George Lucas Makes His First Appearance at SDCC, Reveals Star Wars and Marvel Items Headed to His Museum | SDCC 2025

During George Lucas' archetypal quality astatine San Diego Comic-Con, helium revealed immoderate breathtaking Star Wars and Marvel items headed to his caller Lucas Museum of Narrative Art that's acceptable to unfastened successful Los Angeles successful 2026.

Lucas, who was joined connected signifier by Academy Award-winning manager Guillermo del Toro, Academy Award-winning creator Doug Chiang, and Grammy- and Emmy-winning creator Queen Latifah, discussed this depository that aims to beryllium a "temple to people's art."

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As for what items fans tin expect, a peculiar video preview of the depository showed guests tin expect to spot Luke's X-34 Landspeeder from A New Hope, General Grievous' TSMEU-6 Wheel Bike, Anakin's N-1 Starfighter from The Phantom Menace, and adjacent the Speeder Bikes from Return of the Jedi. There volition besides beryllium conception creation and overmuch much from that postulation far, acold away.

On the Marvel front, the archetypal 1968 drafting of Iron Man's archetypal screen and the archetypal drawings of Black Panther from 1968 volition beryllium connected display. These volition beryllium joined by the precise archetypal quality drafting of Flash Gordon from 1934, archetypal sketches from Peanuts comics from the '50s and '60s, and creation from Norman Rockwell, Jack Kirby, Frida Kahlo, and galore more.

Lucas shared a spot astir his past with creation and comics, sharing that helium couldn't spend existent creation successful college, truthful helium bought comic art. Over the years, helium has amassed a postulation of implicit 40,000 pieces and helium refuses to merchantability immoderate of them.

"If you person an affectional connection, that's art," Lucas said. "The thought that radical tin archer you what creation is... from my acquisition making movies, different people's opinions don't mean much. The lone happening that matters is what you bash and however you consciousness astir it."

Lucas said this depository is dedicated ot the thought that a communicative is written to impact radical and physique assemblage and that it is highly important to nine and successful gathering community. Furthermore, genres similar Science Fiction tin animate america due to the fact that "when the thought is implanted, past we deliberation we tin bash it."

George Lucas and Guillermo del Toro astatine SDCC.

del Toro spoke connected the value of comics and art, and reminded america that comics were the "first ones to punch Nazis" and that DC Comics were "the archetypal ones to person a societal conscience." He past touched upon AI and utilizing an app to marque art.

"People accidental you tin bash creation with an app and, i'm sorry, but you can't," del Toro said. "It's the quality betwixt oculus candy and oculus protein. Personality and emotion are what you need. I'm sorry, they don't hap successful a f****** app."

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, which is co-founded by Lucas and Mellody Hobson, volition debut successful 2026 successful a 300,000-square-foot gathering with expansive galleries, 2 state-of-the-art theaters, implicit 150,000 objects, and overmuch more.

For much Star Wars astatine SDCC, cheque retired each the quality retired of Lucasfilm Publishing's panel, the stunning caller Star Wars figures revealed astatine the show, and Heroes & Villains' SDCC Star Wars collection.

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