Via Blastr.com:

We might still have a while to wait until J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: Episode VII arrives, but the new era of Star Wars officially kicked off this past weekend with the new animated series Rebels.

Producer Dave Filoni, a carryover from the Star Wars: Clone Wars series, is a key member of the modern-day Lucasfilm braintrust and chatted with Collider about the new series in the wake of the Star Wars: Rebels premiere this past weekend on Disney Channel.

The premiere didn’t blow our socks off, but it was solid. You could tell they were playing it safe to reintroduce the world of Star Wars with a whole new cast of characters out to fight the evil Empire in a different corner of the galaxy. But it did have a few nice nods to the original trilogy, and not surprisingly, that was done largely by design.

Filoni opened up about the challenge of meshing with the larger universe while avoiding the easter egg farm problem, and he had some interesting thoughts after a decade of creating Star Wars canon. Oh, and he also borrowed some tech from the classic Star Wars toys made by Kenner. Now, that’s what we call one epic easter egg:

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