As Vaneé spins his tales and lures our heroes deeper into the shadowy underbelly of the castle, a sinister plan emerges. Along the way, Vaneé shares three creepy stories linked to ancient artifacts and iconic villains from across all eras of Star Wars. While waiting for his X-wing to be repaired, Poe, BB-8, Graballa, and Dean (a plucky and courageous young boy who works as Graballa's mechanic) venture deep into the mysterious castle with Vader's loyal servant, Vaneé. "After the events of The Rise of Skywalker, Poe and BB-8 must make an emergency landing on the volcanic planet Mustafar where they meet the greedy and conniving Graballa the Hutt who has purchased Darth Vader's castle and is renovating it into the galaxy's first all-inclusive Sith-inspired luxury hotel. "The Wookiee's Paw" looks at what might have happened had Luke Skywalker's greatest wishes been granted. "The Dueling Monstrosities" imagines how Darth Maul and General Grievous were reborn. "The Lost Boy," is the story of how a young Ben Solo first meets Ren. Next up is the Muppet’s Haunted Mansion special that premieres October 8! You can also read our previous roundtable with Anthony Daniels on the LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special.The trailer includes the first looks at the three of Vaneé's stories. If you want to listen to the Roundtable right now, please check out our friends at Fangirls Going Rogue. I hope you all enjoy it too! You can watch it on Disney+ right now, as the first part of Disney+’s Hallo-Streaming all October long. Thank you so much to Ken Cunningham and David Shayne for sharing their experiences working on LEGO Star Wars Terrifying Tales. It was really nice to have Poe, our coolest, most swaggery character acknowledge that and pass that lesson on.” It’s certainly something I want my kids to understand. It’s a lesson I’m relearning all the time. My wife at dinner one night said, “Without fear you can’t have courage.” That really resonated for me. This was all done during the pandemic and you know, I think we were all feeling scared. And we had words to that effect but it wasn’t quite hitting. “We were a couple drafts into the script and we knew Poe was going to have this moment where he revealed it’s ok to be scared. Without fear you can’t have courage Poe Dameron, LEGO Star Wars Terrifying Tales Without fear, you can’t have courage.” I asked Shayne about this powerful line, wondering how long it had taken to get right. Instead of facing fear using the all or nothing Jedi/Sith dichotomy, Poe says, “You can’t control fear, but you can choose what to do with it. Poe Dameron has the best line of the special, and maybe the best mantra for how to live in a galaxy so fraught with the struggle between good and evil. The third story, “The Wookiee’s Paw” is more like the “What If…” tales that Marvel has been putting out and includes some fun surprises. I just didn’t expect it to happen in animated LEGO form. You can do these Simpsons-style Treehouse of Horror stories and go to some really bizarre but hopefully funny places.”Įxplaining General Grievous’s origins and Darth Maul’s resurrection (in “The Dueling Monstrosities”) and how Kylo Ren got his name (in “The Lost Boy”) are certainly events I wanted to know more about. “With Halloween, we got to push that even a little further, we got to go a little sillier and a little weirder. “We’re using real characters from canon and then obviously take it to a silly and fun and whimsical LEGO place,” says Shayne. A villainous droid is named NI-L8 (get it, annihilate), one of many dad jokes. It feels more like a Robot Chicken send up in that regard and I’m not sorry about it. And while they’ll appeal to younger viewers and are accessible to non-Star Wars fans, there are tons of fun Easter eggs and deep cut references to keep us diehards happy too.Īs is standard with the LEGO Star Wars specials, there’s a lot of humor other Star Wars content can’t (or won’t) get away with. The story branches off into three shorts, one set during each of the trilogies – prequel, classic, and sequel. “You’ve got Village of the Damned, you’ve got The Lost Boys, Nightmare on Elm Street, some Twilight Zone stuff. “There’s so many references that get packed in there,” says Cunningham. What follows is a mashup of horror tropes and homages all set in a galaxy far, far away. They come across Darth Vader’s old castle, which is being turned into a theme hotel and comes with a creepy caretaker in the attic – your basic haunted house premise. The main storyline takes place after The Rise of Skywalker, with Poe and BB-8 crash-landing on Mustafar while chasing down the last remnants of the First Order.
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