Star Wars

This Artist Is Paid To Draw Star Wars Pictures All Day Long. So Jealous.

If you’d asked me as a kid what my dream job would have been, getting paid to draw pictures of Star Wars would have been right up there. So yeah, Amy Beth Christenson has quite the day job. A former senior concept at Lucasarts for over a decade, she now works at Lucasfilm, and since…

Aren’t You Guys A Little Short To Be Stormtroopers?

The art you’re seeing today comes from Daryl Mandryk, a freelance concept artist who has worked with EA on games like Need for Speed, Def Jam and SSX, and more recently on the Turok and Tron franchises. You may have seen him on Kotaku previously for that Tron stuff, but today’s gallery encompasses all of…

The Terrible Splendor Of Star Wars: The Old Republic‘s Support-Line Hold Music

The Star Wars orchestra is telling me I’m about about to go on an epic adventure. But I’m not. I’m at my desk, on hold. This morning, I had the realization that every MMO player dreads: My long-since lapsed Star Wars: The Old Republic account had actually been active since I set up a “free”…

Petition to Build the Death Star Gathers Enough Signatures to Rate a Response from the White House

A petition calling on the United States to begin construction of a moon-sized superweapon has achieved 25,000 signatures, which according to the rules of the Obama administration’s feel-good bullshit platform “We the People,” requires a response from the White House. None has yet been made. You might recall all those articles of secession a bunch…

You Can Buy Luke Skywalker’s Actual Lightsaber (Or Indiana Jones’ Gun)

Theres a big auction going down in Hollywood this weekend for a range of official props, photos and film from classic films like Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Alien, Indiana Jones and Star Trek. Called Drama: Action: Romance, the lot spans over half a century of blockbuster films, but it’s more recent (and nerdy)…

Wow, There Were Female Pilots Cut From Return of the Jedi

This is probably the most interesting piece of Star Wars trivia I have ever come across. Turns out that there were four female pilots cast and filmed for Return of the Jedi’s climatic Battle of Endor. Two of them were A-Wing pilots, the other two piloting an X-Wing, with one, played by Vivienne Chandler, having…

Samuel L. Jackson Wants In On The New Star Wars Movies

Sure, his character Mace Windu died a rather pathetic death in Episode III, but since when has that stopped a Star Wars character from returning to the big screen? Star Wars 7: Samuel L. Jackson Says “Hell, Yeah” to Returning as Mace Windu-Even as a One-Armed Ghost! [E!, via Boing Boing]

Star Wars Collection “Appraised” At $120,000 Up For Sale

And you thought an $8000 action figure collection was impressive A man from Waco, Texas is selling an enormous lot of Star Wars merchandise on Craigslist, which he began collecting in 1977 and which he says has been valued at over $120,000 Included in the sale are a life-size statue of Han Solo frozen in…

Elegant Princess Leia Cosplay for a More Civilized Age

It doesn’t matter if you saw the original Star Wars movies when they first hit theaters or caught them much later. Star Wars has been capturing the minds of folks for generations, thanks in big part to memorable characters like Princess Leia. Tough, no nonsense Leia is iconic. And so are the outfits she’s donned,…

How To Instantly Own The World’s Coolest Star Wars Action Figure Collection

Collecting nearly 2000 Star Wars action figures the hard way would have taken thousands of dollars and decades of work. The easy way is to let someone else do it, then buy their collection straight off them. If that’s more your style, the Star Wars museum at Rancho Obi-Wan are auctioning off a lot of…

Star Wars: Battlefront III “Mediocre”, Snipes Former Lucasarts Developer

Free Radical co-founder Steve Ellis raised some eyebrows last week when he said that the mythical Star Wars: Battlefront III, the dead game that just will not die, was “99% done” at his studio when publishers pulled the plug. It was a weird thing to say, since surely things like quality assurance and other testing…

Report: Empire Strikes Back Writer Could Be Working On New Star Wars Spinoff

Let the Star Wars rumor mill continue to churn. A couple of weeks ago, rumors suggested that Disney had tapped Empire Strikes Back writer Lawrence Kasdan and X-Men writer Simon Kinberg to write new Star Wars movies. Disney has said they plan to release a new Star Wars every two to three years. But wait!…

There’s Now Darth Vader “Energy Cola” Pepsi in Japan

Like everyone, Japan loves Star Wars. It also loves Darth Vader, who has sold everything from smartphones phones to pachinko on Japanese TV. Japan also loves energy drinks. And so, we have this: Pepsi Energy Cola with Vader’s face plastered all over it. The Dark Lord of the Sith actually wants you to “Give yourself…

What a Video Game Graveyard Looks Like

Photographer Thomas Schultz found this decrepit old garage last year in Arizona. It’s full of long-gone arcade machines. His series of photos, called Video Decay, is as beautiful as it is tragic. Especially since one of the cabinets is the amazing old Atari Star Wars game. Video Decay [FlickR, via Geek Art]

That’s No Moon…

It might not be the most extensive of Skyrim mods, but it’s certainly one of the most eye-catching. If, that is, you can bend your mind around to the fiction of the Star Wars and Elder Scrolls universes co-existing… If you want to try it out, maybe add it to your need-to-install-these-mods list, you can…

Some of the Smallest (and Most Amazing) Figures on Earth

Welcome to the realm of dust particles and hair strands. Tinyland! It’s also the scale at which some truly minuscule—and impressive—sculptures have dazzled Japan, a country with a long tradition of making things small. For several years now, these carved figures have appeared on Japanese bulletin boards. The figures are called “100 Yen Coin Person”…

That rumour yesterday about ESB/Jedi writer Lawrence Kasdan writing a new Star Wars movie? THR says the deal is done.

These Japanese Commercials Will Delight and Amuse You

The Wii U is out in North America, but Japan will have to wait until December to get the new Nintendo console. To build hype, Nintendo is now running commercials for the hardware. But that’s not the only game in town. There are entire channels filled to the brim with wonderful Japanese commercials. Some of…

Disney Wants Empire, Jedi’s Writer To Pen A New Star Wars Movie

Oh boy Deadline is reporting that Disney has approached both Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg to see if they’re interested in writing subsequent Star Wars sequels (Michael Arndt is handling Episode VII). Kinberg’s written X-Men and Sherlock Holmes movies, which is fine, but Kasdan wrote (well, finished) Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.…

Star Wars Action Figures Inducted Into the Hall of Fame. Let’s Celebrate With Awesome Pictures.

Because there is a hall of fame for everything you can put in a hall, there is of course a National Toy Hall of Fame in the United States. Which this week has inducted perhaps the most popular figures of all time into its ranks. From a rocky beginning in 1977, when not enough figures…