- 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, ten most blatant Star Wars toy rip-offs of the ’70s and Cracked’s eight classic movie robots that suck at their jobs. Hogwash!
S.W.O.R.A marks launch with official home base
The Star Wars Outer Rim Alliance, a network formed by seven fansites from around the globe (including our pals over at Lightsabre) launched a slick website today, complete with a message from their ambassador, actor Gerald Home.
Weirdest thing on the Wookieepedia
At 328,784 bytes, Corran Horn’s entry is the biggest on the wiki, outpacing Palpatine, Anakin, and Luke. (Mara is #5.) Corran’s quote page, at #13, is bigger than Han Solo’s entire entry. (Note: Reading any of these pages may lead to LOTF spoilers, including some for Invincible.)
The hell, Wookieepedia? Is Stackpole moonlighting over there or something?
Legacy of the Force week begins!
So we kicked it off with the book giveaway, but now it’s EU Cantina and NJOE’s turn. Starting today, there’s discussion over at EUC and trivia at NJOE, both of which come with prizes of their own. Head on over to EUC for the details.
Expanded Universe linkbits
- TFN features some Legacy of the Force fan art, mostly spaceships. At right, CernStormrunner’s redition of the StealthX.
- The EUCast is gearing up for The Great EU Debate of ‘08!
- Drew Karpyshyn blogs about his upcoming projects.
The Legacy #22 cover: LOLSith
Randy Stradley reveals a macrotastic Legacy #22 cover on the Dark Horse message boards: TFN quickly gets to work.
The fandom minute
- Interview: Lightsabre talks to Kenneth Colley, who played Admiral Piett.
- Gaming: io9 brings us a brief history of Star Wars video games.
- Fan art: Photo mosaic of the Star Wars/Last Supper painting.
- YTMND: Can Luke get anything right?
Happy Birthday to the Wookieepedia!
So the site I like to think of as being full of crazy younger brother types, the Wookieepedia, is turning three years old today. I think in internet years that makes it what? Fifteen? A disturbing age, but we’ll get through it.
But no, we won’t buy you beer.
Talking with an effects legend
Lightsabre concluded their interview with Dennis Muren this week!
This week in The Clone Wars
- Concept art: General Grievous.
- Voices: Discovered at swclonewars: A pair of new voices on IMDB.
- Toys: Up close and personal with the The Clone Wars LEGOs. And for your old-school Clone Wars action, Sideshow is coming out with an armored General Kenobi.
- Need to catch up? Check out the EU Cantina’s Clone Wars knowledge center.