30 Questions My Girlfriend Asked Me About Star Wars is awfully familiar, isn’t it?
ANH props and costumes at Profiles in History
There are several Star Wars items in the latest Profiles in History auction, including Threepio’s feet (above,) a TIE miniature, a Duros latex head cast, an Imperial Officer uniform and X-Wing master molds, all from from A New Hope. The Star Wars items are lots 901-905, but there’s plenty of sci-fi and action film items scattered throughout, including the Holy Grail from The Last Crusade (Lot 916.) You don’t have to be a collector to enjoy paging through the catalog PDF… (Thanks to Rach on the list!)
More more more The Clone Wars
With August and the release date bearing down, the news is (finally, overwhelmingly) starting to flow…
- The movie is set to premiere August 10 at Hollywood’s historic Egyptian Theatre (where ESB premiered) with all proceeds going to American Cinematheque, a non-profit film organization. Members can order tickets early, but they go on sale for the public on July 23.
- The soundtrack will be out August 12.
- More kid’s book covers spotted on Amazon by Eddie and Zee Zee: Decide Your Destiny #1: The Way Of The Jedi, Operation Huttlet, Meet Ahsoka Tano and Sticker Storyteller. (Thanks, Zee Zee!)
Karen Traviss on The Clone Wars
The author, whose first TCW book is due out in a matter of weeks, updated her website with a few words on the project:
CLONE WARS, the hardcover based on the movie – loosely based, so no griping that it’s different, because that’s the whole point – is out on July 26. Full of the gritty, off-message, character-testing, question-raising, grey-area, military-oriented stuff you’ve come to expect from me. And clones. Plenty of clones. And familiar characters from the movies that you won’t see quite the same way ever again.
In other news of interest for Traviss fans, Eos is offering her first Wess’har novel, City of Pearl, as a free download through August. (via)
EW’s The Force Unleashed trailer
It contains all the lightsaber-wracking we’ve come to expect, but is
actually fairly plotty.
And while I’m posting gaming news, something something Battlefront III?
Escapist Magazine takes on Star Wars
The webzine’s issue #156 is devoted to Star Wars, from to lightsabers to gaming to merchandising to the Expanded Universe (plus an interview with Drew Karpyshyn) and even pirating the original original trilogy.
Video: Indy shot first
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$4000?? Oh yes, I am scoffing at Frames
Jedi News has the price-points for the glorified screenshot book Star Wars Frames, and they’re more ridiculous than I would ever have imagined. The higher (??) your edition is, the more you pay, but the cheapest edition is still $4000.
Frames pricing is as follows:
BATCH A (#1 – #250) $4,000
BATCH B (#251 – #500) $4,250
BATCH C (#501 – #750) $4,500
BATCH D (#751 – #1,000) $4,750
BATCH E (#1,001 – #1,138) $5,000
So basically, one copy of Frames is worth anywhere from 12.5 to 10 Lego Death Stars. (Which doesn’t exactly cost chimp change.) And you have to assemble the Death Star yourself.
Star Wars at SDCC: The complete schedule
StarWars.com posts all of the Star Wars events at San Diego Comic Con: Mostly on Friday, mostly The Clone Wars, with some Indiana Jones thrown in for good measure.
Video: YJK of horrors
A Young Jedi Knights book recreated by the target demographic. Warning: Contains bad wigs and adolescent rap.