Although previous Star Wars MMO rumors involved KOTOR and Bioware, there are now stirrings of a MMO connected with the live-action TV show. What’s going on? Who knows? Maybe there’s two of them! (via)
The fandom minute: Cub Scouts and cannon fodder
- Crafts: Father and son create LEGO-sized landspeeder for Cub Scout Pinewood Derby. (via)
- Poll: How will Ahsoka Tano die? Face it, girl’s got that nice shiny Sibwarra aura all over her.
- Fandom: Fan gets married in Vader costume; bride dresses as Jedi. Guests included Dr Who and Ming the Merciless. Sadly, no pictures.
- Lists: Han Solo, Millennium Falcon namechecked in io9’s
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Spaceship Captains; taking financial inspiration from Star Wars.
The Clone Wars are coming!
Check out the packaging for The Clone Wars merchandise. Interesting, no? But the really interesting thing? All that stuff is going to start appearing on shelves July 26. Does that mean we’ll actually be seeing the series soon?
In other thrilling CW news, AICN has now hopped into the story, and they’re reporting that the theatrical release will involve four episodes and be sometime in the spring. The spring? I call shenanigans. Minicons take time!
More Clone Wars news from Toy Fair
Word on the street (again) is that folks are claiming (again) that the first three episodes of the series will indeed receive a theatrical release. (Remember, in November Lucasfilm danced around the early reports with TFN.) Now, action-figure.com is saying that Hasbro is keeping Star Wars on the press downlow, and Time says that Lucasfilm Animation in Singapore will “spearhead Lucasfilm’s first animated feature film this year.”
And what to make of this supposed game tie-in? (Warning: Spoilers.) Not exactly the most reliable source in the world but interesting.
I can’t see this staying under wraps for too long. How long will we have to wait for official word? Hopefully not San Diego… The U.S. Toyfair later this month? And while WonderCon is later this month, have they ever done a major announcement there?
Clone Wars Huttling revealed, sort of
Jedi News has been hitting the UK Toy Fair, and among their finds is another new character from The Clone Wars:
The LEGO Rep let us into a few spoilers including the fact there will indeed be a feature release in early September here in the UK (a couple of weeks earlier in the US), and he also told us about the characters included with these sets – don’t read the next sentence if you don’t want to know! Rotta is Jabba the Hutt’s nephew or son (there seemed to be some confusion about this) and the first 2 or 3 episodes centre on his kidnapping!
Presumably, he’s not anyone’s secret apprentice. Phew.
Check out their pics of the LEGO Rotta and other Clone Wars characters.
Throw another secret apprentice on the fire
StarWars.com introduces Anakin Skywalker’s Clone Wars cannon fodder padawan, Ahsoka Tano.
Video du jour: Something Something Dark Side
I reluctantly expose you to the teaser trailer for the inevitable Family Guy: Blue Harvest sequel:
Who do you want to see on the TV show?
Now that Rick has confirmed the presence of Boba Fett, IGN lists ten established characters they’d like to see on the live-action TV show. Several EU characters are on it – including the top two. Who do you want to see make an appearance?
The Young Boba Fett Chronicles?
According to IGN, Rick McCallum claims that Boba Fett is “instrumental” to the live-action TV series in the new Insider. Naturally.
More interview details at the link, or just head out and pick up the issue.
Round out your DVD collection, or just watch funny stuff on the internet!
Fox wasted no time releasing Family Guy: Blue Harvest – it comes out on Tuesday, in two editions – but we’re just now getting word that the Robot Chicken: Star Wars is coming to DVD. In May. Sigh.
Not that it really matters, since you can pretty much watch both specials in their entirety from certain places on the internet. Witness:
Beneath the cut, my choice for funniest Blue Harvest moment.
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