Kylo Ren And More: New Star Wars Skins Coming To The ‘Fortnite’ Item Shop

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When Rey showed up in the shop, we knew that this was more or less inevitable, but it appears that we’re not exactly done with Star Wars skins in the Item Shop. After the event today a bunch of dataminers were able to get inside of newly unencrypted files, and it seems like we’ve got a few more skins coming our way. The headliner is Kylo Ren, as if anyone doubted that the Adam Driver’s emo heartthrob of a force user would be making its way into the game, and the second is Zorii Bliss, a new character being played by Keri Russell.

You can see them both datamines below:

A list of achievements also points to some other cosmetics, though I can’t find in-game datamines just yet. These include what seem to be gliders: the Millennium Falcon, Zorii’s Y-Wing and a Tie Fighter(seemingly not the one we already have, which is a Tie Whisper).

This list leaves some absences, however! Palpatine, for one, would be awesome, though a bit of a stretch. Poe seems like a natural choice as well, though I suppose we can only have so many Star Wars skin in this single, non-Star Wars game. Cal Kestis from Jedi: Fallen Order would have made some sense as well, though Epic already did a cross-promotion with that game via the stormtrooper skin.

Still, I imagine these will be some of Epic’s best-selling skins in some time. Judging by the sheer number of Reys and Finns I saw attending the event a lot of people have already bought them, and I doubt those same players will be able to show much restraint in the face of Kylo Ren or the Millennium Falcon, particularly as there are currently lightsabers in the game.

I assume that these will go live tonight at 7:00 PM Eastern which is when the item shop typically resets, because Fortnite is going to want to capitalize on the Star Wars excitement going on right now.

All in all, I’m calling it Fortnite’s biggest crossover yet, with as much in-game stuff as the Avengers event but with an in-game component to boot.

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