, Obi-Wan Kenobi, was primed and ready to go with…