Star Wars

Star Wars Rebels Set To Firefly‘s Theme Is Utterly Perfect

Opening credit mashups are a helluva lot of fun. Star Wars Minute has taken Star Wars Rebels and set it to Firefly’s Ballad of Serenity, the show’s opening credits. It works surprisingly well! [Star Wars Minute]

This Tiny First Order Stormtrooper Just Stole Our Hearts

Last October, we found that you could take one of the Jakks 48 inch First Order Stormtroopers and turn them into an amazing costume for your kid. Since then, costumers have been snapping them up for that very purpose, but Jim Brock just outdid them all. Seriously, we’re dying from the cute. It’s a fantastic…

Lego Star Wars Returns to Hoth With This Amazing Playset

There have been rumors of a massive new Star Wars set based on Echo Base from Empire Strikes Back for ages now, but they’ve finally been confirmed: Lego have just announced a gigantic new set jam packed with so much goodness even the smell of Tauntaun insides couldn’t ruin it. Assault on Hoth contains over…

Lego has announced a series of animated shorts set just before Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The first episode of Lego Star Wars: The Resistance Rises, focusing on Poe Dameron rescuing Admiral Ackbar from the clutches of Captain Phasma, airs next Monday on Disney XD after the conclusion of Gravity Falls. Here’s a clip!

The British Are Bringing Criminal Charges Over Harrison Ford’s Broken Leg

Hey, remember when Harrison Ford broke his leg in 2014? Well, the British government does, and it’s bringing charges against a Disney UK subsidiary for violating workplace health and safety laws. Back in 2014, Ford broke his leg on the Star Wars set, instantly panicking everyone. It ended up suspending production on The Force Awakens…

No, You Weren’t Watching Star Trek on TV Last Night, It Was Star Wars Rebels

Before J.J. Abrams directed Star Wars: The Force Awakens, he did two Star Trek movies. This you surely know. But did you realize that, in both of those Star Trek movies, there are scenes of people free-falling? In the first film, it’s Kirk and Sulu trying to land on a platform. In the second one,…

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Hilariously Summarized and Made Fun of in 90 seconds

Crude summaries of Star Wars are always great but here’s an especially silly one from Movie Blast. Instead of just simplifying the story (which it does), it also pokes fun of the movie and in turn, skewers all of us at the same time. Rey becomes Ray Romano, JJ Abrams is Jar Jar Abrams, Uber…

A New Animated Lego Star Wars TV Show Will Follow a Family Across the Galaxy

A brand new Star Wars animated series is coming to TV. Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures, a full-fledged show blending the humor of the Lego brand and, well, Star Wars, is set to premiere sometime this summer on Disney XD. The show will follow a family named the Freemakers, who (somewhat predictably) build and…

This Transforming Imperial Shuttle Drone Looks Like an Actual Scene From Star Wars

Turning quadcopters into vehicles from the Star Wars universe isn’t new: Everything from TIE Fighters, to the Falcon, to even R2-D2 have taken flight. But none have been as convincing as Adam Woodworth’s Imperial Shuttle quadcopter with wings that actually retract. Woodworth used a popular technique in which a printed paper model of the Imperial…

The Best BB-8 Yet Recognizes Voice Commands and Comes When It’s Called

Last September Sphero set the bar impossibly high when it comes to BB-8 toys, but at the 2016 New York Toy Fair this weekend, Spin Master might actually have the last word. Not only does its new remote control BB-8 stand over 16-inches tall, it’s the first to respond to your voice commands. Including the…

In Three Pages, This Week’s Darth Vader Comic Shows Us the Ballsiest Thing Vader Has Ever Done

I genuinely love Kieron Gillen, Salvador Larocca, and Edgar Delgado’s work on the Darth Vader comic. The team has completely nailed what makes Vader a terrifyingly powerful, yet funny character. Case in point is the opening to this week’s Darth Vader #16, which features Vader at his most defiant. https://gizmodo.com/pro-tip-never-ask-darth-vader-to-dance-1749505306 Very minor spoilers ahead for…

A Bizarre Star Wars Mystery Has Finally Been Solved

How do you appear in one of the biggest movies of all time without anyone, including the people who worked on the movie, knowing your name? You’d have to ask BoShek, the gloriously sideburned human hanging out in the cantina in Star Wars. For nearly 40 years, no one has known who played this character.…

Computer Analysis Reveals the Stunning Complexity of the Star Wars Expanded Universe

The Star Wars expanded universe is huge. Really huge. Like, you just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly huge it really is. To grasp the full extent of this hugeness, a team of data scientists used a new computer program to analyze it, revealing some unexpected things about the extended saga. A research team from…

How Star Wars: The Force Awakens Really Should Have Ended

Everyone had a good time watching the new Star Wars so let’s not get angry and accuse each other of not enjoying the very idea of fun. But still, as with every other movie, there were a few problems and mid-sized logic gaps that were ignored in the name of entertainment. HISHE fixes all those…

Have the Best Day Ever and Watch Over 100 Amazing Vintage Star Wars Toy Commercials 

The official Star Wars website made our day, and we have to say thanks. StarWars.com posted an article full of vintage Kenner Star Wars toy commercials, and they’re just about the best thing ever. It’s easy to forget just how formative these toys were not just for Star Wars fans, but for both the toy…

If Kylo Ren Was an Inside Out Character, It Would Look a Little Something Like This

Torn between the dark side and the light, Kylo Ren in Star Wars: The Force Awakens was surely one of the more emotionally conflicted movie characters in 2015. But how to visualize that? Enter the characters of Pixar’s Inside Out. Artist Dan Hipp has taken the characters from the Pixar hit and created a beautiful,…

Star Wars Will Rock Your Next Dance Party, Thanks to Rick Rubin

History has shown that Star Wars fans will buy anything. Food, sheets, underwear—anything with Star Wars on it sells. Well, maybe not “anything.” They seem to be pushing the boundaries with their latest creation, an electronic dance album. It’s called Star Wars Headspace and will be released digitally on February 18, and to retail stores…

This Week’s TV: The Walking Dead is Back, and All Your Favorites Are Probably Going to Die

Plus this week’s TV episodes feature the smackdowns we’ve been waiting for: The Flash vs Killer Frost, Supergirl vs. the Black Mercy, and Freddy Kruger vs St. Valentine himself! It’s all on This Week’s TV! Tonight Supergirl (8PM, CBS) For the Girl Who Has Everything Can Kara escape the “Black Mercy”, a parasitic plant that…

Lionsgate Thinks Terrorists and Star Wars Stole Its Hunger Games Money

Lionsgate, the studio behind The Hunger Games, puts Star Wars in the same category as terrorists in terms of screwing its bottom line. Wait, what? Yesterday, Lionsgate had a brutal earnings call. Its third quarter profits were nowhere near what investors expected, and it blamed a disappointing performance from the final (and good!) Hunger Games…

Eight Things We Want From Rian Johnson’s Star Wars Episode VIII

The stars are hyping it. The director has been teasing it. It’s really not that far off. Written and directed by Rian Johnson, Star Wars: Episode VIII will be going into production very soon, and as that date approaches, we’ve already started thinking about what we’d really love to see in the movie come December…