Dee Bradley Baker needs no disguises. By voice alone, the actor leaves Fletch and his list of aliases in the dust, and his credits are stacked with geek power: From roles in the Halo and Gears of War franchises to regular parts in animated standouts like Batman: The Brave and the ...
At five years old, Matthew Wood saw Star Wars. Less than two decades later, he was working for its creator. Star Wars fans know him as the supervising sound editor at Skywalker Sound and the man who gave General Grievous that hacking cough in Revenge of the Sith, and he continues ...
Luke Skywalker: “You fought in the Clone Wars?” Ben Kenobi: “Yes. I was once a Jedi Knight, the same as your father.” Back in 1977 — and over the quarter century or so which followed — that’s pretty much all we learned about this galaxy-wide conflict that predated everything we knew (or ...
This Lego-produced video highlights some of the company’s activities and promotions at last week’s Star Wars Celebration V, including life-size statues and fan-made costumes. My favorite part, of course, is the time-lapse of the giant mura...
If you read reports about Star Wars Celebration V, which just wrapped up yesterday in Orlando, you may have heard about a never-before-screened deleted scene from Return of the Jedi that was shown as part of Jon Stewart’s interview of George Lucas. If you’re anything like us, you were instantly ...
No hinge pieces. No tricky angles or layered builds. Just 160,000+ Lego bricks hand pieced onto 4,608 six-by-six-block tiles over the first three days of Star Wars Celebration V. Watching this 8-by-15-foot mural come together has been one of my favorite things this weekend. You came up to the often-crowded table, ...
There are some seriously incredible costumes on display here at Star Wars Celebration V, and more than a few kids who’ve donned armor or cloaks or head-tails which are made all the more impressive because they show off ingenuity and family involvement. Jacksonville dad Andy Escobar (who’s been a sandtrooper, a ...
My daughter is 13 years old, which means, of course, that keeping her cool exterior even in the face of nearly uncontainable excitement is pretty much as natural as breathing. So when she took a break from goofing on my geek glee during yesterday morning’s drive to Star Wars Celebration ...
How ambitious is StarWars.com editor and author Bonnie Burton when it comes to turning piles of stuff into icons from a familiar galaxy far. far away? Can you say Hammerhead Sock Doll? How about duct-tape-and-coffee-cup AT-AT planter? Or the couch-sized Jabba the Hutt body pillow? And those are just some of the ...
Despite their similarities, all Astromechs aren’t built alike. The R2-D2 Builders’ room here at Star Wars Celebration V is just bursting with a display of creativity and DIY know-how from all over the world. Way more to see here than just your father’s Artoo: Expanded Universe variations, full customs, sound systems, ...