Club Jade

Slashfilm came across a fan-made poster that spans the entire saga. I’m usually not a huge fan of the collage aesthetic, but I gotta admit this one is pretty nifty.

NEWS

• This week saw the release of Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga – and yesterday the game’s developer, TT Games, was purchased by Warner Brothers. Guess all that hard Wiisaber work paid off.

• The Discovery returned safely to Earth on Wednesday – presumably with lightsaber intact.
• Fan compiles relevant screenshots from The Clone Wars videos on StarWars.com.
• BBC interviews ANH prop hauler.

FANDOM

• Humor site Aniboom casts U.S. primary candidates and assorted other political types in Star Wars roles. It’s… about what you’d expect. Meh.

• Know A Legion: Neon City Garrison.

BOOKS

• TOS interviews Dick DeBartolo, who penned (all? some of? most?) Mad’s Star Wars film spoofs.

• McClatchy review of The Star Wars Vault.

HYPERSPACE

• On Hyperspace, the Insider #96 online supplement.

• You can now add a StarWars.com app to your Facebook account.

TFN reports that the official prophet of Star Wars Steve Sansweet will be on CBS’s Early Show tomorrow (Friday) morning to discuss The Star Wars Vault. Here’s hoping he goes beyond SW past and talks a little about the future. In any case, set your DVRs now!

UPDATE: The interview tapes tomorrow, but airs Monday.

I love the experience of opening up the year’s big Star Wars coffee table book. This one’s quite the experience.

The Star Wars Vault, by Stephen J. Sansweet and Peter Vilmur, is The Star Wars Scrapbook on steroids.

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TOS has an interview with Jonathan Bresman, who collected and annotated the Mad about Star Wars book.

And to commemorate the release of The Star Wars Vault
HarperCollins is giving fans a chance to visit the ultimate Star Wars vault: Steve Sansweet’s Rancho Obi-Wan. (Via TOSblog, which also links a virtual book tour.)

I spotted The Star Wars Vault at Barnes & Noble today, though the TOS is listing it for October 30th release. Interesting.

Drew Karpyshyn talks about the recent EA buyout of Bioware, the Rule of Two manuscript and an event that happened… last Saturday. Whoops.

R.A. Salvatore talks a bit about his Star Wars novel experience about halfway through his interview with Fantasy Book Critic. The SW bits handily start just about where you see the Vector Prime book cover.

The Star Wars Vault is a mega-scrapbook of reproduced script pages, tickets, stickers and other such swag due for release in the fall. Just the thing to impress (or terrify) your non-obsessive friends!