New Clone Wars Clip Shown At Star Wars Weekends

Through the magic of Twitter, I discovered that audiences at Disney Star Wars Weekends were treated to a little surprise: a clip from the “bonus material” that we’ll see someday somewhere.

Right now it’s a little light on details but here’s the gist of what I saw from people who were apparently at WDW today:

“@icecoldpenguin: MAJOR #clonewars teaser at behind the force today! Where did yoda go??? Ahhhhhhh #StarWarsWeekends”

“@icecoldpenguin: @amy_geek yep it was so awesome the conversation between anakin and yoda was amazing”

“@jeremiahgood: Dave Filoni showed us, via video, unseen footage from the Clone Wars with promise of more to come in Behind the Force! #StarWarsWeekends”

Hopefully people attending Star Wars Weekends festivities tomorrow and Sunday can spill a little more info.

Chronicling The Clone Wars

Lucasfilm’s “holocron keeper” (the official continuity guy) Leland Chee has been keeping track of the Clone Wars’ chronological order, where the episodes fall in the time period between AOTC and ROTS as opposed to their broadcast order.

The series of starwars.com blog entries listing these episodes are all here.

Save The Clone Wars Logo Designs

A gal on Facebook made a whole bunch of Save The Clone Wars logos free for your use. Use them to make your own t-shirts, stickers, pins or whatever your heart desires to show your support for the show!

Lucasfilm Responds

If you’re one of many people like me who dropped a line to Lucasfilm as well as to Disney about Clone Wars, you might have received a response like the one sent to Club Jade’s jawajames (I got one yesterday).

The tone of the letter is, “Sorry, Toots. Elvis left the building on the horse that left the barn.”

Realistically, I did not think they would do a sudden turnaround and go back to production. But it doesn’t mean that somewhere down they line they won’t change their minds even if it takes years for it to happen.

Look, I’ll write a book or fund a documentary (*checks lottery tickets*) on Clone Wars if that’s what it will take for the show to get the conclusion I think it deserves.

That said, at least we got a response. It’s just the beginning…

More Honors For Clone Wars

Behind The Voice Actors awards honored the Clone Wars with Best Male Lead Vocal (James Arnold Taylor), Best Male Vocal in a Supporting Role (Corey “Cad Bane” Burton), and Best Female Vocal in a Supporting Role (Nika Futterman).

Meanwhile, Ashley Eckstein, David Tennant, and the cast as a whole got People’s Choice nods, presumably from online votes.

Congratulations and let’s keep the prize-winning karma going!

Clone Wars Snags 7 Daytime Emmy Noms

The nominations for the 2013 Daytime Emmy Awards were announced today. The Clone Wars earned seven nominations: outstanding special class animated program, performer in an animated program (three nominations: Sam Witwer, David Tennant, and Jim Cummings, making Team Hondo happy), directing in an animated program, music composition and direction, and sound mixing. Yes, there are some WTF snubs (no noms for writing, animation, or the regular cast) but that’s seven more nominations than Clone Wars ever got from the prime time Emmys.

(Quick explanation: daytime Emmys mostly cover soap operas, broadcast t.v. morning shows, syndicated talk shows, and most children’s programming. Clone Wars qualified after it was moved to Saturday mornings.)

Congrats and good luck to the nominees!

USA Today’s Preview Clip, Article

USA Today posted an article and a preview clip from the upcoming Clone Wars bonus material. The clip focuses on the mystery of Syfo-Dias and stars none other than Plo Koon. In the article, Filoni mentions that he is working on completing these bonus arcs.

Naturally Clone Wars fans are all aflutter about the news. I am also looking forward to seeing these episodes. But hold up little buckaroos. Don’t start throwing the confetti yet. There are still some unanswered questions:

When and where are we going to see these arcs?

How many arcs are we going to see anyway? What are they?

What about the unaired Clovis arc that got booted from Season Five?

Rumors say that most of Season Six was completed before the ax officially fell. If true, why not just produce a full Season Six then?

Bear in mind, we were already told they were working on this stuff anyway. This is not the full season. More stories were planned than what we’re getting. I’ve just heard that Ashley Eckstein mentioned at C2E2 last weekend that Ahsoka is not in this bonus material, so this will not tie up the entire series. Until then, fans of the show have to keep up the pressure to complete it as originally planned, which is to tie in with Episode III. Participate in the 5/4 buycott of all things Clone Wars. Join in the weekly @Disney Twitter protest. Keep sending in your cards and letters. If you’re going to Star Wars Weekends, wear Clone Wars gear. #SaveTheCloneWars

Rinzler’s Advance Copies

J.W. Rinzler tweeted this tantalizing pic of two upcoming books, The Clone Wars Episode Guide and Star Wars Storyboards: The Prequel Trilogy:

https://twitter.com/jwrinzler/status/327461179100393472/photo/1

Worst Star Wars Cake Ever

From the great site Cake Wrecks is this Clone War(s) confection, originally posted in 2008:

I love that the cake decorator made the effort to put that blue thing in the background, but not to write the name of the show correctly or otherwise display any pizzazz.

Vote For Clone Wars Voice Actors

The BTVA Voice Acting Awards has nominated James Arnold Taylor, Ashley Eckstein, Corey Burton, Nika Futterman, and Sam Witwer for their roles on The Clone Wars. David Tennant is nominated for his guest shot on the show. Moreover, the cast is nominated as an ensemble.

(Dee Bradley Baker is nominated for his part on The Legend of Korra. And there’s a nomination for Mark Hamill on a totally unrelated show.)

What a great message it would send if we scored as many wins as possible for our Clone Wars crew. Be sure to vote!