‘Authentic’ Darth Vader costume pulls out all the stops. (via Gizmodo)
Star Wars Roundup: Weekend edition
Millions of gamers suddenly cried out in horror upon discovering that the Star Wars game for Wii is just the Lego Star Wars re-release. Poor, poor gamers.
Alderaan shot first
- Hollywood Chewbacca in the news again. Assaulting Marilyn Monroe? For shame!
- Darth Vader gets (Dis)Honorable Mention on a Five Fictional Geekdads list.
- Seven coolest geeks on television. I think Bonnie’s interviewed at least half of them on starwars.com, so it counts.
- Times Online catches up with some fans heading to Celebration Europe.
- 1100 great movie robots
- Oh, and George is still hanging around Yale.
Star Wars roundup: Games, girls, and… Latin?
A lightsaber game for the Wii is closer than you might think, Lucasarts’ Jim Ward says: “We’re all over that, and internally we have already played a lightsaber game on the Wii. It’s a lot of fun, and we’ll get there.”
Luckily, fans are more than ready ready – check out these cute Star Wars Miis in IGN’s mailbag
Also…
- LFL’s Bonnie Burton and illustrator Cynthia Cummens have a comic called “A Star Wars Fan Boy Field Guide” in the anthology A Girls Guide to Guys’ Stuff.
- Chicago fans build TIE fighter for parade
- Middle schoolers put Luke Skywalker on trial
- Filmjerk reviews Heart of an Empire
- Five lessons IT managers can learn from Darth Vader
- Harvard scholar delivers Star Wars-inspired oration – in Latin.
CE gets arty
The Vader Project is expanded with 20 new helmets, and is joined by two new features featuring graffiti and tattoo arts.
Vader Lego mosaic
Vader for your iPhone
Gizmodo is offering wallpaper for those lucky/crazy iPhone folks. Among the selections are Vader, Pong, Hello Kitty, and several superhero logos. (via TOSblog)
Today in CE news…
The Vader hot-air balloon from balloonist Benoît Lambert will make an appearance… And naturally, there’s a Costume Pageant, hosted by Warwick Davis.
All others are two or lower
Top five dads in Sci-Fi. Bill Adama is there as well, so I will not demand a recount. (via SF Signal)