Star Wars

What Scifi Teaches Us About Lying, Deceitful Mentors

In two of this summer’s biggest action movies, the hero’s mentor turns out to be a lying, manipulative sack of villainy. And nobody in the audience is surprised, because it’s a scifi fact of life: mentors lie to you. They feed you half-truths (“Darth Vader killed your dad”) and outright lies, to get you to…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 1

George Lucas Will Change The Way Hollywood Works — Again

Welcome to Hollywood Slavebots, a new column where I’ll uncover the seedy underverse of scifi Hollywood to show you how money-grubbing studios, bad contracts and bickering execs will change your scifi entertainment future. Thirty years ago, George Lucas changed Hollywood forever, with the original Star Wars. Now he’s trying to do it again, with a…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jun 30

Eight Toys You Can’t Leave Comic-Con Without

Click to view The San Diego Comic-Con isn’t just the place to go to meet your favorite geek celebrities, hear about the latest comics, movies or television shows or pick up that long-desired issue of Adolescent Radioactive Black-Belt Hamsters – It’s also where toymakers release a lot of “exclusives” that you can’t find anywhere else.…

io9 Graeme McMillan Jun 29

Is Star Wars Just A Video Game Franchise Now?

A new Star Wars movie, Clone Wars, hits theaters in a month and a half – and all the online excitement still centers around the forthcoming video game The Force Unleashed. People cheer for every screenshot from Unleashed, where you get to play a “secret apprentice” to Darth Vader, wielding huge Force powers. Meanwhile, there’s…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jun 27

Stormtrooper High Heels Are Key to All Your Sex Fantasies

If Luke had worn these on the Death Star, Leia would have never said he was too short to be a stormtrooper. And then she would have smacked his sorry peasant ass to grab them. And maybe George Lucas would have never decided to produce the prequels after that. And the world would have been…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jun 26

The Empire’s Last AT-AT Act Of Destruction

For years, the San Francisco Bay Area has been proud of the fact that The Empire Strikes Back’s AT-AT Walkers were inspired by the container cranes at the Port of Oakland. (You can even buy a t-shirt that demonstrates said pride.) But a recent story in the San Francisco Chronicle threatens to wipe all of…

io9 Graeme McMillan Jun 26

The Greatest Art Featuring 6 Iconic Scifi Villains

Click to viewDarth Vader rocks out with the rest of the original Star Wars cast in this awesome painting by Hugh Fleming. Vader has starred in more than his fair share of offbeat and arresting artworks, but he’s not alone — other classic science fiction villains have also inspired some provocative and clever art, from…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jun 26

Clone Wars Video Game Brings You Sith Witches

The Star Wars: Clone Wars Wii and Ninetndo DS video game brings us a spin-off from a spin-off, bringing us even more details about the space between the second and third Star Wars prequels. But the story of our heroes battling “Sith witches” sounds like something from the drunken pitch master. Click through for more…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jun 23

Lego Death Star Video Requires Lots of Mental Pew-Pew

Our friend Nannan Zhang from Brothers Brick is now in Chicago attending Brickworld, the annual convention for all things Lego. He was able to snap this cool video on the new $400 Death Star diorama, showing how things move, including the working trash compactor. I still think they should make one to the scale of…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jun 21

Cool Battlestar and Star Wars Collectables of Yesteryear

Back in the early 1980s, little Derek Powazek collected several cups from Burger King with old-school Battlestar Galactica and Return of the Jedi art on them. Now he’s rescued them from destruction in his family home, and has turned them into lovely portraits of a bygone era in scifi swag. Here are a few more,…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 20

A Wretched Hive of Scum and…Well, You Know

You’re trying to finish a smuggling run and drop a load of spice in the Taanab system when a heavily armed ship shows up on your tail. Is it that bounty hunter Bossk, a Hutt crime lord, or maybe even a Dark Jedi? Now that your gamemaster owns Threats of the Galaxy, it could be…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Jun 20

3,800-Piece Death Star Diorama Is Coolest Star Wars Lego Ever

Click to viewMove over Millennium Falcon, because there’s a new Best Lego Set Ever in town: the $400 Death Star. Almost 4,000 pieces of absolute nerdgasmic technological terror now available to order, showing 14 scenes that happened in the no-moon during the original trilogy. We have all the official information and three high definition photos…

Movies Jesus Diaz Jun 19

How Lego makes Imperial Stormtroopers

If you ever wondered where the Galactic Empire gets all those stormtroopers, look no further than the Lego factory in Denmark: here’s an exclusive video about how the iconic mini-figure gets its characteristic evil look after getting out of the mold machine. The printing of these mini-figs is one of the most expensive and delicate…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jun 19

Which Alternate Universe Has The Best Science Fiction?

Nobody knows better than science fiction fans that a few minor changes to the timeline can alter everything. And science fiction istelf could have turned out totally differently if just a few things had changed. Which alternate versions of science fiction history would have resulted in a more interesting SF landscape today? Gawker Media polls…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jun 18

Graffiti’ed AT-AT Walker Up For Grabs at Christie’s Auction

If you’ve got a spare couple of grand loitering in your bank account, and you’re a S*** W*** fan, then this graffiti’ed AT-AT walker might be so far up your galaxy it’s parked in your constellation. Customised by EASE and JK5 for Suckadelic, the Hasbro toy is tagged in gin-u-wine Aurebesh language, and is expected…

Gadgets AddyDugdale Jun 16

DIY Lightsaber Makes Attacking Whiny Jedi Nerds More Authentic

For those of us that saw footage of the drunken Darth Vader attack and found ourselves slightly disappointed by the… well… un-Star Wars-like nature of the Sith Lord’s weapon, Instructables has a DIY kit to ensure that our next drunken rampage is truly worthy of the Dark Side. The project, from Instructables user Ricardoaraujo, uses…

Tech News Elaine Chow Jun 14

Watch Vader Meet The Secret Apprentice

Vader meets his Secret Apprentice and it’s love at first sight, in the new documentary explaining the story behind Lucas Art’s new video game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Also in the quickie video, the producers and writers give you a glimpse of CGI Princess Leia and look into the hull of the Rogue Shadow…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jun 13

Emperor Workstation Belongs in the Death Star, My Office

Behold the Greatest Workstation of All Time: the Emperor. I mean, come on, anything that looks like it can control a turbolaser battery or fire a giant anti-matter death ray must be the greatest workstation of all time, period. But according to Patrick Laflamme Duval—business developer for manufacturer Novelquest—the name is not a Star Wars…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jun 12

New Star Wars: Clone Wars Trailer For The Ladies

The new Star Wars: The Clone Wars trailer is a slow burn, but reveals a few close calls with our beloved Jedi women. The new Jedi apprentice, Ahsoka, looks beat and her master Anakin is worried. She’s too cute not to get hurt in this war, especially with the square chinned CGI Anakin as her…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jun 11

Naboo

I could deal with the annoying Gungan neighbors if I could get to visit a landscape like the Naboo falls. The city is gorgeous and so are the lake vacation spots. Naboo would be my number one choice for a planet home away from home. And more importantly, just one visit to Naboo reveals a…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jun 11

What Scifi Teaches Us About Lying, Deceitful Mentors

George Lucas Will Change The Way Hollywood Works — Again

Eight Toys You Can’t Leave Comic-Con Without

Is Star Wars Just A Video Game Franchise Now?

Stormtrooper High Heels Are Key to All Your Sex Fantasies

The Empire’s Last AT-AT Act Of Destruction

The Greatest Art Featuring 6 Iconic Scifi Villains

Clone Wars Video Game Brings You Sith Witches

Lego Death Star Video Requires Lots of Mental Pew-Pew

Cool Battlestar and Star Wars Collectables of Yesteryear

A Wretched Hive of Scum and…Well, You Know

3,800-Piece Death Star Diorama Is Coolest Star Wars Lego Ever

How Lego makes Imperial Stormtroopers

Which Alternate Universe Has The Best Science Fiction?

Graffiti’ed AT-AT Walker Up For Grabs at Christie’s Auction

DIY Lightsaber Makes Attacking Whiny Jedi Nerds More Authentic

Watch Vader Meet The Secret Apprentice

Emperor Workstation Belongs in the Death Star, My Office

New Star Wars: Clone Wars Trailer For The Ladies

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