From Ewoks to porgs, nary a Star Wars movie goes by without introducing a fuzzy new friend that can be made into a Funko Pop! figure or put on bedsheets or transformed into a plush toy and sold to eager fans the world over. It’s a tradition as important to the franchise as light sabers and the eternal battle between the Light and Dark sides of the Force, and you can bet that the newest entry in the series — the upcoming Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker — will carry it on.
Just yesterday, on the latest episode of The Star Wars Show, Disney pulled the curtain back on Babu Frik, “a tiny droidsmith working among the Spice Runners of Kajimi.”
New image of Babu Frik in The Rise of Skywalker pic.twitter.com/etXLc6MrkX
— Star Wars Holocron (@sw_holocron) October 2, 2019
According to StarWars.com, Babu Frik “can reprogram or modify virtually any droid — regardless of the security measures protecting its systems.” Kajimi, meanwhile, is a snow-dusted planet we’ll see for the first time in The Rise of Skywalker.
He kind of looks like an old cat mechanic. Can you not see Disney executives salivating over all the Babu Frik-brand welding goggles they’re going to sell?
On The #StarWarsShow: we recap the reveals from Triple #ForceFriday, @DisneyPlus's Obi-Wan Kenobi series finds a director, and we take a look at Babu Frik. Plus, find out how you can attend the red carpet premiere of #TheRiseOfSkywalker. Presented by GEICO. pic.twitter.com/ffTmMDxi73
— Star Wars (@starwars) October 2, 2019
Kajimi is also the homeworld of Zorri Bliss, a masked criminal and an old friend of Poe Dameron’s played by Keri Russell. We haven’t seen a ton of her, but you can just make her out in the top two newly released posters from Trends International below — she’s in the purple-red bodysuit and the gold mask:
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
— Trends International (@intltrends) September 27, 2019
Available 10/4 at https://t.co/mW7eGEey80#TheRiseOfSkywalker #TROS #StarWars #FirstLook #ForceFriday pic.twitter.com/N1dMUkIYuB
In the poster in the upper right-hand corner, Bliss is arrayed with Rey on the Light side of things, so criminal or not, she’ll probably be fighting against Kylo Ren and the First Order for the good guys.
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But the bad guys will get their time to shine, too. Another pair of new posters gives us a closer look at the Knights of Ren, the elite squad of warriors under Kylo’s command:
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
— Trends International (@intltrends) September 27, 2019
Available 10/4 at https://t.co/mW7eGEey80#TheRiseOfSkywalker #TROS #StarWars #FirstLook #ForceFriday pic.twitter.com/0kCM3tdoo0
The Rise of Skywalker hits theaters on December 20.
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