{"id":627061,"date":"2026-10-11T05:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T05:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/627061\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T05:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T05:36:10","slug":"nycc-2026-all-the-star-wars-news-and-reveals-from-new-york-comic-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/627061\/","title":{"rendered":"NYCC 2026: All the Star Wars News and Reveals from New York Comic Con"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hasbro celebrates 50 years of Star Wars, the publishing programs for the anniversary and Star Wars: Starfighter are announced, and more!<\/p>\n<p>Pop culture icon and Star Wars superfan Kevin Smith has already announced his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwars.com\/news\/star-wars-marvel-comics-crossover-hope-assembles\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Star Wars\/Marvel: Hope Assembles crossover comic<\/a>, interweaving the Marvel universe and the Star Wars galaxy like never before. Now, you\u2019re cordially invited to add your own creative ideas to the mix through a LEGO Ideas challenge celebrating the milestone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwars.com\/news\/tag\/sw50\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">50th anniversary of Star Wars: A New Hope<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At New York Comic Con, LEGO Ideas announced a new fan challenge during the Marvel Comics &#8211; House of Ideas panel, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwars.com\/news\/lego-ideas\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">full details found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A majestic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwars.com\/databank\/dewback\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">dewback<\/a> is riding into Hasbro\u2019s Star Wars: The Black Series next year to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Star Wars film where the creatures made their debut.<\/p>\n<p>Just announced, Hasbro will add a special Dewback &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwars.com\/databank\/sandtroopers\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Sandtrooper<\/a> 2-Pack to its 6-inch scale action figure line. Available for pre-order now exclusively at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walmart.com\/ip\/19993318952\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Walmart<\/a>, the figures will hit store shelves in the spring of 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, we learned that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwars.com\/databank\/ezra-bridger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Ezra Bridger\u2019s<\/a> story will continue in a new Marvel Comics series following his journey in Season 1 of Ahsoka, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.disneyplus.com\/browse\/entity-e64c22fc-fc7c-4ada-bbec-ab8351b8db97?cid=DTCI-Synergy-StarWars-Site-Acquisition-StarWars-US-DisneyPlus-NA-EN-BlogArticleEmbed-Generic-NA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">available to watch now on Disney+<\/a>. With a story from series creator Dave Filoni, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwars.com\/news\/nycc-2026-lucasfilm-publishing-reveals\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Star Wars: Ahsoka \u2014 Escape from Thrawn<\/a> will explore an untold chapter of Ezra\u2019s daring escape from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwars.com\/databank\/grand-admiral-thrawn\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Grand Admiral Thrawn<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The comic is just one of several new titles announced at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwars.com\/news\/nycc-2026-lucasfilm-publishing-reveals\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">NYCC Lucasfilm Publishing panel<\/a>, including exciting new books celebrating the 50th anniversary of the film that would become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwars.com\/films\/star-wars-episode-iv-a-new-hope\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Star Wars: A New Hope<\/a>, the announcement of the publishing program for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwars.com\/films\/star-wars-starfighter\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Star Wars: Starfighter<\/a>, and more!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Panelists included Ahmed Best, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwars.com\/databank\/jar-jar-binks\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Jar Jar Binks<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwars.com\/databank\/kelleran-beq\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Kelleran Beq<\/a> actor who is also this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwars.com\/news\/star-wars-reads\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Star Wars Reads<\/a> Ambassador for the month of October.<\/p>\n<p>Check back for even more news and reveals from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwars.com\/news\/tag\/nycc\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">New York Comic Con<\/a> all weekend long!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hasbro celebrates 50 years of Star Wars, the publishing programs for the anniversary and Star Wars: Starfighter are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-627061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}