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The probot, you'll remember, is the reconnaissance droid sent by the Empire to Hoth's frozen surface to root out the Rebel's presence there.

Newer fans of the prequels and even The Clone Wars will recognize several familiar visual cues found on Empire's probe droid, such as the black metallic finish and large globe-like eyes found on Revenge of the Sith's buzz droids and Clone Wars' recon droid and spider-like assassin droid. Even Darth Maul's Sith probe droids from The Phantom Menace and the dwarf spider droids from Attack of the Clones seem to have been informed by Empire's distinctive probe droid aesthetic.

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Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace is expected to be released theatrically in 2012. A release date has not yet been determined.

"Getting good results on a stereo conversion is a matter of taking the time and getting it right," said John Knoll, Visual Effects Supervisor for Industrial Light & Magic. "It takes a critical and artistic eye along with an incredible attention to detail to be successful. It is not something that you can rush if you want to expect good results. For Star Wars we will take our time, applying everything we know both aesthetically and technically to bring audiences a fantastic new Star Wars experience."

Chaykin, who drew the first limited-edition Star Wars poster in 1976, has now created a special Empire Strikes Back image exclusively for Star Wars Insider, the official magazine of the Star Wars saga. This limited edition collector's cover of Insider is only available through comic stores and the large size pull-out poster comes free with the regular Insider newsstand edition.

This issue of Insider explores the making of the original Star Wars comic book by Chaykin and writer Roy Thomas and includes a never before published transcript of a meeting between George Lucas and Chaykin regarding the adaptation of Star Wars for a Marvel comic series.

Chaykin on the Star Wars characters:
"I feel that kid who plays Luke is a little soft in the face so I'm going to harden him up a little bit. He's got a great cleft and that's fine, but he looks like he's 16. It'll make him more heroic in the picture. Han Solo is perfect. He looks like I drew him. He looks my cliché mercenary hero. He looks like [classic comic book hero] Cody Starbuck. Chewbacca will be no problem. Same thing is true of Darth Vader... He looks like a comic book character -- Doctor Doom."

The magazine also features interviews with the team behind The Clone Wars series, remarks from the Mark Hamill panel at Star Wars Celebration V and an Endor location guide. Plus, there's much more must-have material for all Star Wars fans.

Retailers can order this special Star Wars Insider with exclusive Howard Chaykin cover and large size pull-out poster from October's Diamond Previews. See Star Wars Insider "Featured Item" listing within the Books & Magazines section in Previews for more information.

Star Wars Insider #122 goes on sale December 14, 2010.

This Week's Topics Include:

Special Guest Aaron Goins from jedidirectory.com and Mark Newbold from Jedi News/Lightsabre talk about The Clone Wars episode, Supply Lines.

E-mail the show at galaxyfanboy@yahoo.com or visit the Facebook Fanpage or Twitter page. You can now also download the podcast at iTunes. Enjoy!

Ryan attended the Sacramento Sci-fi and Horror Show this past weekend where he met with Billy Dee Williams, and sat down for an interview with C Andrew Nelson. C Andrew Nelson has worked for ILM as a Visual Effects Artist, and LucasArts playing the roll of Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, Kyle Katarn, and more!

E-mail the show at galaxyfanboy@yahoo.com or visit the Facebook Fanpage or Twitter page. You can now also download the podcast at iTunes. Enjoy!

The existing Star Tours show we internally refer to as "6.5," since it takes place time-wise after Episode VI Return of the Jedi. Story development for the new show began "a long time ago," back in 1998, and a story treatment from that year carries the title "Episode 7 -- A Star Tours Classic" -- referring to the Boonta Classic race that was to be the main feature of the show.

But by the time Episode I hit the screens, we were all anxious to know what would surface in Episode III that we might build on for the show. Naturally, we were then curious how Episode III would complete the series. In the end, after numerous discussions, we decided to place our storyline between the two sets of Star Wars trilogies, giving the project the working title "Star Tours 3.5"