Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
Prepare yourselves, Clone Wars fans: ‘Bombad Jedi’ airs tonight. But there is hope – it’s scripted by Kevin Rubio of Troops and Tag and Bink fame.
Last year’s big Star Wars holiday book offering, the Star Wars Vault, is enjoying a one-day-only sale for $25 at Woot.
It’s pretty fantabulous! (via)
UPDATE: Miss it? You can always console yourself with all seven seasons of Buffy for $70. – Dunc
The StarWars.com crew did some digging and unearthed several Holiday Special props and other detris – even an animatic reel of the cartoon. There’s also a handful of old articles – one on the art directors and concept art, kicking off with Ralph McQuarrie and an interview with Patty Maloney, who played Lumpawarrump, and Stan Winston on Wookiee makeup/costuming. And finally, learn to draw Chewie’s family.
OH SHIT IT’S A TWILIGHT ENTRY, GET IN THE CAR. The reviews are not good (43%!) for the preteen squee event of the year, but since when has that ever made a difference at the box office? At the very least, we can hold out hope that the movie is better than the book. Just remember, ladies: stalking is not romantic, even if the guy is hot (well, ‘hot’) and comes with a lifetime supply of built-in body glitter.
Awards: Judy Blundell, better known to Star Wars fans as Jude Watson, author of the Jedi Apprentice, Jedi Quest, and Last of the Jedi series’ for Scholastic, has won the National Book Award for her novel What I Saw and How I Lied.
UPDATE: GalleyCat now has a video interview with Blundell.
It’s amazing it took even this long, but there’s finally a full-sized lightsaber flashlight (or rather, torch, as it seems to be only available in the UK.) We Americans can console ourselves with a keychain version from StarWarsShop. Or maybe just build our own.
Oh, internets: You always know just the right thing to bring. Montgomery Scott graduates! (There’s also a Smallville one for the WB generation.)
Michael Heilemann’s collection of Star Wars pictures is, as far as I know, unequaled online – and he just announced that he’s added “a couple of hundred” new images. Go forth and check them out.
(We’ve previously featured his McQuarrie and storyboard collections.)
I really wish StarWars.com would put out a simple, easily browsable selection of photos like this… Of course, that might mean they’d shut Heilemann down. Still, the popularity of these sets – you can’t go anywhere on the internet this month without seeing a link to the storyboard gallery – shows there’s plenty of interest for this sort of thing.
The fact that there is anything that can be qualified as Holiday Special collectibles is chilling at best. But in a month that has brought us the Darth Vader toaster, it’s impossible to be surprised – except perhaps by the lack of a Ackmena Cantina playset.
Those desiring words over pictures can head over to interviews with the special’s scriptwriter and directors.
So you’ve had two TV series and a new one on the way. Your storage room is getting a little overcrowded. What’s the first rule of organizing? Purge, people.
And so it is that we have a new legacy auction running of Stargate SG1 and SGA merchandise from the Stargate productions storage room. Apparently, over 100 items will slowly be going up.
This is really the stuff, folks. Plus, you get Robert Cooper’s signature on your certificate of authenticity.
Won’t you look cool running through Dragon*Con with this stuff!
