Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
Star Wars-themed Fairisle knitting patterns for those who’ve moved beyond the ubiquitous Hogwarts scarves. The stormtrooper and TIE Bomber patterns seem to be crying out for the Stitch and Bitch wrist cuff treatment. Or maybe one of our more knit-literate CJers could make up a Vader or Clonetrooper pattern?
For those proficient with a dremel tool, MacMod has a step-by-step on inserting a Mac Mini and iSight camera into a Playskool Millennium Falcon. Nifty!
This will be the last season for Alias. I’m totally shocked. Not.
Cinematical has seven really, really bad films for you to watch for the holiday, headed up by Howard the Duck. Personally, turkey day just hasn’t been the same since Mystery Science Theatre 3000 bit it.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire broke Spider-Man’s Friday release record.
Peter Jackson is trying to get director’s credits for two of King Kong‘s lead animators.
See a clip from The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe.
Fan of the Arthurian legends? Check out the trailer for Tristan and Isolde. Sadly, the trailer contains an Evancesance song, but the movie does star James Franco (Spider-Man) and the smokin’ hot Rufus Sewell (A Knight’s Tale) so there’s hope. I have the sinking feeling that I’m going to come out of this one wanting to smack Isolde, though. (But hey, what’s new?)
And finally, I thought a new X-Files movie was a long shot… Now there’s a slim chance for the show’s David Lynch helmed precursor Twin Peaks to get another shot at the big screen. (Fire Walk With Me, a prequel to the series, died a quick death back in 1992.)
The official site explains the why and how of the Revenge DVD’s Hip Hop Yoda Easter Egg.
(And if you can’t access the Easter Egg on your DVD, you can watch the video on Google.)
Remember the Sideshow Collectibles’s Choice poll for an EU figure? Guess who won?
Arctic Suit Padme from the Clone Wars cartoons. As for the actual EU characters, Mara Jade came in at #2 (losing by just 54 votes,) followed by Kir Kanos, Quinlan Vos, Asajj Ventress, and Grand Admiral Thrawn.
Oh Star Wars fandom, will you ever stop making me go WTF?
ETA: In this interview with RebelScum, Sideshow’s Licensing Coordinator Brock Otterbacher says:
“The way that Expanded Universe Poll stands, the winner is going to get made, that’s not say that we might not take another figure from that didn’t win and make that later on. It won’t be like ‘second place’ or ‘third place’, it would just be a figure that we all like as a group internally here further on down the line. If it proves successful, yeah we’d consider expanding it into its own line or maybe just peppering it into the whole line here and there.”
So there’s still hope for an actual EU character figure. I expect this leans on how many collectors are also EU fans, and how many EU fans are willing to spend $50 on a ‘collector’s item.’
Cry for MIT’s bandwidth instead. Our pals from the the Trilogy Musical Edition have been Slashdotted!
The double-punch of the Revenge of the Sith DVD and Battlefront II have generated $210 million dollars so far.
ETA: Records! Shattered!
Burger King begins another round of SW promotions today. TFN has an overview of what’s available.
Because it’s Sunday, and I feel like crap, here’s something to cheer up the snark-enabled: Pablo eviscerates Chicken Little.
(Okay, maybe it’s not snark, exactly. But it works for me.)
An early look at the cover for Allston’s Betrayal, the first book in the Legacy of the Force series.
Word on the street says that’s Jacen on the cover, and with “the legacy of the Skywalkers may come full circle” bit… Well.
Also on the boards today, word from Sue Rostoni on the third book of the Legacy series – it’s Tempest by Troy Denning.
ETA: Suzanne at starwars.com has put together an excellent post on all that’s known of Legacy so far.