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JJ Abrams Shows Off New Star Wars X-Wing Fighter for Charity

By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS)

With a week to go in J.J. Abrams’ Force for Change Charity contest, the director of Star Wars Episode VII decided to give fans a preview of what may be Luke Skywalker’s X-Wing fighter. It’s a definite upgrade from the one he used in Episode IV: A New Hope and Episode V: Empire Strikes Back, with sleeker, rounder lines. But there’s no mistaking its trademarked look, and J.J. is counting on fans to be excited about it sign up for his charity.

 

By supporting Force for Change, you can win a private screen of the movie in your home town, and invite 20 of your closest friends and family. – J.J. Abrams

Abrams on the set in Abu Dhabi announcing Force for Change.

Abrams on the set in Abu Dhabi announcing Force for Change.

Force for Change is a promotional campaign for UNICEF, which hopes to raise money and awareness for UNICEFs to support UNICEF's Innovation Labs, which seeks to provide life-changing projects and technology to impoverished third world communities. UIL seeks to provide portable, solar-powered learning kits for kids in China, Uganda, and Burundi to ensure underprivileged children in these countries have access to relevant, high-quality educational materials.

Other projects include mobile phones and cell towers South Sudan, Uganda, and the Philippines, as well as text messaging solutions in Zambia, both of which will serve to, that helps reunite children with their families after an emergency, help families receive infant medical test results from clinics, and other projects that hope to give kids a future in these embattled regions of the world.

With four days left in the contest, users are directed to Omaze.com/starwars and enter. You have to pay for every entry, but the grand prize package of being a featured extra in Star Wars: Episode VII, and getting a screening of the movie in your home town before it comes out is an attractive one. For as little as $10, users can receive an entry and get a Star Wars Force for Change Digital Badge. $100 gets you a limited edition Force for Change T-Shirt and 10 entries. Rewards go up from there with every entry costing you $10., with the ultimate prizes of a private screening going to anyone who contributes between $25,000-50,000.

It’s a good cause, to be sure. But it’s also a very crafty way to manage rumors, and news coming out of Bad Robot about the upcoming Star Wars epic and generate hype. Already J.J. has been frustrated by leaks about the story and images of what looks to be an AT-AT and the Millenium Falcon coming from the set being put online that could potentially spoil it for everyone. I’m not going to get into the story spoilers from here, but suffice it to say even if the leak isn’t true, I’d still pluck down $15 to see that tale. But J.J. is parceling out set pieces and giving us a peak behind the curtain in both a meaningful, and humorous way, and you know what, I’m satisfied with that. I don’t need the spoilers. The more I see, the more I’m hopeful that the wait `til December 2015 is going to be worth it. I just wish Disney would stop Disneyfying Star Wars with animated specials on kids’ shows like Phineas and Ferb and the like. Seeing that stuff just makes Star Wars fans nervous.

But seeing a new design for the X-Wing, now that gets me excited. What say you?

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