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The Freemaker Adventures – The Kyber Saber Chase

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  • Title: LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures – The Kyber Saber Chase
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The Freemaker Adventures - The Kyber Saber Chase

With Naare (Grey Griffin) on their trail, the Freemakers head to the water planet of Takodana and recover a crystal only to have the Sith show up yet again and snatch their prize. The trip to Naboo turns out to be even trouble as R0-GR (Matthew Wood), Zander (Eugene Byrd), and Kordi (Vanessa Lengies) get individually distracted in an Imperial museum. Rowan‘s (Nicolas Cantu) misstep gets his family captured by Durpin (Richard Kind) by Plumestriker (Jeff Bennett), but his quick thinking keeps his family out of Imperial hands. However, the arrival of Naare and Dengar (James Patrick Stuart) leaves the Freemakers once again empty-handed with only a single Kyber Crystal remaining.

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Killjoys – Meet the Parents

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Killjoys - Meet the Parents

Family is the common theme in both the A and B stories of “Meet the Parents.” While Johnny (Aaron Ashmore) escorts Pawter (Sarah Power) home to Kresh to plead with her disapproving mother to step in and save Old Town, Dutch (Hannah John-Kamen) and D’Avin‘s (Luke Macfarlane) simple bounty gets complicated by Khlyen (Rob Stewart) who, while digging for answers about what makes D’Avin so special, accidentally swaps the two men’s consciousness allowing for D’Avin’s reunion with his father and giving Dutch the opportunity to talk directly to the man who made her what she is today.

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Darth Vader #23

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Darth Vader #23After making his away aboard the stolen Executor, Darth Vader sabotages the heisted Star Destroyer before making his way to his confrontation with Morit outside the hull of the Executor. After dispatching his foe by Force-flicking Morit into the nearby son, Vader can continue his climb through ship to find his true prey, Cylo. However, the master of cybernetics does have one last trick up his sleeve.

Despite his small victories over the course of the last two issues accomplishing the impossible without breaking a sweat, Vader does stand defeated as the comic comes to a close. With his mechanical body constructed largely by Cylo’s technology, the Dark Lord of the Sith finds himself in the rarest of situations at someone else’s mercy.

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1986 – Flight of the Navigator

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  • Title: Flight of the Navigator
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Flight of the NavigatorOn or around this day 30 years ago Disney’s Flight of the Navigator flew into theaters. The live-action sci-fi film starred Joey Cramer as a normal 12 year-old boy abducted by an alien spacecraft and returned to Earth eight years later without having aged a day to the confusion his parents (Cliff De Young and Veronica Cartwright) and once younger (now older) brother (Matt Adler). NASA grows interested in David (Cramer) as well when a medical examination links the boy to a recently crashed spaceship.

Flight of the Navigator is you typical all-ages Disney adventure. It does boast quite a few recognizable faces in supporting roles including WKRP‘s Howard Hesseman as the lead NASA scientist studying the spacecraft, Paul “Pee-Wee Herman” Reubens as the voice of the alien craft, and Sarah Jessica Parker as a NASA intern.

Telepathically linked to the ship, David helps it escape government control and begina to understand just what happened to him, why the ship’s artificial intelligence (named Max) needs his help, and how he ended up back home eight years too late.

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LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures – The Test

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LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures – The Test

The latest episode of LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures offers tie-ins to both The Clone Wars animated series and The Force Awakens. On the run from Naare (Grey Griffin), the Freemakers crash land their damaged ship on Takodana where they meet both Maz Kanata (Grey Griffin) and Hondo Ohnaka (Jim Cummings). While Maz offers a few words of advice to the kids, and a gift for Rowan (Nicolas Cantu), Hondo only gives them the difficult job of stealing Varactyl eggs to earn enough money to repair their ship.

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