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Bang Goes the Barge

The Star Wars Show blows up Jabba the Hutt’s Hasbro ride

ook away now if you missed of the famous sequence using modern,
L out on getting hold of one of high-definition slo-mo cameras and a

Hasbro’s incredible Vintage
batch of pyrotechnics.
Collection Jabba’s Sail Barge The SWS crew and presenters Andi
sets, as The Star Wars Show recently Gutierrez and Anthony Carboni joined
blew one to smithereens in a recreation a group of special effects experts at 3Ten
Marvelous of the classic scene in Star Wars: Return Studios in San Rafael, California—the
of the Jedi in which the mobile pleasure
former home of ILM, and the same
News palace met its explosive end. building where the original sequence
As fans of Star Wars toys will recall,

was filmed on the roof—where a sandy
the exquisitely detailed sail barge toy set was built and the explosives primed.
was the result of the company’s fi rst They even called in Charlie Bailey, the
Superhero head honcho crowdfunded HasLab project, scaled to chief model maker on Return of the
to take on Star Wars the company’s line of 3.5-inch action Jedi, to look back on his experiences

figures. In fact, it was such an accurate of filming the effects shot.
he President of Marvel recreation of the original Industrial Resulting in some incredible footage
T Studios, Kevin Feige, is set Light & Magic miniature that the folks and a mess of melted plastic, you can
to swap capes for, well,
see the entire story on the offi cial Star
at The Star Wars Show fi gured it would
perhaps yet more capes, be a great idea to shoot a new version Wars YouTube channel.
now he’s been tapped to develop a
new Star Wars movie for Lucasfi lm.
The long-time fan—who has
Watch the
made no secret of his love for the
video on the
saga—was revealed to be working
Star Wars
on the project alongside Lucasfi lm
YouTube
president Kathleen Kennedy, by channel!
Walt Disney Studios co-chairman
and chief creative officer Alan Horn

in September. “We are excited about
the projects Kathy and the Lucasfi lm
team are working on,” Horn told
reporters, adding “With the close of
the Skywalker saga, Kathy is pursuing
a new era in Star Wars storytelling,
and knowing what a die-hard fan
Kevin is, it made sense for these two
extraordinary producers to work on
a Star Wars fi lm together.”

Vader Immortal Wins

ILMxLAB’s adventure awarded VR Experience of the Year

he final episode of ILMxLAB’s The release of the blistering fi nale

T Vader Immortal VR trilogy came a week after Vader Imortal:
landed on Oculus Quest and
Episode I was awarded VR Experience
Rift headsets on November of the Year at the 3rd international VR
21, bringing the immersive Star Wars Awards, held at a glittering ceremony
story set on fiery Mustafar to its epic in London, with the groundbreaking

conclusion, and culminating in a virtual episode recognized for its outstanding
reality duel with the Dark Lord himself. achievement in quality and execution.

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