by Celebration Europe II
August 18, 2013 in Guest Blogs, Star Wars by GuestBlogs
A guest blog by Hevy782
So every year or so there’s a big Star Wars Celebration that makes younger fans beg their parents to take them and older fans beg their employer for a pay rise.
I was one of the lucky ones who got to go to a Celebration this year and there was never a dull moment, even while waiting in line thanks to Angry Bird Star Wars.
But anyway, the panels were great and I got to go to a lot of them. At the behind the scenes stage I went to the Clone Wars panel and a fair bit of news came out of that (no new clip though, they just repeated the Yoda one from Star Wars Weekends). We got to see Cad Bane’s new ship (yes, that means a Bounty Hunter arc is on the way) and a Sith Temple. Tusken Raiders will appear along with a chief. Also, Ex-Chancellor Valorum will appear too and will still be on Coruscant.
We also got a look at arcs we won’t be seeing like a Wookie arc on with some cool new Clone Troopers and we would have gotten to see the lower depths of Kassyyk’s forests which can be very dangerous. Also there was to be a Ventress arc which she would have grown hair in and her story would’ve gotten very dramatic.
We got a fair bit of news about Star Wars Rebels along with some pictures of what the show will probably look like. It’s similar to Clone Wars only less angular and very much like Ralph’s concepts for the original movies. I’m quite looking forward to it and I even got to ask Dave whether we’ll see Han and Chewwy on a smuggling run, he simply replied that I’ll have to wait and see and gave me an awesome TV shirt.
The experience overall was a great one but it was a bit crowded, especially on the Saturday. So to sum up the weekend it was great fun with a lot of awesome people dedicated to Star Wars.
Huh, so I wasn’t the only one here, who went there… 😛
Maybe you passed eachother but didn’t know who the other was. 😛
So this was the secret guest blog! BTW, is the forum button thing missing at the top right corner because of maintenance?
Nvm… I think it’s a glitch for me and I can just use the forum tab… Wait was that there the whole time… o.o
The theme update reset a couple of things and while fixing them I took the opportunity to move the Forums link down to be with the other tabs rather than floating all alone at the top 🙂
We probably did, lol.
Who knows, we might’ve even been sat next to each other in a panel and not realized :p
Well, me and my dad sat on the side chair thingies on every panel…
You’re the one who asked about Han and Chewie! 😀
Yep 🙂 Is there a video online or were you there?
I really like how they’re making it in a similar style to Ralph’s designs 😀 And to hear about that Kashyyk arc is a bit saddening, but the Tusken Raider idea sounds swimmingly good.
TBH, I was never too fond of Ralph’s designs… Sure, they were cool but I still preferred the look of the characters and ships and whatnot from the movies, TCW, etc. But the concept art of the stormtrooper and some of the other ships doesn’t look that bad so I’m more than willing to give the animation style a chance.
I’m more willing to give it a chance than with Beware the Batman’s animation.
I really wanted to see the Shadowlands area of the Kashyyk forests that were seen in the Knights of the Old Republic game. Its things like these that are very upsetting. The fact that we get told that the show was never meant to end yet. 🙁
In the Wookie arc that we won’t get as shown at Celebration Europe we more than likely would have seen parts of Kashyyyk guaranteed. Being it’s the Wookies home planet. Kashyyyk is one of my favorite planets alongside Utapau.
I wish I could have been there :). But my dad wouldn’t go for the whole over seas thing anyways. I still don’t understand why they told us of arcs we won’t get? Why upset everyone with telling us there are two arcs you won’t get. Anyways we will see Cad Bane’s ship but I hope that means apart of the Bounty Hunter arc as well. His ship will appear but I’m not sure if that was a clue to the Bounty Hunter arc or not actually. More than likely yes but. Plus I got to see what Jou looked like from his pictures he posted as well :P.
Its funny how there were still gonna bring in new characters, and even known characters that never appeared before in the series. Finally we will see a non-sith chancellor LOL. I’m curious about the Sith Temple mentioned in this post. Do you guys think it might be linked to the Sifo Dyas arc or a Maul arc?
Thanks for the report Hevy I’ve been to two small comic-cons and they were a lot of fun have to get to a major one one day
Don’t you go to star wars weekends as well?
Twice but SWW is quite different from one of the major cons like San Diego or a Celebration