To celebrate the animated series Star Wars Rebels, fans have designated today, 5th March (in the US), as #RebelsRemembered Day, in honor of the day the last episode aired in 2018. To celebrate #RebelsRemembered I’m taking a look at the Star Wars Rebels content in a collecting hobby we really enjoy – autographs.

Back in 2019, our local Armageddon Expo convention in Auckland, NZ, hosted four Star Wars voice actors – that coincidently all provided voices for Star Wars Rebels! It was so exciting to see Steve Blum, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Jason Isaacs, and Sam Witwer all at our local event. We are not able to attend overseas conventions as often as we would like, so it’s fantastic when Star Wars actors visit New Zealand conventions, and we definitely take the opportunity to see their panels, and meet them while getting an autograph!

Steve Blum – is most well known to Star Wars fans as Zeb Orrelios in Star Wars Rebels, but also voices a number of other characters within that show. Blum has made significant contributions to the Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO game (Andronikos Revel, Baron Deathmark, and more), and did additional dialogue recordings for stormtroopers in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn – voices Governor Arihnda Pryce in Rebels, but is also notably a voice director for Star Wars: Resistance.

Jason Isaacs – has a huge filmography behind him (including Harry Potter and Star Trek: Discovery). His contribution to Star Wars is as the voice of The Grand Inquisitor in Star Wars Rebels.

For our Sam Witwer autograph, it was a tough choice trying to decide which image to choose, but in the end we went with Darth Maul from The Clone Wars, so technically it’s not Rebels, but since it’s the same voice actor/character, I thought I’d include it here as well.

Sam Witwer – has a long list of roles in various Star Wars materials, headlined by Darth Maul in The Clone Wars, Rebels, and Solo: A Star Wars Story, and Starkiller in The Force Unleashed (I & II). Witwer also provided the motion capture performance for his character in The Force Unleashed games. He has also provided the voices of Star Wars characters in Resistance (Hugh Sion), Secrets of the Empire, Battlefront (Emperor Palpatine), Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Disney Infinity, and Kinect Star Wars.

Of course we hope to add more Star Wars Rebels voice actors to our autograph collection, but it’s a great start. It was such a pleasure to meet these four actors in person, they were absolutely lovely to talk to.

We’ll be celebrating #RebelsRemembered all day with more Rebels from our Star Wars hobbies and collections – check out other posts here

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To celebrate the animated series Star Wars Rebels, fans have designated today, 5th March, as #RebelsRemembered Day, in honor of the day the last episode aired in 2018. To celebrate #RebelsRemembered I’m taking a look at the Star Wars Rebels content in a game I play daily – Star Wars Card Trader by Topps.

Star Wars Card Trader (SWCT) is an app game where you can collect Star Wars digital cards, with the aim of trying to complete sets by trading with other players. As as long time SWCT player (since the game launched in early 2015), I have collected a fair amount of Star Wars Rebels themed cards. It it would take too long to share all my Rebels cards, so I’ll try to narrow it down to some of my favourites.

An older set, but my of my all-time favourites – I also have the black and white version set too, but the colour ‘swoosh’ backgrounds really make this version fun and bright.

One particular set that always stands out in my collection is the Artist Series by Dave Filoni – they feature Ahsoka Tano and Darth Vader with a striking red and black colour scheme .

And now for some fun random picks from my collection –

There so many great Rebels card sets that I either don’t have time/space to feature here, or I didn’t manage to collect myself. Alas, sometimes the pack odds just don’t work for you. One recent set that I did managed to collect and complete was ‘Inquisitorious’, which predominantly featured the clashes of the Inquisitors against the Rebels. A fantastic but too big to include here as well. And one that I am actively working on completing is the new ‘Fractured’ set featuring Rebels characters – the cards have a neat ‘fracture’ animation to the borders!

SWCT is a game I play daily – it’s free to play and available for both iOS and Android, so definitely check it out if you’re looking for some Star Wars action on your mobile device!

We’ll be celebrating #RebelsRemembered all day with more Rebels from our Star Wars hobbies and collections – check out other posts here

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To celebrate the animated series Star Wars Rebels, fans have designated today, 5th March, as #RebelsRemembered Day, in honor of the day the last episode aired in 2018. To celebrate #RebelsRemembered I’m taking a look at the Star Wars Rebels content in a game I play daily – Star Wars Galaxy Of Heroes.

Star Wars Galaxy Of Heroes (SWGOH) is an app game where you can collect Star Wars characters and and battle them against in-game challenges and also other players. As as long time SWGOH player (since the game launched in late 2015), I was so excited to see the entire Phoenix Squadron join the game in 2017 –

• Hera Syndulla – added 9th March 2017
• Chopper – added 9th March 2017
• Kanan Jarrus – added 16th March 2017
• Garazeb “Zeb” Orrelios – added 23rd March 2017
• Ezra Bridger – added 30th March 2017
• Sabine Wren – added 6th April 2017
• Ahsoka Tano (Fulcrum) – added 2nd June 2017
• Grand Admiral Thrawn – added 15th June 2017

While my Rebels line-up are not the highest geared characters in my roster, I do still use them often. Fulcrum Ahsoka works well in Rebel-themed teams, and Grand Admiral Thrawn is an absolutely must-have character, a powerful addition to Empire teams. With the new game emphasis on Grand Arena, I definitely need to gear this team up so I’ve got them at the ready – fingers crossed for a new omega ability for one of them, Hera maybe?

A great in-game event is the Artist Of War legendary event, where you use the Phoenix squad characters to defeat and then unlock Grand Admiral Thrawn. I remember how hard this was back when it launched in 2017! It took careful strategy to beat him, which was only fitting of course.

As well as characters from Rebels, SWGOH also has some ships too! The Ghost and Phantom II are available in-game, as well as Thrawn’s flagship Chimaera. The Phantom II is in my current main ship team, and Chimaera is great for the fleet section in Territory War.

• Ghost – added 13th April 2017
• Phantom II – added 13th April 2017
• Chimaera – added 9th October 2017

SWGOH is a game I play daily – it’s free to play and available for both iOS and Android, so definitely check it out if you’re looking for some Star Wars action on your mobile device!

We’ll be celebrating #RebelsRemembered all day with more Rebels from our Star Wars hobbies and collections – check out other posts here

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