Star Wars Roll Out

Star Wars Roll Out
Production information
Format	Web series
Episode count	16
Network(s)	StarWarsKids.com
First aired	August 9, 2019
Attribution information
Creator(s)	Hideo Itoyanagi
Writer(s)	Hideo Itoyanagi
Director(s)	Hideo Itoyanagi
Executive producer(s)	James Waugh

Star Wars Roll Out is a web series created for StarWarsKids.com and the StarWarsKids YouTube channel.

Development

In 2017, Japanese animator Hideo Itoyanagi created a recap animation of Star Wars: The Force Awakens intended for the local audience, which used versions of the movie's characters made to resemble BB-8 in their shape and way they moved. Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy became a big fan of the animation and its director, and when she came to Japan in December of 2017 to promote Star Wars: The Last Jedi, she met up with Itoyanagi and asked him to create original shorts in the same style as the original recap.

Itoyanagi wanted to come up with something new to the animated world of Star Wars. His intention was to make the world look like simple caricatured paper-cutout silhouettes put on top of each other. He also compared the camera movements to those which could be seen in old video games. Building on top of his original recap shorts, the new animations would utilise the roundness, tilting, spinning and rolling movements of the characters to tell the story and create humor.

Media

Episodes

Episode	Image	Title	Original Airdate
BB-8 and the Jungle Adventure
1		"BB-8 and the Jungle Adventure - Chapter 1"	August 9, 2019
2		"BB-8 and the Jungle Adventure - Chapter 2"	August 16, 2019
3		"BB-8 and the Jungle Adventure - Chapter 3"	August 23, 2019
Chewie, the Porgs, and the Sea Monster
4		"Chewie, the Porgs, and the Sea Monster - Chapter 1"	August 30, 2019
5		"Chewie, the Porgs, and the Sea Monster - Chapter 2"	September 6, 2019
Maz and the Gigantic Blorp
6		"Maz and the Gigantic Blorp – Chapter 1"	September 13, 2019
7		"Maz and the Gigantic Blorp – Chapter 2"	September 20, 2019
Rey and the Secret Treasure
8		"Rey and the Secret Treasure - Chapter 1"	September 27, 2019
9		"Rey and the Secret Treasure – Chapter 2"	October 4, 2019
10		"Rey and the Secret Treasure - Chapter 3"	October 11, 2019
Finn and the Busted Droids
11		"Finn and the Busted Droids – Chapter 1"	October 18, 2019
12		"Finn and the Busted Droids – Chapter 2"	October 25, 2019
13		"Finn and the Busted Droids – Chapter 3"	November 1, 2019
Ben Solo and the Bug Hunters
14		"Ben Solo and the Bug Hunters – Chapter 1"	March 18, 2020
15		"Ben Solo and the Bug Hunters – Chapter 2"	March 25, 2020
16		"Ben Solo and the Bug Hunters – Chapter 3"	April 1, 2020

Sources

• Star Wars Roll Out Teaser on the official Star Wars Kids YouTube channel (backup link)
• Star Wars Roll Out, An Adorable New Series of Animated Shorts, Bounces to the Screen - Exclusive on StarWars.com (backup link)
• The Star Wars Show: Secrets of the Jedi and the Star Wars Unknown on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link) (Posted on StarWars.com)
• "The Rise of Star Wars Kids" — Star Wars Insider 195

External links

• Star Wars Roll Out on Disney's official Japanese website (backup link)
• BB-8 and Friends Adventurous Moments Part 1 | Star Wars Roll Out on the official Star Wars Kids YouTube channel (backup link)
• Star Wars Roll Out on StarWarsKids.com (backup link)

In other languages

• français
• ქართული
• 日本語