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Star Wars Weekends 2008 Celebs

Posted By Mike on April 19, 2008

If you were listening to the March 14th episode of the Force-Cast, then you heard our friend Mick Celli give his rundown of Star Wars Weekends and other Star Wars related tidbits regarding Disney. In case you missed it, see below for the list of celebs slated to attend Star Wars Weekends 2008...so far...

All 4 weekends:
Celebrity Host, Warwick Davis ("Wicket the Ewok")


Weekend 1 (June 6-8)

Daniel Logan (young "Boba Fett")
Celebrity to be announced; stay tuned for updates!

Weekend 2 (June 13-15)

Peter Mayhew ("Chewbacca")
David Prowse ("Darth Vader")

Weekend 3 (June 2-22)

Matt Wood ("General Grievous")
Celebrity to be announced; stay tuned for updates!

Weekend 4 (June 27-29)

Jeremy Bulloch ("Boba Fett")
Celebrity to be announced; stay tuned for updates!



Thanks to Mike S. for the heads up.


More on Star Wars Weekends right here.


UPDATE: Looks like Disney might need to update their site as we have a corrected celeb list for you below. The dates of the weekends themselves were correct, just not the celebs...you know the main reason you checked out the post in the first place. Sorry about that :)

Week 1:
Daniel Logan
Jeremy Bulloch

Week 2:
David Prowse
Peter Mayhew

Week 3:
Matthew Wood
Amy Allen

Week 4:
Dave Filoni (Clone Wars director)
TBD (waiting for final confirmation on guest)



Thanks John!



UPDATE #2: The Starwars.com post here confirms the list in the update above.


UPDATE #3: According to Starwars.com, Jake Lloyd will be joining Dave Filoni for Week #4 (June 27-29) of Star Wars Weekends 2008.


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