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Bitchin’ Endor. You’re sure to get a kick out of today’s most famous Star Wars eBay listing, i hate this stupid ewok. On that note, this is apparently the 25th anniversary of the debut of the first Ewok movie, Caravan of Courage. I’m sure everyone was all waiting breathlessly for that one back in the day.

Celeb fans. Bonnie talks Star Wars (and The Guild and Dr. Horrible and such) with geek of note Felicia Day.

Contests. Hasbro has picked the winner of their diorama contest.

Charity. The Seattle Area Lucasfilm Artifact Collectors Club, aka SARLACC, are selling a collectible lapel pin to raise money for cancer research.

What. Device to subdue rampaging elephants inspired by Empire Strikes Back? Sure, why not.

If I hadn’t already decided that the Today ewok shenanigans was one of my favorite Star Wars moments of 2009, this song may very well have been the thing to push them over the edge. You go, drunken ewok.

Yes, we saw those earlier, but it’s The Soup! Take it away, Joel McHale.

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.

StarWars.com unearths some European gems from the twilight of original Star Wars mania… The Droids and Ewoks cartoons. Some, like the stuffed Ewoks above, are kind of terrifying. I’m pretty sure that guy on the right is sizing up that poor girl’s skull for his percussion kit.

Noted fanboy John Campea of The Movie Blog defends his love for Return of the Jedi and our favorite furry appetizers.

For the budding anthropologists in the room… McSweeny’s has Yub Jub Means “Devour the Weak:” An Authoritative Study of the Ewoks From the Field. (Also noteworthy, though not Star Wars: Selections from H.P. Lovecraft’s Brief Tenure as a Whitman’s Sample Copywriter.)

• Awards: Joshua Budich’s Star Wars collection site, which I blogged about way back in 2007, has won a Webby Award and was the People’s Voice pick in the 13th Annual Webby Awards.

• Art? Poke around to find a private moment with Vader among Ian Pool’s ‘Super’ series.
• Fanmade: Ladies and gents, the Death Star grill.
• At random: “Fake Wedge” from A New Hope is IGN’s Obscure Character of the Day. (via)
• Lists: SciFiNow has five storylines for the live-action show and their ten best Star Wars moments, while Topless Robot counts down the nine greatest fan films ever made.

The Colbert Report took on the important issue of eating Ewoks last night. Above, the relevant segment, but you can get both chunks here and here.

• Videos: Unreality magazine gathers ten of the best Star Wars parody, remix and mash-up videos. We’ve seen most of these before, but there’s never a bad time for a refresher.

• Fans: Danny Choo, aka the Tokyo Dance Trooper, will be guest-blogging at Boing Boing this week.
• The Blogside: If Children Were More Like Ewoks, I Might Actually Want Some.
• Language: Learn Japanese from… Yoda? (via)
• Lists: Ten things science fiction got wrong.
  

Comics: There’s a new update from Editor Randy Stradley on Dark Horse’s Star Wars Zone, and it’s of particular interest to you Dark Times fans. A new story will appear (online, for free) in the January and February issues of Dark Horse Presents on MySpace, with the comic coming back into regular rotation with #13 in April. (Thanks, Zee Zee!)

• The Old Republic: New screenshots, new aliens, and what may be visual proof of that whole lightsaber size thing.

• Reference: From what I’m seeing in the fanboy underground, the StarWars.com unveiling of Castaways of Endor is a big deal. Alas, requires Hyperspace.