Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
Inspired by the success of The Dark Knight’s Joker, io9 has some thoughts on keeping your villains villainy – what makes them great, how they go wrong, and how not to ruin their effectiveness. Darth Vader is used as an example in the last – and I can’t say I disagree. Continue reading “On the care and feeding of effective villains”
Bonnie tracks down creator Paul Souders to get the story of the Stained Glass Darth Vader.
UPDATE: The official site now has the synopsis.
Random House has released the cover for Michael Reaves’ third Coruscant Nights book, due out in November, and man is it cool. (If you ignore the cheesy text effects.) See the whole thing under the cut. Continue reading “Cover for Coruscant Nights: Patterns of Force“
This custom LEGO Vader by Brickshelf user Edul Young is made of parts from the Technic, Bionicle, and System sets, at least according to Slashfilm.
The new company and licensee launched their website today – so if you’re dying to get a jump on one of their 500 full-size Stormtrooper helmets (on sale tomorrow) you can beat the competition by registering today. Or you can simply check out upcoming products, like a Darth Vader ‘concept’ helmet (which even I can admit is kind of neat) and an Ashoka lightsaber.
io9 includes Darth Vader in The Greatest Art Featuring 6 Iconic Scifi Villains. Some of it is fairly old hat (The Vader Project? So 2007!) but there’s always someone shocked by it. Besides, they have a brand-new spiffy robot chart as a consolation prize for those of us a bit too jaded for our own good.
Artoo and Darth Vader USB hubs. Oh, Japan.
The Hallmark Keepsake Dream Book ’08 is out, and their Star Wars offerings this year have a Return of the Jedi theme, with an Imperial shuttle, Luke and Vader’s final duel, and Emperor Palpatine. The miniatures set is a Star Destroyer and the incomplete Death Star. Check them all out for yourself on page 64 (page 65 has Star Trek and Indiana Jones) or via the screencap beneath the cut. Continue reading “Check out Hallmark’s Star Wars ornaments for 2008″