Star Wars

Conan O’Brien’s Biggest Blunder: Mispronouncing Admiral Ackbar

If you’ve ever wondered how to pronounce Admiral Ackbar’s name properly, here’s a fan giving a hard-boiled lecture to Conan, who accidentally mispronounced it. This is serious Star Wars business. And no, this is not a trap. Fan Correction: Admiral Ackbar Isn’t Pronounced Like That! [Team Coco, YouTube] To contact the author of this post,…

Lucasarts’ Star Wars Creations Return For X-Wing Tabletop Game

The X-Wing miniatures game is almost the perfect tabletop experience. At least if you like Star Wars and fun things. About the only thing that could make it better would be to start introducing more units based on video game starfighters and oh what’s this? Following on from the game’s homage to Dark Forces, the…

Yup, These Are The Best Star Wars Action Figures On The Planet

The Black Series is the best thing to happen to Star Wars action figures since, well, forever. Even today, over 30 years on from the first toys, Hasbro’s main line of figures sucks. But not these babies. Three new lines have been announced in the series, consisting of eight new figures in all. In 2014…

Days In Toyland: Window-Shopping at Toy Fair 2014

The grand rollout of the coming year’s wares—Toy Fair 2014—happened in New York this weekend, already kicking out news of the next Transformers game earlier today. It’s also a showcase for the new collection of figures, both fully posable and less so. Take a peek inside. Evan Narcisse patrolled Toy Fair 2014 for us, bringing…

The Man Who Designed Star Wars‘ Death Star Finally Answers His Critics

“I have one response to all of you who blame me for the destruction of the Death Star: Are you FUCKING serious???” This hilarious open letter over at Dorkly comes from Dak Exhaustport, the heretofore unnamed joe who drew up the blueprints for the Death Star. And he says that what some saw as a…

Mark Hamill Shows Us His Favorite Star Wars Fan Moments

To tell the truth, the best thing in this clip by Nerdist is not necessarily the fan moments (that Patton Oswalt scene though…), but Mark Hamill himself, who still looks super cool and totally ready to put the robe back on. He’s here to show some of his favorite Star Wars fan moments, all leading…

​If Only The Phantom Menace‘s Galactic Senators Weren’t Incompetent

For all their posturing and pronouncements and cool floating podiums, it sure can be hard to take Star Wars‘ Galactic Senate seriously. The latest video from How It Should Have Ended tackles The Phantom Menace, and scores some fair—if fairly easy—points. Is the horse dead? Yeah, probably. Is it still worth kicking it around from…

Darth Vader, You Can’t Eat Chinese Food with a Mask On

As many of you might already know, Chinese New Year has come and this year, 2014, is the year of the horse. To recognize and greet those who celebrate the event, some companies (and even world leaders) have created video greetings. However, all of those pale in comparison to one that comes from a galaxy…

Real Academy Instructs Students In The Art Of Lightsabers

The Ludosport Lightsaber Combat Academy is a chain (yes, there are multiple schools!) in Italy that teach willing students in the art of lightsaber combat. Or, for those who’ve never dreamed of being a Jedi, in dancing around swinging a glowing toy stick. These guys have some serious skills. Going way beyond just hitting each…

Buffalo Banthas and Oakland Vaders: Helmets of a Star Wars Super Bowl

If the Super Bowl was kicking off on the Death Star and not in New York, it’d be the Tauntauns versus the Wattos today. That’s according to this set of helmets reimagining the NFL inside the Star Wars canon. Every choice is outstanding (St. Louis Twi’leks, for sure) but the most apt has to be…

Damn, This Star Wars LEGO Trailer Is Really Good

Yes, it’s for an iOS game. A toy commercial thinly-veiled as a top-down shooter. But just look at this trailer. It’s amazing. The Dewback cops. The busted-up Falcon. The Harrison Ford/American Graffiti gag. It’s drowning me up to my eyeballs in charm. The game’s out tomorrow, but who cares. Let’s just watch this clip over…

This is Star Wars: Assault Team, coming this spring to Android, iOS and Windows 8 devices. What is it? Not a clue. All we’ve got is this image from the official Star Wars Twitter. I’m thinking free-to-play collectible card game. As long as it’s better than Star Wars: Force Collection I’m game.

Former SNL Star Has Some Killer Star Wars Impressions

Bill Hader has spent a sufficient amount of time as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that he can do lots of impressions. But, still, I’m not sure I was prepared for his Jabba. Damn. The actor/comedian appeared on Conan O’Brien’s show last night and Conan just…

This Deal Is Getting Worse All The Time

Cristi Balanescu is a concept artist who has worked for companies like Ubisoft and Fantasy Flight Games. Love his style. The rough stuff always gets to me more than ultra-clean, shiny works. Always feels more alive You can see more of Cristi’s stuff at his CGHub page To see the larger pics in all their…

Perfect Recreations Of Star Wars Film Sets. For Your Action Figures.

These are not official playsets. They’re pieces of art, made by a fan, and are painstakingly-accurate recreations of some of Star Wars’ most iconic movie sets, giving his action figures a “realistic” place to stand. Most are from the original Star Wars, though there are a few from TESB and ROTJ as well. They’re as…

Report: Pixar Will Make A Star Wars Movie

When you own both Pixar and Star Wars, the most logical move would be to let Pixar make a Star Wars movie, no? Well, that’s exactly what Disney is planning according to The Latino Review. A Pixar film would be one of many tie-ins that would happen with Episode VII—for example, there are rumors of…

The trademark for Star Wars 1313 has been abandoned, according to the mark’s filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Though that game was canceled last spring, this is as sure as sign as any that the concept, which wowed everyone at E3 2012, is completely dead.

A Star Wars Smash Bros Would Look Like This

We see a ton of crossovers in Smash Bros—that’s pretty much what the franchise is about. And while fans might clamor for all sorts of ridiculous inclusions in the franchise, there are some things we can realistically expect to never see. Like say, bringing Star Wars into the fold. No matter. James Farr‘s wild imagination…

Your Favorite Characters, Carved Into Crayons

Crayons aren’t just for coloring books, people. Crayons can be art, too. Just look at the handiwork of Hoang Tran, an artist who carves out all sorts of awesome characters and figures out of Crayola crayons—like so: After a few hours of sculpting with dentistry tools, Tran ends up with a beautiful crayon figure—like this…

Man Dresses as Predator, Proposes to Girlfriend

This week, a gentleman—no, a hero—named Zhao Ming dressed up as Predator and proposed to his girlfriend at a bar in Changchun, China. According to China Newsand CRI (via ShanghaiIst), his unsuspecting girlfriend, named Zhu Wenjing, entered the bar and was suddenly surrounded by seven individuals dressed as Star Wars characters, Bumblebee from Transformers and…