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Collecting

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

Want 20% off on Star Wars posters?
>> Go to AllPosters.com.
>> Place your order.
>> Enter coupon code DADGRAD
>> Get 20% off.
Remember to use the coupon for 20% off! The coupon expires June 10.

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Books

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

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 Gaming

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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Shop

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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Multimedia

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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Prequels

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

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!”

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Prequels

GFA Review: Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith

This one- this movie- is for you. Personally. It is a big fat present with a bow on top specially gift wrapped for you. You who feared, doubted and secretly dreaded that the prequels wouldn’t live up to everything you had dreamt of. Henceforth there will be no more Star Wars movies and this one is our parting gift. SPOILER FREE

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Prequels

Revenge of the Sith Mini-Review

It’s 3AM and I just got back; I will keep this short. The last 45 minutes of this movie are the most satisfying in Star Wars history. Remember the kid inside you that heard Vader say ‘The circle is now complete’ and wondered what it was all about? Remember wondering who that old crazy Ben […]

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Prequels

5 Hours to Go

The end is upon us. In five hours, I will be sitting in a packed theatre full of the faithful; and in 2.5 hours from then it will be over. Faithful readers, this site shall live on. And many others like it. And out there in the world children will keep discovering the films for […]

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Fun Facts

Fun Facts: See Things Before They Happen

In the novelization of Episode I, Anakin tells Padme, “I’m going to marry you some day.” Talk about seeing things before they happen!

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Prequels

Star Wars Marathon in London

As I type this, people are watching The Phantom Menace after having sat through the original trilogy since 06:00 AM this morning. The evening will end with Revenge of the Sith; but they’ve had fans, costumes, the Royal Philharmonic playing the themes and all kinds of general mayhem. The best report online is at BBC […]

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Prequels

Episode III Report from Cannes

The official web site of the Cannes Film Festival has a lot of cool pictures of the screening. Natalie Portman looks very different with her shaved head for the upcoming Wachowski brothers’ movie. George Lucas had the following to say about the political context of the film: “Because this is the back story, and one […]