Star Wars Bits: Star Wars Battlefront, Hot Toys, Hot Wheels, Simon Pegg, Lego, Robot Chicken
Lots and lots of awesome in this edition of Star Wars Bits. Below, read about the following:
Bleeding Cool reports that, sometime at Comic-Con this weekend, Marvel will announced a new comic book based on Princess Leia.
The Digital Spy is reporting EA Games might launch Star Wars Battlefront in December 2015, which would put it right in line with Star Wars Episode VII. It will not, however, tie in with Episode VII. They're independent of each other.
Much has been made in the past week about John Boyega's role in Star Wars Episode VII. Making Star Wars, however, poses an interesting question based on this photo from a new Star Wars Rebels handbook. Is this his character, just much younger?
The final page of William Shakespeare's The Jedi Doth Return by Ian Doescher contains this awesome poem. Thanks to MakingStarWars for the heads up.
Simon Pegg voices C-3PO in Star Wars: Phineas and Ferb and Access Hollywood (via Trek Movie) has the clip.Star Wars 7 News has some photos and evidence that Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and others have travelled back to the United States as Star Wars Episode VII begins to get ready for its two week August hiatus.
Start saving your money. Hot Toys has officially acquired the license to do Star Wars toys. That includes not only the new film, but the originals as well. Here's the teaser image. Read more here.
Check out this Star Wars Episode VII video from the team at Robot Chicken, via JediNews.
Here's an image of the Star Wars Lego display at Comic-Con, via the Official Site.
Here are the two latest Hot Wheels Star Wars vehicles from JediNews.
Finally, FiveThirtyEight did a super interesting Star Wars survey where they polled people about all kinds of things such as what Star Wars movie people had seen least, who shot first and more. Read it at this link.