At MegaCon 2014, the Robot Chicken creators reaffirmed that Star Wars Detours would be released at some point, with more than thirty planned episodes.
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On March 11, 2013, Lucasfilm announced that the series had been postponed in light of the upcoming release of the sequel trilogy. On December 21, 2012, The Walt Disney Company completed its acquisition of Lucasfilm Ltd. I got a priceless experience with one of my truest heroes, and got to see him laugh and enjoy all of the things that he had created, in a time before he agreed to sell them to somebody else." ―Seth Green And so I know over those four years that he was having fun, and that's really all I care about. And my partner and I, and all of the people that got to work on it - the artists and actors and directors and animators - we all got to make something Star Wars with the guy who created it. " I don't really have an emotional position because I got to spend four straight years making something with George Lucas. Some of the animated work on the series was done by The Monk Studio, a visual effects and animation studio located in Thailand, which also worked on the film Strange Magic for Lucasfilm.
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Writers were hired from various TV series, including The Simpsons, Family Guy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Battlestar Galactica, SpongeBob SquarePants and The Daily Show. On April 5, 2010, officially revealed that the series was in production by Lucasfilm Animation, and that it would be a comedy. George Lucas revealed in June 2009 that a new Star Wars animated series was in development. It's a really bizarre thing to wrap your head around, and because I've witnessed it firsthand, it made me more thoughtful about what we were putting it out." ―Seth Green The same way we were introduced to classic music through Bugs Bunny or Tom & Jerry, kids are taking our ironic interpretations of He-Man or other pop culture icons and never having the opportunity to meet them sincerely. The writers on Robot Chicken and I are seeing this a lot. " I've had a lot of parents approach me in the last few years where they showed their children Robot Chicken or Family Guy Star Wars before they showed them regular Star Wars.