A VirtualStar WarsConvention Will Precede the As-Yet-Uncanceled Star Wars Celebration

While the coronavirus pandemic haseffectively ruined this year ’s conventionality season , that is n’t stopping ReedPop — the organiser of major con likeEmerald City Comic Conand New York Comic Con — from endeavor to bring people together this May through the power of the Force .

From May 4 , you knowthat Clarence Day , to May 5,ReedPop is hosting“An Online Revelry , ” a digital gathering for Star Wars fans who want to get together to celebrate their beloved franchise . In add-on to livetweets of multiple Star Wars movies and television shows spread across two days , Revelry will also feature live Q&A Roger Sessions with actors from the serial likeAshley Ecksteinand creators like authorCharles Soule .

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Luke Skywalker teaching his nephew the power of extreme social distancing.

Luke Skywalker teaching his nephew the power of extreme social distancing.Image: (Lucasfilm/Disney)

What ’s interesting about Revelry is that rather than being concentrate in any one given digital infinite , the normal will take place on the Twitter , Facebook , and YouTube channels of various ReedPop - branded conventions like NYCC andEmerald City Comic Con , the latter of which has already been directly bear on by the pandemic inthe same manner that San Diego Comic - Con was .

While the gathering ’s obviously go to be free of commission , it ’s worth bearing in creative thinker that lease in these sorts of matter on social media does come with the price of potentially having one ’s posts propagate far and wide across the internet in service of a stigma . But if that ’s not on your list of hard nos , then bring in on this sorting of natural action might just be right up your alley .

ReedPop ’s Star Wars Celebration convention , meant to take place in August , has not yet let on a postponement . Perhaps this event is imply to test the water for later this year . We ’ll bring you more as we sleep together it .