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Lucasfilm and its publishing partners announced today a national Star Wars Reads Day to be held this October 6, 2012. Star Wars Reads Day is a multi-publisher initiative that celebrates reading and Star Wars. On October 6, events will take place at hundreds of bookstores and libraries across the United States.
While we don’t know all of the announcements Dark Horse Comics will make during their The Future of Star Wars Publishing panel at the San Diego Comic Con this Friday, Brian Wood has let the world know he will be writing an ongoing Star Wars book for the company.
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LEGO Systems, Inc., the world’s leading construction toy manufacturer, unveils its largest ever San Diego Comic-Con presence with a “theme of the day” calendar of events that celebrates its top licensed properties including LEGO® THE LORD OF THE RINGS™ and LEGO THE HOBBIT™, LEGO Super Heroes, LEGO Star Wars™ and LEGO NINJAGO. LEGO Systems welcomes show attendees with displays of life-size models, first-ever “reveals” of LEGO building sets and limited edition giveaways. In addition, attendees are invited to help “build” a section of its booth each day that features 7.5 feet tall mosaics of Comic Con favorites at booth #2829 of the San Diego Convention Center, July 12-15.
“That kid can fly!” – Han Solo, referring to his daughter Jaina
Kotobukiya has announced a new line of ARTFX Bishoujo statues based on the Star Wars franchise, and the first out of the gate is Han Solo’s daughter, Jaina.
Hasbro has a ton of exclusive toys coming to the San Diego Comic-Con, and Star Wars fans are going to want to get their hands on the Special Edition Carbonite Chamber Collector’s Pack.
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Mimoco, makers of the MIMOBOT® line of designer USB flash drives and MIMOMICRO™ card readers, is announcing the release of Star Wars MIMOBOT Series 8 featuring iconic characters from Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. The eighth series in the Star Wars MIMOBOT collection includes Jabba the Hutt, Slave Leia, Jedi Luke, Admiral Ackbar, and Biker Scout – a joint 2012 San Diego Comic-Con and Star Wars Celebration VI exclusive – all sporting classic stylized MIMOBOT designs.
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Star Wars Celebration welcomes writer, director, and fanboy Kevin Smith to a galaxy far, far away! Star Wars Celebration, taking place August 23-26, at the Orange County Convention Center, is the world’s biggest Star Wars party, featuring events, activities, and special guests from the theatrical Star Wars saga through Star Wars: The Clone Wars and all the books, comics, toys, and games in between! Guests include names tied to the core of the Star Wars saga such as Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) and Ian McDiarmid (Emperor Palpatine) as well as celebrity fans including Seth Green (Robot Chicken) and Chris Hardwick (Nerdist).
Now, Star Wars Celebration is excited to have Kevin Smith make his Celebration debut, kicking off the convention with a special “Evening with Kevin Smith” on August 23rd!
LucasFilm sent Major Spoilers the trailer for the fifth season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
On the Major Spoilers Podcast, we have talked at length, as all nerds have, about the twin cornerstones of science-fiction: The sleek, clean antiseptic future of Star Trek and the dissipated, totemic long, long ago of Star Wars. Major Spoilers’ own Rodrigo has urged us all to stop the nerd-on-nerd violence, so we won’t be discussing which world is superior or has better acting. (To be frank, Shatner and Hamill kind of cancel one another out on that front.) But once in a while, you just have to let you mind wander and let your pop culture idols lay the imaginary smackdown on one another. It is, in the words of Chris Knight, a moral imperative.
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always “misquoted”) goes where no man has gone before. to a galaxy far, far away, asking: Who wins: Kirk and Spock or Luke and Han?
In this issue: A whole lotta Star Wars talk, as we discuss everything from Star Wars 1313 to George Lucas’ retirement, and a bunch of stuff in-between.
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Who hasn’t seen M.C. Esher’s Relativity? It graces the walls of college dorms around the world, but now Star Wars fans can get in on the at with a Star Wars Lego-themed interpretation of the famous piece of art.
Star Wars XXX: A Porn Parody was a big hit and sold well, and Vivid Entertainment let us know what happened to that kick-ass Landspeeder from the film.