The following is the text of the Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope opening scroll: Episode IV, A NEW HOPE It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire. During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans […]
Author: DevanJedi
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Happy 7th Birthday
GalaxyFarAway.com is 7 years old this week. Back in 1998 I set it up on a Tripod.com location that is still active; I used to call it TGFFA for The Galaxy Far, Far Away and it used to look something like this. In the summer of 1999, the summer of Episode I, I bought this […]
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Star Wars on the Internet
While there are tons of people who surf the internet in search of Star Wars mp3s, midis, sound clips, videos and jpegs; a lot of people would just like to find new and cool Star Wars stuff on the internet. To that end, I present to you two tools:
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Image Gallery Redux
The GalaxyFarAway.com Star Wars Image Gallery which is home to over 1000 Star Wars images- from prequel pics to toys to Wallpapers to all kinds of weird and cool stuff – we’ve revamped the section and are bringing it up to date.
This story comes via Slashdot from the desk of Ghent on the new Star Wars blogs. Ghent’s 7-year old son had interesting observations regarding the original trilogy after having watched the prequels: “Look… Obi-Wan is pretending he doesn’t know R2-D2.” “Is Chewbacca the only Wookiee that survives the Clone Wars?” (with great concern) A lot […]
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Star Wars: Amputations
Now this came in a couple of days ago courtesy of Perry- and while I can’t see myself buying these T-shirts, but if you’re the kind of person who would, I understand! The web site, Angry Yoda: Dismemories (yes, that’s the name!), creates crazy t-shirts with dismemberments from the Star Wars movies drawn like my […]
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Tie Fighter Case Mod + Table
Through this story at Slashdot, I found this fantastic winner of a sci-fi PC case-mod competition at ExtremeTech. In his (Dave Barry of NY) own words: My case mod is a scale model of a Star Wars TIE Fighter, with a computer built right into the cockpit. And, it’s also a desk! The whole case […]
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Great Deal on Star Wars Posters
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Remember to use the coupon for 20% off! The coupon expires June 10.
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On Aaron Allston
Recently a journalist named Jeff Salamon contacted me about to get a feel for what I though about Aaron Allston’s books; I never heard back from him but I recently googled him and found this article in the Austin American-Statesman newspaper. Nice to know he did get his piece out there. This is what I sent him earlier in May:
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Fun Facts: Irritated Tauntauns
Tauntauns are irritated by the ultrasonic frequencies of certain droids, such as 3PO units, and tend to swat them with their tails. The droids of Echo Base have learned to be careful. (Source: Star Wars Visual Dictionary)
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Classic Games for Download
We have brought back some of the classic games we had on the site for download! If anyone knows of any others we should include or any compelling reason (legal, moral) that we should remove the ones we have, let us know.
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500th Star Wars Figure: Darth Vader
The 500th Star Wars figure is now available for pre-order at Amazon. It is a very cool figure of Darth Vader in his chamber from The Empire Strikes Back.
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Star Wars Downloads
We have just updated/fixed a lot of stuff in the Multimedia section here. Many new sections and many old sections revived!
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Episode III Box Office
UPDATE: $50mn OPENING DAY
Can we sink the Titanic? It’s too early to say, but many other records are going to be rewritten within the next few days as Episode III takes on the world.
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Fun Facts: Star Dudes
A few months before the release of Episode I: The Phantom Menace, actor Liam Neesson (Qui-Gon Jinn) got an anonymous phone call in the middle of the night saying, “Dude… Star Wars… yeah!”