Disney unveiled Friday details about the upcoming Mickey’s Soundsational Parade during a State of the Resort presentation. Disneyland‘s new musical parade will feature floats and performers from films ranging from “Mary Poppins” to “Tangled” when it debuts on May 20, according to the OC Register. Star Tours: The Adventures Continue is set to take its […]

Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox announced today that the 3D theatrical launch of Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace now has an official release date — February 10, 2012. Part of me will always love the communal experience of sharing that first midnight show at The Ziegfeld or The Chinese with fellow fans […]

This video reminds me of a time when I got this excited about scoring the newest Star Wars figures at my local TRU. Mind you I still DO get this excited about finding figures at TRU (right now, all things TRON: Legacy – damn you impossible-to-find Deluxe Kevin Flynn Identity Disc!) – I just don’t […]

Star Trek Voyager’s Robert Picardo and producer/director/writer Dr. Harry Kloor will host the U.S. premiere of Quantum Quest, the 3-D computer animated Large Format adventure film, at the gala preview party of “Science With A Twist: An Evening Aboard The Enterprise” tonight at the Louisville Science Center museum. Quantum Quest interweaves animated sequences with stunning, […]

L.B. Rayne, the genius who brought us “Skywalking,” one of the few Star Wars-inspired video parodies on YouTube worth your time, is back and this time he’s on The Grid in his brand new amazing retro single “The Groove Grid”… Thanks to The Alathal for the link. Check out Rayne’s two other masterpieces after the […]

28 years of dreaming, hoping, waiting… all come down to tonight at midnight. 28 years from first entering The Grid in 1982’s TRON to diving back in tonight in TRON: Legacy. Is it really happening!? It still seems surreal this film exists. When you wait this long for something, it feels like it should almost […]

In celebration of the 25th Anniversary of Back to the Futureâ„¢, BTTF.com’s Time Travel Terminal will be offering a 25% savings off EVERYTHING in the store for 24-hours only! Beginning November 26, 2010 at 12:00 AM until 11:59 PM Central Time Zone, you can save on everything they offer, including pre-orders for products not even […]

David Prowse, the man who played Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, told a 1978 crowd in Berkeley, California that Darth Vader was Luke’s father! This was two years before Empire Strikes Back was released in theaters! Now consider this — the way the story goes, Prowse didn’t know that Vader was Luke’s […]

The Hollywood auction site Profiles in History has given us a chance to see a rare prop from Back to the Future – Marty’s picture of him with his sister and brother – only with original Marty Eric Stoltz in the pic! This is just one of many awesome sites to behold in this upcoming […]

Ree-Yees must be psyched!!! THR reports that 20th Century Fox and Lucasfilm are zeroing in on a February 2012 release date to launch the first of the “Star Wars” movies to be converted to 3D, “Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace.” George Lucas hopes that releasing the film early in the year, outside […]

I love my iPhone, but this new Star Wars phone is really grabbing my attention. The new Droid 2 will be issued with a limited edition R2-D2 Droid phone in a carbonite box, and include custom Star Wars-ified wallpaper, dock, etc. as of September 30th. What’s great for Star Wars fans is that the R2-D2 […]

Star Tours as we know it closed forever on Sept. 7, 2010 at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. D23 held a final flight event so members and their guests could be the last ones to ride. Stormtroopers escorted the guests from the front gates to the Star Tours attraction and rode along with us during the final […]

LaughingPlace reports that once again John Williams has declined the opportunity to provide any original music for a Disney attraction, this time declining to score Star Tours II: The Adventures Continue (Williams was not involved in the original Star Tours or any of the Indiana Jones attractions). Instead, the awesome Michael Giacchino has been tapped […]

George Lucas was joined onstage by Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill this morning in Orlando during “The Main Event” at Celebration V. Aside from the announcement that the entire saga will hit blu-ray in 2011, the trio gave fans a long-awaited treat… StarWars.com informs us… “Star Wars fans were treated to a glimpse of bonus […]

One of the longest-running Disneyland rumors got another boost this week when news resurfaced of an impending upgrade to the dated Star Tours ride, which debuted at the Anaheim theme park in 1987. A look back at the many hints dropped in recent years of the imminent arrival of Star Tours 2.0: April 2005 – […]

ImprovEverywhere rocks, and their latest mission where they re-enact the Princess Leia / Darth Vader scene from Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope on a New York City subway car is priceless. Watch it here!

Looks like you’ll have to get your “David Prowse IS Darth Vader” autographs elsewhere… From PROWSE: It is with regret that I have been informed by my friends at C2 Ventures, Ben and Phillip, that I am not to be invited to C5 this year or any other Lucas Film associated events. After enquiring, the […]

This is a step in the right direction but I personally sill need two things: REX to return as our pilot as well as an option to travel on the “classic” journey to Endor. Kathy Rogers, Senior Show Producer at Walt Disney Imagineering, gave a huge update on the reimagining of Star Tours today. The […]

To help celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back, LucasArts has released a slew of Star Wars-themed Xbox avatar items, including Boba Fett, Lando and my personal fave, the Tauntaun pet. See the whole list below (with more images), and check back tomorrow to get ’em all!!