Star Wars Insider 230 is the 208th issue of Titan Magazines' Star Wars Insider magazine. It was published on February 25, 2025.[1]
Publisher's summary
Welcome to the first issue of Star Wars Insider for 2025!
Anthony Daniels recently hosted a revival of Star Wars: A Musical Journey for several nights at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. In this issue of Insider we speak with the C-3PO actor about the original concert series, its new iteration, and his personal thoughts on Williams' incredible music.
Also in this issue, Joonas Suotamo tells us about shooting his big action scene as Kelnacca in Star Wars: The Acolyte; the effects artists at Tippett Studios reveal how they created a stop-motion creature for Star Wars: Skeleton Crew; and Star Wars: A New Hope set decorator Roger Christian details how some of Star Wars' most iconic objects came to be. All this and exclusive The High Republic fiction from Lydia Kang too![1]
Contents
Departments
- "A Message from the Editor"
- "Launchpad"
- "Prize Giveaway!"
- "A Certain Point of View"
- "Worldwide"
- "Jedi Master's Quiz"
Features
- "Armature Crew: Animating the "Trash Crab"" (by James Spry)
- The animators at Tippett Studio take Insider through the making of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew stop-motion monster.
- "A Musical Journey" (by Mark Newbold)
- Anthony Daniels (C-3PO) celebrates the music of John Williams with a look back at the Star Wars: In Concert tour.
- "What a Piece of Junk!" (by Christopher Cooper)
- Star Wars: A New Hope set decorater Roger Christian tells the story of the iconic props and sets from the movie.
- "Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi Companion" (by Jay Stobie)
- Every episode of the animated Star Wars shorts revisited, with input from stars Ashley Eckstein and Corey Burton.
- "Pip: The Making of the Star Wars Multitool" (by Mark Newbold and Christopher Cooper)
- Creature concept designer Nick Tyrrell and puppeteer Jack Parker reveal how The Acolyte's droid multitool was made.
- "Kelnacca Kaos" (by Jay Stobie)
- Actor Joonas Suotamo on filming the mighty Wookiee's stunt-filled clash with his Jedi cohorts in The Acolyte.
- "Playing by the Book" (by Chelsea Zukowski)
- A look at how tie-in novels have expanded on the stories of videogames, including Battlefront II and Jedi: Fallen Order.
- "Tales from the Occlusion Zone: Sparks Fly" (by Lydia Kang)
- Tales from the Occlusion Zone continue with "Sparks Fly" by Lydia Kang.
Media
Cover gallery
Sources
How "Rey's Theme" Kept John Williams Coming Back to the Star Wars Galaxy on StarWars.com (backup link not verified! (news/star-wars-the-force-awakens-rey-theme))
