Star Wars Rebels is an Canadian 3D CGii animated series produced by 9 Story Media Group Lucasfilm and Lucasfilm Animation. It is set 14 years after Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and 5 years before Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The visual style of Star Wars Rebels is heavily inspired by the original Star Wars trilogy concept art by Ralph McQuarrie. The series premiered on October 3, 2014 on Disney Channel, with a movie special, titled Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion.
Episodes
Shorts
Adapted from books turned in to short one minute to promote the series and made available online.
Season One (2014-15)
Season Two
Lucasfilm and Disney have confirmed a second season.
Release
Broadcast
Disney XD (US) CBBC (UK) ABC (Australia) France 5 (France) Disney Channel (Spain Italy and Latin America) TVO (Canada) TV12 (Singapore) EBS (Korea) Kids 1 (South Korea) M-Net (South Africa) Cartoon Network (India and Pan Asia) CyBC (Cyprus) MiniMini+ (Poland) POP TV (Slovenia) MBC E Vision and Al Jazeera (Middle East) YLE (Finland) NRK (Norway) Lativi (Indonesia) TVNZ (New Zealand) Cartoon Gang and True Vision (Thailand) VBC (Vietnam) TV3 (Malaysia) RTE (Ireland) RTB (Brunei) Hop TV (Israel) Canal Panda (Portugal)
Home media
Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion was made to DVD on retailers that came including character shorts, plush toy and prievew of season one.
Reception
Ratings
The one hour special garnered 2.743 million viewers in the United States, the second most on the network that night. Worldwide, it delivered a total of 6.5 million viewers.
Critical reception
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 78, based on 4 reviews indicating "generally favorable reviews".
IGN and Variety in particular had strong praise for the pilot movie, Spark of Rebellion, but their only real criticism was the appearance of the Wookiees in the film, being cited as not all that impressive compared to the rest of the animation.