LEGO is showing off all manner of cool things at the San Diego Comic Con – including the latest Star Wars set based on the Rancor pit scene from Return of the Jedi.
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COSPLAY: Mini Darth Maul
Loving all the cosplay pictures coming out of SDCC so far, but it will be hard for anyone to top this, in my opinion.
This is what I aspired to dress like when I went to see Phantom Menace when I was seven, but my parents squished out that dream. Keep on cosplaying little buddy.
Star Wars Reads Day announced
Press Release
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.
SDCC’12: Brian Wood to pen Star Wars tale
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.
STATUES: Jiana Solo kicks of Kotobukiya line of Star Wars ARTFX Bishoujo statues
“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.
SDCC’12: Hasbro shows off Carbonite Collector’s pack
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.
THE MERCH: Mimoco unveils Return of the Jedi Mimobot series
Press Release
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.
SOLICITATIONS: Dark Horse Comics for September 2012
Dark Horse Comics sent Major Spoilers the cover images and solicitation information for titles arriving in September 2012.
Major Spoilers Question Of The Day: Four Spacemen Enter, Two Spacemen Leave Edition
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?
Major Spoilers Podcast #416: That George Lucas Guy
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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TOYS: M.C. Escher gets LEGO treatment
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.
ADULT FILMS: Whatever happened to those props from Star Wars XXX?
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.