StarWars.com has posted the first look at the key art for next year’s Star Wars Celebration and announced that tickets for the event as well as preferred hotels open on May 6, 2026 at 12pm PT

After 10 years of “Kathleen Kennedy is out!” claims across the internet, Lucasfilm officially made it official today that Kennedy is stepping down with Dave Filoni and Lynwen Brennan moving up as co-presidents.

Announced at the 2025 Game Awards, the new role-playing game from Arcanaut Studios and Lucasfilm Games, Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic tells an all new story helmed by accomplished game director Casey Hudson.

Visit StarWars.com for more details and check out the first teaser trailer on YouTube.

Imagination. Creativity. Adventure. These words not only capture some of the magic of Star Wars and its multigenerational fans, it also describes this year’s Power the Force consumer products campaign.

It’s a big year for Star Wars, with highlights including Star Wars Celebration Japan, the release of Andor A Star Wars Story Season 2, the 20th anniversary of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, and the 10th anniversary of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. To celebrate, Power the Force is a yearlong campaign showcasing some of the saga’s iconic ships, favorite characters, memorable droids and, of course, lightsabers.

More details at StarWars.com

If you missed these in our Celebration panel coverage, you probably weren’t the only one as they weren’t included in Hasbro’s actual panel. StarWars.com slipped two Black Series reveals in their coverage, the first being a Gaming Greats version of Maul (Old Master) from Battlefront II which will be exclusive to GameStop. The second is a Dok-Ondar from Galaxy’s Edge that will be exclusive to ShopDisney. No word yet on when these go up for preorder.

Update: Preorders open for Darth Maul this Tuesday at 1pm ET at GameStop. Dok-Ondar preorders are available at May 4 at 1pm ET through ShopDisney

Mando Mania also gives us our first look at the upcoming Vintage Collection Cad Bane from The Book of Boba Fett. Preorders should go live for this tomorrow at 1pm ET.

Cad Bane should be part of a future wave after the Tusken Warrior assortment.

Mando Mania continues this week with the reveal of The Book of Boba Fett figures (via Yahoo) for the Retro Collection which The Mandalorian, Fennec Shand, Krrsantan, Cad Bane, Tusken Warrior, Grogu, and Boba Fett (Dune Sea). Click on through for the images.

Following the tradition of ‘Mando Mondays” and “Bring Home the Bounty”, StarWars.com announced last week “Obi-Wan Wednesdays“ – a week series of product announcements from Hasbro, Funko, LEGO, Mattel and more – inspired by (but not directly from) the new Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi. The program starts on May 25 and runs through June 29.

StarWars.com has revealed this week’s new products for the “Bring Home the Bounty” campaign . Showcased this week are products from Bandai (Tamashii Nation Ronin Mandalorian with Grogu), Hasbro (Black Series Droids Boba Fett and George Lucas (Stormtrooper) and Vintage Collection Droids figures, Gentle Giant (Padme Amidala Premier Collection Statue and the Jumbo Luke Skywalker – Concept Figure) and more.

Watch for orders/preorders to open tomorrow at 1pm ET. (Ronin Mandalorian is available now on Amazon*).

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Lucasfilm/Disney have announced this year’s media event via StarWars.com : Bring Home the Bounty! Every Tuesday until the end of the year, brands will annnounce new products for order/preorder. Today’s reveal includes the rumored Wave 2 of the Retro Collection for The Mandalorian which includes, Ahsoka Tano, The Armorer, The Mandalorian (Beskar), Bo Katan Kryze, Imperial Death Trooper, and Boba Fett (Morak). Preorders for this (non-exclusive) assortment open tomorrow at 1pm ET.