Star Wars Thrills: Baby Yoda, Rise of Skywalker Novelization & More

The purpose of Star Wars Thrills is to put all the Star Wars news from the week of March 6, 2020 in one location. This week, we’ve got delays in Baby Yoda merchandise, first looks at The Rise of Skywalker novelization (pre-order here), an update on the Cassian Andor TV series, and much more!

If you read this each week, you should be able to converse fluently with any Star Wars fan on everything from the latest Star Wars developments to the latest toys. And maybe you’ll even share with them something that they might have missed.

Let’s get to it, and don’t hesitate to contact us if you have news or updates that you think should be included in the next installment of Star Wars Thrills!

Star Wars Thrills: Baby Yoda, Rise of Skywalker Novelization & More

Movie News and Rumors

Today we’re looking back at the incredible work of trainees from the @BFI Film Academy Future Skills programme on the sets of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and Solo: A Star Wars Story… Learn more about the programme here: https://t.co/K8fAN8EYm5 #NationalLottery pic.twitter.com/HbrdibG2DA
— Star Wars UK (@StarWarsUK) March 2, 2020

16 Bit Animation: Rise Of Skywalker Final Battle – https://t.co/2fTj2TsMB5 #StarWars #FanthaTracks pic.twitter.com/f8SpL3Cly8
— Fantha Tracks (@FanthaTracks) March 2, 2020

Star Wars: #TheRiseOfSkywalker HD Clips Surface Ahead of Home Releasehttps://t.co/LmGnEVtyxU pic.twitter.com/5vgjrBwzTo
— Comic Book Resources (@CBR) March 4, 2020

The Rise of Skywalker: Luke and Leia training scene clip – https://t.co/D948lizSrq #StarWars #FanthaTracks #RiseofSkywalker @joblo pic.twitter.com/5caI4ZimGj
— Fantha Tracks (@FanthaTracks) March 5, 2020

Television News and Rumors

Review of the third episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 7, titled “On the Wings of Keeradaks” #TheCloneWars https://t.co/R6uJAkGTGh
— Vital Thrills (@vitalthrillscom) March 6, 2020

Update: Robert Rodriguez Directed Parts for ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2; Bryce Dallas Howard Returns; James Mangold Denies Any Involvement https://t.co/eAeMSOKgjF
— SWNN (@StarWarsNewsNet) February 29, 2020

This Is The Way. #LAFCvMIA pic.twitter.com/7MKEtg8uJ8
— LAFC (@LAFC) March 1, 2020

Get a closer look at concept art, trivia, and more in #TheCloneWars episode guide for “A Distant Echo”: https://t.co/U8xb0eA3Hv pic.twitter.com/E4UcLo1grE
— Star Wars (@starwars) March 2, 2020

Star Wars Insider #195: Baby Yoda, Rise of the Resistance, and Greedos! – #BabyYoda #StarWars – https://t.co/Gkp4lgPejF pic.twitter.com/KPkVVrIZXa
— SWNN (@StarWarsNewsNet) March 2, 2020

Dave Filoni reveals how the final season of 'Clone Wars' matches George Lucas' original vision https://t.co/eU4GCoKtE2
— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) March 2, 2020

RUMOUR: Peyton Reed to direct season 2 episodes of The Mandalorian – https://t.co/IjPmjgopXR #StarWars #FanthaTracks @_CharlesMurphy #themandalorian pic.twitter.com/1ueTwuNC8G
— Fantha Tracks (@FanthaTracks) March 2, 2020

Kathleen Kennedy Has Been In London Working On 'Cassian Andor' Series – https://t.co/8bDU2G955d #StarWars #FanthaTracks pic.twitter.com/wRdrOA7qvN
— Fantha Tracks (@FanthaTracks) March 3, 2020

If you look closely, you can see the dude on the left with the mocap stick rotating it. We parented the whole world to that stick so the director could dynamically tumble it as Gideon tried to shake Mando off his TIE, giving us great lighting and reflections. pic.twitter.com/MHMwbOcDlM
— Ian Milham (@Monkey_Pants) February 24, 2020

Around the Web

Harrison Ford discusses his career with Vanity Fair – https://t.co/Fp0oOKchCv #StarWars #FanthaTracks @vanityfair #harrisonford pic.twitter.com/2xXnKXSYVG
— Fantha Tracks (@FanthaTracks) February 29, 2020

Chewbacca actor Joonas Suotamo names newborn daughter after the 'Star Wars' Wookiee https://t.co/NYXpH3J4Ab via @YahooEnt #starwars
— Star Wars Events (@StarWarsEvents) March 1, 2020

“Most big advances don’t really happen because somebody decides they want to develop a new piece of technology.” https://t.co/KRml6QCeiL Why? John Knoll explains in this latest outtake from our Cinefex 169 VFX roundtable. Read it on the blog now.#Cinefex40thAnniversary pic.twitter.com/agPvNM0toF
— Cinefex (@cinefexNOW) March 2, 2020

Girl Receives R2-D2 Inspired Bionic Arm and Call from Mark Hamill – https://t.co/KfyUMuAoSP #StarWars @HamillHimself @StarWars @openbionics pic.twitter.com/3LXxy0pdy3
— Jedi News (@JediNewsNetwork) March 3, 2020

Adam Driver made Ben Affleck 'a hero' to his kids with birthday presents from Kylo Ren https://t.co/g29uhNEAnb
— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) March 4, 2020

A group photo signed by @HamillHimself, Harrison Ford, @carrieffisher, Tim Rose and Kenny Baker for the continuity supervisor Pamela Mann. It must have been so much fun to work with her, judging from all the funny and sweet dedications here! 🤣❤️@ItsMarkHamill @starwars pic.twitter.com/GrcTjF1HdV
— JayDee 🐹 (@Jaydy2007) March 4, 2020

Books and Comics

This week in Star Wars, Lucasfilm takes a look at new comics, including Star Wars: The Rise of Kylo Ren #4 and Star Wars: Darth Vader #2, and get pumped to get our hands on the Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker novelization (pre-order here). Plus, we put on our parkas to take a look back at location shooting for Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back!

If you're not following the other High Republic writers and story architects then you should! Here they are – @claudiagray, @justinaireland, @djolder and @CharlesSoule. #starwars #ProjectLuminous pic.twitter.com/0yLgHvVqXt
— Cavan Scott (@cavanscott) February 28, 2020

What was Carrie Fisher like as a boss? This new novel offers hints https://t.co/3S77jl89Pk
— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) March 4, 2020

The Mandalorian – The Art and the Imagery Collector's Edition Book Volume One Coming May 5 – https://t.co/TKyzO5Jhva #StarWars #TheMandalorian pic.twitter.com/xA03PjcjHr
— Jedi News (@JediNewsNetwork) March 4, 2020

RISE OF KYLO REN #1 is getting a FOURTH printing. I’m going to stop being surprised by the love for this book and just enjoy it.

To thank you, a killer shot by @willsliney of Ben Solo from #4, out next week, the big finale!

(Was hard to find a non-spoiler image – PACKED issue.) pic.twitter.com/luTn2QkoZs
— Charles Soule (@CharlesSoule) March 5, 2020

Video Games

https://twitter.com/amcbtoraidhe/status/1233840496813887494?s=11

New Star Wars project leaked through PSN (Project Maverick) https://t.co/BgI2kGPXTp
— Wario64 (@Wario64) March 4, 2020

We’re proud to share that #StarWarsJediFallenOrder has been nominated for Best Narrative and Audio Achievement at the #BAFTAGames Awards. Congratulations to the all the teams at Respawn, Lucasfilm, and EA for their hard work! pic.twitter.com/4HixsieI7R
— Star Wars (@starwars) March 4, 2020

Collecting

Custom Life-Sized Concept Bib Fortuna Bust by Regal Robot – https://t.co/LRHnEPhLyN #StarWars @RegalRobot @TomSpinaDesigns #BibFortuna @PaulRMQ pic.twitter.com/iF64vvyHfE
— Jedi News (@JediNewsNetwork) March 2, 2020

Pre-Order Lladro Princess Leia (905830) A New Hope Porcelain Statue – https://t.co/G7tCQVaRJz #StarWars @collectsideshow #PrincessLeia #Leia pic.twitter.com/TsiNrIgo28
— Jedi News (@JediNewsNetwork) March 3, 2020

Hot Toys Reveals The Mandalorian Death Trooper (TMS013) Sixth Scale Figure – https://t.co/n4uXGLZBaT #StarWars @hottoysofficial #DeathTrooper #TheMandalorian pic.twitter.com/ajwuLfNuWD
— Jedi News (@JediNewsNetwork) March 4, 2020

John Tyler Christopher's Han Solo: Stormtrooper Action Figure Variant Cover Coming Soon – https://t.co/wkqymvyduC #StarWars @marvel @johntylerchris #HanSolo #Stormtrooper pic.twitter.com/dStTGBLcPu
— Jedi News (@JediNewsNetwork) March 4, 2020

Fans clamoring for toys of #BabyYoda will likely have to wait even longer now https://t.co/mxbRqj4mOK
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) March 4, 2020