![]() The first installment of this new era will be hit stand in January of 2021. The global pandemic pushed back the release of The Star Wars: High Republic content. The book includes a photo of Marchio Ro’s concept art, which showed the leader of the Nihil with his famous eye of the storm mask. So after some more sketches and some back and forth with Lucasfilm, it was decided that the cross-guard would activate as opposed to always being open, which would give the saber the slimmer silhouette while holstered and would lend itself to some great visuals when activating.” Driving the news: reported the debut of The Art of Star Wars: The High Republic a new book that will show off all the artwork for the series of High Republic books and graphic novels. Perhaps it could activate or deactivate with the saber. “What would a lightsaber version of Excalibur look like? I started sketching and came up with a silhouette I really liked, but the practicality of holstering/sheathing it nagged at me until I had the idea that the cross-guard didn’t have to be stationary. The bold and new design boasts a cross-guard that is not stationary and can retract while holstered which was an initial hang up with the design according to Thomas. That is when the idea for Excalibur came into play. ![]() It became clear that it did not work exactly as the team had hoped. Using Kylo Ren’s saber as the initial inspiration the team got to work designing this new saber. “He needed an iconic weapon that could stand beside the other famous lightsabers, but at the same time be unique to him and evoke the time period of the High Republic.” The exclusive preview comes from the new book releasing on October 20 th titled Lightsaber Collection.ĭisney Publishing illustrating manager, Jeff R. ![]() This first look is for the lightsaber of Jedi Master, Stellan Gios.
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