Star Wars toys that never made it

‘Star Wars’ coming to TV? - 10/18/2007 - MiamiHerald.com

Lucas told The Los Angeles Times he has ‘’just begun work'’ on the series, which will not include the films’ major characters Luke Skywalker or Darth Vader.

‘’The Skywalkers aren’t in it, and it’s about minor characters,'’ Lucas told the Times on Tuesday.

Lucas wouldn’t reveal details, but joked that the series would be about “the life of robots.'’

Sadly, I am not so sure that that is a joke. I could easily see him taking the potentially interesting Star Wars universe and turn it into a show about those wacky robots.

The interest in this project will, no doubt, be high. However, I have serious doubts about the ability of Lucas to pull it off. He has a hard time telling a good, compelling story and a weekly version of the dreck that was episodes I-III (and, really, VI) hardly sounds like fun. Of course, my 6, 7 and 10 year-olds will eat it up, no doubt.

The only way the show could be interesting would be if it focused on the collapse the Republic into the Empire and the building of the Rebel Alliance. However, that would require an interesting and coherent political narrative, something utterly missing in I-III. And if the show ignores Vader, that would imply, one would think, little focus on the upper-level of the Empire’s apparatus.

So, no Jedi (being that they are all dead save for a few), and no Vader, but don’t worry: robots!!

Ugh.

Really, a post-Return of the Jedi show would be far, far more interesting. It is unclear that there are any really interesting stories to tell in the gap between III and IV.

Pretty good:

h/t: Sullivan

Will Collier has the visual evidence at Vodkapundit.

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A BBC reporter somehow managed to make it to 2024 without seeing Star Wars, and so he chronicles the experience: Losing my Star Wars virginity.

My favorite part of the whole piece: “Warning: This story contains plot spoilers”

I will confess that I did was sit through, at the Paramount Theater in Austin, Texas, a marathon of the first three SW flicks. However, the idea of watching all six at once is just a bit much (for me, anyway). Of course, that might have something to do with the fact that the first two put my teeth on edge and the third one is only tolerable.

Via the AP: `Star Wars’ fans get marathon screening :

Seventeen hours in a darkened theater not so far away? Welcome to the “Star Wars” marathon.

A free showing of all six “Star Wars” movies began Wednesday morning at the Los Angeles Convention Center and was expected to end at 2 a.m. Thursday.

Of course, I couldn’t imagine sitting still for 17 straight hours of about anything…

Via the BBC: 30 pieces of trivia about Star Wars

Via the AFP: Star Wars cast: where are they now?

Vai Reuters: “Chewbacca” arrested for head-butting in Hollywood

A Chewbacca impersonator was arrested after being accused of head-butting a Hollywood tour guide who warned the furry brown Wookiee about harassing two Japanese tourists, police said on Saturday.

“Nobody tells this Wookiee what to do,” “Chewie” from the “Star Wars” movies said before slamming his head into the guide’s forehead, the Los Angeles Times newspaper reported.

That’s just wrong.