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  • Star Wars: The Last Jedi Shoes By Christian Louboutin are Out of this Galaxy

    Star Wars: The Last Jedi Shoes By Christian Louboutin are Out of this Galaxy

    With the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi only one week away, the merch is coming out faster than a pod racer on Tatooine. The force is strong with these shoes and they are stunning to look at.

    Famed shoe designer Christian Louboutin has partnered with Lucasfilm and Walt Disney Studios to create custom shoes inspired by Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The four designs are inspired by the film’s heroines and each include a bespoke glimmering jewel, reminiscent of a Tie Fighter.

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    Rey Christian LouboutinThe Rey shoe has an ankle-strap leather sandal inspired by her outfit, with translucent PVC elements that reflect her Force abilities. We love that the heel shines just as bright as her blue lightsaber.

     

     

     

     

    CAPTAIN PHASMA

    Everyone’s favorite First Order Stormtrooper gets a glam heel inspired by her armor, with silver specchio leather yokes, reflecting her authoritative character.

     

     

     

     

     

    ROSE TICO

    Since Rose works in maintenance for the Resistance, Christian Louboutin designed a utilitarian sandal that depicts her technical side. 

     

     

     

     

     

    VICE ADMIRAL AMILYN HOLDO

    VICE ADMIRAL AMILYN HOLDO Christian LouboutinTaking direct inspiration from her costume, the Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo shoe features similar draping elements and the colors of her cape. 

     

     

     

     

    While the shoes won’t be available in stores, the commemorative styles—each signed by the designer, as well as the actress who portrays each character the style was created for—will be auctioned on charitybuzz.com/StarWars from December 7-December 20, with a portion of the proceeds benefitting Starlight Children’s Foundation on behalf of Star Wars: Force for Change.

    But that’s not all! Christian Louboutin also designed a custom showpiece shoe with the team at Industrial Light and Magic that will be unveiled at the film’s premiere. The shoe takes inspiration from the Star Wars world and Christian Louboutin’s signature style elements to create a unique, galaxy-ready shoe. After the premiere, the showpiece shoe will be added to the auction as well.

  • VIDEO: Galaxy’s Edge Construction Milestone Celebrated at Disney’s Hollywood Studios

    VIDEO: Galaxy’s Edge Construction Milestone Celebrated at Disney’s Hollywood Studios

    Recently, thousands of Disney cast members excited to see Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge coming to life at Disney’s Hollywood Studios celebrated a major construction milestone with the signing of a support beam that’ll top out the new land.

    Look closely and you’ll see that cast members and Imagineers put their mark on theme park history by drawing artistic pictures and writing messages on the beam that’ll eventually be part of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge – a 14-acre remote outpost that will transport guests to a galaxy far, far away.

    As regular readers know, beam signings are part of a longtime construction tradition at Disney Parks. We’ve shared updates on beam signings for expansions like Pandora – The World of Avatar, plus the Disneyland park site of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge.

    Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge will be opening at Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Disneyland park in 2019. The new land at Disney’s Hollywood Studios is just one element of the multi-year transformation of the park, which also includes Toy Story Land, set to open in the summer of 2018.

  • New Galactic Transformations at Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique During Star Wars Day At Sea

    New Galactic Transformations at Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique During Star Wars Day At Sea

    Disney Cruise Line will offer out-of-this-galaxy makeovers aboard the Disney Fantasy at the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique that add to the adventures of Star Wars Day at Sea starting in 2018. Complete with a galactic costume, makeup and hairstyle, kids ages 3-12 can transform into their favorite character.

    They’re offering a Rey makeover that includes a stylish dress, makeup and hair style. Or, you can choose from one of four Star Wars-themed T-shirt options.

    These Galactic Transformations are only available on Star Wars Day at Sea. All come with exclusive Star Wars Day at Sea merchandise, including a personalized name tag, lanyard with medallion and magnet set. The kids will also receive a cool cinch bag to take home.

    If you want to join in on the Star Wars Day at Sea fun by celebrating your favorite characters from a galaxy far, far away with a Galactic Transformation, be sure to reserve your spot at Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique before your Disney Fantasy cruise.

    Star Wars Day at Sea returns to the Disney Fantasy from January to April 2018. If you need help booking this epic day on your family’s Caribbean cruise vacation, contact Travel Time with Vikki for help. My services are completely free and I will always find you the lowest rates. Let me do all the work so you don’t have to!

  • Star Wars: Galactic Nights Returns to Disney’s Hollywood Studios December 16

    Star Wars: Galactic Nights Returns to Disney’s Hollywood Studios December 16

    There are holidays, and then there are “Star Wars” holidays. An upcoming special event at Walt Disney World is designed to add cheer and share insights about Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, the land under construction at Disney’s Hollywood Studios theme park. The one-day event — dubbed Star Wars: Galactic…

    The special event, Star Wars: Galactic Nights, which sold out last April, will return to Disney’s Hollywood Studios on December 16.

    Held after park hours from 7 p.m.-midnight, the event will be filled with out-of-this-world entertainment that celebrates the entire Star Wars saga.

    Among many thrills in store, guests can expect to enjoy Star Wars entertainment, special photo opportunities, event-exclusive merchandise and F&B, character greetings, a look at the ongoing Star Wars expansion coming to Disney’s Hollywood Studios and much more.

    Here’s a look at other event offerings:

    • Star Wars Entertainment – Both Star Wars: A Galactic Spectacular fireworks and the Star Wars: A Galaxy Far, Far Away stage show will be enhanced with special saga elements.
    • Sneak Peeks at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge – The Epic Theater will play host to a special one-night-only panel discussion about Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, the 14-acre Star Wars expansion that’s set to open in 2019 at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
    • Special Photo Ops – Throughout the park, guests can step into immersive and iconic scenes from their favorite Star Wars films in a series of incredibly detailed photo locations, including new backdrops inspired by Star Wars Rebels and more.
    • Character Encounters – Be on the lookout for Star Wars characters like Ewoks, AWR Troopers and roaming droids; Jedi Knights teaching younglings in Jedi Training: Trials of the Temple; rocketing to the stars aboard Star Tours – The Adventures Continue; and more.
    • Exclusive F&B and Merchandise – Even more specialty Star Wars-themed food and beverage and merchandise will be available.
    • Enjoy park attractions – Select attractions will be open to all guests. At embarkation points to Star Tours – The Adventures Continue, guests may come face-to-face with Stormtroopers on the lookout for a Rebel spy.

    Star Wars: Galactic Nights access and activities will be exclusive to event ticket holders. Last spring’s event sold out, so booking early is strongly suggested. Tickets are priced at $129 adults, $124 ages 3-9.

    Tickets are now on sale at Disneyworld.com/GalacticNights

  • Nissan Unveils Fleet of New ‘Star Wars’ Vehicles

    Nissan Unveils Fleet of New ‘Star Wars’ Vehicles

    Nissan rolls out in force at the Los Angeles Auto Show as they unveil their fleet of new ‘Star Wars‘ vehicles. Previously, Nissan unveiled a single Star Wars-themed vehicle, but this year it has seven. Unfortunately they aren’t for sale, but instead they’re meant to draw attention to the brand.

    To promote the movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story a Nissan Rogue SUV, Nissan’s best-selling model, was turned into a Star Wars fighter. After the success of the promotion, this new line promotes the next Star Wars movie, The Last Jedi.
    Check out the video below:

    The Stars Wars theme extends from an Altima sedan that is now a TIE fighter to a Titan pickup as the AT-M6.

    Here is how Nissan describes the seven:

    2018 Nissan Altima as Special Forces TIE Fighter.
    It has custom wheels, a full-body wrap plus the dual wings of the fighter. It also makes blaster sounds.

    2018 Nissan Maxima as Kylo Ren
    It is meant to be sinister with red headlights and underbody lighting made to look like a light saber.

    2018 Nissan Maxima as Captain Phasma
    The Captain Phasma Maxima is meant to be more feminine in keeping with its character. It is a “celebration of female strength,” Nissan says.

    2018 Nissan Rogue as Poe Dameron’s X-wing with BB-8
    Does your SUV have its own droid? BB-8 peeks out of the back of this one.

    2018 Nissan Rogue Sport as the A-wing.
    This one has dual thrusters at the rear, which are lit up. It also has blue wheels and laser cannons.

    2018 Nissan Titan as the AT-M6
    Probably the most impressive of the bunch, this AT-M6 is the largest vehicle in the First Order’s arsenal for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

    2018 Nissan Maxima as Kylo Ren’s TIE Silencer
    This Nissan Maxima is meant to duplicate Kylo Ren’s TIE Silencer with laser cannons and missile launchers affixed to the vehicle’s distinct wings.

  • “Star Wars” Imperial AT-AT Popcorn Bucket Taking Disney Parks by Force

    “Star Wars” Imperial AT-AT Popcorn Bucket Taking Disney Parks by Force

    This is the Popcorn bucket you are looking for… With the release of The Star Wars: Last Jedi right around the corner, Disney has come out with this awesome new “Star Wars” Imperial AT-AT Popcorn Bucket.

    Whether you’re a Star Wars fan, a Popcorn Bucket collector or both you’ll love this one.

    Recently, the Tomorrowland popcorn cart in Disneyland Park debuted the new popcorn bucket inspired by the AT-AT vehicles first seen in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, but the price tag on these puppies is a force to be reckoned with at a whopping $25.

    At such a steep price the AT-AT “maul’s” all other popcorn buckets sold around the park, except the big Oogie Boogie from “The Nightmare Before Christmas” back around Halloween. The legs on the Imperial Walker are fully-articulated, so guests can recreate the Battle of Hoth while they snack around the park.

    The four-legged buckets had been spotted recently and are making the rounds on social media.

    Just taking my new pet AT-AT for a walk around Tomorrowland. We ate some popcorn and searched for Hoth 🖤 #disneypopcornbucket

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  • Disney and Fox Deal Back On and Moving Fast

    Disney and Fox Deal Back On and Moving Fast

    It turns out the talks aren’t really finished and there is still a strong likelihood of a deal between Disney and Fox. Disney is “progressing speedily” towards an acquisition of Fox, according to a new report from Deadline.

    It would appear that the two studios are nearing a deal that might have some in Hollywood a little nervous but it would be super exciting for fans that have long waited to see both the Fantastic Four and X-Men within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

    It’s the film rights have kept the X-Men from joining the MCU as of yet, but one X-Men producer would love to see the crossover happen. A recent Vanity Fair article explained how X-Men producer Lauren Shuler Donner threw in her support to have the mutant icons team up with the Avengers in theaters. “Well, I wish. I would love it, I would love it. But it’s not for me to say,” she said. Too bad it’s not up to her.

    If the deal goes through, the Murdoch family will continue to maintain ownership over the sports and news divisions while Disney would get the studio rights to everything on the film side according to the report.

    There is so much more at stake here for Disney than the obvious rights to the X-Men and Fantastic Four brands. They also want distribution rights for the original Star Wars trilogy and prequel trilogy. Most of those rights revert back to Disney in 2020, but the original 1977 film’s rights will remain at Fox.

    Another bonus is the Avatar franchise. Earlier this week director James Cameron commented on how any sale of Fox’s TV and film operations would impact the Avatar sequels. He noted it probably wouldn’t affect the Avatar series and explained that “at this point in time Disney has a bigger investment” in the franchise than Fox, referring in part to Disney World’s Pandora: The World of Avatar attraction.

    Disney would love to get its hands on the FX channel. And of course they want the vast, impressive, lucrative library of Fox movies and TV series from past and present, to add to their upcoming streaming service and, probably, to deny those movies and series to Netflix, along with the Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Lucasfilm properties.

    While in the midst of negotiations Disney is really hoping that Sony doesn’t out fox them on the deal. It was recently noted that Sony Entertainment had shown interest in purchasing 21st Century Fox along with a few other companies, including Comcast and Verizon. However, if rumors are true those talks have since reverted to Disney.

    Much of this is speculative, but the talk of Disney purchasing Fox is much more than a big rumor. Deadline’s new report makes a good point that, if this deal does happen, we’ll probably find out about it in a pretty out of the blue way. We may not know when that announcement could come, but don’t be too surprised to hear that Disney has officially purchased Fox in the near future.

  • Fantastic Finn Footage in NEW Star Wars: The Last Jedi Trailer

    Fantastic Finn Footage in NEW Star Wars: The Last Jedi Trailer

    Not so calmingly coming out of a coma we finally get to see extra footage of John Boyega’s and it is intense. With the release of the movie just over a month away, Disney and Lucasfilm are in full-blown promotion mode. With that, a brand new TV spot for Star Wars: The Last Jedi has been released. It’s only a thirty second spot, but if packs a good force push. Still it actually gives us quite a bit to chew on and adds a little extra layer to Rey with one, very interesting shot.

    Rey with Blue Lightsaber

    Finn was badly injured at the end of The Force Awakens; however, we knew he would be waking up at some point since we’ve seen him in his bacta suit, which was helping him heal and we’ve seen him in disguise as a First Order officer, taking on his former supervising officer Captain Phasma (Gwendoline Christie) head-on, as well as piloting a ship on the new planet Crait. Now, we get to see him come to, screaming. This cuts to a shot of Finn still wearing the suit and his First Order of business is fining out where Rey is ans he confronts Poe Dameron.

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    Pre-order your tickets at Fandango while you still can.  It was recently confirmed that Oscar Isaac will return as Poe Dameron in Star Wars 9. The only other actor officially confirmed to return is John Boyega. So he probably comes out of his fight with Captain Phasma with all his limbs in tact. We can’t say the same for Phasma. There are good odds that neither she nor Lt. Hux will make it past the end credits of The Last Jedi. This latest extended TV spot has some awesome new space footage with ships going to war. You can check out all the excitement here.

  • Disney reveals name of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge planet

    Disney reveals name of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge planet

    While Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge won’t arrive to Disney’s Hollywood Studios or Disneyland until 2019, but the creative team behind the new planet they’re building now has a name. Be prepared to visit Batuu, a planet on the edge of the Star Wars galaxy.

    The detail was revealed to visitors to Star Tours – The Adventures Continue at both the Orlando and California parks on Friday morning. Visitors riding the ride found themselves landing unexpectedly on a planet in the outer rim of the Star Wars galaxy – a planet known to C-3PO, and now to us, as Batuu.

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    Previously revealed about Batuu has been its back story.

    When it opens, the 14-acre area at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, as well as its counterpart in California, will take guests into a new planet in the Star Wars universe.

    “We wanted to build new Star Wars stories, new Star Wars destinations, but this time you could be in that story that required us to go to a new place,” Trowbridge said at Star Wars Celebration earlier this year. “It’s a new planet. It’s a new place. It’s this remote frontier outpost.” Lucasfilm creative executive Pablo Hildalgo added, “With every new Star Wars story it’s like coming back home but finding a new corner of that home you’ve never explored before. When it came to developing this location…not only figuring out where this place is on the galactic map but what its history has been throughout galactic history.

    “It’s been there for thousands and thousands of years,” Hidalgo explained, “You’re going to discover that. You’re going to be able to get a sense of the history of the place when you go there.”

    The planet is in the Star Wars universe’s Outer Rim in the Unknown Regions.

    “This used to be a vibrant trading port back in the old sub-lightspeed days, but now with advent of hyperspace, its prominence has kind of fallen and faded a little bit which has made it a great spot for those who didn’t want to be on that kind of mainstream path,” Trowbridge said. “The smugglers, the bounty hunters, the rogue adventurers looking to crew up, the people who don’t want to be found — basically all the interesting people.”

    The addition to both parks is the largest expansion of any theme park Disney has ever undertaken. It will open at Disneyland first in 2019 followed by Hollywood Studios.

  • Star Wars: Han Solo Grew a Beard After ‘Return of the Jedi’

    Star Wars: Han Solo Grew a Beard After ‘Return of the Jedi’

    This Friday when Star Wars Battlefront II is released fans will get their first chance to find out what happened to their favorite characters after Return of the Jedi.  This time the game comes with a campaign mode which will offer fans the chance to explore these storylines first hand.

    One of the missions features the Star Wars galaxy’s most infamous smuggler Han Solo, and his grooming habits have notably changed. That’s right, Han Solo has a new beard in the game.

    Warning: Minor spoilers for Battlefront II below.

    While we already know Luke Skywalker also plays a major role in the campaign, which tees off the events of Star Wars: The Force Awakens in a major way, Han Solo’s mission ties into an issue that stems from the prequel trilogy.

    After destroying the second Death Star’s shield generator on Endor, Han decided to help out his best friend and co-pilot Chewbacca in his attempts to rid the Imperial presence on the wookie’s home planet of Kashyyyk. But he needs information first.

    Han travels to Takodana and meets Maz Kanata in her castle, where she’s serving drinks to some of the best and brightest scum in the galaxy. So when Han says he goes way back with Maz in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, he means it.

    Maz chastises Han for not bringing Chewbacca around, and Han admits it’s because Chewie is afraid of her. He admits that they’re on Takodana to get some intel from a defecting Imperial analyst who can give them data on the Empire’s forces on Kashyyyk and Maz gets angry, warning him not to bring the Empire to her front door.

    Han meets with the analyst and, of course, things don’t go as planned, forcing the two to mount an escape while evading Stormtroopers and TIE Fighters.

    Maz, of course, doesn’t appreciate that Han did the one thing she asked him not to do, but he promises to repay her. After destroying the TIEs with the help of Rebel forces, he and Chewie embark on a quest to liberate Kashyyyk. The game jumps elsewhere at that point, treating Han’s journey as a nice diversion.

    Spoiler alert: he doesn’t keep the beard in the future.

    Star Wars Battlefront II releases on November 17.