Tag Archive | "Star Wars"

Is there some football on?

Friday, June 11, 2010

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Now some of you might hate the prospect of a month of World Cup football, but me. I’m looking forward to a month of bliss; the agony of watching England, trying not to swear too badly in front of my daughter. The one thing a modern World Cup does bring out of the woodwork is [...]

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Not the character designs to a new Star Wars animated series…. sadly.

Monday, May 31, 2010

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Ben Balistrari shares his 30 favourite Star Wars characters with us. All are great. I just picked the four favourites I remember from when I used to play with the toys. (Via Superpunch)

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Star Wars 1950

Sunday, May 23, 2010

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What if the Empire Strikes Back had been made in the glorious era of 1950s Sci-Fi?(via Resident Clubber’s Twitter)

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Baroque Star Wars

Sunday, May 16, 2010

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Just silly, nice though…. A whole gallery of these at the portfolio site of Swedish artist Mattias Adolfsson. (Via Boing Boing)

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Training the next generation of Imperial troops

Saturday, May 15, 2010

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BoingBoing has this archive pic of an old kid’s playset and one of the more unusual items of Star Wars merchandising – it’s a kid’s climbing frame and swing playset (and a very shoogly looking one at that! Very unstable looking, even before being attacked by Ewoks). It’s inspired by the Scout Walkers from Return [...]

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Star Wars trilogy in Lego in just over two minutes!

Monday, May 10, 2010

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This has been getting blogged about all over the web over the last few days so some of you may have seen it already, but in case you haven’t then prepare to marvel at the genius of the original Star Wars trilogy compressed into just over two minutes and animated entirely in that most magical [...]

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Vader-san – fab Star Wars samurai art

Thursday, April 8, 2010

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Brooklyn artist Steve Bialik has been creating a fab series, Samurai Star Wars on his Stevapalooza blog, with several beautifully detailed works up already. Just check out his cool Samurai Darth Vader! I’m now imagining what a Kurosawa Japanese version of Star Wars might have looked like… (via Geek Native) (Samurai Vader by and (c) [...]

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More animated Star Wars in the works

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

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The BBC site reports that following the Clone Wars a second Star Wars animated television series is in development. It gets better -Seth Green and Matthew Senreich, no strangers to animating Star Wars via their brilliant Robot Chicken parodies – are involved in plotting the new series with Lucas, and the show will have a [...]

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365 days with Stormtroopers

Monday, April 5, 2010

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Flickr user Stéfan Le Dû has a fab set inspired by the 365 days projects, decided to do his own 365 project but using a pair of 12″ Imperial Stormtrooper figures, with some great results. Talking to Wired he explained “I got a new camera and I had some Stormtroopers figures sleeping in their blister [...]

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Science fiction superfan guide

Thursday, April 1, 2010

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Geek Tyrant has this great cut-out-and-keep reference guide to superfans of some of the major science fiction and fantasy series out there, from Star Wars and Star Trek to Firefly and Avatar and taking in Lost along the way, going from fairly straightforward (uberfan’s nicknames, such as Trekkers or Trekkies) to how to piss off [...]

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LOL Wars

Thursday, March 25, 2010

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This tickled me just right; clearly the Farce is strong with this one. (from Front via the Twitter of Mark Kardwell, who should know better, but means well, bless ‘im; according to Mr K the cartoon is by Warwick Johnson Cadwell) And since we’re on a Star Wars theme, how about this fab Death Star [...]

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Boba Fett busker

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

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Now this guy has class – a busking accordion player in the New York subway, wearing a Boba Fett helmet. Bounty hunting Boba Fett busker? It’s mad but true – I love it when real life throws up something wonderfully weird like this in an everyday location, it makes life that little bit more magical. [...]

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Geek Army Knife

Sunday, March 14, 2010

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Made me smile. How many do you recognise? (via Buzz Feed)

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“Das war Han Solo…” – German girl can ID Star Wars figures using just her mouth!

Friday, March 12, 2010

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Here’s a delightfully odd video clip for the end of the working week -- this young German girl is blindfolded (with a customised Star Wars blindfold, no less) on a German television show and then identifies Star Wars mini figures using just her mouth! Or perhaps she was secretly channeling the force? I mean Luke [...]

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When Lynch met Lucas

Friday, March 5, 2010

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Sascha Ciezata has created a great animation of maverick auteur David Lynch discussing being asked by head Jedi George Lucas to tackle some Star Wars (seriously, could you imagine a David Lynch Star Wars??? An especially freaky episode of Battlestar Galactica maybe, but SW?): When Lynch Met Lucas from Sascha Ciezata on Vimeo.

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