Watch ILM Recreate the Death Star Trench Run Out of Virtual Gingerbread

Just in time for the holidays, Star Wars is celebrating in style with a cutesy recreation of the iconic Death Star trench run from A New Hope rendered as if it was painstakingly made out of gingerbread. But a simple festive sweet treat, this ain’t: it’s the first in a volley of shorts for a new animated miniseries, Star Wars Minis.

Lucasfilm has released the first of the shorts, a brief side-by-side comparison of the trench run sequences from the original Star Wars with the…