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Star Wars Celebration Reveals Key Art and Ticket Sale Date for Japan 2025

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  Hello there! Well, that was a littler earlier than expected! Last night Star Wars  Celebration revealed the key art for Japan 2025 and announced that tickets for the highly anticipated event would go on sale Thursday, May 2, at 19:00 EST (US) / Friday, May 3, at 08:00 JST (Japan). Debuting the key art  StarWars.com  revealed that it was created using the traditional Japanese sumi-e style of blank ink painting. The artwork blends together the iconography of Star Wars  with that of Japan itself, with Mount Fuji centered in Japan's Rising Sun flag, framed by TIE Fighters, X-wings, and AT-ATs, with Darth Vader in the foreground and swirls of black ink extending from the Sith Lord to form the branches of cherry blossom trees. When tickets go on sale (as near to May 4th as possible) they will cost $168.85 for a 3-Day adult badge and $42.35 for a 3-Day child badge. Single day badges will also be available at $58.85 each for adults and $20.35 for children. There will also be a limited nu

Looking Back at Star Wars Celebration Europe 2023

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  Hard to believe it's been a month since we were all celebrating together in London, and what a Celebration it was! This post is going to look back at the Celebration that was, the highs and the lows of Star Wars  Celebration Europe 2023, offer some thoughts on what could be improved for future Celebrations (especially here in the UK), but mostly just reminisce about the amazing time we had last month. So let's start with day zero, the night before Celebration when we arrived in London, checked into our hotel, and got our first look at the convention centre. Day 0 We arrived in London mid-afternoon after driving down from home (the blessing of being local), parking a few minutes walk from the Aloft. An initial "we can walk this" quickly turned into "thank God the DLR is here" as we realised how many bags we had and we were soon checked in to our hotel, the absolutely stunning Sunborn yacht, and heading over to ExCeL. Banners adorned the walkway from the sta