First there was MacSaber… The WiiSaber and, now, finally… The iSaber. Sure, it’s in beta mode, but what good are your geek status symbols if they don’t make lightsaber noises?
Catching up with Labor Day weekend
George Lucas is becoming ‘increasingly involved’ with the Clone Wars animated series. Good? Bad? Gungan? Only time will tell! In other CW news, Disney really wants the broadcast rights.
Infodrop
- American Heritage covers ILM before computers. (via)
- Dan Wallace spotlights Michael Allen Horne, who authored two pivotal RPG guidebooks for West End Games.
- The Legacy Revealed reruns Thursday.
- The new Insider is shipping. It also appears on the latest Diamond shipping list (for comic stores) so probably available in standard book shops as well.
Listings
- The Empire Strikes Back makes Premiere’s list of twenty biggest plot twists.
- USA Today’s Whitney Matheson picks Vader’s lightsaber as the most awesome movie prop.
Weird & Wacky
- Steamtroopers! Steampunk stormtroopers, Fett and an Alien pal spotted in Dubai mall. (via)
- The Darth Vader lamp. Well, that’s… ironic. (via)
Lightsaber safe in Texas
Chewbacca hands saber over to NASA
The Wookiee and several of his costumed friends presented NASA officials with the Skywalker lightsaber today at Oakland International Airport. The lightsaber will be met in Houston by the R2-D2, the 501st and a police escort who will accompany it to NASA
Up, up and away
Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber heading to space. For real!
UPDATE: Expect plenty of coverage over at the TOSblog tomorrow!
Homeland Security blinds with science!
An elegant weapon for a more civilized age? Not exactly… (Thanks Stooge!)
Chewbacca’s head up for auction
Profiles in History’s latest auction contains the aforementioned head, Anakin and Obi-Wan lightsabers from AOTC and TPM, and the Grail tablet from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Get thee a Wired
According to the TOSblog, the August issue of Wired, devoted to how-tos, has several Star Wars features. There are instructions for adding lightsabers to videos all over the internet, but action figure arranging from Robot Chicken’s head writers might be unique. (It’s the first thing that comes up in Google, anyway.)
Master Replicas’ Mara saber revealed
“The one and only Master Replicas Limited Edition lightsaber from the Expanded Universe.” Already sold out! It’s amazing what collectors are willing to drop $300+ dollars on…
Unforseen bit of EU merchandise
Among the items Master Replicas will be producing before the end of the year (when their license expires) is a Mara Jade Lightsaber Limited Edition. (Scroll all the way down.) I’m guessing it’s the purple one, since the Anakin/Luke saber would be rather redundant.