Star Wars Detours

[Melbosa]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yRNXFhboBI

From the makers of Robot Chicken, this looks good.  Going to be one I follow I think.  What do you guys think?  Trailer is funny!

[Lazybones]

Not sure it is something that will live long.

[Melbosa]

Robot chicken is on its 5th season... so might work if at the right time and on the right networks.

[Mr. Analog]

Robot chicken is on its 5th season... so might work if at the right time and on the right networks.

I think it falls in the same boat as Aqua Teen Hunger Force, great to watch late night when you're half cut...

[Darren Dirt]

Robot chicken is on its 5th season... so might work if at the right time and on the right networks.

I think it falls in the same boat as Aqua Teen Hunger Force, great to watch late night when you're half cut...

A Robot Chicken vibe for sure, combined with that oldie stormtroopers video short ala COPS, combined with the running series on College Humor ... but in this case it's ANIMATED... so more they can do (i.e. laws of physics, schmaws of physics!) ... btw outta left field here but anyone else have a Rayman flashback @ 1:45 in that video? and @ 3:00 so obviously making fun of the recent Kinect game with all the terribad dancing...


sorry amendment time: overall intriguing, there's definitely a MST3K vibe, and gotta say as well very obviously influenced by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripping_the_Rift 

Although the commenters mainly said "looks like RC without being funny" I disagree, it's a subtle kind of humor not much different than the way Arrested Development just didn't "click" with the "make me laugh with obvious jokes!" crowd. Also the cast, WOW: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2362866/fullcredits#cast

[Darren Dirt]

Apr 6, 2013
One Green project that has been put on hold is Star Wars: Detours, a comedic animated series he created with George Lucas based on the Star Wars universe. The series featured the voices of Seth McFarlane and Joel McHale, and Green, Senreich, and Todd Grimes created 40 episodes for the show. But it was announced last month that Disney had postponed the cartoon indefinitely. Lucas had conceived the idea of Star Wars: Detours long before the decision was made to launch the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII, and the studio felt a parody of the show didn't fit well with the new plans. Green said he agrees with the move.

"I had people tell me that they introduced their kids to Star Wars via Robot Chicken and Family Guy, and I just think that's incredibly irresponsible and ultimately confusing to your kid because you're introducing an ironic, comedic interpretation of something before someone has had the ability to see it sincerely, with gravity," Green said.

But he said he has fond memories of his "awesome" and "indescribable" experience working on Star Wars: Detours with Lucas. "If nobody ever sees this show, I will still have had one of the most satisfying professional experiences of my life," he said.