Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
There’s a door marked ‘LucasFilm Television’ at Skywalker Ranch, TV Squad claims. Offices! For the planning and billing and other exciting office-based television things! (Which could, maybe, date all the way back to The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles?)
Yes George, we are pathetic. (Announce something, please?)
As we gear up for the American debut of Star Wars: In Concert this Friday, StarWars.coms Pete Vilmur takes a look back at past Star Wars concert events.
(On that note, Ticketmaster has added just December dates for Omaha and St Louis.)
Also, it’s a trend!
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 talking to him. I told him how much I wanted to work at Lucasfilm, not because of Star Wars, but because I loved, “Ball Blaster.”
“Ball Blaster, eh?” he said.
“Yeah! I love Ball Blaster!” I said. It was true. I had broken a joystick playing that game on my Atari 800.
“Well, the name of the game is Ball Blazer.” Mr. Fox said, curtly. “It was only called Ball Blaster in the pirated version.”
Gulp.
But the best part may be his cover letter – which is in the style of a text adventure.
Well, the deluge of SGU coverage continues. Let’s just list out the non-spoilery stuff, shall we?
SGU kicks off on Friday, October 2nd in the US and Canada. (October 6th in the UK.) Thanks to Wraithfodder for gathering most of this!
Namesake corner. Mara Jade is one of Crave’s ten female characters that would kick your face in. Uhh, thanks? I think. Also, apparently the Galaxies trading card game has another Mara card, yet again with art that I don’t totally hate (fourth row here, in wallpaper size and everything. Despite smearing their first offering with an April Fools, I don’t dislike it. One just gets a bit tired of the leather jumpsuit T&A, though it does come in handy for mocking up a cover for the faux smut.)
The Clone Wars. Dave Filoni will be appearing on tonight’s ForceCast Live.
Upcoming. Sue Rostoni confirms that Kemp’s Crosscurrent sequel will get a June 2011 release, pushing the Reaves/Bohnhoff holostar novel up to March. And Alex Irvine drops a few hints about what to expect from his Nomi Sunrider novel. And some people say there are too many big 3 novels…
The blogside. Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff looks at Star Wars as philosophy. (Psst… Googling ‘Midichlorian Rhapsody’ brings up this, filk fans.)
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.
LucasArts and Bioware are looking for folks willing to help test drive the long-awaited MMO. There aren’t many spots, but join The Old Republic Community and opt in from the My Account page to be eligible.
Ticketmaster is now showing a December 11th date for Cincinnati’s U.S. Bank Arena, while the concert’s Facebook is promising more coming up for New Jersey, Long Island, Ottawa and St. Louis.
UPDATE: Ticketmaster has added a date for Omaha on December 8th.
Okay, so you’ll just have to live with me hyping Stargate Universe, this week. Did I mention it premieres on October 2nd? (That’s this Friday.)
Great interview with Brian J. Smith about his character Lt. Scott. I think he and David Blue will be fighting it out for favorite character on this show. (They very kindly put slightly spoilery stuff under a picture.)
And they link to the adorable picture of Brian’s temporary dog in combat boots.
The first two are straight-up clips, quality time with Jocasta Nu and another Bane bit. (Is there any part of the premiere that we haven’t seen a bit of yet?) The third is a peek at the animation with Dee Bradley Baker, Matt Lanter, Catherine Taber and Dave Filoni.
This one is thanks to new 501st inductee Bryan Young.