Not for the hypersensitive prequel fans, but chances are everyone else will at least crack a smile. (Via Sci-Fi Scanner, who really makes me want to hear the rest of the routine.)
Fanicide: Know the signs
io9 looks at the warning signs that fans are influencing canon too much. Several key points are made, and having seen most of them throughout the duration I can only throw in a hearty ‘Word.’ Remember, kids: No one else cares about Kyle Katarn. Cherish your subplots when you can.
Out this week
On the Diamond list for Wednesday are Dark Times #9 and the Legacy 30th Anniversary hardcover. (Don’t get too excited – I think it’s just the Broken storyline, which is already out as a standard TPB.)
No books this Tuesday, but the eighth Legacy of the Force book, Revelation, will be out next week.
The power of Hayden Christensen compels you!
Jumper topped the box office this weekend, adding fuel to the fire that the combined power of Hayden Christensen and Samuel L. Jackson can propel a movie to do well even if the reviews are bad and there’s no giant all-powerful franchise backing it up. Or, maybe people just like sci-fi tinged action movies starring pretty boys and handsome badasses. Will we ever know?
Did anyone see it? Opinions?
Darth Vader on NPR’s Morning Edition
Andrea Shea took a look at Darth Vader on NPR this morning for the ‘In Character’ segment. Ben Burtt and David Prowse both appear to talk about Star Wars’ most iconic character.
Geek sweets: Artoo and Jango are made of cake
We saw several Star Wars-themed cakes last week, but check out another R2-D2 cake, this one by New York City baker Mark Randazzo and discovered via Boing Boing. And checking back with Great White Snark nets us this snazzy Jango Fett number.
Steam Wars: The finalists
The FBTBForums.net have spoken, and they’ve picked who goes on to the final round. The top five will be picked by the moderators and then put up for a final vote.
Jabba’s Steampunk Barge by ACPin, above, was one of the top picks.
Toy Fair: And the rest
The Toy Fair coverage is getting a bit too hefty for poor little non-collector me to keep up with, so I’m just going to point you towards the TOSblog and Rebelscum. Of interest to the EU fans – Hasbro’s The Force Unleashed collections.
For your further amusement, some life-size LEGO figures.
Amazon jumped the gun on new encyclopedia
Shocking! TFN has word from Steve Sansweet about the appearance of The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia on Amazon:
“The last time Amazon did this it was for a book that had been killed six months before. Pablo Hidalgo and I are working on a project together. Everything else–including the sole author credit–is either wrong or speculation. And it’s too early to talk about right now.”
Toy Fair: Hasbro, Gentle Giant, Muggs and etc.
Rebelscum has the Hasbro presentation. Comic pack details start at slide 16. There’s also some new figures of interest in the Evolutions line – X-Wing fans, you can finally have a Hobbie to hang out with your Wes and Fel.
- TOSblog has upcoming Mighty Muggs, along with a (slightly) closer look at Hasbro’s Clone Wars vehicles (including ‘the big one,’ a monster AT-TE,) comic packs and the Legacy Collection (nothing to do with either the comic or LOTF: they’re all OT figures. Genius.)
- Rebelscum goes a little nuts with Gentle Giant, with separate galleries of statues, Animated Maquettes, Classics busts, Mini-Busts, Kustomz and a video tour. Not to mention they’re teaming up with GG for an exclusive.
- A new licensee: Diamond Select Toys. They’ll make action figures, busts, and banks. How this makes them drastically different from Sideshow, Hasbro, Gentle Giant and the rest, I have no idea, but here are more details from the show.
- Yakface now has a LEGO gallery.