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By Dunc Mainstream recognition So the tauntaun sleeping bag got in the New York Times, but Star Wars Uncut made it to ABC News. And here we thought his heart was two sizes too small… The Missouri Salvation Army has a unique approach to getting folks to drop a dollar or two into the kettle: Darth Vader. [......

By Dunc Sean Williams’ The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance will indeed be a July hardcover. (Though I suspect that date may still be subject to change pending word on the release of the actual game.) But that’s not the only upcoming Expanded Universe work set in the era: The site has announced another O...

By Santa Maul Another Sith whoring himself out for low, low prices… Star Wars Shop is apparently giving discounts. Santa Maul finds the Darth Vader alarm clock suitably schlocky for the occasion at hand. Speaking of schlock, Marc Ecko is giving away some stuff. Santa Maul was momentarily amused by the ho...

By Dunc In the spirit of Turkey Day… Man, do I miss Turkey Day.) Laugh more with highlights from The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and, of course, Twilight. (There are even more on Youtube if you need to waste more time.)

By jawajames With a title like ‘Legacy of Terror’, you could expect almost anything that could inspire a fright, and yet while there’s the horror of the walking dead in an underground labyrinth and Ceti eel-inspired mind control, the Jedi protagonists act without fear, defusing the tension in this e...

By jawajames When defending against Geonosian zombies, the lightsaber is mightier than the blaster. When reviewing Geonosian zombies, the pen (or the keyboard) is still mightier than the saber. Here’s what survivors of the great bug zombie attack of Star Wars – The Clone Wars: ‘Legacy of Terror’ are s...

By Dunc Celeb fans. Bonnie talks Star Wars (and The Guild and Dr. Horrible and such) with geek of note Felicia Day. Charity. The Seattle Area Lucasfilm Artifact Collectors Club, aka SARLACC, are selling a collectible lapel pin to raise money for cancer research.

By Dunc Phone stuffs. A Trench Run game is now available in the iTunes store priced at $4.99 for those with compatible devices. (The lightsaber app is still free.) Meanwhile, those who possess a lesser device an LG Arena KM900 can get some custom Star Wars stuff, including a ringtone.

By Dunc In the middle novel of the bestselling nine-book “Star Wars” series “Fate of the Jedi”, an uneasy – and unprecedented – coalition of Jedi and Sith enter the dark and treacherous area of space known as the Maw to search out the strange being that has been reaching out to Luke Skywalker during...

By Dunc IESB: Lucasfilm is Looking for Star Wars TV Writers! TOS boards: Sue Rostoni on June 25, 2007 Rick McCallum @ Celebration Europe TV Guide: George Lucas Interview, September 2007 AICN: Spy report from Kuato Rick McCallum @ Reunion 2 Star Wars Insider #99: Rick McCallum interview Total Vi...

By Dunc An in-depth look by The Secret History of Star Wars’ Michael Kaminski of the processes undergone to restore the films for their 1997 re-releases. (via) An in-depth look by The Secret History of Star Wars’ Michael Kaminski of the processes undergone to restore the films for their 1997 re-r...

By jawajames Last week’s Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode ‘Landing at Point Rain’ has been garnering the praise from the usual reviewers. (Don’t forget our review!) Eric at TheForce.net calls it “Best. TCW. Ever.” with words like “cinematic”, and says the “episode shines because of the visuals”. IGN give...

By Dunc If you keep an eye on mentions of Lucasfilm on Twitter, it’s pretty hard to avoid the wide range of reaction as folks spot the trademark notice on the various promotional materials for Verizon’s Droid phone. As pointless as it may be to ask on a site full of Star Wars fans, what do you think? Ans...

By Dunc Star Wars: In Concert has continued to wind its way through the country, leaving lots of local press coverage in its wake: Salt Lake City, Oklahoma City. Dallas, Tulsa, Houston, Tampa, Philadelphia, and Charlotte. (Anthony Daniels was no slouch either.) And don’t forget Paula’s review!

By Dunc It’s a droid! MTV’s Josh Wigler goes on a flight of Star Wars fancy regarding Verizon’s Droid phone. The Mercury News’ Mike Cassidy is less enthralled, but he did make a call to Lucasfilm. Behind-the-scenes decor. The Wall Street Journal gets featurey with a story on Broadway dressing rooms...

By Dunc Even putting the Ewoks aside, fanmade Star Wars and other sci-fi themed teddy bears are nothing new, as a quick search on Flickr (and CJ’s own Lissy) will tell you. But now we have something from the official realm to make it easier to please kids and collectors: Star Wars costumes from Build...

By Dunc Contain your shock. Darth Vader is Lawful Evil. No! Baked-good corner. Two extremely well-made Star Wars cakes – Jabba and Darth Maul – from L.A.’s Rosebud Cakes. For the 30-year-old child party moll in all of us. As for something we can all achieve, take a cue from the sarlacc bundt cake.

By Paula Anthony Daniels spins a magical tale. Yes, we all know the story. But the way he tells it is a wonderful take on the individual characters and the overarching saga. And, as anyone who has seen him at a convention knows, he knows how to work a crowd.

By Dunc Just a reminder of tonight’s special showing of the new Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode, ‘Landing at Point Rain’ – the first of a four episode arc – debuting a few days early on Cartoon Network tonight at 8 PM (ET/PT). DVR users: My DVR didn’t have the updated scheduling from Cartoon Network...

By Dunc Four decades of Star Wars history come together for the first time in a highly illustrated year-by-year format. Star Wars Year by Year pulls together a vast array of information from the films, comic books, novels, merchandise, and computer games. Star Wars Year by Year provides fans with...

By Dunc Look for The Clone Wars season one on DVD and Blu Ray tomorrow. James has already run down the particulars for us, but I’m sure there will be more coming. Also keep an eye out for the latest Star Wars Insider. Uh, it has a whole page on Thrawn?

By Dunc We’ve been hearing that Star Wars costumes were a hot ticket this year. (Even at the White House.) Above, an amazing AT-ST spotted by Ralph Hockens in New York City. (Another shot here.) There are plenty of shots on Flickr – far too many to link – and StarWars.com has a roundup of their coverage, [...]

By jawajames About working with George LucasBringing Barriss Offee into the showClone Wars as a movie, not a television show – cartoons with consequencesAl Roker gets an animated Clone Wars makeover for Halloween Meanwhile, Newsarama takes a look at the stealthy revival in Star Wars, thanks to The...

By jawajames The box set containing the complete first season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars comes out on DVD and Blu-Ray this Tuesday. StarWars.com starts a tour of the box set, looking at the contents of disc 1 – and showcasing the full cinematic aspect ratio used on this release, versus the broadcast vers...

By Dunc The Today Show went totally GFFA this morning — with a little help from LucasFilm. StarWars.com is all over it. And below? Drunken Ewoks steal the show. Among the 501sters present was our pal Russ. Helen says he’s one of the troopers appears next to the X-Wing during the introduction video.

By Dunc StarWars.com’s Bonnie Burton has a guest-post up over at io9 with a variety of tips and tricks for DIY Star Wars costumes from all around the internet. I’ve always been fond of the quick and easy Jedi robe. Sure, it won’t get you into the Rebel Legion or anything, but it’s easy and instantly reco...

By Paula Admit it.  You’ve always wanted to see Steve Sansweet’s collection.  I mean he has the World’s Largest Star Wars Collection.  (I’m sure that has to be trademarked, by now.  But it’s true.) We’ve gotten to enjoy a video tour in the past, but that doesn’t allow you to really look at all the cool stuf...

By Dunc The internet’s favorite Star Wars cake – this week. As impressive as this Tauntaun grooms cake is, I’m not sure I’d want to eat it. Still, props to the folks at Cake Nouveau for really capturing the moment. And by moment I meant slimy tauntaun guts. (Their dazed-out Luke is amazingly good, too.)

By Dunc Embrace the pain. Inspired by the latest in transparent rumor-mongering, Cracked puts their well-worn Wookieepedia bookmark to use to come up with five reasons the Star Wars sequels would be worse than the prequels. As an EU fan, I say… Well, yeah. It’s easy to be hard on the prequels, but we c...

By jawajames Here’s the latest reviews and reports on ‘Senate Spy’, last week’s episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Tonight, Cartoon Network shows a re-run of ‘Children of the Force’ (only after 4 episodes?). And be sure to check out Club Jade’s own review, this week provided by guest reviewer and Hitc...

By Stooge Whatever it is, it doesn’t start out well.  Anakin returns to Padme’s apartment, and he’s all “Honey, I’m home from the war, and I got sushi,” and she’s like “You brought home dinner?  ‘Cause I cooked!”  Then he’s all, “Since when do you cook?”  And she goes, “Well, now you’ll never know.”  An...

By Dunc You should already know of the Death Star pumpkin which shot to fame a few years back, but each year there are variations. (And then some.) Several impressive specimens – including an X-Wing – in San Francisco last year. In the same vein, an all-over Artoo. Speaking of carving, this is impressi...

By jawajames Now that the new video game Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Republic Heroes is out, reviews are starting to come in like Holofeed dispatches from the front, and it is looking more like a casualty report than a string of victories. TheForce.net points out that it’s really for kids and not for gamers...

By jawajames Tonight’s Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode may not be battle heavy, but will show the war from a different point of view: politics, espionage, and romance (?) as Padme goes undercover to investigate a senator who’s also an old love interest. Catherine Taber shares with starwars.com on Pad...

By jawajames The episode guide teaser page for this week’s The Clone Wars episode: ‘Senate Spy’ is up. Is there a Separatist conspiracy in the Senate? Padmé, at the request of the Jedi Council, goes undercover to find out. Also, the next act of the ongoing The Clone Wars webcomic “Act on Instinct” is up. Cad...

By Dunc You can expect the expected (twice) from the San Jose Mercury News, while the Sacramento Press plays it safe. Next up is the northwest, where the Seattle Times and The Oregonian both offer interviews with Anthony Daniels. (The San Francisco Chronicle also nabbed him – on their baby blog? ) D...

By jawajames After last week’s season premiere two-parter, we are back to single half-hour episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars – this week’s episode is “Children of the Force”. With a major story arc underway involving the list of every Force-sensitive child in the galaxy now in Cad Bane’s hands (and...

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By Dunc StarWars.com has the January comic solicitations: The Clone Wars #12, Knights of the Old Republic #49 and it looks like Legacy #44 will be channeling the spirit of Swamp Thing. And for the trades, Legacy’s just-finished ‘Tatooine’ arc.

By Dunc Nov. 24: Ottawa, Ontario; Scotiabank Bank Centre Nov. 25: Montreal, Quebec; Bell Centre Dec. 1: Toledo, OH; Lucas County Arena Dec. 6 (two shows, Phil says:) Chicago, IL; United Center Dec. 12: Indianapolis, IN; Conseco Fieldhouse These aren’t on Ticketmaster or the show website yet, but a l...

By Dunc As the legion of Star Wars accounts on Twitter grows, it’s getting harder to keep track of. Here’s my humble attempt… Marquee names Carrie Fisher (@CarrieFFisher) Actress, Princess Leia Anthony Daniels (@ADaniels3PO) Actor, C-3PO Ahmed Best (@ahmedbest) Actor, Jar Jar Binks Warwick...

By Dunc Once upon a Galaxy spied two new Star Wars offerings from Becker & Mayer: Star Wars Sounds: The Stories Behind the Effects by Jonathan Rinzler and Star Wars Head-to-Head, a fanboy-friendly tome perpetrated by Pablo Hidalgo. Amazon.com has a May 2010 release date for Head to Head.

By jawajames The Los Angeles area goes all Star Wars this weekend with the US premiere of Star Wars: In Concert tonight in Anaheim (and also Friday night), and then prepares for the LA concert on October 7th and 8th. The LA Times busts some headline rhymes with Yoda with Coda, and compares Star Wars and cla...

By jawajames Here’s some of the top picks out of the media build-up for Friday’s premiere of the second season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars (8 PM EST/PST on Cartoon Network – 1 hour): Some of the reports coming from The Clone Wars press event held at LucasFilm Animation:

By Dunc CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 I guess that explains the billboard. The Dodgers having a Star Wars night on October 3rd, while they play the Rockies. Doesn’t the Bay Area have a baseball team? Security better keep a close eye on Yoda that night, is all I’m saying.

By Dunc Game designer Tim Schafer shares the tale (and scans) of how he got his first job in the industry, at Lucasfilm Games. (The LucasArts name didn’t join the party until 1990.) There’s some quality hilarity here: I called David Fox right away and scribbled all the notes you see while I was talkin...

By Dunc The Clone Wars. Dave Filoni will be appearing on tonight’s ForceCast Live. Wait, what? At first I was just rolling my eyes at a visual dictionary for LEGO Star Wars, but now it’s getting the most extensive string of bookstore events yet. Boggling. Well, I guess the kids like it.

By Dunc CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Crafting corner. There are two Mara Jade items in this roundup, and here’s the first one. Rebecca aka Sorakirei, whose first lightsaber scarf we featured earlier in the month, has another made another one. The Mara Jade lightsaber scarf was a commission – could it be from one of...

By Dunc Lists of dubious (and not-so-dubious) honors. Luke is #1 on Spike’s list of the top ten white trash heroes of cinema, while Lando is one of io9’s ten most corrupt mayors in science fiction. Uh, thanks? I guess. On an entirely different note, A New Hope tops Paste’s ten most iconic opening scene...

By Dunc Watch out, Jabba! (This, and many more behind-the-scenes shots from the original trilogy, can be found at the Star Wars Rare Vintage Photos group on Facebook.) Watch out, Jabba! (This, and many more behind-the-scenes shots from the original trilogy, can be found at the Star Wars Rare Vin...

By Dunc The Spectrum series has been highlighting genre art since 1994 and is always a good bet… This one, highlighting work done in 2007, is no exception. There are even a few Star Wars pieces, including Terese Nielsen’s Legacy of the Force Luke and Mark Chiarello’s Celebration IV print. Recommen...

By jawajames Reviews are also coming in for the Star Wars: The Clone Wars DVD - A Galaxy Divided (containing 4 episodes containing 4 episodes: the Yoda-centric ‘Ambush’ and the Malevolence three-parter). IGN also panned it for weak episodes and no extras - good for kids, but adults should wait for the f...

By Dunc Meanwhile, Wookieepedia has gone purist: “…the consensus of the Wookieepedia administrators is to only accept the Star Wars films as canon. Expanded Universe material will be treated as non-canon from here on. ” And Firefox News has Diablo Cody tapped to Write Star Wars Episode VII; Get a...

By Dunc StarWars.com has a user survey running right now: Your chance to let Lucas Online know what you want to see (or not) on the site. There are items that they’re asking input on that we may or may not see on the site. My comments under the cut. Classic Star Wars Movie Scenes. Seriously? I’ve [...]

By Dunc As for comics, Wednesday brings Legacy #34, and I’ve also been seeing the latest Insider in stores. And TFN is reporting that UK fans have spotted the first Star Wars Adventures digest, but I don’t think we’ll be seeing them in the states just yet.

By Stooge Mace Windu is like the Christian Bale of Star Wars… he can do anything in the world except smile. Don’t get me wrong, it works for him. While Obi-Wan and Anakin seem to get their jollies by slicing and dicing through droid armies, Mace knows that just because you’re good at creating carnage doe...

By Dunc From the first appearance of Darth Vader in the groundbreaking movie Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Star Wars fans have known what terror feels like — and they loved it. But never before has Star Wars publishing ventured into the unknown territory of true horror . . . until now.

By Dunc The WonderCon programming is out, and as one might expect from Lucasfilm’s hometown con, there are a number of events from Star Wars and licensees. Check it out beneath the cut. 8:15-9:45 Friday Star Wars: Last Fan Movie Standing—Choose the last Star Wars fan movie standing at this friendl...

By Dunc The Fanboys reviews are coming in, and they are… Not very good. Roger Ebert is particularly biting… io9 gives it more credit, but it didn’t particularly make me want to see it, either. And The Village Voice’s Robert Wilonsky says we’d “better off watching The Star Wars Holiday Special” - hyp...

By Dunc About a month ago, Karen MIller’s first Star Wars novel was released. It’s been getting a surprising amount of of lip service in fandom lately, and I wasn’t sure why until I read a couple of reviews on LiveJournal - not exactly the hot spot for EU meta these days.

By Dunc Thanks everyone! Happy New Year! StarWars.com has their Best of 2008 up. Of course there’s the obligatory geeking out over the obligatory Big Events like The Force Unleashed and The Clone Wars. All the Expanded Universe stuff is together for easy access (Plus Frames, because it is a book, so...

By Paula After going through practically every holiday since 1999 with some sort of “coffee table book” from the Star Wars franchise, you would think that I’d be mentally prepared for the weight associated with it.  Well, I was fooled again with the latest edition of The Complete Star Wars Encyclo...

By Dunc Even Artoo and Threepio showed up! Har har har: The Los Angeles Times has a bailout plan for Star Wars. My only question is, does George have a private jet? Books: Looking for some light reading? Lawrence Lessig’s Remix: Making Art and Culture Thrive in the Hybrid Economy touches at least a l...