Oh shit – More fanboys!
With gaming expo E3 closing the ranks, GenCon plans to expand in 2007. They’re staying in Indianapolis (phew) and only adding space to the existing con floor and hotels. The California version, however, will be moving from Anaheim to the Los Angeles Convention Center (location of C4) next year.
Will Jaders have to start driving in on Tuesday to get parking? Will the video gamers be any better at bathing than their RPG counterparts? Will there be more free stuff? Only time will tell…
Star Wars in reduction
The Reduced Shakespeare Company has permission to produce a 20-minute version of the saga. It’ll be filmed next week and aired in the U.K. by the end of the month.
Harry Potter fans write gay porn!
Yet another article about fandom that is shocked – shocked I tell you! – by slash. Though at least this time the writer does talk about more than the porn. Though methinks there have been women-dominated fandoms for much, much longer than Harry Potter.
ETA: As expected, fandom reaction is less than positive.
News of the Day
Okay, I lied. Here are a few interesting Star Wars items on the net today:
The Lucas Effect, a great piece from Popular Mechanics on George Lucas and his effects on moviemaking.
Lucasfilm Consolidates IT for Animation, Movies, Video Games, an article from TechWeb about Lucasfilm’s IT.
And finally, from the starwars.com boards, a survey for Star Wars fans from John Tenuto, a sociology instructor at College of Lake County. I took the survey, but I must admit I found the questions asked rather limiting. I’d like to see him asking more asked about fan attitudes and perceptions of the different aspects of the fandom…
No time for blog, Dr. Jones
As (sort of) mentioned at the bottom of the last post, GenCon/JadeCon, our annual gathering, starts this week – Wednesday for me, Thursday for some, and in the meantime I have enough to do that I’m pretty much ignoring the computer entirely. Posting will resume midweek – I hesitate to say regular posting because it is, after all, JadeCon. You can check out our accounts of 2004 and 2005 for some idea of what to expect.
Be warned: There will be drinking – I won’t guarantee that JadeCon posts will make sense. You can’t say you haven’t been warned.
Clubjade.net in the Insider!
Page 11 of Star Wars Insider #89:
They like us! They really like us! Or at least, our video selection. ;)
Somebody has way too much free time out there
Despite the Lucasfilm crackdown, lookie what I found…Quirky lil Vader Edit
Wookiee World* Tour
TFN reports that Chewbacca, Darth Vader, and Wicket are going on an 11-city tour of the U.S. starting August 22nd. There’s also a contest that’ll reward folks who take the best pictures of the characters or themselves, with the prize being a trip for for to Celebration IV.
Same exact item is now up at starwars.com. All hail the press release!
* In the ‘World’ Series sense
Shatnertastic!
There can be no Kirk but Shatner! (via Bonnie.)
Speaking of, doesn’t the narrator for the original Star Wars trailer sound just like a very restrained Shatner? And were all movie trailers that bad in the 70’s?