Troopers can unleash unrivaled firepower against their enemies in the multiplayer story-driven adventure game Star Wars: The Old Republic.Subject to availability.)įeaturing premium detail and design across multiple points of articulation inspired by Star Wars: The Old Republic, this collectible Star Wars The Vintage Collection 3.75-inch-scale figure makes a great gift for Star Wars fans and collectors. Figures feature premium detail and design across product and packaging inspired by the original line, as well as the entertainment-inspired collector grade deco that fans have come to know and love. (Additional products each sold separately. Troopers can unleash unrivaled firepower against their enemies in the multiplayer story-driven adventure game Star Wars: The Old RepublicĬelebrate the legacy of Star Wars, the action-and-adventure-packed space saga from a galaxy far, far away, with premium 3.75-inch scale figures and vehicles from Star Wars The Vintage Collection. Payment will be collected once item is ready to ship Follow him on Twitter he rants about all these things.Estimated ship date subject to change, items may ship earlier or later than anticipated without notice He loves Star Wars, ELO, and the New York Rangers, Jets, and Yankees. Visit Lucasfilm’s official hub for all things Star Wars: The High Republic at /TheHighRepublic.ĭan Brooks is Lucasfilm’s senior content strategist of online, the editor of, and a writer. The Lightsaber Collection arrives October 20 and is available for pre-order now. “Jeff delivered a truly amazing design, then the incredible folks at Insight Editions, including artist Lukasz Liszko, translated Jeff’s work into a beautiful photorealistic version for The Lightsaber Collection, and we couldn’t be happier.” “As with everything connected to the High Republic, it was all very collaborative, and also a great deal of fun,” Siglain says. It’s definitely a lightsaber, but one we haven’t seen before.
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Gold plays prominently in the design of Stellan’s weapon, including decorative accents that echo the trim seen on Jedi robes of the time, while the crossguard elements reveal the high level of artistry during the High Republic era. The end result is a bold, beautiful new take on the lightsaber. So after some more sketches and some back and forth with Lucasfilm, it was decided that the crossguard would activate as opposed to always being open, which would give the saber the slimmer silhouette while holstered and would lend itself to some great visuals when activating.” Perhaps it could activate or deactivate with the saber. “What would a lightsaber version of Excalibur look like? I started sketching and came up with a silhouette I really liked, but the practicality of holstering/sheathing it nagged at me until I had the idea that the crossguard didn’t have to be stationary. That’s where Excalibur came into play,” Thomas says. “With the High Republic, we wanted to implement a more traditional crossguard, but I still wanted to include the saber-blade into the crossguard design, so that Stellan would be able to defend himself against saber attacks. Thomas took special note of Kylo Ren’s cross-saber design as something befitting the era, but found it didn’t quite work for what he hoped to achieve. “He needed an iconic weapon that could stand beside the other famous lightsabers, but at the same time be unique to him and evoke the time period of the High Republic.”
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“When designing Stellan’s lightsaber, I looked at the iconic lightsabers that have already been established,” Thomas says. Thomas further developed Stellan’s lightsaber hilt. But fans can get their first look at the lightsaber of Stellan Gios, a Jedi Master during the High Republic era, here on with this exclusive preview from Insight Editions’ The Lightsaber Collection, a compendium coming October 20 and available for pre-order now.įollowing early explorations with artist Grant Griffin, Disney Publishing illustration manager Jeff R. Star Wars: The High Republic, a storytelling epic that kicks off in January 2021, will tell stories set centuries prior to Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, during the very peak of the Jedi Order. “Internally, we often refer to the Jedi of this era as ‘the Jedi Knights of the Round Table.’ Taking that idea one step further, their sabers can be viewed as their own versions of Excalibur.”
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“We wanted to make the Jedi distinctive and instantly recognizable as Jedi Knights of the High Republic, and that applies not only to their clothing but to their lightsabers, as well,” says Michael Siglain, Lucasfilm Publishing’s creative director. So they took inspiration from one of the most legendary swords in storytelling. When it came to designing lightsabers for the High Republic era, Lucasfilm knew that they had to be special - elegant weapons for a more civilized age, as Obi-Wan Kenobi might say.