At least, that’s the impression one gets from winning entry for the 2008 Hyperspace Shirt Design.
On the TOS: Hyperspace, fan movies, events
It’s been a weird few weeks – here’s some of the stuff we missed on the official site.
- Hyperspace: Get up close and personal with the 2008 Membership Kit; online supplement for Insider #98; the latest Bantha Tracks (which will be available as a printable PDF in March.)
- Fan films: It’s time for the 2008 Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge! This year, the winners will be aired on SpikeTV.
- Memorial:A tribute to John Alvin.
- Events: Star Wars exhibits in Philadelphia and Belgium.
- Charity: Tommy Lee Edwards raises money for The Ride for Kids with a limited-edition lithograph.
- In the Source Archive: Peter Schweighofer’s feature Recon & Report from the Adventure Journal #2; The Other Side of the Story from Galaxy Guide 10: Bounty Hunters; Balancing the Books from The Star Wars Sourcebook and NewsNets Bakura Annexed by Empire, New Year Fete Week Launched in Imperial City, Dentaal Declares Independence, Expels Governor, and Fondor Closed To Civilian Traffic.
TOSsing Off: A complete coincidence
- Vagueness time! Hyperspace in 2008 will bring us… stuff! And things! (Wait a minute, did that say original fiction? Tease!)
- Humor: Jawas, so uncivilized.
- Video: Star Wars Merch Circa 1979.
- Buy stuff! One StarWarsShop exclusive, and another (Shadow Trooper?) to come today?
- Bantha Tracks: Interview with the winner of CIV’s Lawrence Noble bust; Youngling fans.
- Source Archive: More Dark Empire with The Full Power of the Dark Side, Lost For Over 300 Years, and For a Thousand Generations. The latest two, Festival Public Executions Canceled and ISO Announces Mid-Rim Tour, hail from the Adventure Journal’s Galaxywide NewsNets olumn.
Get TOSsed: Soul Caliber IV, DVD exclusive
The internets are going apeshit over the news that Vader and Yoda will appear in Namco Bandai ‘s Soul Calibur IV. (Vader will appear on the Playstation 3 version, while Yoda graces the Xbox 360s.) The official site has the press release, and 1up has screen shots and a trailer.
- Star Wars Tech on DVD is only available at StarWarsShop.
- Video: Meet Jason, The Clone Wars supervising editor.
- Hyperspace: The Source Archive is on a Dark Empire kick, featuring A Time of Darkness, The Power of the Dark Side and The Alliance is Finished.
The catchup: Monday morning reading list
GENERAL
SWTV: A Day in the Life of Clone Wars while Jimmy Kimmel addresses live-action show in monologue and MSNBC’s Mary Beth Ellis asks if “Lucas be trusted with ‘Star Wars’ universe?”
- Pablo eviscerates sloppy journalism.
- Preview Insider #97, on sale tomorrow.
- More CE stuff for sale.
SWTV: EVENTS
FANDOM
- New England Garrison has a Jabba puppet!
- Meet the Dune Sea Garrison
- New York Jedi in the news again.
- Tina Fey Geeks out.
HYPERSPACE
- Bantha Tracks: Best Worst Costumes.
- Source archive: Whiskers, Command Performance, and Pantolomin Halfback
- NewsNet: Tarkin, Staff Die in Tragic Shuttle Crash
The Catchup: Friday morning reading list
NEWS
- Fractal Matter interviews Rick McCallum about all the usual suspects: Red Tails, TV shows, etc.
- Antifungal drug causes visions of Chewbacca. Well, better Wookiees than, say, Cthulhu.
- Star Wars gets namedropped in Blackwater probe.
- £10,000 worth of figures stolen in UK.
EVENTS
- Cédric Delsaux’s Star Wars on Earth photographs are on exhibit in Washington D.C.
GAMING
- Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron comes out on Tuesday, and TOS has been pulling out all the stops: a two part Q&A; an introduction to Commander Col Serra and a look at his character evolution.
FANDOM
- Perennial blogger Jason Kottke asks the age-old question: What’s the best order to indoctrinate your young with Star Wars?
- University of Alabama offers BUI 301: The Gospel of Star Wars: Mass Entertainment as Postmodern Religion. Does that mean Steve Sansweet is a prophet?
- Bengal Trooper spotted!
PEOPLE
- Sean Connery sexier than Harrison Ford, says poll.
- Natalie Portman campaigns to help end global poverty; will be starring alongside Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal in Brothers.
- Carrie Fisher to take on Mrs. Bennett in Pride And Prejudice spoof.
- Billy Dee Williams in Aretha Franklin biopic?
MERCHANDISE
- Get your Master Replicas’ products now; with their license expiring, they stop selling Star Wars stuff after December 31st.
- Check out some of the 30th Anniversary Sketch Cards.
- Complete your collection of convention exclusives with the Celebration Europe Droid 2-pack.
Hyperspace
- The latest Bantha Tracks.
- Two Newsnets: Ralltiir Blockade Impacting Sector Economy and Kira Run Opening Up to Mainstream Trade.
- One tiny fiction bit: One Step Ahead.
- And a lowdown on Delta Source.
Fan Club Breakfast in Dallas
The Star Wars Fan Club is throwing a Breakfast at the Dallas Sci-Fi Expo next month. Jeremy Bulloch and Steve Sansweet will guest. Tickets go on sale Monday.
The Catchup: Friday morning reading list
NEWS
- Yoda stamp set to be dedicated Oct. 25 at Madison Square Garden, while Artoo mailboxes move out overseas for military duty.
- Wired spotlights Robot Chicken and the New York Jedi.
ART & ARCHETYPES
- Liverpool Art and Culture Blog features Return of the Jedi artwork by Josh Kirby.
- Matt Busch corner: Behind the ‘Sith Circus’ poster; Color Pencil video.
- Mark Hamill narrates Green Arrow documentary on Smallville S6 DVDs.
FANDOM
- Stormtroopers love Weird Al.
- Dejarik: Can you play it? Yes!
- Know A Legion: Garrison Carida. 501st of West Virginia, Delaware, and Pennsylvania.
- Australian lottery winner plans to spend part of his winnings on Stormtrooper gear.
EVENTS
- Where Science Meets Imagination opens in Chicago next week.
- Geppi’s exhibit so popular, it gets an extension.
- Star Wars at the Binghamton Zoo.
EU on HYPERSPACE
The Catchup: And the kitchen sink
Trivia masters rejoice: Jeopardy! added a Star Wars category today. It’s already aired here (curses!) so I have to ask: just how obsessed does one have to be to make the $1000 question laughable?
In the News
- Add David Cronenberg to the list of directors who could have made Return of the Jedi. (via)
- TFN reports that Christine Hewett, who played one of the Tonnika sisters in ANH, has past away.
- Jake Lloyd as Anakin Skywalker tops New York Magazine’s list of ten annoying child actors they’d love to send to Kid Nation. I must object – one film, no matter how disapointing, simply isn’t enough to justify putting Lloyd above any prepubescent cast member of Full House. That show terrorized American airwaves for eight years, not counting syndication.
- AFI is sponsering 11 screenings in Hollywood to celebrate its 40th anniversary, including George Lucas presenting A New Hope. Alas, tickets “sold out faster than the Falcon made the Kessel Run,” as Stooge pointed out on Wednesday.
- IGN’s featured Dead Ewok (colloquially known to fandom as Corpsey) as their Obscure Character of the Day for (again) Wednesday.
- The Jedi Assembly celebrates fifth anniversary.
On the TOS
- The runup to Family Guy: Blue Harvest continues with an interview with writer/producer Alec Sulkin and giclée prints on Star Wars Shop.
- Pete Vilmur takes a look at the ‘pointy W’ logo.
- Hyperspace: Bantha Tracks covers Dragon*Con, while the Source Archive explored the insignia of Rogue Squadron and The New Republic as well as two more NewsNet articles: Ralltiir Uprising Quelled and Imperial Senate Suspended.
Links for breakfast: Bite-size news
With blackjack! And hookers!
- Hot rumor mill action! Jim Hill wonders if Lucasfilm and Disney are plotting something. Oh, oh! A land war in Asia!
Elsewhere in the media…
- David Lynch (briefly) talks about George’s offer to direct ROTJ. Sadly lacking in wacky Lynch-ness. (via)
- Star Wars-inspired shoes much less Star Wars-looking than expected. I am underwhelmed. Really, you could throw a SW logo on pretty much anything made of shiny black leather and call it Vader-inspired.
- Video of George Lucas at the D5 conference.
- I bet Phil knows this guy. Also every time I see the headline I think it says Mary Franklin.
- Star Wars namechecked in column on movie soundtracks, surprisingly absolutely no one.
- Artist re-envisions critic as a Hutt. Naturally. (via)
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