Monday Morning Coffee is the weekly news roundup for Star Wars Discussions. This week: news about Star Wars Celebration, the debut of Obi-Wan Kenobi, tons of brand new trailers, and more!
Greetings and salutations to all Wookieepedians! The last edition of May is packed with a lot of announcements from Anaheim, plus, the premiere of Kenobi, as well as other general business. Vader already served us tea, so let's dive right into it!
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🗞️ STAR WARS NEWS
New Releases
First and foremost, from the publishing field, the second volume of Edge of Balance came out last Tuesday!
Secondly, Jedi Pocket Expert is a brand new reference book as a handy pocket-sized guide focused on the most important Jedi and their greatest features!
Next on, The Mini Book of Lightsabers is another small-sized reference book, but featuring lightsabers. It looks like a pocket book version of The Lightsaber Collection. That's neat!
And at last but not least, the first two episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi were finally released last Friday on Disney Plus!
Here are the open discussion threads for both episodes, posted by, respectively, @ArtooD2 and @Shreekomandar .
Additionally, the non-spoiler polls made also by Artoo and @IronStain98 .
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From the Feed
These are stories that came to us on our main feed in the Star Wars News category. All of them from SW Celebration!
Starting with the post for the Celebretion itself made by my dear collegue @Jade Moonstroller .
Next on, @Darth Malice24 brought us the first Andor trailer.
Then, @IronStain98 shared with us the new merch that is coming out for the Kenobi series.
In addition, @ArtooD2 was on top of things and posted the announcement of another brand new TV series called Skeleton Crew.
Furthermore, @Lord Lothcat made the thread announcing the first teaser trailer of JFO sequel - Jedi: Survivor.
Also, @ImustbeFrank presented us the news of KOTOR II coming into Nintendo Switch.
Later, @Exoticdune introduced the next LEGO series coming to Disney Plus.
Moreover, @Armando1290 showed us that a new animated series titled Tales of the Jedi will debut this Fall.
On the publishing side, @Kylo231 brought us two interesting news: another edition about The Secrets of shall be published, now featuring Bounty Hunters, and a new comic series highlighting Grandmaster Yoda himself.
Concluding, @Darth Malice24 striked back by sharing the teaser trailer of The Bad Batch season 2.
And finally, @Kylo231 closes the news section by announcing the second volume of Visions coming next year.
What a great weekend for Star Wars!
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🗨️ FORUM NEWS
General Business
If you’re new to the forum, then let me give you our warm welcome! Read the thread below in order to acknowledge better our community protocols and how we use to proceed here.
As a matter of fact, a new user formally presented themselves to us. Let's give our warm welcome to @RecRoomBoy537 !
Now that Obi-Wan Kenobi started streaming, it’s important to be aware of our spoiler protocols and its respective procedures. Our dear colleagues @Jade Moonstroller , @ArtooD2 and @IronStain98 gently made us the favor of posting, respectively: the PSA of spoiler protocols, the ThreadHub for Kenobi series, and the Wook Book, which emcompasses them all. Please, read them for more information.
Other Business
🏆CONTESTS
✍️ Essay of the Week:
@Plexaura got the highest place in the last edition of EOTW!
🤣Meme of the Week:
@Road Warrior-NCR Patriot won the last round of MOTW!
The new round is already up!
🎂BIRTHDAYS
Last week was the anniversary of two dear films and great actors.
Shared by @JediTimeLady , we celerated the 45th anniversary of the film that started it all, A New Hope, and the 100th birthday of the legendary Sir Christopher Lee!
Brought up by @1433023rbk , Return of the Jedi also made its 39th anniversary, as well as the super talented Paul Bettany!
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🔶WIKI NEWS
Here is the latest update on all the new status articles of this week!
https://starwars.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000003619492
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⭐FEATURED POSTS
@Aragorn Skywalker Of House Stark , once again, displayed a beautiful dissertation about Obi-Wan as in preparation for the series.
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☀️Community Projects
Here are all the latest updates from our Community Projects category. The [Bracketed Links] in this section will take you to that project’s archive or hub post. If you would like to nominate a recurring project for CP status leave a link in the comments and we will vote by upvoting for it or against it.
Once again, @Lord Lothcat got the highest place in Mando of the Week!
If you are one of those who have been wondering what's up with Planet Cup, @Eaglewing2444 gave us the latest update on it.
@Skylord11235 continues her series now bringing into the spotlight Jedi generals.
@Ariel Rubyleader illustrates another obscure but interesting female character!
Be my guest and challenge me to guess which article I chose on the 95th round of Guess That Article!
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Coda, Archive and Newsroom.
And that’s all, folks! As always, if we missed anything or you have something to promote, please leave a link to it in the comments. Next week will highlight The Rise of @IronStain98 as the new host.
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Have a glorious and wonderful week wherever you are, and may the Force be with you, always!
