My cousin Ian Cox turned me onto this Star Wars cut set to AC/DC’s song “Thunderstruck.” The editor did a very good job transforming the film into a music video with carefully timed transitions and editing techniques.
Star Wars Set to AC/DC’s Thunderstruck on YouTube
November 13, 2011
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It Begins, the Tantive IV
August 7, 2011
More to come soon . . .
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Lego’s Latest Star Wars Millennium Falcon 7965 Set Looks True to the Original
July 29, 2011
Lego’s newest version of the Millennium Falcon is the truest version yet to what we see in the original Star Wars film. Go here for more views of the Falcon’s interior to see why. I will have to save my lunch money to get one of these to build!
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Let’s Play Lucasarts X-Wing Flight Simulator
July 4, 2011
One of my favorite games for PC is Star Wars: X-Wing by Lucasarts. Actually, the main force behind my wanting a PC at the time besides the fact that my Commodore Amiga died was knowing that a game like X-Wing was coming out. I had already spent months studying how PCs work and how to build one for myself that I settled on the components that I wanted, but I had one custom built by a local computer shop in Brunswick.
In the video above, MaliciDWildman takes us through the beginning of X-Wing, and he has a full series of the missions available in this playlist.
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More Online Star Wars Properties Go Offline, Sony and Lucasarts Announce End of Life for Galaxies
June 26, 2011Slashdot.org reports that Sony and Lucasarts announced the end of life for Star Wars Galaxies, the massively multiplayer online game set in the Star Wars universe. December 15, 2011 is the day for Galaxies and the accompanying collectible card game (aka trading card game). Many reports of the uneven execution of Galaxies kept me away from the game. Now, I wish that I had devoted some time to try it out for myself. Unfortunately, I don’t think that I have the spare time to try it out before its servers go silent. Read more about the shutdown here.
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Star Wars Lego 10221 Super Star Destroyer Arrives in September 2011
June 20, 2011
From Bricks to Bothans posted pictures of the upcoming Super Star Destroyer set from Lego. Darth Vader’s flagship from The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi looks most impressive. It includes minifigs of Darth Vader, Admiral Firmus Piett, IG-88, Dengar, and Bossk. Unfortunately, like the awesome Death Star set, it is priced out of my budget at $399, but I am sure some luck Lego builders will enjoy it regardless of its high cost.
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George Lucas Strikes Back, Trailer on Youtube
June 3, 2011
I found this gem on BoingBoing yesterday morning. “George Lucas Strikes Back” is an over-the-top movie idea presented in the form of a movie trailer without a movie. These types of trailers are created by fans and filmmakers as a way to pitch an idea or present a “what if” scenario. They can also be used as leverage for funding to make a full short or long film based on the concept presented in the trailer.
“George Lucas Strikes Back” posits that the real Lucas was kidnapped after Return of the Jedi when he began talking publicly about making smaller budget films. It was, according to the logic of the trailer, an evil, logical mastermind who replaced the real Lucas with a fake Lucas, supported by Jar Jar Binks, Darth Maul, and Clone Troopers, who went on to create the Star Wars prequels and the fourth installment of the Indiana Jones films. It is irreverent and fun. I recommend checking it out.
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Found on The Brothers Brick: First images of upcoming 7879 Hoth Echo Base
June 2, 2011More Lego Star Wars sets are in the works! It looks like we will see an expansion to the Rebel base on Hoth from The Empire Strikes back. I missed the original Hoth Base set, but I suspect it will be a fun build in my future after I have a permanent job. Go here for pictures: First images of upcoming 7879 Hoth Echo Base | The Brothers Brick | LEGO Blog.
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Found on The Brothers Brick: 10,000 piece Lego Star Wars Sandcrawler measures over 3 feet long
June 2, 2011More Star Wars Lego goodness from The Brothers Brick: Click through for pictures of Marshal Banana’s 10,000 piece Lego Star Wars Sandcrawler that measures over 3 feet long. It is amazing that someone has the ability to create something this detailed with Lego, and it is equally amazing that they love Jawas enough to dedicate their craft to their humble technoscientific roving home.
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Help ArchiveTeam.org Save Forums.StarWars.com
May 19, 2011
I blogged earlier this month that Lucasfilm/Lucasonline plans to shutter forums.starwars.com at the beginning of June 2011.
Today, a commenter asked for help with the Archive Team’s effort to preserve the site–something that they have already done with the Star Wars forums on Yahoo.com. The details are below:
An effort to preserve a public copy of forums.starwars.com is underway by the ArchiveTeam.org. If you are a Linux user (there’s a coordination script) w/ grep 2.6.2, bandwidth to spare and multiple GBs of free harddrive space to save thousands of 4k-12k .html files. Please stop by the irc. #archivestrikesback irc.efnet.org (or the main ArchiveTeam irc #archiveteam)
[or if you can wget, we'll figure something out]The ArchiveTeam.org in the past preserved starwars.yahoo.com before it’s demise, in addition to non-SW saves like Geocities and currently working on Friendster.
More details of the archiving effort are available on their mediawiki-enabled site here.
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