Bonnie tracks down creator Paul Souders to get the story of the Stained Glass Darth Vader.
Video: YJK of horrors
A Young Jedi Knights book recreated by the target demographic. Warning: Contains bad wigs and adolescent rap.
Growing up Star Wars: 1977-1985
This group on Flickr lets fans share their childhood pics and drawings. Above, the Fleming brothers and friends celebrate Halloween in 1977.
This inspired our latest poll, which you can find under the cut. Continue reading “Growing up Star Wars: 1977-1985″
The fandom minute
- Media: Civilian Alice Bradley’s account of life with two hard-core Star Wars fans.
- Fanzines: FF Portugal has released the first full issue of their zine, Undercity #1.
- 501st: Vader’s finest inducted comic writer John Ostrander as an honorary member at ICON earlier this month.
- Video: Cartoonist Adam Koford draws Yoda on Sketchcast. (via)
- Charity: The Washington DC Metro Area Star Wars Collecting Club is selling a Boba Fett pin to raise funds for young burn survivors.
New Bantha Tracks is ready for download
Bantha Tracks #85 went up last night, so Hyperspace members can head over to StarWars.com for an 8-page PDF featuring Germany’s Jedi-Con, WonderCon, and ‘Bantha babies’ (not to be confused with baby banthas. Next time?)
Video: Artoo loves the little children
Artoo gets down with the kids at Maker Faire 2008. See another clip on the StarWars.com blog, or learn more about this particular (ribbon-earning!) model at Gizmodo.
The fandom minute: Yodaspeak, 501st, art, advice
- Humor: Topless Robot tried to brand May 22 as ‘Talk like Yoda’ day – It didn’t really catch on, but be sure not to miss their twenty famous movie quotes as delivered by Yoda.
- Authors: Troy Denning inducted into the 501st Legion as an Honorary Member by the Empire City Garrison at a New York book signing.
- Sand art: Neatorama finds Star Wars sand sculpture by Mykyta and Egor Zigura disturbing. I can’t imagine why!
- Kids: Mommy, where does Darth Vader live?
Video: Star Wars according to a 3-year-old
I give up: Welcome to video day. How are you?
Video du jour: Whine Harder
Kids take a crack at Episode II and the Original trilogy. Their Anakin is totally going to star in American Pie 12 one day. Also… FerusFilms?
News: Clearly it’s time for a Star Wars baby
El Paso’s first baby of 2008 is Abigail Leia. Her parents, Susana and Roger Taber, also have two sons named Lucas and Anakin. (via)
- Naming your kids after Star Wars a bit much? How about living on ‘Alderon Woods’ or ‘Millennium Forest?’
- Rose Parade just a little less exciting this year. Not feeling at all guilty about sleeping through a parade: priceless.
- Darts champion John ‘Darth Maple’ Part gets his fan on with a Star Wars-themed entrance.
- Playing with toy weapons ‘aids learning.’ For boys. Now, please tell us your theories on torrid Barbie adventures.