{"id":221,"date":"2019-04-13T10:10:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T10:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/talklikejarjarday.com\/blog\/the-week-in-jar-jar-april-7th-april-13th\/"},"modified":"2024-05-08T20:56:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T20:56:24","slug":"221-the-week-in-jar-jar-april-7th-april-13th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talklikejarjarday.com\/blog\/221-the-week-in-jar-jar-april-7th-april-13th\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week in Jar Jar: April 7th &#8211; April 13th, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to The Week in Jar Jar for April 7th\u00a0through April 13th, 2019!<\/p>\n<p>This week <a href=\"\/blog\/219-star-wars-celebration-chicago-starts-today\">Star Wars Celebration in Chicago<\/a> began. As far as I know Ahmed Best hasn&#8217;t been on any panels yet, but we know he&#8217;s in the city already because Janina Gavankar, who portrayed\u00a0Iden Versio in Star Wars: Battlefront II, posted\u00a0a video showing him hanging out at a party in her hotel room.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StarWarsCelebration2019?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StarWarsCelebration2019<\/a> after party in my room w <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ahmedbest?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ahmedbest<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jayzombie?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jayzombie<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/acarboni?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@acarboni<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeeGoots?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DeeGoots<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0zcOkH6JtC\">pic.twitter.com\/0zcOkH6JtC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 janina gavankar (@Janina) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Janina\/status\/1116881204651941888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Ahmed is scheduled to be on the Star Wars: Phantom Menace 20th Anniversary Celebration panel on Monday from 11:00AM &#8211; 12:00PM, and is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwarscelebration.com\/Guests\/Autographing-and-Photo-Ops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">available for autographs<\/a> today at\u00a011:20am, Sunday at\u00a03:30pm, and Monday at\u00a01:30pm. Remember if you meet him, ask him his thoughts on ITLJJBD, and give me a call so I can join the conversation as well. If you get any good photos or stories of Ahmed or anything Jar Jar related, feel free to share with us.<\/p>\n<p>Another piece of Jar Jar news which was making the rounds this week was that the Jar Jar Binks minifigure was the first Lego minifigure to get a unique Lego head sculpt back in 1999. I saw this in a few news articles but wasn&#8217;t sure of the validity of the information since I&#8217;d never heard it before, and according to <a href=\"https:\/\/lego.fandom.com\/wiki\/Jar_Jar_Binks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brickipedia<\/a>, a popular Lego Wiki, Jar Jar was ONE of the first figures to have a specially sculpted head\u00a0mold along with C-3PO, but not necessarily THE first one. So I reached out to the Lego Group via their website and got confirmation that Jar Jar was indeed the first. Check out the great response they sent which even features a little Gungan speaking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"centered\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-735\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/talklikejarjarday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jar_jar_lego_email.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1054\" height=\"637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/talklikejarjarday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jar_jar_lego_email.png 1054w, https:\/\/talklikejarjarday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jar_jar_lego_email-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/talklikejarjarday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jar_jar_lego_email-1024x619.png 1024w, https:\/\/talklikejarjarday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jar_jar_lego_email-768x464.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1054px) 100vw, 1054px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some great Jar Jar fan art was posted to Twitter this week from friends of ITLJJBD this week. Check it out below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\">Also, Jar Jar&#8217;s response&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dQSjka2DEF\">pic.twitter.com\/dQSjka2DEF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mrs. Binks (@MidnightBlueGal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MidnightBlueGal\/status\/1116851777507184640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Thought maybe I should show off this dapper Jar Jar I doodled in one of my class notebooks. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StarWarsArt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StarWarsArt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JarJarBinks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#JarJarBinks<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CcvNzDu1kY\">pic.twitter.com\/CcvNzDu1kY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mrs. Binks (@MidnightBlueGal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MidnightBlueGal\/status\/1114648012108652545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dude, where&#8217;s my Jar Jar? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RqBaxVDvQJ\">pic.twitter.com\/RqBaxVDvQJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Woug (@Wougabeach) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wougabeach\/status\/1116643094022316033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it for this week. Did I miss something? <a href=\"mailto:mesa@talklikejarjarday.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Send mesa an email palo!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>P.S.\u00a0Only 128 more days until International Talk Like Jar Jar Binks Day!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to The Week in Jar Jar for April 7th\u00a0through April 13th, 2019! This week Star Wars Celebration in Chicago began. 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