star wars

  • Force not so strong in hit and running Obiwan Kenobi [Allegedly]

    Thirty-seven-year-old Obiwan Kenobi (real name) was arrested over the weekend on the suspicion that he was responsible for a hit and run crash that caused a four-car pileup in mid-March. Roseville (California) police Sergeant Jason Bosworth told News 10 the police version of events: The crash happened on March...
  • German cops arrest drunken Jedi Master Yoda following hit and run

    First off, what is Yoda doing in Germany, instead of his home planet of Dagobah?  And secondly, for someone who’s reportedly so wise, why is he drinking and driving and running into pedestrians? Wait—what are the chances that this isn’t the real Yoda, but some inebriated 42-year-old German guy...
  • William Shatner on Star Wars

    If you’ve ever wondered what William Shatner thought about Star Wars, now is your chance to find out. Long story short, he claims Star Wars is derivative, explains that Star Trek has a greater variety of more attractive heroines and totally forgets to mention that the Star Trek legacy...
  • Little Girl Happily Submits to the Dark Side

    Coming face to face with Darth Vader lead one little girl to choose the dark side. Sarah Gallejo was in the audience at Disneyland’s Jedi Academy and was picked to go on stage and fight the dark lord. She had other plans. Going off script she shocked her Jedi...
  • A trifecta of trollishness [pic]

    I have to admit I find the possibility that some people might be offended by this picture highly amusing. I mean, really Gandalf and Dumbledore do both look alike, and aside from the sentence structures that the old guys choose to employ, they do both sound a lot like...
  • Alternate Return of the Jedi ending is grittier and more satisfying

    I know I will offend a bunch of people when I say this, but the seeds for The Phantom Menace were planted in Return of the Jedi. Too cute, too happy – where was the hard edge that we saw in the earlier episodes? The short answer to that...
  • Couple’s remodeled home theater would make Darth Vader jealous

    Why you ask?  Because Kim and Jim Howett had their home theater built to resemble the Imperial Destroyer Vessel used by Darth Vader himself in The Empire Strikes Back. Get this–the couple claim not to be crazed Star Wars fanatics.  Yeah right, like most casual fans of the venerable...
  • Now with more light sabers, Darth Vader as Monty Python’s Black Knight [video]

    If the original trilogy is to be believed, there is no shortage of highly-functional prostheses in the far away galaxy that Lord Vader calls his home – lucky for him because he takes some serious damage in the most famous one-sided duel of all time. ...
  • Wampa cave scene recreated in a freezer

    There will be some people that dismiss this clever bit of fan art as being the work of someone with too much time on his or her hands. The thing is, the wampa cave scene is one of the defining moments of The Empire Strikes Back and it would...