🏆'Andor' Wins Fifth Emmy Award!

New Season of LEGO Fun Lands on Disney+ This Week

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Karl Sander
September 16, 2025

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Good Morning, Youtinians.  As you may have read or heard us say before, it really is a great time to be a Star Wars fan. We’ve got news of another outstanding achievement for Andor — and while the excitement might change tone a bit, it certainly doesn’t stop as the latest LEGO Star Wars caper is almost here!

Andor Wins Its Fifth Emmy Award!

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On Sunday at the 77th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, Andor won its fifth award after racking up four wins earlier at the Creative Emmy Arts Awards. 

  • Dan Gilroy, brother of Andor creator Tony Gilroy, earned the Best Writing for a Drama Series award.

  • The award specifically recognizes Episode 9, “Welcome to the Rebellion,” which centers on Mon Mothma denouncing Emperor Palpatine in an iconic speech to the Senate.

Standing Out in a Crowded Field

  • The second season of Andor earned 14 Emmy nominations. 

  • With five awards, Andor tied for the sixth-most recognized show of the year.

  • With stiff competition from other shows like Severance, The Penguin, and The Pit, the Star Wars series was in good company, indeed!

We’re all fine here — how are you? Of course, many of us Star Wars fans couldn’t help but wish Andor might have brought home even more hardware, but it was great to see the show and everyone who worked on it honored! Dan Gilroy was right in his acceptance speech — they really do have friends everywhere! Join the celebration with all of your friends in the Youtini Discord!

Time to REBUILD!

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Only days, just hours, remain until we can watch the highly anticipated LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy — Pieces of the Past, the second season of the latest endearingly zany Star Wars LEGO project. 

Yes, the return of Sig and his brother Dev to Star Wars LEGOLAND drops on Friday, September 19th, and are we ready!

Season 1 Recap: Let's take a quick look back at what happened in Season 1 so we can go into the new adventures fresh:

  • Sig Greebling: a young nerf-herder (voiced by Gaten Matarazzo), earns an honest living on his home planet of Fennesa with his brother and friends.

  • The Cornerstone: Sig discovers an ancient Jedi relic known as “The Cornerstone”, and finds that this “stone” can rewrite reality. He removes it from the temple, and chaos ensues!

  • Role Reversals: What made this first season such a fun ride was the role reversals of the famous characters we know and love:

    • Palpatine, Vader, Dooku, and Jabba are all heroic characters.

    • Rey, Rose, and Jar Jar are all Sith, with Darth Jar Jar a particular highlight!

    • C-3PO and Ewoks as ruthless bounty hunters.

    • Instead of copies of Jango Fett, the clone troopers are all Mon Cala!

What We're Excited About in Season 2:

  • The Story: The second season picks up after the events of the first. A new threat emerges in this new reality galaxy. Sig must save his new friends (including his Sith brother Dev) from this new power, or all will be lost forever.

  • A New Villain: We meet Darth Solitus, who wields a double-chained purple lightsaber and appears intent on controlling the universe.

  • Sig and Dev must join forces to take on the mite of the new Darth Solitus. 

  • New Characters: a PLETHORA of new faces (and some familiar voices!) will appear in Season 2, and we CANNOT WAIT!!

    • BrickHeadz Ahsoka voiced by Ashley Eckstein.

    • Jaxxon voiced by Ben Schwartz.

    • Darth Solitus voiced by Dan Stevens.

    • Cal Kestis voiced by Cameron Monaghan

We’re all fine here now — how are you? BRING IT ON!! Get on the anticipation by revisiting the trailer for the new season. The first season was SO COOL, and now the second is going to be BETTER! We've got a good feeling about this! So, cook up a batch of popcorn, grab a Coke (Star Wars themed, of course), and relax in your favorite spot as we spend the ENTIRE weekend watching and re-watching LEGO baby!!

Darth Vader's Lightsaber Sets Auction Record

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A recent auction has been the scene of quite an astonishing purchase. We all know original props are rare and SOOOOO collectable, but one will definitely be a day long remembered!

The Auction:

  • A screen-used lightsaber belonging to none other than the Darkest of Lords, Darth Vader, went up for auction on September 4th.

  • Propstore held the three-day auction with hundreds of movie and TV memorabilia pieces.

The Recordbreaking Lightsaber:

  • Reportedly made from the handle of a 1950s British camera flash, this is the prop David Prowse and his stunt double Bob Anderson used in The Empire Strikes Back (Episode V).

  • This is the lightsaber Vader held when he uttered those now iconic words, "I am your father."

  • Its role in Star Wars lore and cinematic history explains its selling price of $3.6 million!

  • The previous record for a Star Wars prop was Luke Skywalker's lightsaber, which sold in 2018 for $607,500.

We’re all fine here now — how are you? If you own an original prop from a Star Wars production, you're luckier than The Child! As the years pass, these bits of history will only become more valuable. Whatever you collect, be sure to share it with us in Discord so we can share the love!

🛰️ In the Youtiniverse

🎙️ On The Cosmic Force, Oz, Jacob, and Caleb discuss Tales from the Nightlands #1 and Jedi Knights #7.

🎙️ Jared returns to The Star Wars Archives to continue the fascinating conversation about theology in the Star Wars universe.  

✏️ Oz reviews Tales from the Nightlands #1, kicking off an all-new horror anthology from Cavan Scott just in time for spooky season!

✏️ Oz also takes a look at Jedi Knights #7, where Mace Windu and Aaya Secura race against time (and assassins) on a life-or-death mission.

✏️ Your dedicated Dispatch reporter, Doc, is back to help out your collection with a round-up of the best Supreme Leader Snoke merchandise!

🧭 Smuggler’s Finds

Fresh Star Wars treasures, hand-picked by the Youtini crew.

Add a unique treasure to your collection with this limited-run 12-coin collection honoring Star Wars: A New Hope. The collection features 12 silver-plated coins with detailed engravings commemorating the original film. Each of only 9,999 units available worldwide comes with a certificate of authenticity guaranteeing its legitimacy and exclusivity.

Help your youngling or Padawan prepare for the Jedi trials with the kind of problem-solving, brain-teasing fun that only a Rubik's Cube can provide, with a special Star Wars twist. This Grogu Cube solves into a unique representation of The Child, with attachable ears and body with hover pram suitable for display.  

What better costume for trick or treating than the Dark Lord of the Sith? This Darth Vader costume comes in various sizes and includes a mask, bodysuit, and gloves. It lights up and has sound effects to complete the look and make the costume an excellent choice for any Halloween event!

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