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Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025: Day One

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Day one of Star Wars Celebration Japan may be done, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still enjoy the many activities and events hapening on the Star Wars LIVE stage or around the convention, and here’s the rundown of everything that took place on day one.

0:00 – 12:56 Intro
12:55 Hayden Christensen Happy Birthday! & Revenge of the Sith 20th anniversary
33:55 Anthony Carboni and Kristin Baver introduce Reina Scully & Cameron Matthew is in the crowd, PLUS OKI the Vegetable Carver!
43:50 Star Wars Night
45:10 Stage Building
48:20 Shawn Levy & Ryan Gosling – Star Wars: Starfighter May 27, 2027
1:00:10 Colin Chow, Lladro Japan, President — Lladro Maquettes
1:04:28 Creative Director, Star Wars: Outlaws Drew Rechner announces A Pirate’s Fortune expansion
– 1:10:05 Star Wars: Outlaws: A Pirate’s Fortune trailer May 15th 2025 / Nintendo Switch 2 – November 4
1:16:17 TaunTaun Cookies
1:17:50 Godzilla: Minus One Director, Takashi Yamazaki
1:25:00 Merch with Anthony & Reina
1:31:15 LEGO
1:39:54 Cam — Meta Quest
1:43:20 President & Producer, Kathleen Kennedy
1:52:23 ANDOR trailer
1:54:07 Ashley Eckstein: Monopoly GO
2:00:20 Cam & Cosplayers
2:14:32 Kristen with Dave Filoni & Pedro Pascal The Mandalorian & Grogu
2:38:10 Loth-Cat Cookies
2:42:22 (just kidding) 2:43:25 John Favreau & Sigourney Weaver
3:04:05 Light & Magic season 2 — 50 years of ILM (continues at 3:56:32)
The High Republic: Lucasfilm Publishing Maggie Lovitt interviews Adam Christopher, Tessa Gratton, Marc Guggenheim, Dr Lydia Kang, Dr Chris Kempshall, Ethan Sacks, Phil Szostak, Alyssa Wong, & Ceebie Cebulski
3:16:50 The High Republic Phase 3 Sizzle Reel
3:26:15 Maggie’s interview with the writers continues into information about The Acolyte, Phil’s Art of: books on….
– 3:39:21 The Mandalorian, 3:30:43 The Art of Andor 3:31:20 Master of Evil 3:36:15 The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire and a tease at about 3:39:00, with comics starting at 3:40:00 Poe Dameron 3:42:11 Star Wars: Beyond Victory 3:43:30 Flagship Title, Star Wars 3:44:49 Legacy of Vader 3:46:54 Jedi Knights and surprise teasers at the end.

3:56:32 Reina welcomes Rob Coleman and Ahmed Best
4:11:22 Chopper Cereal Treats
4:12:57 Young Jedi Adventures Season 3 & Nubs!!!
4:18:42 Mon-Creve
4:21:10-4:24:45 David W Colins, Dave Filoni & Athena Portillo – Lucasfilm’s 20th Anniversary Animation Panel
4:42:41 Let’s watch the clip.
4:57:16 Janet Lewin, Senior Vice President, General Manager and Head of Industrial Light & Magic Business
5:07:15 Meta Quest – Alyssa – Star Wars: Beyond Victory
5:10:38 Star Wars & Anime history with a panel of 4 industry leaders
5:20:46 Anthony – Figpin
5:25:12 Reina with Timothy Bungeroth with Jazwares
5:30:26 Star Wars Kids buzz clip commercial
5:32:26 Anthony with Specter 2 – Vanessa Marshall, voice of Hera Syndulla
5:48:14 Welsh Dragon, Lynwen Brennan, President and General Manager of Lucasfilm’s businesses, Lucasfilm, Industrial Light & Magic, and Skywalker Sound
6:01:11 Sam Witwer, voice of Darth Maul and Athena Portillo, producer of Maul: Shadow Lord
6:22:30 Reina with James Waugh at the anime & manga panel
6:24:52 Anthony & Kristen – It’s a wrap! With a special appearance from Egbert Sen (1932-2019), Running of the Willrow Hood cosplayers.

Mark Newbold
Mark Newbold
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He currently contributes to Star Wars Insider, ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com and Starburst Magazine, having previously written for StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia and Model and Collectors Mart. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since it began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025: Day One

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Day one of Star Wars Celebration Japan may be done, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still enjoy the many activities and events hapening on the Star Wars LIVE stage or around the convention, and here’s the rundown of everything that took place on day one.

0:00 – 12:56 Intro
12:55 Hayden Christensen Happy Birthday! & Revenge of the Sith 20th anniversary
33:55 Anthony Carboni and Kristin Baver introduce Reina Scully & Cameron Matthew is in the crowd, PLUS OKI the Vegetable Carver!
43:50 Star Wars Night
45:10 Stage Building
48:20 Shawn Levy & Ryan Gosling – Star Wars: Starfighter May 27, 2027
1:00:10 Colin Chow, Lladro Japan, President — Lladro Maquettes
1:04:28 Creative Director, Star Wars: Outlaws Drew Rechner announces A Pirate’s Fortune expansion
– 1:10:05 Star Wars: Outlaws: A Pirate’s Fortune trailer May 15th 2025 / Nintendo Switch 2 – November 4
1:16:17 TaunTaun Cookies
1:17:50 Godzilla: Minus One Director, Takashi Yamazaki
1:25:00 Merch with Anthony & Reina
1:31:15 LEGO
1:39:54 Cam — Meta Quest
1:43:20 President & Producer, Kathleen Kennedy
1:52:23 ANDOR trailer
1:54:07 Ashley Eckstein: Monopoly GO
2:00:20 Cam & Cosplayers
2:14:32 Kristen with Dave Filoni & Pedro Pascal The Mandalorian & Grogu
2:38:10 Loth-Cat Cookies
2:42:22 (just kidding) 2:43:25 John Favreau & Sigourney Weaver
3:04:05 Light & Magic season 2 — 50 years of ILM (continues at 3:56:32)
The High Republic: Lucasfilm Publishing Maggie Lovitt interviews Adam Christopher, Tessa Gratton, Marc Guggenheim, Dr Lydia Kang, Dr Chris Kempshall, Ethan Sacks, Phil Szostak, Alyssa Wong, & Ceebie Cebulski
3:16:50 The High Republic Phase 3 Sizzle Reel
3:26:15 Maggie’s interview with the writers continues into information about The Acolyte, Phil’s Art of: books on….
– 3:39:21 The Mandalorian, 3:30:43 The Art of Andor 3:31:20 Master of Evil 3:36:15 The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire and a tease at about 3:39:00, with comics starting at 3:40:00 Poe Dameron 3:42:11 Star Wars: Beyond Victory 3:43:30 Flagship Title, Star Wars 3:44:49 Legacy of Vader 3:46:54 Jedi Knights and surprise teasers at the end.

3:56:32 Reina welcomes Rob Coleman and Ahmed Best
4:11:22 Chopper Cereal Treats
4:12:57 Young Jedi Adventures Season 3 & Nubs!!!
4:18:42 Mon-Creve
4:21:10-4:24:45 David W Colins, Dave Filoni & Athena Portillo – Lucasfilm’s 20th Anniversary Animation Panel
4:42:41 Let’s watch the clip.
4:57:16 Janet Lewin, Senior Vice President, General Manager and Head of Industrial Light & Magic Business
5:07:15 Meta Quest – Alyssa – Star Wars: Beyond Victory
5:10:38 Star Wars & Anime history with a panel of 4 industry leaders
5:20:46 Anthony – Figpin
5:25:12 Reina with Timothy Bungeroth with Jazwares
5:30:26 Star Wars Kids buzz clip commercial
5:32:26 Anthony with Specter 2 – Vanessa Marshall, voice of Hera Syndulla
5:48:14 Welsh Dragon, Lynwen Brennan, President and General Manager of Lucasfilm’s businesses, Lucasfilm, Industrial Light & Magic, and Skywalker Sound
6:01:11 Sam Witwer, voice of Darth Maul and Athena Portillo, producer of Maul: Shadow Lord
6:22:30 Reina with James Waugh at the anime & manga panel
6:24:52 Anthony & Kristen – It’s a wrap! With a special appearance from Egbert Sen (1932-2019), Running of the Willrow Hood cosplayers.

Mark Newbold
Mark Newbold
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He currently contributes to Star Wars Insider, ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com and Starburst Magazine, having previously written for StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia and Model and Collectors Mart. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since it began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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