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The music of Star Wars is pretty much engraved in the souls of the fans that love the series and that’s all due to one man, John Williams. He created a memorable score for all the films, filling each scene with happiness, triumph, danger, fear, and a ton of other emotions. Without it, the action would have been lifeless. Well, now as a tribute to the works of the man himself, the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles will be hosting Star Wars: The Concert this summer for two special engagements, a show that is returning to the US for the first time in a long time.

The narrator will be the character who oddly enough admitted he was bad at telling stories, C3PO’s alter ego, Anthony Daniels, who tours with the show and recites the tale of all six movies, shortened down to two hours. Daniels says that the story has been cleaned up to fit the schedule without losing the most important parts. He also says that it will be much more understandable, folding up some of the...

Yesterday, in our news from the galaxy, we talked about a new iPhone cover that would certainly be of interest to Apple and Star Wars fans. Instead of George Lucas or Harrison Ford preserved in Carbonite, it was Steve Jobs. The very realistic looking piece was very cool and it went for around $35.

Society6, who sells lots of different covers from Star Wars to Sesame Street to other fun and unique designs was selling the item on their website, but it was pulled and speculation began that there was some one out there that objected. Since they are still carrying the items from George Lucas, it seems to be that it was Apple or perhaps Steve Jobs himself that complained, once the news went viral. We’d mentioned about getting it fast before the legal eagles caught it. It was a cool idea, maybe they can get Jobs to okay it with a licensing agreement. After all, it wouldn’t be the first time that products got scrapped and then came back with new agreements, right...

LucasArts will go into a long term contract with Epic Games, who makes the Unreal Engine 3.0, which is a high tech gaming developer’s platform that will allow their games to be created for the mobile, PC and the consoles. The gaming engine, named after Epic’s wildly popular game Unreal, is licensed to various companies for their developers to write games without having to worry about the nuts and bolts of interfacing with the various components, but rather focusing on the game itself. There is no word on what LucasArts will develop with the award winning foundation software, but we are sure it will be pretty cool. The Unreal Engine is one of the best out there.

First it was Han Solo in carbonite from Empire Strikes Back, then it was George Lucas, and now another creative business type has joined in the fray. Who you ask? Why Steve Jobs of course. The flamboyant CEO of Apple is seemingly dipped in the deep freeze for an iPhone case. It will cost you $35...

We reported on a man in Oklahoma who is on a mission to give America a common goal, which is to create a full size fully function Imperial Walker (AT-AT) from Empire Strikes Back. Mike Koehler is a father of three who after hearing about the Robocop statue in Detroit, decided to start a similar grassroots effort to create the massive vehicle. And he started raising money for it through a website called Kickstarter that exists to help inventors and ideas people get the funding they need to create a project. He has already raised over $400 from people who would like to see this work, even though he admits he has no idea how much such a beast would cost.

And that is where LucasFilms has a problem. They contacted Mike after the news of his intentions went viral and realized he was raising money. While they stated that they would truly like to see an AT-AT actually built and would appreciate the cooperative effort to do so, they objected to him raising money...

In an announcement that I’m sure will make many lonely players happy, having suffered on a particular server away from their friends who are on the new server, their prayers and letters have been answered. Starting April 26th after 4am PDT (7am EDT), they will be able to transfer their characters to the server of their choice for free, the only limitation being that the Starsider characters can be transferred out, but not into the Starsider server. Once you have completed the transfer for free, you must leave that character on that server for at least 90 days before trying another one.

And there are some simple limitations, but we doubt that these will affect very many who currently play. For one, the account has to be in good standing and not behind in payment or suspended. The character itself must be at least 90 days old on the current server. Oh and one more thing. When you transfer it, your in game personality must be on one of the ten original ground...

For those of you who had never been to Disneyland’s Star Wars events, they have this thing for the kids called the Jedi Academy. The idea is for the little kid go up and pretend they are a Jedi knight that has to fight Darth Vader or Darth Maul to graduate. Usually the guy playing Mace Windu is there to tell the kids to activate their lightsaber and go for a few hits against Vader’s saber. But not this little girl. After Vader says to Windu “If you won’t turn to the Dark Side, perhaps she will.” Mace replies “I don’t think so.” The girl then says that she wants to join the Dark Side and kneels before Vader in the same way Darth knelt before the Emperor, much to the surprise of both of them and the crowd. The guy playing Windu, though, was pretty quick on his feet as far as a reply, but the scene is hilarious.


The girl, Sariah Gallego, was visiting Disneyland with her family...

Five years ago, LucasFilms opened an animation studio in Singapore that has been instrumental in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animation tasks, including animation, visual effects, and video game production. But the production facility has always been housed in various places, rather than in a central location. LucasFilms is planning on rectifying that by building a whole new studio that will be able to accommodate all of the divisions of the production house, making room for 1000 or more employees.

But this would not really be big news if it weren’t for the design. Buildings are built every day, but not like this. If you remember back to Star Wars Episode I: A New Hope with the scene with the Jawas, they travelled in a rather huge looking vehicle that looked a cross between a junk yard crusher and a tank. They called it a sandcrawler. Well now LucasFilm has taken that design and created a building blueprint for their new facility. The building will be...

Can a real AT-AT be built life size and fully functional? A man in Oklahoma wants to find out. Michael Koehler, a Star Wars fanatic is working up plans to build the monstrosity as a way to unite Sci-Fi fans and generally create a rallying cry from a national project.

For those of you not as Star Wars literate, the AT-AT (All Terrain Armored Transport) are also known as Imperial Walkers. They were the big dog like robots that towered above the rebels on Hoth in the Empire Strikes Back. They could crush anything with their massive feet, while shooting lasers out of their “noses.” A pilot would sit in the head portion and drive the tank with legs over the rebellion forces. Heavily armored, Luke and company found the only way to bring them down was to basically trip them by using a grappling hook and tow cable or to put a grenade in their belly, through a convenient bottom door.

The estimated 73 foot vehicle has already been created at Star Tours in Orlando...

It didn’t look like an x-wing trying to pick off a tie fighter with short laser cannon bursts, but it was a laser weapon, bringing us closer to the Star Wars realm. In this version, it’s more of an unseen steady beam that when targeted at enemies can cause extreme burning, and perhaps even explosions if aimed at the right location (such as gas motors, etc). The US Navy is currently testing such a weapon on the USS Paul Foster. Normally, water serves to hamper such a beam, but this one is able to withstand the issues and work as directed. While gun mounts are not yet being placed on every ship, the military is hopeful after positive results that this could be a new tool in their arsenal, especially against sea pirates. In the video, you can see the test performed by the Navy on April 6th against a mock ship. As you can see, it did some serious firestarting.


Earlier we mentioned...

We are sure you’ve seen the ads on TV that Windows 7 was everyone’s idea. The commercials start out by telling what their idea was and then how it was included in the operating system. It’s a cool ad to try to shake the all encompassing Microsoft reputation and put the OS in the hands of the people. Which I guess means that if your system crashes, you can blame your neighbor? That doesn’t seem fair to put the blame on him. He’s an elderly man that uses his laptop for getting email from his grandchildren. Just what is being implied here?

Like Microsoft, the other evil empire would also like to let other people take credit for their work. After all, the Death Star wasn’t built by people that were bent on world destruction. Well, okay it was, but why shouldn’t the end user of the fully operational battle station get some recognition to? After all, putting those guys right next to the beam that could destroy a planet was someone’s idea, right? Or that an...

You wouldn’t think of George Lucas as having a daughter that would be into something like Freestyle Cage Fighting, but she is and she’s quite good at it. In fact, she holds a record in 1-1 professional MMA fighting and beat her last opponent in a three round unanimous decision. Amanda Lucas, who is the filmmaker’s adopted oldest daughter, will be returning to the ring this Saturday in Shawnee, OH where she takes on Heather Martin.

For those of you wondering what this has to do with Star Wars, beyond being Lucas’ daughter is that Amanda was part of all three movies. In Phantom Menace, she played the voice of Tey How (a communications officer for the trade federation ship) and Diva Funquita (a dancer and assistant working for Gardulla the Elder). In Attack of the Clones, she was uncreditted as Adnama (a guest at the Outlander Club that Anakin and Obi-Wan visited while looking for the assassin) and in Revenge of the Sith, played Terr Taneel, who was the Senex...

It wasn’t long ago that 20th Century Fox, the studio that produces Star Wars, sued Battlestar Galactica over copyright infringement. But the love for BSG, both old and new, could not be snuffed out and the Clone Wars writers and supervising director Dave Filoni have managed to sneak some references in there without too much of an uproar.

For instance, in the original Battlestar, the red glow eyed metal soldiers would answer every order with “By your command” in a very robotic voice, a phrase you may have heard a Separatist tactical droid reply in the animated series. Since both of them sound very metallic, it seemed only natural to have them acknowledge their orders in a similar manner as a tribute.

But the connection between the tactical droids and the classic series doesn’t end there. According to Filoni, who spoke to Entertainment Weekly, there was a very big inspiration for the design and attributes of the droids that came from that show.

Many of you...