Star Wars

Why People Get So Worked Up About ‘Canon’

Last week the news emerged that director Neill Blomkamp’s recently confirmed Alien movie will wipe away the series’ less celebrated sequels and will pick up the story of Ellen Ripley from James Cameron’s Aliens. “I want this film to feel like it is literally the genetic sibling of Aliens,” Blomkamp said. This post originally appeared…

Saphirais absolutely killing it here as Satele Shan from Star Wars: The Old Republic. Photo by So Say We All Contact the author at [email protected]

Nintendo’s Ballsy Star Wars Knock-Off

Nintendo had a pretty strange relationship with Star Wars in the early years of its video game enterprise. We’ve already seen the weird shit that went down when Star Wars came to the NES, but a 1979 arcade game was even weirder. This is art for Nintendo Space Launcher, one of the company’s earlier arcade…

Cyberpunk Diablo & Studio Ghibli’s Star Wars: An Artist’s Impressions

Stormtroopers are comical at the best of times. Turn them into bearded Studio Ghibli sidekicks and they become downright slapstick. And yeah, Diablo is a fantasy series, but close your eyes and try for a second to imagine it as a cyberpunk thing instead, with neon lights, hacking and sweet future motorbikes. These images, and…

Star Wars Bladebuilders Let You Craft Your Own Impractical Lightsaber

And you thought the lightsaber from the Episode VII trailer was dangerous. Announced today at Toy Fair in New York City, Hasbro’s Star Wars Bladebuilders line finally allows fans of the series to invite new ways to chop their damn hands off. Fans of toys and Star Wars have been waiting for this to happen…

New Star Wars Comic Will Remind You Why You Love (and Hate) Darth Vader

In the first three Star Wars movies, Darth Vader was a fearsome, enigmatic archvillain. The next three Star Wars movies attempted to show Anakin Skywalker as an emotionally turbulent figure of tragedy. The new Darth Vader comic gives readers both of those interpretations and more, enjoyably complicating a villain who been around for a whole…

Cloud City From Star Wars as a Giant LEGO Build

New LEGO Star Wars sets are coming out every year, yet there are still iconic buildings, ships or minifigures missing from the otherwise huge catalog. Elgiemd’s fan-build on LEGO Ideas adds one very important set to the list: Bespin’s Cloud City from The Empire Strikes Back He imagined it as part of the “Ultimate Collector’s…

The Japanese Military Is Great at Snow Sculptures

Remember that enormous Star Wars snow sculpture? Wonder who helped make it? The Japanese military, that’s who. The Japanese Self Defense Force Northern Army 11th Brigade was instrumental in completing the large works, including the Vader piece and the snow version of Shinto shrine Kasuga-taisha Here, you can see how the Japanese military drew up…

Japan Turns Hoth into Mount Rushmore

The annual Sapporo Snow Festival kicked off today in Japan. The center piece is an enormous Star Wars snow sculpture that looks like the Empire’s take on Mount Rushmore. According to IT Media and Game Watch, the Star Wars snow sculpture measures 15 meters tall, 22.6 meters across, and 20 meters deep. Taking around a…

Making Yoda Out of Wax Isn’t Easy

Madame Tussauds, the famous wax museum, is bringing Yoda to life—er, wax—for an upcoming Star Wars exhibit. If you thought it was easy to make a Yoda wax statue, then you are a crazy person. It’s not! Via New Launches, Madame Tussauds uploaded a promo video to YouTube. And while most of the video is…

Fantasy Darth Vader Costume Is Ready For The Dark Ages

Prince Armory have made this amazing Darth Vader costume, which doesn’t just look great but has enough detail to maybe actually work as an actual suit of armour. Though your protection against lightsabers may be limited. The entire suit is articulated, so it can be worn while you run around pretending to choke peasants and…

Star Wars’ Most Explosive Moment, Captured Perfectly In A Video Game

Since it’s out today on GoG, meaning a bunch of people are going to be playing it for the first time, let’s talk about X-Wing Alliance. And how it has the best ending of any Star Wars game ever made. X-Wing Alliance, the third in Lucasarts’ trilogy of space shooters, took away years of my…

One Lightsaber Battle That Escalated Quickly

It’s funny to see people still overreact to the new Star Wars lightsaber design. Russian YouTuber Mr. TV Cow and his clip is no different and he goes way beyond the usual reactions and edits with his clip. A Jedi and a Sith are ready to fight and show off their silly sabres in this…

Redesigned Darth Vader Looks Just As Menacing

But not more menacing. That would be just silly. Still, alternate universe Darth Vader makes a good effort. The redesigned Vader was drawn by 1oshuart of DeviantArt (AKA artist Joshua Cairós) for a Star Wars-themed challenge organized by the Brainstorm Facebook group. The group got a lot of entries, but 1oshuart’s is just something else—and…

Stormtrooper Armor Saves Man From Snake Bite

They might have been useless at stopping blasters, but the ol’ Imperial Stormtrooper armour has at least saved Australian Scott Loxley from being bitten by one of the most poisonous snakes in a country full of poisonous snakes. Loxley, who is walking across Australia in his Stormtrooper armour to raise money for charity, says in…

Star Wars Comics Are Getting Better

Thirty some-odd years ago, Marvel Comics started putting out a Star Wars series that aimed to tell the continuing adventures of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Leia Organa after the Rebel Alliance blew up the Death Star. Tomorrow, they’re doing the same thing. A lot has changed since Marvel last published anything Force-related, most of…

Boba Fett vs. Mario, Mega Man and Pokemon Ends Exactly How It Should

The only possible reason for Mario not running from Boba Fett is that Nintendo’s flagship character doesn’t know who he is. Then, unfortunately for him, Princess Peach’s boyfriend finds out the hard way why he’s the most feared bounty hunter in the galaxy. Ouch. This video by YouTuber NicksplosionFX mashes up two beloved parts of…

R2-D2 Subtitles Reveal An Angry, Frustrated Little Droid

Jabba got subtitles. Greedo got subtitles. But poor R2-D2, he never got subtitles, so the astromech droid spends six movies bleeping around with the audience left to guess at what’s on his mind. Until now. Eclectic Method (via Laughing Squid) have gone through the six flicks and subtitled R2’s scenes, revealing a deeply frustrated droid…

Wild Theory: Luke Skywalker Wasn’t Meant To Be A Jedi, He Was Bait

This is one of those things where you have to imagine events from the perspective of the character, and not the guy writing the movies. And when you do that, it’s not the dumbest twist on established Star Wars canon you’ve ever read. Yesterday, wondering the kind of things you’re prone to wonder about in…

Hundreds of Star Wars Comics Are On Sale…Before They Disappear

Dark Horse Comics, publisher of Star Wars comics since the early 1990s, won’t be allowed to sell any more after New Year’s Eve when Marvel takes over the franchise. So they’re putting all of them on sale. That’s half-price per issue or, if you prefer, $300 for the full 28,353 pages’ worth. Our friends at…