A team of Star Wars superfans today revealed the new toy line for the upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story movie with a series of fan-made animated shorts launching on the Star Wars YouTube channel.
As part of a competition in collaboration with creative network Tongal, the team was assembled to write, direct, and produce original, fan-made stop-motion shorts starring key toys from the new line. The series also kicked off a global user generated contest that asked fans to share their own “Rogue Stories.”
Starting Sept. 30, teens and adults can enter online at StarWars.com/GoRogue. Kids ages 8 to 12 in the U.S. and parts of Canada can also participate at Disney.com/MyRogueStory. The winners will be invited to Lucasfilm in San Francisco to attend a screening of Rogue One and see their short story on the big screen.
Additional installments fo the shorts will roll out through September. James DeJulio at Tongal, led the tram and the series was written by Kevin Ulrich and created by stop-motion animators and directors Dan MacKenzie and Tucker Barrie. The stories follow the adventure from toys of Hasbro, Lego, Funko, Jakks Pacific, Mattel, and Disney Store, as they try to track down the building instructions to the Lego Star Wars Death Star set, which have been misplaced by the empire.
Fans can pre-order select items seen in the “Rogue Stories” beginning Sept. 2 at mass retailers, Disney Store locations, and disneystore.com. The full collection will be available globally on Sept. 30.
