TUTORIAL: How To Speedpaint Stormtrooper Minis from Star Wars
Join him on Alpha paint those #happylittleminis! Fantasy Flight Games’ newest miniature game, Star Wars: Legion, is set to release next month. Coincidentally, the recent episodes of G&S’s Painter’s Guild cover miniature painting basic skills, with this week’s episode introducing speedpainting skills.
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Fans Are Petitioning Disney to Let Ava DuVernay Direct a Star Wars Film
A new petition is gathering steam online, with the goal of bringing some attention to the issue of diversity/inclusion within the creative side of the Star Wars universe. In order to do so, the petition requests that director Ava DuVernay be given a Star Wars film to helm, and it’s gathering signatures by the …
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Chinese Figure Skaters Perform Routine to ‘Star Wars’ Soundtrack
The worlds of sci-fi cinema and athletic competitions don’t always go hand-in-hand, but figure skaters Xiaoyu Yu and Hao Zhang changed things up a bit by using music from the Star Wars saga in their routine at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games. During their free skating competition, the …
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Get Classic Star Wars Games Up to 65% Off on Steam
Here’s a deal that even Darth Vader wouldn’t dare alter. Nearly the entire library of classic Star Wars games on Steam — along with some other Lucasfilm-produced gems of yesteryear — are on sale for up to 65% off. This includes all-time greats Star Wars: Empire at War – Gold Pack (50% off), LEGO …
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NASCAR’s Ryan Blaney shares ‘Star Wars’ milking scene theory
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – If you’ve seen the most recent Star Wars film, The Last Jedi, you probably know what we’re talking about here. There is a very brief but shockingly memorable moment when Luke Skywalker is on his remote planet with Rey, and he milks a local creature and drinks the green …
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Aspiring Jedi/NASCAR driver Ryan Blaney shares his ‘Star Wars’ weird milking scene theory
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – If you’ve seen the most recent Star Wars film, The Last Jedi, you probably know what we’re talking about here. There is a very brief but shockingly memorable moment when Luke Skywalker is on his remote planet with Rey, and he milks a local creature and drinks the green …
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Student Research: Turning a Love of ‘Star Wars’ into a Critical Examination of Gender
Sydney Benjamin ’19 has merged her love of ’80s films and her interest in the representation, broadly, of race and gender in mass media into an independent study exploring gender in Star Wars. Benjamin, an English and Gender, Women’s and Sexuality double major, says she appreciates ’80s movies …
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‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ action figures debut ahead of Toy Fair
Hasbro’s new line of Star Wars toys unveiled Wednesday are giving us a closer look at the faces we’ll see in “Solo: A Star Wars Story.” Coming out this spring, three 6-inch figures from The Black Series line include detailed depictions of Alden Ehrenreich’s younger Han Solo, Donald Glover’s super spiffy …
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Exclusive Reveal of ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Nerf Blaster, Lightsaber, and Millennium Falcon Playset
With a new Star Wars movie set to premiere in just a few months, you can count on a bunch of awesome new merch for kids and kids at heart to release in stores. Though many Star Wars fans prefer to collect and preserve their items in the box, these new items from Hasbro, Playskool, and Nerf are meant …
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All Olympic figure skating routines should be Star Wars-themed
The most recent example is a pair of incredibly skilled poindexters from China, Yu Xiaoyu and Zhang Hao, who performed a Star Wars-themed routine at the Winter Games. Though the iron grip of Olympic broadcasting rights means it’s hard to find video of it that won’t disappear within a few hours, …
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Jon Favreau to Voice “Important Alien Character” in Solo: A Star Wars Story
As if directing Disney’s absurdly star-studded live-action Lion King reimagining wasn’t enough, it appears Jon Favreau has added another high-profile item to his to-do list: voicing “a very cool & important alien character” in Ron Howard’s Solo: A Star Wars Story, opening this summer. Earlier this month …
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New ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Poster Assembles the Crew
When Lucasfilm dropped the first official teaser trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story, they also released a group of nifty character posters for the main characters. Now, the studio has unveiled what appears to be the main poster for the film, which is very much in the style of those character posters but …
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China’s Distaste For ‘Star Wars’ Spiked ‘Last Jedi’s Worldwide Box Office
There has been much discussion, some of it fair and some of it hyperbolic, about whether the $618 million domestic and $1.325 billion worldwide gross was big enough for a movie of Star Wars: The Last Jedi’s stature. Yes, there was a drop off from The Force Awakens’ $937m domestic/$2.068 billion …
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Star Wars Bits: JJ Abrams Teases ‘Episode 9,’ Rian Johnson Talks Obi-Wan, and Mark Hamill …
We’ve all seen the Solo: A Star Wars Story trailer by now. Fans have been cheering the serious action stylings of the teaser, whilst some are still asking “But wasn’t there already a young Han Solo movie called A New Hope?” Well, someone who’s not worried about the new movie is Luke Skywalker …
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These Solo: A Star Wars Story action figures reveal what the characters are REALLY thinking
It takes a lot of pack everything about a character into an action figure, but Disney have tried with these new Solo: A Star Wars Story figurines. The four figures, exclusively revealed by io9, showcase some of the film’s brightest stars and, not only are they super-detailed, they all look… a little preoccupied …
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Natalie Portman’s son went to Star Wars set
Natalie Portman feels “very lucky” her ‘Annihilation’ co-star Oscar Isaac took her son to visit the ‘Star Wars‘ set. The 36-year-old actress – who played Queen Amidala in Episodes I to III of the sci-fi saga – was delighted to take six-year-old Aleph to visit her friend while he was shooting scenes as Poe …
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EA Might Lose Their Star Wars License?! What Does That Mean For SWTOR?
ATTENTION: Include the Twi’lek into the 3 new eye colours from Appearance Options: Expanded Selections in the next patch. It was a huge mistake to not do this from the start as they are being grossly neglected as a playable species. Oh yeah, and this is my referral link!
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‘Star Wars,’ Adele, Christina Aguilera Songs Bring Drama & Excitement to Pairs Free Skating …
Drama, action, tears: The pairs free skating program in Pyeongchang was an emotional rollercoaster as the world’s best performed to songs by Adele, Christina Aguilera, Disturbed and Star Wars favorites. China’s Yu Xiaoyu and Zhang Hao went cinematic with a Star Wars medley for their free skate …
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Chinese Figure Skaters Perform to ‘Star Wars’ Theme Songs
Xiaoyu Yu and Hao Zhang’s soundtrack for their performance was a compilation of “Luke and Leia” and “Duel of the Fates.” The force was strong with Chinese figure skaters Xiaoyu Yu and Hao Zhang on Wednesday, when the pair skated to a compilation of Star Wars themes during the pairs free skate …
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Star Wars: Daisy Ridley Claims ‘The Last Jedi’ Proves Rey is Just a “Cog in the Machine”
The episodic installments of the Star Wars series are often referred to as the “Skywalker Saga,” as the first three episodes focused on Anakin, the next three focused on Luke and Leia while many assumed episodes seven through nine would focus on Rey, a potential Skywalker. Instead, Rey’s parents …
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Inside the Story: Breakthrough in technology could bring Star Wars to life at BYU
(KUTV) A major breakthrough in 3D imaging might be the answer to bringing holograms to life. Engineers at Brigham Young University are working on what they call the “Princess Leia Project.” It’s named after one of Hollywood’s most iconic scenes in Star Wars where the droid, R2-D2 projects an image …
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This Star Wars: Battlefront II Han Solo/Buzz Lightyear Mod Goes To Infinity and Beyond
We haven’t seen too many mods make the rounds for Star Wars: Battlefront II just yet, mainly because the PC version doesn’t exactly have a large community building around it. But there are some, and we just came across a really interesting one that will appeal to fans of the Disney/Pixar Toy Story …
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the right ranch for star wars and bunny rooms!
THE RIGHT RANCH FOR STAR WARS AND BUNNY ROOMS! Posted by Becca Barron on February 14th, 2018. Kristie and Craig didn’t have to search long before they found this gem. In fact, it was the first house they saw! Miraculously, it had been sitting on the market since November with one sale fail …
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New ‘Star Wars Rebels’ Clip: Ezra Leads a Rescue Mission for Hera
The animated Disney XD series has captivated Star Wars fans young and old for the past four seasons, enriching the new Star Wars canon and introducing the lovable crew of The Ghost, the spunky rebels fighting against the tyranny of the Empire. But now, it will soon be time to say goodbye to leader …
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Apparently, Jon Favreau Has A Role In Solo: A Star Wars Story
On February 2, Jon Favreau posted a picture of himself with Ron Howard and screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan, and today, Howard revealed on Twitter that he was able to pull Favreau away from The Lion King for a little bit to voice “a very cool and important alien character” for Solo: A Star Wars Story.
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