Star Wars Bits: Del Rey Books, Force Awakens Running Time, Disney Infinity And More
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It is obvious that this contest cannot be decided by our knowledge of the Force but by our skills withStar Wars Bits. Here’s what we have in this edition of updates from a galaxy far, far away:
Header image: A page from the search and find activity book Where’s the Wookiee? (see more below!)
TheJourney to Star Wars: The Force Awakenshas been a big publishing push for books that fill in the gap betweenReturn of the JediandThe Force Awakens, but the new books won’t stop when the movie opens in December. In fact,Del Reyhas just announced three new titles that will hit shelves in 2016 and 2017. As you can see, the covers above are not final, but they do give us the titles.
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New Republic: Bloodlineis fromClaudia Gray, the author of the recently released young adultStar WarsbookLost Stars. This is a Del Rey book, which may indicate it’s a more adult novel, just like the rest of their Star Wars books. But maybe it will follow characters fromLost Stars? We’ll have to wait and see.Aftermath: Life DebtandAftermath: Empire’s Endare the final two books inChuck Wendig’s trilogy that began withStar Wars Aftermathjust this past September. The title could be a reference to the relationship that Chewbacca has with Han Solo, who was mentioned in an interlude inAftermathas preparing to liberate the Wookiee’s planet Kashyyyk from the Imperial remnant controlling it. Maybe this will dive more into the duo’s history.
More details on these books will arrive as 2016 gets closer, and if you want a recap of the panel for Journey to the Force Awakens from NYCC this past weekend,head over here. [StarWarsNewsNet.com]
Images ofThe Force Awakensexpansion coming toDisney Infinity 3.0this winter have surfaced online, giving us a look at the video game versions of Rey, Fin, Poe Dameron, BB-8 and Kylo Ren. Here’s what the figures look like along with one more shot from the game:
If you’re looking to pick up someStar WarsDisney Infinity packs, but you want to spend a little less money, check out this deal at Target to get40% some of the currently released playsets.
There are a lot of newStar Warscomic booksout there from Marvel right now. In addition to the mainStar Warscomic series, there are spin-offs focusing on Darth Vader, Princess Leia and Lando Calrissian, as well as the newShattered Empireseries, and aStar Wars Rebelscomic following Kanan. Now a prequel-era comic is on the way following Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi in their early days of the former’s apprenticeship with the latter Jedi Master.
Star Wars: Obi-Wan & Anakinis a five-issue miniseries that will begin in January. It’ll explore the time betweenThe Phantom MenaceandAttack of the Clones, with Skywalker three years into his training. WriterCharles Soule(of the Lando comic series) says, “We’ve seen a lot of them but this is something that’s going to feel and look different. What you have is a person who goes from being a boy to being a young man in between those two films, which is really significant.”
Here’s howUSA Todaydescribes the forthcoming comic:
[Anakin] and Obi-Wan are in a spaceship heading back to a diplomatic fleet when they get a distress call from a remote deserted planet. When they land, the Jedi find a mountainous place with deep valleys containing huge roiling clouds of green mist that cover the surface… While they go on their mission, it’s interspersed with flashbacks showing how the title’s main stars reached a personal crisis point between them.
If you want to know more about the comic by way of more quotes from Soule, check outUSA Today’s full story. Plus, there’s some information about the comics in a recap of a panel from NYCC that you can check outright here.
The running time ofStar Wars: The Force Awakensmay have been revealed as a theater employee across the pond (who previously knew accurate information about theBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justicetrailer release) has shown off some documents listing the movie clocking in at136 minutes. This is just a rumor for now, but it sounds like this could be accurate. [StarWarsNewsNet.com]
In addition to the new Del Rey books above, a couple other titles from theJourney to Star Wars: The Force Awakenspublishing initiative were revealed, and both have ties to characters we’ve actually already seen fromEpisode VII. You may remember thatVanity Fairreleased a whole photo spread thatshowed a slew of new alien characters, and it turns out at least two of them are getting their own book.
If you check out that link to the photo, you’ll see a woman in the middle dressed in black and gray. Her name is Bazine and she’ll be the focus of a new book calledStar Wars: The Perfect Weapon. That book will arrive on November 24th.
In addition, Landry Walker has a series of novellas coming in a book calledStar Wars Tales from a Galaxy Far, Far Away: Aliens, and it will feature titles such asHigh Noon on Jakku, Face of Evil, All Creatures Great and Small, plus two additional novellas not yet announced. There’s also one calledCrimson Corsair and The Lost Treasure of Count Dooku, which features the bright red character from the aboveVanity Fairphoto. The first four novellas will be released on December 1st as e-books and then will be combined with two other novellas for a paperback release in April 2016. [Jedi News]
If you’re a fan ofWhere’s Waldoand you loveStar Wars, then you might want to check outWhere’s the Wookiee?, a new search and find bookavailable now:
Chewbacca, a notorious rebel ally, is wanted for crimes against the Empire. Not often seen without his partner-in-crime, Han Solo, this Wookiee has evaded capture on multiple occasions, due in no small part to the fastest freighter in the universe, the Millennium Falcon. Chewie, as he is more commonly known, has a sizeable bounty on his head. Can you find this furry criminal before other accomplished bounty hunters beat you to it? A uniquely illustrated search and find format, perfect for Star Wars fans young and old!
The image above is one of the example pages, and you can see another at the book’sAmazon listing right here. It’s weird that they make the default person looking for Chewbacca a bounty hunter, because that kinda makes kids looking for Chewie a bad guy. But whatever works, I guess.
That’s all for this edition of Star Wars Bits. Stay tuned for more soon!
