Well, it looks like SirDan no longer owns the largest Star Wars Lego set made. The Lego Ultimate Collectors Millennium Falcon is now shipping…complete with 5,000 pieces and a FOUR POUND manual. Dang.
Tis… not the season, but oh well
Star Wars Christmas stuff at Target already? We’re not even a full month to Halloween yet!
Go grinding with R2-D2
Spice up your table with astromech droppings. Sure to go fabulously with your Phantom Menace dinnerware. (via Gizmodo, which also linked Star Wars Kubricks and a motorized Lego AT-AT today.)
Future Star Wars countdown
Live Long and Get a Cool Casket?
Some people spend their lives devoted to their fandom. Now you can spend the afterlife doing the same.
Yes, there is now a licensee who will make Star Trek themed coffins. And they’re available around the world!
No prices listed, as yet. I suspect you really need the whole “…and prosper” part of the “Live long and prosper” to get one. (Thanks to Rachel)
Han Solo wears girl boots
Your daily dose of the 70’s/80’s nostalgia vortex: Recycled and recycling Star Wars toys.
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)
On StarWars.com
Did the Jar-Jar tongue suckers make it?
Be sure to nab the latest issue of Toyfare to see which eight Star Wars toys grace their list of the 100 best toys of the last decade.
Gentle Giant offers discount
Looks like that Hyperspace membership just got a bit more valuable… Gentle Giant is now offering a permanent discount to all members of the Fan Club. As long as they order via StarWarsShop, that is. Ahh, the circle of commerce!
Get yer EU figures now!
Comic Packs spotted in the wild. Not really a huge surprise, given they’re supposedly to go on sale today…