Breaking: Relive the Betrayal at Cloud City With New Star Wars LEGO
LEGO just announced the latest kit in the Star Wars Master Builder Series, centered on Cloud City and featuring critical scenes and piles of minifigs.
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Tag: Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
May the Fourth Be With Thee! A Dose of Star Wars… Shakespeare-Style
Author Ian Doescher is at it again — he released his latest book back in March, The Empire Striketh Back, a retelling of what is considered by most fans to be the best of the first three Star Wars movies… but written as if Shakespeare had been the scriptwriter. The obvious follow-up to his Star Wars: Verily A New Hope, the book features dozens of scratchboard illustrations including another amazing cover.
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Happy Birthday, John Ratzenberger!
You know him best as Rebel Major Bren Derlin in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. No? As a missile controller in Superman, or a NASA controller in Superman II? Oh, yeah, and I think he was on some decades-old TV sitcom set at a bar in Boston. However you know him, John Ratzenberger turns 67 years old today.
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Star Wars – The Fandom Editors – A Real New Hope
With all the excitement around Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm and their promise to release loads more Star Wars films over the coming years, we take a look at the many ways ‘Faneditors’ have chopped up the first six films – sometimes trying to restore then to their former glories and others times turning them into something new entirely.
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Bobby Sussman’s Star Wars With Toys
Fans of Star Wars love to remix and recreate their favourite movie using a multitude of mediums – animators, editors, filmmakers, artists illustrators and photographer have all had a play in that galaxy far, far away and now it’s the turn of Instagram user Bobby Sussman and his Star Wars with toys series.
Continue ReadingIncredible Diorama of the Battle of Hoth from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
I saw this come across Twitter yesterday, and get picked up on a few sites, but it obviously deserves more attention. This guy, who goes by the handle “Zipidi Doodah,” built a scale diorama of the Hoth Battle in his …
Continue ReadingThe Uncle in Carbonite
I was drawing pictures with my nephew Jack. “What shall we draw?” I asked. “Let’s draw Star Wars,” Jack said, innocently enough. We began to draw Star Wars. Jack drew a guy, then a box. Next he drew a face …
Continue ReadingFarewell To Empire Strikes Back Director Irvin Kershner
There’s no shortage of reasons why The Empire Strikes Back still stands as the best thing ever to come out of the Star Wars saga, but for all the things that make that 1980 movie great, a ton of credit …
Continue ReadingTop 10 Movie Plot Holes You Probably Never Noticed Before
It’s a rare movie that has no plot holes at all. Even movies nearly everyone likes, like Star Wars (I speak of Episode IV, in case that’s unclear), are occasionally rife with them. Of course, for many geeks — myself …
Continue ReadingThe Empire Strikes Back, Reworked Into A Silent Movie
Can there be too much news about Star Wars in a single week? Of course not! Here, then, is The Empire Strikes Back, reimagined as a silent film. Yes, the idea has been tried before, but this version really captures …
Continue Reading30 Reasons the Empire Still Rules
Let’s be honest: At 30 years old, it’s been ages since The Empire Strikes Back has gotten carded while buying drinks in the Mos Eisley cantina. And yet it remains generally acknowledged that on May 21, 1980 – that’s four …
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