Do you have plans for celebration for Wookiee Life Day? According to Disney, it is “the happiest and most magical holiday of the galaxy”, so on November 17, the company will celebrate the event at Disney + with a Lego Star Wars Holiday Special. Set immediately Rise of the Skywalker, Rey and BB-8 go on a journey through the timeline of nine movies that promise to give screen time to goodies and baddies current and past. Except it’s all done in Lego, so painted tongues will be firmly in plastic cheeks.
I’ve been a big fan of the more irreverent take Lego brings to the Star Wars universe since the cut scenes in Lego Star Wars II– whose heart would not melt if Darth Vader whipped out a Polaroid to prove to Luke that he really is his father? And the recent Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures stands head and shoulders above Star Wars resistance, at least to this middle-aged nerd.
All of this gives me the belief that this new special will not suck. The original Star Wars Holiday Special is widely hailed by fans as the worst thing that has come out of that far, far away galaxy. It was a TV special that aired in 1978, long before George Lucas’ swashbuckling in space was the cultural behemoth we know today. The plot involves Han and Chewie trying to celebrate Kashyyyk’s Life Day, where they apparently meet his father (named Itchy) and his son (named Lumpy). I say “apparently” because it was never aired in the UK where I grew up, so I was mercifully spared as a child and I’ve never had a very enough masochistic streak to track down a specimen in ‘ the decades that followed.
Of course not one of these is canon, but so are the Lego Star Wars adventures, so continuity is damned.
