Star Wars Rebels and Big Hero 6: Disney’s next animated sci-fi

Big Hero 6 poster

This week we get our introduction to animated Star Wars Disney-style with the premiere of the new series Star Wars Rebels.  Set your DVRs for this Friday, October 3, for the one-hour premiere, Star Wars: Spark of Rebellion on the Disney Channel. The first series episode begins October 13 on DisneyXD.  The series features characters we previewed here at borg.com in our review of the first new universe Star Wars novel, A New Dawn.

Taking place between Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, a group of rebels takes on the Empire.  The series features the voices of Freddie Prinze Jr., Taylor Gray, Tiya Sircar, and Steve Blum.

Those with access can get an early look at Star Wars: Spark of Rebellion on September 26 at WATCHDisneyXD.com and on the WATCH DisneyXD app.

Spark of Rebellion
Coming in November is Disney’s full-length animated feature film, Big Hero 6.  Big Hero 6 follows the story of two Japanese brothers and a robot one creates that looks a bit like the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.

Big Hero 6 looks like it may have some humor in The Incredibles vein with the latest in computer imagery.  Here’s a new movie trailer for Big Hero 6:

Big Hero 6 hits theaters November 6, 2014.

C.J. Bunce
Editor
borg.com

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