Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
Last year we were wowed by their Jabba puppet at the Wolburn Halloween parade, but this time around the 501st New England Garrison and Rebel Legion Alderaan Base brought a dewback and a landspeeder, plus an actual teenage Ashoka. Check out all the gallery at 501neg.com, and direct your comments to tk7602.
It seems that it’s still Falcon week over at the official site, as today brings secrets of the Millennium Falcon, a look at how artists Chris Reiff and Chris Trevas juggled multiple and sometimes conflicting sources to create the latest set of blueprints.
And now, we give you concept art for the upcoming Stargate Universe series. Thankfully, they seem to be staying away from designs that suggest Beverly Hills; hopefully reinforcing their reassurances that the unfortunately-phrased initial press release will not result in Stargate 90210.
In other Gate news, Gateworld nabs interviews with Corin Nemec (aka Jonas Quinn) and Colin Cunningham (Major Davis).
Colin is promoting his film short Centigrade, which is now available on iTunes. I got to see it at Dragon*Con. It is seriously creepy and intense. I’d highly recommend it; especially for those who enjoyed the darker Twilight Zone and Outer Limit stories.
Scientists have discovered what appears to be an Earth-like planet in the Epsilon Eridani System. For those not insanely focused on Star Trek trivia, this would be the system that is home to one Mr. Spock of Vulcan.
In the more geeky movie news, actor Chris Pine is apparently going to spare us the William Shatner imitation in the upcoming film. (Thank goodness.)
And in other news to help us all sleep easy, uber-geek Kevin Smith has seen the film and is giving it glowing reviews.
This is the ‘international teaser trailer’ but it’s pretty chock-full for a teaser! Enjoy!
Ho-hum. It’s now been moved to January, Harvey Weinstein tells the Los Angeles Times. There will be “a major promotion with Comcast, who’s arranging for a big advertising tie-in for us on the film.”
Last week’s Red Bull Soapbox Derby in San Francisco featured this beauty – the Death Star soapbox racer created by Team Fully Operational. (via) See the construction video below.
Also on Youtube, race footage from within and two of the frame.
Crafty threefer at the official blog last night: Bonnie turned up three homemade costumes for dogs (with instructions!) spotted a list of knit hats and visits the LFL Starbucks.
E-books of Heroes Die and Blade of Tyshalle, his first two Caine novels (currently out of print) have been given a tentative release date of November 4th.
Lest we forget that teenagers are king when it comes to Star Wars, io9 found a lovely gem of a quote indicating that the size of a player’s lightsaber (among other things) will grow with the amount of hours they’ve sunk into the game. Charming, no?