Disney shelved the finished animated comedy in 2013 and never released a frame of it. All 39 episodes now live in a theater inside the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, which opens Sept. 22.
Thirty-nine episodes of a Star Wars comedy have been sitting in a vault for more than a decade.
Next week you can go watch them.
Star Wars: Detours will screen inside the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, which opens to the public on Tuesday, Sept. 22, in Los Angeles. Seth Green confirmed it at a museum panel during San Diego Comic-Con in July.
It is the first public screening of the show in its history.
What is Star Wars: Detours?
An animated comedy series George Lucas ordered up after falling for Robot Chicken.
Lucas liked the Robot Chicken Star Wars parody specials enough to cameo in them as himself, then hired the people who made them. Seth Green and Matthew Senreich built Detours as a full series set between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope.
The team finished 39 episodes and had more than 62 scripts ready to go.
Then Disney bought Lucasfilm in 2012, and the show never aired.
Why did Disney shelve Star Wars: Detours?
The stated concern was timing.
Disney was preparing the sequel trilogy and did not want comedic versions of the Star Wars characters reaching audiences ahead of the new films.
That reasoning made some sense in 2013. It made progressively less sense as the years went on, since Disney went on to release plenty of comedic and kid-facing Star Wars content, and Disney+ eventually restored the old animated series and Ewok films under a vintage tab.
Detours stayed shelved anyway. Fans tracking it on lost-media sites treated it as a case study in how a finished piece of work can simply stop existing when a company decides it is inconvenient.
The show is not arriving on Disney+ now either. It is arriving in a building Lucas paid for.
What is the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art?
A 300,000-square-foot museum in Exposition Park, co-founded by Lucas and Mellody Hobson, dedicated to visual storytelling across every medium that uses pictures to tell a story.
The building was designed by Ma Yansong of MAD, with Stantec as executive architect and gardens by Mia Lehrer of Studio-MLA across a 13-acre landscape.
Inside are more than 100,000 square feet of gallery space across 30-plus galleries, a free research library and a restaurant.
Two theaters handle the film program: the Robert Flaherty Theater and the Slavko Vorkapich Theater. Both run as drop-in spaces, with films ranging from a few minutes to 90, so you wander in and out rather than buying a showtime.
Reporting indicates admission covers the galleries and theaters together, with no separate ticket needed for Detours. Confirm that at the box office before you plan around it.
What Star Wars is on display?
The inaugural Cinema gallery exhibition is called Star Wars in Motion, and the curatorial choice is not the obvious one.
It is about land vehicles. Not X-wings, not Star Destroyers. The racers, transports and ground craft from the first six films, shown through concept designs, props and costumes drawn from the Lucas Archives.
The run goes from Luke‘s Landspeeder in A New Hope to the first physical build of General Grievous‘s Wheel Bike from Revenge of the Sith.
Bronze sculptures around the museum include Padmé fighting off the nexu from Attack of the Clones, Princess Leia freeing herself from Jabba the Hutt, and a piece pairing Yoda and Grogu.
How do you visit?
Tickets are on sale at the museum’s site, and opening week for a new Los Angeles institution with a Star Wars exhibit inside it is going to move.
Exposition Park already holds the California Science Center and the Natural History Museum, so this is a full day if you want it to be.
Worth knowing for anyone routing a Disneyland trip through Los Angeles. Anaheim to Exposition Park is a straightforward drive, traffic permitting, which in that city is doing some heavy lifting.
Disney has had 39 finished episodes of a Star Wars show it would not release for thirteen years. Lucas built a museum and put them on a screen.
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Hat Tips:
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art press materials, the Sept. 22 opening, building and gallery figures, the Star Wars in Motion exhibition contents and the sculpture list
DAPS Magic (July 24, 2026), Seth Green’s Comic-Con confirmation that Detours will screen at the museum
Collider (July 2026), the Detours production history, the episode and script counts and Disney’s stated reason for shelving it
ArchDaily (Sept. 4, 2026), the theater program structure and building details
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