Get ready to roar!! I’m excited to announce that on #MayTheFourth, Lucasfilm and Star Wars: Force for Change present Roar For Change, a global challenge in support of UNICEF, who focuses on lifesaving work for children around the world!! Did you know that since 2014, Star Wars: Force for Change has raised $16 million charitable causes? Amazing! For their new campaign, STAR WARS fans are invited to share their own version of Chewbacca’s iconic roar!
Simply capture the moment you recreate Chewie’s famous roar, and share on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, using the hashtag #RoarForChange. For each public post, like, or share on the social media platforms from now through May 25, 2018, Star Wars: Force for Change U.S. will donate $1 to UNICEF USA, up to $1 million.
The initiative kicked off with a video featuring the cast of SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY, revealing Chewbacca’s diva behavior on the set of the new movie, which hits theaters on May 25. Watch below!
It’s so easy to help give back! You can share your best Chewie impersonation in so many different ways! Hasbro has actually released a voice-changing Electronic Chewbacca mask that is perfect for this campaign! Also you can create a Dubsmash using one of Chewbacca’s best-known roars from STAR WARS, which will be hosted on the app’s homepage for the duration of the campaign.
Headed to your local Disney store today through May 6? Make sure you roar and post on social media in your favorite Disney store (nationwide) using #RoarForChange! You will receive 10% off your STAR WARS purchase!
Today, on May 4th, guests at the Disney store in San Francisco will have the chance to meet Chewbacca and roar alongside the legend himself!! And if you are on the East Coast, head to New York to check out the first-ever Brick Millennium Falcon pedicab!! Fans will have the chance to roar alongside Chewbacca in Bryant Park!
Now check out the fun Roar for Change video created by Funko!
… And here is the one created by Hasbro!
To learn more about this amazing campaign, please visit ForceForChange.com.
Now, let’s chat about the upcoming film that has inspired the new Roar for Change campaign… SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY!
Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY, an all-new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo befriends his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and meets the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga’s most unlikely heroes.
Watch the trailer below!
The film stars Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Thandie Newton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Joonas Suotamo, and Paul Bettany.
SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY releases in U.S. theatres on May 25, 2018.
Make sure you follow 25 of my awesome fellow bloggers via the hashtag #HanSoloEvent, May 9-25, as they head to LA for the SOLO red carpet premiere!
Want to see more of my adventures in LA? We can connect on Twitter (@AshBG) and on Instagram (@ashb4211). I’ve posted some photos from my trip! Make sure you follow the hashtag #InfinityWarEvent, #Quantico, #ABCTVEvent, and #BlackPantherBluRay!
While I attended an expense paid trip by Disney to Los Angeles, all opinions are 100% my own. I received the above information as a blogger via Walt Disney Publications. This post contains affiliate links. Lucasfilm, STAR WARS and related properties are trademarks and/or copyrights, in the United States and other countries, of Lucasfilm Ltd. and/or its affiliates. © & TM Lucasfilm Ltd. UNICEF does not endorse any company, brand, product or service.
Marjie Mare says
I am going to share your great post with my daughters, they are both star war lovers.
Diana says
I didn’t know anything about this, that is so awesome! May have to make a trip to our Disney Store!
Echo says
I love this! What a great platform for giving back. That will help a lot of people want to be part of the cause.
Tiffany says
Aww, what a FUN way to raise money! I’ll have to check it out with my kids! We all love Star Wars here!!
Alyssa says
I love that they are using the success of star wars to give back!