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Aussie Star Wars Isn’t Exactly Canon
This is Aussie Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Bloke. For those living outside the antipodes, think of it as anthropology meets popular culture, because just about every reference they drop in this thing is perfect Aussie Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Bloke [YouTube]
By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2013 -
Celebrate Star Wars Day with a Livestream of Battlefront III [Update]
This just popped up on Twitch.tv, it’s a livestream of pre-alpha gameplay of the long-lamentedStar Wars: Battlefront III, by Past to Present Online Though reports suggested the game was “99 percent done” when LucasArts scrapped it, obviously you’re seeing something in a pre-alpha state here. Word is that this version, by Free Radical, came eight…
By Owen Good Published May 4, 2013 -
Moneysaver One-Shot: May The Fourth Be With You
That’s no moon, it’s The Moneysaver. Looking for the current Moneysaver roundup? Click here May the deals be with you. The first thing you need to know is that it’s FREE Comic Book Day. Click for all the details. We’re rounding up the best deals today on everything Star Wars, and if you find a…
By Shane Roberts Published May 4, 2013 -
Zen Studios brings its pinball platform to Steam on May 10, with a free download for Pinball FX 2 and six expansion packs priced at $9.99 each — Star Wars, Marvel, Marvel: Vengeance and Virtue, Marvel: Avengers Chronicles, the Pinball FX2 Core Collection and Zen Classics.
By Mike Fahey Published May 3, 2013 -
The Moneysaver: Star Wars/Trek Blu-rays, Last Day for $20 Tomb Raider
Videogames and movies. It’s the best of both worlds. Today is the day to finally pick up all those Star Wars and Star Trek blu-rays you want on your shelf but have never pulled the trigger on. All the films from both franchises are on sale, along with a nice pre-order deal for Next Generation:…
By Shane Roberts Published April 29, 2013 -
Minor league baseball’s Toledo Mud Hens—the favored team of cross-dressing jeep-eater Cpl. Maxwell Klinger—will take the field on May 4 (of course) in these Chewbacca-inspired jerseys, part of a “Star Wars Weekend” promotion. They’ll be auctioned off at the games.
By Owen Good Published April 27, 2013 -
Someone’s Done A Speedrun Of Star Wars. The Movie.
A speedrun is normally something you associate with a video game, when a player tries to get through a game as fast as is humanly (or sometimes inhumanly) possible. Here, though, we see a movie speedrun. An animated whirlwind tour of Star Wars: Episode IV. Funny how good the movie is even when you’re not…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 23, 2013 -
See How Star Wars & Transformers Figures Are Made
Our pals at Gizmodo were lucky enough to take a trip out to Hasbro recently, where they sat in with the folks responsible for designing the company’s prototype action figures. In the amazing video above, we get to meet some of the people behind the toy’s design, see how models are built in 3D printers…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 23, 2013 -
A New Trailer For The Best Star Wars Movie George Lucas Never Made
Star Wars Uncut, the fan-made project that saw scenes from Episode IV recreated however the hell people wanted to then smooshed into a complete film, is back with a sequel. Empire Strikes Back Uncut isn’t done yet, but the trailer above shows good progress is being made. Very good progress. Empire Strikes Back Uncut [Site,…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 19, 2013 -
True Love Is Dressing Your Dog Like A Star Wars Animal
These four costumes are real products, not late April Fools gags. You can preorder them now, and one day soon, your dog (or capybara) can look just like a beast of burden from the Star Wars universe. The Bantha is good, because it blends into many dog’s natural colour schemes, but boy, as a former…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 18, 2013 -
Disney Plans to Release a Star Wars Film Every Year Beginning in 2015
At CinemaCon today, Disney revealed plans to release new Star Wars films each summer beginning in 2015. The plan isn’t to go Episode VII, VIII, IX in three years but, rather, to run spinoff films in-between the major “episode releases” every two or three years. This is consistent with earlier reports of plans for spinoff…
By Owen Good Published April 17, 2013 -
Patton Oswalt Explains a Marvel and Star Wars Episode VII Crossover
This preview of this weeks episode of NBC’s Parks and Recreation comedy series has comedian/geek icon Patton Oswalt delivering an epic filibuster that outlines impossibly great ideas for the recently announced Episode VII of Star Wars. This was all improvised, too. It’s freakin’ great. J.J. Abrams, call this man. [via Vulture]
By Evan Narcisse Published April 17, 2013 -
Game of Thrones Finally Gets Its Lightsaber Battle
It’s funny, last week, watching the swordfight that takes place in the episode, I was thinking of Star Wars, because the slow (yet heavy and deliberate) way the combatants were moving reminded me of the battles between Luke and Vader in Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Guess I wasn’t the only one.…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 15, 2013 -
Toy Darth Vader Gets His Ass Kicked By Indiana Jones And Albert Einstein
Who would win, Indiana Jones or Darth Vader? Filmmaker Patrick Boivin thinks he knows how it’d go down. The above clip is one of a just-released trilogy called Don’t Use The Force, which also includes the dark-helmeted one getting whupped by Jack Torrance from The Shining: As well as by Albert Einstein himself: I didn’t…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 11, 2013 -
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This Restaurant Is a Nerd Paradise
Toys. Figures. Statues. For the past ten years, designer Woong Cho has collected memorabilia. And he decided he wanted to share his passion with the world. So, Cho created a restaurant with an amazing museum. It’s dubbed “CW Restaurant”, which is short for “Cinema World”, and is in Daegu, South Korea. The chic eatery is…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 11, 2013 -
The Rebel Alliance’s Secret Weapon Is This Giant Space Kraken
You can’t go wrong with space kraken. I’ve only ever seen two in my lifetime. One was the steed of Mon*Star, the most badass 80s cartoon villain of them all. The other is this one, made out of LEGO by builder Iain Heath, that would make people whimper “that’s no moon….it’s a space-faring giant squid”.…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 11, 2013 -
The Last Months Of LucasArts (And A Glimpse Of Battlefront III)
In November, just after purchasing LucasFilm, Disney CEO Bob Iger held a company-wide meeting. During the meeting, according to a source in attendance, a few people asked what was going on. What was going to happen to them? What was the future of LucasArts, the LucasFilm subsidiary and 30-year-old video game studio responsible for a…
By Jason Schreier Published April 10, 2013 -
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Japanese Teens Are Now Playing Fake Quidditch
Well, that escalated quickly. First, Japanese schoolgirls started uploading photos of faux Dragon Ball moves. Then, Westerners replied with Star Wars style Force Grips. And now? Japanese schoolboys, it seems, are now uploading photos of imaginary Quidditch games. Quidditch, of course, is the broomstick-based team sport from the Harry Potter books. Why “imaginary”? There already…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 8, 2013 -
Before It Was Cancelled, Star Wars 1313 Was Going To Be About Boba Fett
We’ve learned a great deal about Star Wars 1313 over the past few months, and today we’ve got one more huge detail thanks to a reliable Kotaku source: last year, just before E3, LucasArts shifted focus and turned it into a game about the masked bounty hunter Boba Fett. This happened last May. Star Wars…
By Jason Schreier Published April 4, 2013