Patrick Stefanski has turned Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant into a desktop version of L3-37. And thankfully, it isn’t anywhere near as annoying as the actual droid from Solo. He also gave it a British accent. While I can’t stand this annoying droid, this is an awesome project. I love how it says, “what?”every time he interacts with it. Patrick did a solid job with this one.
The Millennium Falcon’s design is so iconic, it’s probably not a great idea to mess with it. Otherwise, you get what we are calling the Millennial Falcon, the design they actually used in the Solo movie. Here are 30 other designs that James Clyne, the design supervisor for Solo: A Star Wars Story, and his team came up with. They’re not much better than the movie version. Basically, all they did was combine the Falcon with parts from other Star Wars ships. Like adding some Y-wing parts, making one look like a Star Destroyer, adding TIE Fighter wings and other nonsense. These are every bit as bad as what we got in the movie.
The moral of the story? Don’t mess with a classic.
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The Solo: A Star Wars Story Official Trailer is finally here. It’s got space cars, beautiful women, Lando, a train heist and everything else that you could want from a Star Wars movie. I’m a little concerned that Aiden Ehrenreich’s performance is very flat in this trailer, but the movie looks great visually, so I’m hoping it’s a good movie.
Denny’s is teaming up with Lucasfilm for a Solo: A Star Wars Story cross-promotion campaign. This is a cool promo spot that features kid versions of Han Solo and Lando Calrissian playing a game of sabacc in some seedy cantina in the Star Wars universe. Chewbacca is here too, along with a lot of neat aliens. This is to promote the fact that Denny’s has a movie-inspired menu and trading card packs that can be purchased. Proceeds from the trading card packs will benefit the charity, No Kid Hungry. Some of the cards reveal some new characters. One with the ridiculous name of Therm Scissorpunch.
Get ready to go Solo with… Well, Solo. This first official teaser has everything you could want. A ton of action, a ton of Solo, some Chewbacca, a couple quick shots of the Millennium Falcon and much much more.
Solo: A Star Wars Story hits theaters on May 25th.
