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Figures Sold Separately: Relive Your Star Wars Toy Commercial Youth

If you’re American and of a certain age, then your childhood was probably filled with Kenner’s Star Wars toys, and your memories filled with the commercials for them, which promised thrills, spills and lots of people to play with, even if batteries weren’t included. From the austere, uncertain beginnings of the Early Bird promotion and …

Video: Disney Teases Star Tours 2011

With Celebration V well under way in Orlando, the Disney Parks team released the following teaser video of the new Star Tours attraction. The timeframe for the ride is set between Episodes III and IV and promises to take riders to “more places in the Star Wars galaxy,” then ever before! Look for the new Star Tours next year at both …

Book Your Next Delta Flight Through Facebook

Delta has announced that potential passengers may now begin booking flights through “Ticket Window” on Facebook. The Atlanta-based company says this will be the first of many Ticket Windows and plans to install banner ads that allow passengers to book from anywhere. This is a first for any airline and plans to revamp kiosks and …

Mini Film Festival: Watch the 10 Greatest Star Wars Moments

When I sat down last Sunday to isolate the ten greatest moments of the original “Star Wars” trilogy, I’ve got to be honest here: The very first thing that popped into my mind was this (starting at 0:30):

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Not sure why, but there ya go. There are lots of great moments in the …

Emanata: Scanning the Horizon

There are a couple of curious things about Matt Fraction and Salvador Larroca’s The Invincible Iron Man #29, which came out this week–one of them obvious on a first reading, one less so. The one that’s not immediately evident is that this is a Marvel superhero comic with barely a hint of an action scene. Okay, there’s one little …

Yoda Will Make an Appearance in The Force Unleashed 2

LucasArts has officially announced Yoda’s upcoming cameo in The Force Unleashed 2. He crosses paths with Starkiller near the entrance of the Dark Side Cave aka Cave of Evils (is that canon?) in the swamps of Dagobah.

Starkiller, having escaped the clutches of Darth Vader on the planet Kamino, senses something calling out to him

Panel of the Week 8/11/10

It’s time to take a look at some of the most noteworthy scenes from yesterday’s comics. It’s time to laugh and cry and be thankful and all that. So let’s sit down in front of our Stuart Smalley mirrors and let’s affirm, y’know? It’s time for gun-hands, Superman Nike endorsements, Iron Persons, Claygirl, and LOST jokes. It’s time for

Reminder: Scott Pilgrim On Adult Swim At Midnight Tonight

Okay, so it’s not the movie, but the four-minute Scott Pilgrim Vs. The Animation debuts tonight “around midnight” as part of Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, bringing the opening of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (AKA, the second book in the series) to animated life, with voices from Michael Cera, Alison Pill, Mae Whitman …

Is Ryan Reynolds The New Sam Worthington?

It’s got to be nice to be Ryan Reynolds these days. He’s still shooting Green Lantern, the big budget version of DC Comics’ successful space cop superhero, with a sequel script already in the works and talk of a third film to be shot at the same time as the second, he’s attached to movie versions of both RIPD (as a supernatural cop) and …

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