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Gear up for Rebelscum’s annual Star Wars Halloween costume contest

October 15th, 2009 by Dunc · No Comments

Rebelscum will start accepting entries for their costume contest tomorrow through November 2nd.

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Out this week: Invasion, Vector Prime is 10

October 6th, 2009 by Dunc · 1 Comment

Buffy is here to save the day! No, wait, it’s only Invasion #4, out in comic shops on Wednesday. Oh well!

But on that note, the TFN boards are celebrating ten years of the New Jedi Order. Grab your favorite womb spore and… uhh… err… Chewbacca! Damn it. Sorry, I’m just not up to this one.

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Forcecast talks with Steve Sansweet in Chicago

August 10th, 2009 by Dunc · No Comments

TFN’s Forcecast (which now has a brand-new website of their very own) caught up with Steve Sansweet at Chicago Comic Con. He talks about Celebration V and the issues as to why we don’t have a definitive announcement yet. Key statements: He hopes to announce it before the end of the summer, and “It could very well be later in the summer” than the previous events.

They also address the whole ’second animated series’ thing. “You don’t build two animation studios and just do one series. You have other things in mind,” and “not nessarily Star Wars,” Steve said.

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The fandom minute: Ewoks, Webbies, Vader, Death Star BBQ, Wedge (fake,) and lists

June 9th, 2009 by Dunc · No Comments

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.)

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EUbits: Hyperspace fiction, Bohnhoff, Insider, book club and free Clones

June 3rd, 2009 by Dunc · No Comments

The fiction is coming from inside the house! The latest piece of Hyperspace original fiction, ‘Death in the Slave Pits of Lorrd,’ is by TFN’s Adrick “TalonCard” Tolliver.

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Say goodbye to GeoCities…

April 28th, 2009 by Dunc · 9 Comments

Geocities.com in 1997 (before Yahoo bought it.)

Yahoo will be closing down GeoCities later this year, and I’d like to ask for a moment of silence.

No, really.

It may be hard to fathom now, but back a decade or so ago, when this here internet was still shiny and new, the free web space that GeoCities was as important to fandom as… Well, blogs and forums and wikis and Livejournal are now. It was the place where people were driven by their passion for whatever random bit of… whatever… made sites dedicated to their foci. Sure, it looks goofy now. (To quote Heidi MacDonald: “If you want to see the Web as it existed ten years ago just find any webpage hosted on GeoCities.”) It’s certainly not where fandom – even internet fandom – began, but it’s an important touchstone. And soon it’ll be gone.

Here are a few sites where you can get a feel for the internets of fandom past:

At least we’ll always have the Wayback Archive – not that anyone can actually remember those giant 90’s URLs.

Scour your bookmarks (or take offerings to Google) and drop your old favorites in the comments. (Basic HTML works.)

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New blog on the block: Wookieepedia Newsnet

February 9th, 2009 by Dunc · 4 Comments

The Star Wars wiki has expanded into the world of blogging with Wookieepedia Newsnet, a companion to the main site. Spearheaded by CJ reader Graestan, the blog will let those of us who maybe don’t log into our accounts for months weeks at a time keep up with community goings-on.

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I sense a connection here…

January 22nd, 2009 by Dunc · 1 Comment

Oh, not overtly – Other than Walter Jon Williams having been a actual Star Wars author – but here’s two interesting reads that I urge you to compare and contrast: Williams on writer geeks and the TFN Lit forum’s ‘Why you and I shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the canon’ thread.

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TFN thread of the indeterminate time period: The key phrase here is ‘historical perspective’

January 14th, 2009 by Dunc · 1 Comment

After nearly two decades, three actual movies, a TV show/movie, and (approximately) a thousand other books, of course Heir to the Empire and pals have some continuity issues. Sorry, that’s just how we play it in the GFFA. Suck it up, fanboy.

But we can agree on one thing: The covers have always been pretty bad. Of course, some of the EU’s worst have nice Drew Struzan covers, thus proving the old adage…

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Win Galactic Heroes toys in the newly returned Watto’s Lotto!

January 9th, 2009 by jawajames · No Comments

Erica over at TheBothanSpy.com reports that their bi-weekly web contest to win free SW loot, Watto’s Lotto, is back, and they’re giving away the ever popular Galactic Heroes toys. Want a chance to win? Hop on over to this thread for your chance to score some of those little figures.

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