Adapt Timothy Zahn’s “Heir to the Empire” trilogy. That was easy.
Tag: star wars
Movies
The best movies of the 1970s: My list
The 1970s was a defining decade for American cinema, marked by a mix of groundbreaking blockbuster films and auteur-driven masterpieces. Recently, Rolling Stone posted an article listing the top 100 movies of the decade. It is here. It is also,…
Movies, Reimaging the Reels
Fixing Star Wars: Episode One
We were SO excited. We watched the first trailer (which took three hours to download over pre-high speed intenet), ten times. I went to the Toys R Us midnight toy sale where they released the tie-in toys. And She Who…
Geek, Movies
Creating the toys billion dollar companies are afraid to: My Rebel Blockade Runner playset
I blame Michael French. Michael French is the creator/host/producer/writer and driving force behind the Retroblasting YouTube channel. Years ago, he inspired me to start looking at the very narrow hobby of custom toy creation. He highlighted fan creators like Stan…
Geek, Movies
Adventures in 3D design: Building a city in the clouds
Kenner released TONS of Star Wars playsets back in the day. The glory days of the Star Wars toyline was 1978 to 1984. The secret to the line’s success was simple: The scale. Unlike G.I.Joe or Kenner’s own Six Million…
Geek, Movies
So I’ve been busy working on something…
Something that has been the biggest 3D modeling design challenge I have ever tackled. Soon all will be revealed. But here’s a preview.
Geek, UX Articles
Lessons in #UX: On streaming services and the paradox of choice
Cord cutting is one of the biggest shifts in consumer spending since the advent of online shopping. More and more people are canceling cable and satellite subscriptions and using streaming services for their home entertainment. Based on recent reporting and…
Geek, Movies, Trek, TV, Twin Peaks
The “Real Fan” Debate: A meaningless tiering of fandom
This past week I was reading Twitter feeds, which is my favorite way of wasting time, and I saw this post: Seeing the Star Wars movies does not make you a Star Wars fan. Actual Star Wars fans have done…
Disney, Featured Articles, Geek, Movies
How to fix Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge
This is a very self-indulgent post. I can see some people reading the title of this and reacting thusly: “Fix Galaxy’s Edge? It just opened, it doesn’t need fixing! Why, the new area of Disneyland is so popular, they are…
Geek
Whose Star Trek is it, anyway?
I recently completed reading the great two-volume set The 50 Year Mission, An Oral History of Star Trek, and it got me thinking. The first volume, covering the original series and the subsequent films with the original cast, had some…
Disney, Movies, TV
Disney buying 20th Century Fox? The potential impacts to pop culture
A month ago there was a very interesting report that The Walt Disney Company had been in discussions to buy 20th Century Fox’s entertainment assets… But that the talks had ended with no deal. This week, news is breaking that…
Disney, Featured Articles, Geek, Movies
Star Wars at 40
40 years ago today, a little movie called Star Wars was released. I hear it was pretty good and was fairly well received. In all seriousness, and with no interest in blasphemy, our pop culture should be split into two…
Disney, Featured Articles, Geek, Movies, Trek, TV
Star Trek vs. Star Wars: We have a winner…
As most people who read a blog like this knows, the new Star Wars film opened to a colossal amount of tickets sold – $250 million in the US, and $500 million dollars worldwide, and that was just during the…
Disney, Geek, Movies
Photos: Star Wars Launch Bay in Disneyland
I took a quick trip to Disneyland this past weekend with two of my sons – it was an early Christmas present for all of us. One of our “must-see” destination at the park was the Star Wars Launch Bay,…
Geek
Photos: Star Wars costumes at the EMP Museum
The Experience Music Project Museum (now named EMP for short) is showing an exhibition of 60+ original costumes from the six Star Wars films. Fortunately, they let me take some pictures, so…
Disney, Geek, Movies
Disney buys Star Wars: One fan’s perspective
Slow news day. As we are all still reeling in the east coast from Hurricane Sandy, and seeing the devastating aftermath, there is no logical reason at all to get worked up over an announcement of yet another corporate acquisition.…