Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
StarWars.com has their Best of 2008 up. Of course there’s the obligatory geeking out over the obligatory Big Events like The Force Unleashed and The Clone Wars. All the Expanded Universe stuff is together for easy access (Plus Frames, because it is a book, sort of, so where else can it go?) On the fandom …
T-shirts: The latest Steampunk Artoo… Now you see it, now you don’t. Fan sites: Wookieepedia is one of Wired’s eight best non-Wikipedia pedias. Craft: Fold yourself a Cubetrooper, Indiana Jones, Fetility Idol or any number of others. Lists: Topless Robot’s eight biggest reasons Indiana Jones is better than Han Solo, ten greatest spaceship chases ever, …
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Gizmodo interviews Sillof, the action figure customizer responsible for WWII and Steampunk themed Star Wars figures, among others. Another day, another Star Wars cake. Heckler Spray counts down their top six disappointing Star Wars characters. I find #1 more overrated than disappointing, but at least it’s not who you’d expect.
From Monsterbrick, the same mind that brought us the Steam War AT AT ELE Walker, a Turn of the Century Falcon. He also has a variety of original Star Wars LEGO creations.
I’m in denial that the holiday decorations have been up for weeks and the 24/7 Christmas carols await us on Friday morning. So what better excuse to get your holiday shopping done now and online? I’m not pulling Santa Maul out of his hibernation yet (one must never wake a hibernating Sith before Thanksgiving) but …
The Dubai Steamtroopers are not alone… In Bangkok, artist Yumi Modal and family are also crafting Star Wars figures from metal. Is this the start of a new trend? Graffiti is so last season. (via) Before Kyle Katarn, there was Gonk. Are you worthy of building an avatar of The One Droid? (via) Someone made …
George Lucas is becoming ‘increasingly involved’ with the Clone Wars animated series. Good? Bad? Gungan? Only time will tell! In other CW news, Disney really wants the broadcast rights. Infodrop American Heritage covers ILM before computers. (via) Dan Wallace spotlights Michael Allen Horne, who authored two pivotal RPG guidebooks for West End Games. The Legacy …
Another take on Steampunk Star Wars from Marcel E. Mercado. And that’s not all – click through for more.
Don’t miss this – R2-S2, the steam-powered Artoo! Impressive. (Thanks, Bonnie!) Rifftrax has video samples on Youtube – TPM, AOTC, The Matrix, Daredevil, The Fifth Element, X-Men, LOTR (if you only watch one, watch LOTR) and more. They’re also up on the Rifftrax site. Someone has put a lot of SDCC masquerade sketches from 2005 …