Gene Siskel and Robert Ebert debate John Simon on the merits of Star Wars in 1983. I’d sure hate to have been Simon’s kid… (via)
Who’s the little droid who gets all the chicks?
Artoo is #3 on The Onion’s A.V. Club’s Thirteen sidekicks who are cooler than their heroes. Also honored are Willow, Samwise Gamgee, Inigo Montoya and Sideshow Bob.
Gentle Giant offers discount
Looks like that Hyperspace membership just got a bit more valuable… Gentle Giant is now offering a permanent discount to all members of the Fan Club. As long as they order via StarWarsShop, that is. Ahh, the circle of commerce!
Darth Vader vs. Barry Bonds
Mechanical men and talking garbage cans
Four types of Star Wars robots – and one from THX 1138 – make the London Times list of fifty best movie robots. What, no Gonk? (via)
Chewbacca’s head up for auction
Profiles in History’s latest auction contains the aforementioned head, Anakin and Obi-Wan lightsabers from AOTC and TPM, and the Grail tablet from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Pants?
Get thee a Wired
According to the TOSblog, the August issue of Wired, devoted to how-tos, has several Star Wars features. There are instructions for adding lightsabers to videos all over the internet, but action figure arranging from Robot Chicken’s head writers might be unique. (It’s the first thing that comes up in Google, anyway.)
Not for the weak-hearted
Dalton Ross throws his son a Star Wars birthday party:
One question asked them to name as many members of the Jedi Council as possible. I figured they’d get Yoda, Mace Windu, Obi-Wan, and Anakin (although I did have to point out that he was not granted the title of Master), but this one squirrelly young’un actually called out Plo Koon. Plo Koon! How the little bastard knew about Plo Koon is beyond me. I had to look him up on the Internet before I could verify the answer as being correct.
That kid? Gonna grow up to be an admin on Wookieepedia.
Star Wars social networking cards
They’re business cards, dude. Well, sort of. Question is, will they catch on?