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Lightsaber Dojo, A Star Wars VR Experience, Coming to Select Locations
December 13, 2019 – SAN FRANCISCO, CA. Today ILMxLAB announced that Lightsaber Dojo, an arcade-style virtual reality experience, will be coming to select pop-up locations at Simon centers and Cinemark Theatres starting December 19th.
An extension of the award-winning Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series, the Lightsaber Dojo experience will allow players to train with a lightsaber and the Force against waves of training droids and Star Wars creatures.
“In Vader Immortal, audiences were able to feel what it was like to battle with a lightsaber in virtual reality,” said ILMxLAB Executive in Charge Vicki Dobbs Beck. “We’re thrilled to bring that sense of wish fulfillment to even more fans with the new Lightsaber Dojo experience.”
As part of the experience, fans will step into a pop-up training arena, created in collaboration with location-based VR company Nomadic. There, they will don an Oculus Quest virtual reality headset, and be transported to Mustafar, the fiery planet that Darth Vader calls home.
To begin their training, fans will choose from an assortment of lightsabers used by classic Star Wars characters, including Obi-Wan Kenobi, Mace Windu, and Darth Vader. They will also be able to use the Force to grab their enemies, trigger traps, and throw their lightsaber across the room. Afterwards, fans will be able to compare their scores with other players on a national leaderboard as they hone their skills.
“With Lightsaber Dojo you can use your lightsaber and the Force to stun, slice, and crush your enemies,” said Jose Perez III, Supervisor, Creative Development and Experience Design at ILMxLAB. “That’s a dream come true for Star Wars fans — and it’s more exciting when you’re competing against your friends.”
The first six Lightsaber Dojo pop-ups will be opening in Cinemark’s Century Cinema 16 in Mountain View, CA and Century Huntington Beach and XD in Huntington Beach, CA, and Simon center locations including Ontario Mills in Ontario, CA, Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance, CA, Grapevine Mills in Grapevine, TX, and The Mills at Jersey Gardens in Elizabeth, NJ.
Tickets will be available on a walk-up basis, and will be priced at $9.99 per person. You can find a full list of locations here.
Lucasfilm Exec Carol Titelman Dies at 73
Via Variety.com:
Carol Wikarska Titelman, director of publications during the early days of Lucasfilm, died on Dec. 7 in her New York apartment. She was 73. Titelman died following complications with Alzheimer’s disease, according to a statement released on her behalf.
Titelman began her career at Lucasfilm answering phones in the months before “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope’s” release. She rose to head three key departments — art, publishing and creative services, including all photography and negotiations of book deals — in support of George Lucas’ original trilogy. In the late ’70s, she aided the creation of art-focused books, particularly with editorial work on “The Art of Star Wars.”
Click here for the full obituary at Variety.com
The Star Wars Show: The Rise of Skywalker Cast, Galaxy’s Edge, Giant Screen Gaming and Adorable Animals, Oh My!
More Baby Yoda Items Drop from Hasbro!
In addition to the Black Series The Mandalorian The Child Action Figure we posted about earlier, there is also a 7 1/2-Inch Electronic Plush Toy, Baby Bounties Soup and Blanket Mini-Figures, Baby Bounties Hold Me and Ball Mini-Figures, Baby Bounties Frog and Force Mini-Figures and The Mandalorian The Child 6 1/2-Inch Action Figure! Click below to check them all out at EE and Pre-Order today!
Josh Gad tries to get answers from Daisy Ridley about Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
This is really funny with tons of surprise guests, give it a watch!
Star Wars Boba Fett Laptop Backpack Back on Amazon – $11 Off!
THE CREATORS OF MARVEL’S STAR WARS: THE RISE OF KYLO REN ON BEN SOLO’S TURN
Via StarWars.com:
To tell the tale of Ben Solo’s fall to the dark side, the subject of the upcoming Marvel Star Wars comic The Rise of Kylo Ren, writer Charles Soule and artist Will Sliney started from a framework developed by Lucasfilm after a lengthy conversation with none other than J.J. Abrams. The director of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker had created the Knights of Ren for the first film in the sequel trilogy, and the pair knew their story had to fit between two fixed points in the Star Wars timeline: the destruction of the Jedi temple that sent Luke Skywalker into exile and the arrival of the fearsome dark warrior who appeared on Jakku at the start of The Force Awakens.
“And then it was about creating a story that felt epic and above all emotional for Ben Solo,” Soule tells StarWars.com. “Because this transition, this turn to the dark side has to be as good and stand at the same level as some of the other big turns to the dark side we see,” including the fall of Anakin Skywalker, who was transformed into the infamous Sith Lord Darth Vader.
Soule previously delved into Darth Vader’s past with another Marvel comic, Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith, an epic story that kicked off as the machine-enabled man was lurching off Emperor Palpatine’s operating table at the end of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith.
New Star Wars Action Figures + Count Dooku’s Lightsaber!
Black Series 6-Inch Action Figures Wave 1 Case – Free Shipping and $25 Off
Green Monday Sale at EE – Black Series 6-Inch Action Figures Wave 1 Case has Free Shipping and is $25 Off while it lasts, click below to check it out!
