The Mouse Minute: A Star Wars Update #1: 5 Cool Star Wars Items that Dropped in the last couple of weeks

It was a Star Wars filled couple of week.  Here are 5 cool Star Wars things that have dropped in the last couple of weeks.

1.  New Star Wars Land concept artwork is now up on the fences where Big Thunder Ranch used to be.      Here is a photo of that artwork.
   

   
   Here is a photo of Star Wars Land itself –I took from the Parking lot during a recent trip to the park
   

   
2. Thrawn is Back: Grand Admiral Thrawn makes his return to the Star Wars Universe and is canon once again.  Announced during the Rebels panel at Star Wars Celebration Europe and seen in the trailer for Rebels Season 3.      Thrawn was featured in the book series by Timothy Zahn that keep Star Wars alive for fans after Return of the Jedi.   A fan favorite that many fans of the EU were upset about when Disney bought Star Wars and rebooted the Book Universe.   Now he is back as a character in Rebels and the crowd at Celebration went crazy over the news.

Here is the Trailer for Season 3 that also brings Wedge into the series.  

3. Did I mention Thrawn is back:  If you weren’t already excited enough about Thrawn being back in Rebels---he is also coming back in a book written by Timothy Zahn as well.  So excited to Zahn will do with him in the new canon.

 

4.New Rogue One Footage:  Another thing coming out of Star Wars Celebration was a new behind the scenes featurette. 

A 3 minute long behind the scenes glimpse at the movie that revealed some new creatures and a few action shots.

 5. The Young Han Solo is finally officially announced.   We all new this news already –but now it is official. 

Alden Ehrenreich will be the dude with the Wookie co-pilot.

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Will we get Star Wars Attraction announcements at D23 this Year?

I went to the Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim in April (which I recorded a Podcast about the other night that we will post soon on my movie page which you can find via:

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And being the Disney fan that I am I was hoping that we would get some news regarding the theme parks.  There was a panel on one of the days about some merchandise that is coming to the parks –but no big announcements regarding the theme parks.

     The first new movie The Force Awakens is now less than 6 months away and know that with the 4 Billion dollars Disney spent to buy Lucasfilm that we are going to see more Star Wars in the parks  (Since it is basically Disney’s answer to Harry Potter).   The Blue Sky Cellar has been closed for awhile now….Will we see the Star Wars plans there once they are revealed???

Will D23 in August bring us Star Wars Theme Park news??

D23 is coming up in August and unfortunately for me it falls once again on the same weekend as Tiki Oasis in San Diego –which means I will once again be missing the big Disney convention.  

With no news at the Star Wars convention is D23 going to be where they reveal some of their plans? 

There are already rumors of Innoventions reopening with a Star Wars/Marvel makeover that may have meet and greets.   What we really want to see are some big plans for a Star Wars Land.  Disney teased some Star Wars stuff being in the works a couple of years ago at D23….Are they ready to reveal those plans now? 

 And will D23 be the place to do that?

What do you think and what would you like to see in the parks.

Here were some of my old ideas (Before Disney bought Star Wars --for a Vegas Casino/Theme Park.........  I'll post some new thoughts soon in one of my "If money was not a concern Ultimate Theme Park discussions"

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