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May the farce be with you! Watch the hilarious trailer for the LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special

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While it has it’s fans, most people found Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker to be either a disappointment or outright train wreck. It definitely wasn’t the great big ending to a nine-film saga spanning more than four decades that fans had dreamed of. Some of the most hardcore of its detractors even demanded that some time travel hijinx be used in future movies to undo all the events. Well, they’re getting half their wish!

While the words “Star Wars Holiday Special” usually elicit nothing but laughs for all the wrong reasons, the upcoming animated LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special is looking to redeem the legacy of that infamously terrible 1978 TV special with a hilarious adventure. The new film will be capping off the nine-film Skywalker saga as Rey and BB-8 get caught up in a wacky time travel story that sees them landing in various periods of the franchise’s history, smooshing together all the various characters. And we do mean all the characters! Everybody from young Anakin Skywalker to Kylo Ren to Baby Yoda is here and they’re having a blast. Some with no shirt on! Check it out below!

Rey sets off on a new adventure with BB-8 to gain a deeper knowledge of the Force. At a mysterious Jedi Temple, she is hurled into a cross-timeline adventure through beloved moments in Star Wars cinematic history, coming into contact with Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Yoda, Obi-Wan, and other iconic heroes and villains from all nine Skywalker saga films. But will she make it back in time for the Life Day feast and learn the true meaning of holiday spirit?

LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special will see a number of the franchise’s original stars returning to reprise their live-action roles including Kelly Marie Tran as Rose Tico, Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian, and Anthony Daniels as C-3PO. There will also be several voice actors from Star Wars: The Clone Wars, including Matt Lanter as Anakin Skywalker, Tom Kane as Yoda and Qui-Gon Jinn, James Arnold Taylor as Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Dee Bradley Baker as the clone troopers.

The upcoming 45-minute TV special is set to debut on Disney+ on 17 November, the same day as the original holiday special released 42 years ago.

Last Updated: November 6, 2020

8 Comments

  1. It’s ironic that they’re making a comedy seeing how the last trilogy is a joke.

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  2. cloudzn

    November 6, 2020 at 08:36

    It looks way better than the original SW Xmas special

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  3. For the Emperor!

    November 6, 2020 at 08:52

    While some of the Lego movies are good (I have not watched all of them), I am not too keen for this for some reason.

    The new trilogy was visually spectacular, and had some awesome moments. While not an utter train wreck in my opinion, it still made one long for the days of Jar Jar Binks and “I hate sand”. Also, Darth Maul.

    Rogue 1 was by far the superior movie of all the new ones post George Lucas. That was actually just a damn good movie that happened to have the SW name associated with it.

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    • Kervyn Cloete

      November 6, 2020 at 09:17

      Yeah, I didn’t *hate* The Rise of Skywalker. I just felt disappointed by some of the choices they made. I will never fucking forgive them for doing Palpatine’s big return reveal in Fortnite though. That was criminal.

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      • For the Emperor!

        November 6, 2020 at 09:32

        That reveal is on par, if not worse, than giving away Doomsday in the first trailer for Batman v Superman! Lucky for me I went spoiler free into it. Some things that did grind my gears though in the trilogy:
        – Discarding Finn faster than a podrace crash. Was hyped for his character/redemption arc.
        – Hyping up Captain Phasma and then having her be more of a little B than, well, random Storm Trooper 1 dying in the very first SW movie.
        – Having “required reading” (or gameplay as you pointed out with Fortnite) to fully understand and enjoy the movie. Criminal.
        – Mary Sue Rey…just being OP. Was really hoping for a good story but nooooo we got the Palpatine copout.

        I still have them on Disk, I will still watch them in future. But man…

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      • For the Emperor!

        November 6, 2020 at 09:32

        That reveal is on par, if not worse, than giving away Doomsday in the first trailer for Batman v Superman! Lucky for me I went spoiler free into it. Some things that did grind my gears though in the trilogy:
        – Discarding Finn faster than a podrace crash. Was hyped for his character/redemption arc.
        – Hyping up Captain Phasma and then having her be more of a little B than, well, random Storm Trooper 1 dying in the very first SW movie.
        – Having “required reading” (or gameplay as you pointed out with Fortnite) to fully understand and enjoy the movie. Criminal.
        – Mary Sue Rey…just being OP. Was really hoping for a good story but nooooo we got the Palpatine copout.

        I still have them on Disk, I will still watch them in future. But man…

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        • Kervyn Cloete

          November 6, 2020 at 10:45

          Fun story. A friend of mine wanted to know NOTHING about BvS before watching it. He had a total media blackout. Cut himself off from certain parts of the internet for like a year and a half. Didn’t even know Wonder Woman was in the movie. And his plan was working. He was going into the movie completely fresh. Then on the day of the movie, we’re in line at Capegate Mall’s IMAX to get popcorn. And behind the counter they have TVs. Which played the trailer for BvS and spoiled the Doomsday reveal as well as everything else for him. 1.5 yrs worth of sacrifice destroyed 5 mins before he could see the movie himself. He was so angry but damn the rest of us were laughing.

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  4. Alien Emperor Trevor

    November 6, 2020 at 09:05

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