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by **DoubleSith** » April 29th 2014 3:13 pm

Brand new trailer to debut on May 4th on Disney XD during the airing of the latest Yoda Lego special.

The rebellion begins this Sunday. The trailer for the upcoming animated series "Star Wars Rebels" will premiere in a global, multiplatform debut on Star Wars Day, SUNDAY, MAY 4th -- also known as "May the 4th Be With You," the unofficial fan-driven holiday celebrating Star Wars.

In the U.S., Disney XD will feature the "Star Wars Rebels" trailer during the premiere of LEGO's "Star Wars: The New Yoda Chronicles" at 7:00 p.m., ET/PT. Additionally, the trailer will air on Disney Channel, ABC, ABC Family, Fusion, ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN3 at varying times throughout the day.

The trailer will also debut on Disney XD and Disney Channels in countries spanning across Europe, Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America and Australia -- reaching approximately 105 million households in over 50 countries, across six continents and over 20 time zones.

On Sunday, May 4 (12:01 a.m., PT), the trailer will be available across multiple sites including http://www.StarWars.com, http://www.ABC.com, http://www.ESPN.com and http://www.Disney.com.

by **DoubleSith** » May 1st 2014 5:51 pm

Full trailer posted early!

Hurry up before they take it down!

EDIT: Already made private.

by **Mike_Droideka** » May 1st 2014 5:58 pm

Watched it twice, before they set it to "Private" - looks great!

by **CoGro** » May 1st 2014 6:25 pm

Someone will re-up it.

by **Mike_Droideka** » May 1st 2014 6:27 pm

There's no way I can replay it from my computer as it was streamed via YouTube right?

by **DoubleSith** » May 1st 2014 6:35 pm

Here's my recap:

1. The Ghost flying towards Lothal.

V.O.: IN A TIME OF DARKNESS...

2. An Imperail frigate launches TIE fighters in pursuit of the Ghost.
3. Ezra looks up from a balcony as a Star Destroyers passes overhead.

V.O.: WHEN FEAR RULED THE GALAXY...

4. A squad of stormtroopers march in formation in a Death Star-like hallway
5. Sabine looks over an Imperial base with TIE fughters on the ground

V.O.: HEROES WILL RISE...

6. Zeb pulls out his staff. There are Ugnaughts in the background in a hangar.
7. Chopper running around the Ghost.
8. Hera pulls the lever and the Ghost jumps to hyperspace

V.O: DESTINIES WILL COLLIDE

9. Kanan: "Who is that kid!?"
10. Ezra on a speeder bike in a Lothal highway.

V.O.: AND THE REBELLION WILL IGNITE

11. A stormtrooer looks at at a thermal detonator embeded in the middle of a graffiti'd wall, which promptly explodes.
12. Sabine: "Get ready..."
13. Chopper pulls a lever.
13. Kanan: "Now!"
14. Artificial gravity goes off, Kanan, Ezra and Zen start floating, and start shooting at similalrly careening stormtroopers.
15. Chopper floats off with Sabine hanging on.

TITLE CARD: THIS FALL

16. More TIE Fighters flying and shooting.
17. Agent Kallus gets caught in an explosion.

TITLE CARD: THE SAGA CONTINUES

18. The heroes run towards the Ghost, balsting as they go.
19. Ezra: "Who are you guys?"
20. Sabine: "We're a team"

TITLE CARD: ON DISNEY XD

21. Hera (to Chopper): "What part of 'blast them' did you not understand?"
22. More dogfighting action.
23. Agent Kallus to a squad of stormtroopers: "Stormtroopers, focus your fire... on the Jedi."
24. Kanan assembles his lighsaber and ignites it.

V.O.: STAR WARS REBELS. JOIN THE REBELLION THIS FALL ON DISNEY XD.

25. A Star Destroyer flies through space.
26. Agent Kallus, to a hologram of the Inquisitor: "Inquisitor, I have encountered a rebel cell."
27. Inquisitor: "You did well to call."

by **BlackCriminalGangster2050** » May 1st 2014 6:38 pm

CoGro wrote:Someone will re-up it.

For sure, if somebody grabbed it, it'll be here...MF.com is still one of the very few SW sites that won't lick the balls of LFL just to get some low-level official site web employee to re-tweet them. :goomf:

by **DoubleSith** » May 1st 2014 6:43 pm

by **BlackCriminalGangster2050** » May 1st 2014 6:50 pm

thanks, DS!

by **DoubleSith** » May 1st 2014 6:56 pm

Here's a gif from the first part of the trailer:

by **Mike_Droideka** » May 1st 2014 9:02 pm

Brilliant!
Seeing the trailer this morning, has really piqued my interest in this series!

by **Topeka** » May 1st 2014 9:02 pm

It's good to see some shiny surface shaders. The all-matte look of the Clone Wars grew tiring for me.

The long neck of the Star Destroyer and the smushed wings of the TIE look fucking stupid though.

by **BlackCriminalGangster2050** » May 1st 2014 10:04 pm

Topeka wrote:the smushed wings of the TIE look fucking stupid though.

They look awesome to me, but probably because I was raised on

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by **Topeka** » May 1st 2014 10:08 pm

Yeah that's what it reminds me of too. It was always my least favorite action figure ship because it looked so off!

by **Cryostar** » May 2nd 2014 12:48 am

For those interested, if you ever come across something, like this, that you think will be taken down quickly, or may want to be shared, please use the site below to download the mp4 so it can be re-upped.

http://keepvid.com/

If Keepvid won't rip it, then deturl will:

http://www.deturl.com/

Both of these have come in handy before, and will no doubt be useful in the future.

Stay frosty, my friends.

by **jokerq** » May 2nd 2014 2:29 am

Mike_Droideka wrote:There's no way I can replay it from my computer as it was streamed via YouTube right?

There is a good chance the video is still cached!.... there are articles on the net about how-to

maybe this will help http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/video_cache_view.html .... I've had mixed results with this in the past...

I want to see this!

by **VT-16** » May 2nd 2014 4:23 am

Topeka wrote:It's good to see some shiny surface shaders. The all-matte look of the Clone Wars grew tiring for me.

The long neck of the Star Destroyer and the smushed wings of the TIE look fucking stupid though.

They're both based on McQuarrie art. Plus the TIE is also based on the Kenner toy, which might have used Ralph's version as a model, too. :chewbacca:

I think Pablo said the TIE is meant to be an older model than the ones in the movies, though.

by **Bandersnatch** » May 2nd 2014 11:21 am

by **stan Marsh** » May 3rd 2014 2:56 am

BlackCriminalGangster2050 wrote:
CoGro wrote:Someone will re-up it.

For sure, if somebody grabbed it, it'll be here...MF.com is still one of the very few SW sites that won't lick the balls of LFL just to get some low-level official site web employee to re-tweet them.

So I licked their nuts for nothing?

by **BlackCriminalGangster2050** » May 3rd 2014 9:43 am

stan Marsh wrote:
BlackCriminalGangster2050 wrote:
CoGro wrote:Someone will re-up it.

For sure, if somebody grabbed it, it'll be here...MF.com is still one of the very few SW sites that won't lick the balls of LFL just to get some low-level official site web employee to re-tweet them.

So I licked their nuts for nothing?

by **Bandersnatch** » May 4th 2014 9:28 am

Full trailer:

by **Thundercracker** » May 4th 2014 5:03 pm

Topeka wrote:It's good to see some shiny surface shaders. The all-matte look of the Clone Wars grew tiring for me.

Agreed. The lightsabers look better too, more like the OT style. It would be nice if they have the pulsating/flickering effect like in the films as well instead of the static glow in CW.

by **DoubleSith** » May 4th 2014 5:08 pm

Topeka wrote:It's good to see some shiny surface shaders. The all-matte look of the Clone Wars grew tiring for me.

Thundercracker wrote:Agreed. The lightsabers look better too, more like the OT style. It would be nice if they have the pulsating/flickering effect like in the films as well instead of the static glow in CW.

Look at my April 28th post above.

Joel Aron, my VFX lead, has done an amazing job at matching the original effects. Something I’ll talk about – I don’t know if I’ve told anyone this, so this might be somewhat exclusive: We had the lightsaber rendered – the effect you’ll see in this show, Joel Aron and I very consciously decided to make it like what you saw in the ’70s. And they changed it in updated editions. The blade is a lot steadier in the re-releases and in the prequels. In fact, the blades in the prequels actually are wide and then they taper to a very specific sword point. The lightsabers that we’re putting in Star Wars Rebels are very much the long thin slender blade that is just more like a fencing rapier. Much more like that.

And they oscillate. They actually quiver. Joel found the original guy that did the original effect, rotoed it and everything, because it was on a rod that spun. If you look at really old, original footage of Luke’s lightsaber when he turns it on, it kind of almost goes like that [waves hand] and flickers. That really motivates the humming sound of the lightsaber and how it fluctuates when it moves. Joel’s recreated that really well.

Something else, we put in the old kind of yellow-green flash contacts when the sabers hit in the old movies that weren’t as present in the new ones. We’ve gone very retro with our effects package for Rebels. I think old fans will like that, new fans won’t even know the difference. But yes, it’s always a big consideration. For a lot of kids, Rebels will be their introduction [to Star Wars]. It’s exciting, and it’s a huge responsibility, because we want to set things up well for everything that’s going to come.

by **Mike_Droideka** » May 4th 2014 5:25 pm

And yet, after countless editions and being the leaders in visual FX , Luke's Saber still looks like crap on board the Falcon.

by **Bandersnatch** » May 7th 2014 4:53 pm

Mike_Droideka wrote:Luke's Saber still looks like crap on board the Falcon.

I know. I just don't get that. It would be so easy to fix. I don't even care about the goddamn colors, just smooth out those jump cuts and it would be fine.

by **E_CHU_TA!** » May 7th 2014 9:04 pm

Did Star Wars Insider Reveal on Facebook That Lando Will Be in Star Wars Rebels?

by **E_CHU_TA!** » June 1st 2014 10:15 am

Rebels will begin airing in October 2014. After viewing X-men: DOFP, my anticipation level is even higher than before.

by **royalguard96** » June 6th 2014 9:08 pm

Got to meet Taylor Gray (Ezra) at SW Weekends today. He couldn't have been nicer to my wife and I. Chatted with us for 3-4 minutes.

He did tell me that characters from the OT and TCW would be appearing in Rebels. He says the quality of animation picks up right where TCW left off, which to me, was superb. They're still working on season 1 episodes right now. He flies back Wednesday for more work.

He's a very bright, engaging kid (born in 93). I hope he finds great success with the series.

by **VT-16** » June 7th 2014 7:04 am

Nice, thanks for the info!

So far, we've had Lando confirmed, and there's grafitti of Embo and Cad Bane. Wonder who else? Besides Ahsoka, ofc.

by **royalguard96** » June 8th 2014 9:33 pm

Saw some exclusive Rebels footage at Star Wars Weekends today.

The clip that was shown was Ezra witnessing the Ghost and a TIE Fighter in pursuit over a planet that resembled Dantooine from the Cllone Wars micro series.

The TIE crash lands on the planet and Ezra investigates the crash. At first he appears to want to help the pilot, but ends up stealing little bits of technology from the crashed ship, and says he wants to sell them on the open market. Ezra then fires that laser slingshot at the window of the ship. The slingshot appears to work sort of like a droid popper or an ion weapon in that it disables electronics. Ezra then steals the pilot's helmet and runs away.

Ezra is shown as a street-wise kid who hustles and steals things. This video clip served as a good introduction to his character.

A couple of other clips were shown, featuring Dave Filoni. He said all of the main rebel characters in Rebels were individually wronged by the Empire in some way. A female Mandalorian was also featured as one of the main characters.

No references to storm troopers or the Inquisitor. All the focus at this point appears to be on the group of heroes/rebels.
The animation quality in the clips was outstanding.