“Focus your abilities. Master the Force, and you can lead us to the crystals!”
“That was a lot of words, and my mind wandered in the middle.”

“LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures” debuts this week on Disney XD as the latest addition to the panoply of stories in the Star Wars universe.

This new Disney XD series takes place between “The Empire Strikes Back” and
“Return of the Jedi,” It follows the adventures of the Freemaker family: Sister Kordi Freemaker, older brother Zander Freemaker, younger brother Rowan Freemaker, and their droid RO-GR a.k.a. Roger.

The three siblings together make up the entirety of Freemaker Salvage and Repair–a relatively unsuccessful scavenger business that involves them collecting debris from various space battles and vehicle crashes and reformulating the LEGO bricks into spaceships they can sell. Kordi is the brains and saleswoman of the enterprise, while Zander is the gearhead that designs and constructs their ships. Rowan, as the youngest, is usually relegated to RO-GR’s relatively ineffectual guardianship…which does not tend to mitigate his propensity for causing disaster.

Their lives tend to revolve around making their business pay enough to keep from getting evicted from their workspace until Rowan is discovered to have a Force Sensitivity that draws him to pieces of the legendary Kyber Saber. This, the first light saber ever made, holds enormous power and becomes a source of some interest to Emperor Palpatine and his apprentice.

Recently, Executive Producers Bill Motz and Bob Roth and the voice cast of “Freemaker,” Eugene Byrd (“Zander Freemaker”), Vanessa Lengies (“Kordi Freemaker”), Nicholas Cantu (“Rowan Freemaker”), and Matthew Wood (“Roger”) met at a press conference to answer questions about the new series:

Some points of note from the discussion:
–That two of the characters were named “Kordi” and “Zander” was not intended as a nod to “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”
–The show aims to be more intense than you’d expect from the LEGO franchise, but still retain the fun and humor.
–They have no intention to tell the story of the Freemaker’s parents.
–There will be a crossover with Luke, Leia, Dengar, and others.
–The color for the Freemakers is “nougat,” a pre-existing LEGO color, indicating their undefined, mixed ethnicity.
–The storyline is “canon” in the sense that it is in continuity, enacted by a child playing with LEGO.
–Your media correspondents are willing to risk burning to death in a building to get you information on LEGO Star Wars.

“LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures” airs June 20th, 10:00 am EDT on Disney XD. A new episode will be released each day of this week at that time until June 23rd.