Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
All the stuff that got spaced
Hyperspace
R2-Beer2 is a must for the next JadeCon picnic. Not as cool as making bootleg beer inside company property, but it’ll do.
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.
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)
The official blog interviews I-Wei Huang, the fan behind R2-S2, the steam-powered Artoo.
Threepio and Artoo top Entertainment Weekly’s Hot ‘Bots list. Damn right. (via TFN)
Thinkgeek does it again: Wee remote Artoos from the Japan, available for purchase in limited quantity.
Never teh Bride over at Manolo for the Brides has a picture of a super fantastic R2-D2 cake. I can’t help but wonder what the appropriate cake flavor is. And also whether Missi could make us one.
Because you can’t make Jayne hats all the time, people. (Thanks, Bonnie!)
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 and 2006 up on Youtube – including The Modal Nodes, Runaway Bounty, General Grievous and some very familiar pirates
I had no idea Epcot could do that!