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Star Wars News Round Up: August 2021

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  Lego Star Wars Terrifying Tales Announced On 3rd August the Lego Star Wars Terrifying Tales special was announced, coming to Disney+ on 1st October in time for the Halloween season. The description on Star Wars dot com - here - outlines the plot as Poe & BB-8 being forced to land on Mustafar, where they meet a Hutt turning Vader’s Castle into a Sith themed hotel. The premise sounds hilarious and I really enjoyed the Lego Holiday Special that came out last year, Lego always delivers fun Star Wars. Galactic Starcruiser Prices & Trailer Revealed   A new trailer and prices and sample itinerary for the Galactic Starcruiser hotel at Walt DisneyWorld, Florida were released on 4th August to much outcry from the internet over the expense. Whilst the prices are steep, they are about what I was expecting, and to be honest not that much more than some of the more expensive hotels on property. Whilst I don’t expect to ever be able to afford to go, if I could I would go in a sho...

Making My Own Star Wars Patch Shirt

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  A few months ago I set myself a project of making myself a Star Wars patch shirt, that I could wear to conventions, Star Wars events, and if I ever get the chance to go back to Black Spire Outpost. I was inspired by finding these two Oga’s Cantina patches made by the facebook Galaxy’s Edge group ( here ) and trying to decide what to do with them when they arrived. I decided that I wanted to keep the shirt ‘in-universe’ so I started to look for patches of different insignia seen in the universe, searching on Etsy and Instagram. I found an Alphabet Squadron patch made by Nina’s Patches , a Dexter’s Diner patch from NerdMatters , and 4 patches from Ryloth Relics - Saw’s Partisans, Ohnaka Pirate Gang, The Nite Owls and the Andor logo. I wanted to get a military looking shirt and found a khaki green shirt on sale in H&M. Some of the patches I ordered were sew on, others iron on. The problem there was that we don’t own an iron right now! After a YouTube search I formulated a plan ...