Well, it looks like SirDan no longer owns the largest Star Wars Lego set made. The Lego Ultimate Collectors Millennium Falcon is now shipping…complete with 5,000 pieces and a FOUR POUND manual. Dang.
Tis… not the season, but oh well
Star Wars Christmas stuff at Target already? We’re not even a full month to Halloween yet!
Video du jour: Star Trek vs. Star Wars
Han and Khan, the smackdown! Complete with an 80’s B-movie soundtrack. (via SF Signal)
Go grinding with R2-D2
Spice up your table with astromech droppings. Sure to go fabulously with your Phantom Menace dinnerware. (via Gizmodo, which also linked Star Wars Kubricks and a motorized Lego AT-AT today.)
Future Star Wars countdown
The Catchup: And the kitchen sink
Trivia masters rejoice: Jeopardy! added a Star Wars category today. It’s already aired here (curses!) so I have to ask: just how obsessed does one have to be to make the $1000 question laughable?
In the News
- Add David Cronenberg to the list of directors who could have made Return of the Jedi. (via)
- TFN reports that Christine Hewett, who played one of the Tonnika sisters in ANH, has past away.
- Jake Lloyd as Anakin Skywalker tops New York Magazine’s list of ten annoying child actors they’d love to send to Kid Nation. I must object – one film, no matter how disapointing, simply isn’t enough to justify putting Lloyd above any prepubescent cast member of Full House. That show terrorized American airwaves for eight years, not counting syndication.
- AFI is sponsering 11 screenings in Hollywood to celebrate its 40th anniversary, including George Lucas presenting A New Hope. Alas, tickets “sold out faster than the Falcon made the Kessel Run,” as Stooge pointed out on Wednesday.
- IGN’s featured Dead Ewok (colloquially known to fandom as Corpsey) as their Obscure Character of the Day for (again) Wednesday.
- The Jedi Assembly celebrates fifth anniversary.
On the TOS
- The runup to Family Guy: Blue Harvest continues with an interview with writer/producer Alec Sulkin and giclée prints on Star Wars Shop.
- Pete Vilmur takes a look at the ‘pointy W’ logo.
- Hyperspace: Bantha Tracks covers Dragon*Con, while the Source Archive explored the insignia of Rogue Squadron and The New Republic as well as two more NewsNet articles: Ralltiir Uprising Quelled and Imperial Senate Suspended.
Star Wars or Raiders? (Or Psycho?)
The American Film Institute is having a poll to decide which of their 100 most thrilling movies will be screened for free at Hollywood’s Arclight on Halloween. Both A New Hope and Raiders of the Lost Ark are on the list.
Star Wars roundup: Yippie ki-yay
George Lucas attends Salesforce.com user conference and gives keynote, talking about education and technology. The company has registered force.com. Forget Lucas – what does Philip Wise think?
- The BBC returns to ILM.
- Poll: BloggingStocks pits George Lucas against Steven Spielberg.
- You’ve just been dying to know Natalie Portman’s prequel makeup secrets, right? (via)
Fandom
- Vic and Lisa’s Star Wars home theatre gets some love from Gizmodo. Famous on the internets!
- The 501st has put troopers on all seven continents this year. Next up: The moon!
Expanded Universe
- Wired’s Geekdad blog gets an early look at A Pop Up Guide to the Galaxy. (via)
- Timothy Zahn will be at Nashville’s Southern Festival of Books next month.
Live Long and Get a Cool Casket?
Some people spend their lives devoted to their fandom. Now you can spend the afterlife doing the same.
Yes, there is now a licensee who will make Star Trek themed coffins. And they’re available around the world!
No prices listed, as yet. I suspect you really need the whole “…and prosper” part of the “Live long and prosper” to get one. (Thanks to Rachel)
The Saturday catchup
All the stuff that got spaced
- Allies in The Clone Wars: TV show is a global production.
- Family Guy: Blue Harvest concept art
- A Sithly go-round for the classic circus poster.
- Know A Legion: Bloodfin Garrison
- Bonnie urges R2 Builders to join the space race.
- Are Artoo and Threepio robo-wimps?
Hyperspace