George Lucas , then and now

Well, I guess it is not just George Lucas but just about every film maker – take Avatar for example, it would be mostly green screen. But the good old days had actually actors and models and they looked great. The newer Star Wars movies and the reissues of the originals , to me, just looked a bit to computery for me. Anyone agree?

Did you know that George Lucas showed the cartoon movie Duck Dodgers in the Twenty-fourth and a half Century to all the cast and crew before the 1977 screening of the first Star Wars to them.

Rarest genuine Revenge of the Jedi Star Wars movie poster

This is pretty good, isn’t it? The story goes that the name Revenge of the Jedi was used for the movie Return of the Jedi used by the Lucasfilm company to try and fool the media and press but movie studio Twentieth-Century Fox picked up the name to promote the movie, well before Goege Lucas gave them the permission.

Another story is that George Lucas thought that the movie name Return of the Jedi wasn’t a strong name and later thought to name it Revenge of the Jedi but others believed Jedi's don’t go for revenge so the title would be wrong.

And another story was Howard Kazanjian made up the title Revenge of the Jedi  to try and stop the huge amount of black market items that would come out before a movie is released. There are a few items that have the name Revenge of the Jedi instead of Return of the Jedi, especially Star Wars figures and they have become very rare and very valuable to collectors.

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Star Wars Episode IV vs Family Guy Blue Harvest

Here is a little picture that compares a few still frames from both Family Guy Blue Harvest Special and the Original Star Wars Episode IV New Hope. Of couse they are very similar because that is what Family Guy was aiming for. I also have the newer Family Guy Something Something Darkside  which is a take on Episode V, I notice that the DVD has a free digital copy to put on your iPOD, Computer or Zune etc.

Star Wars fun fact – Calamari a planet is covered with deep oceans, with many islands and coral atolls and is the home to two amphibious races. It has Mon Calamari who are land dwelling and Quarren which are ocean dwelling . The   exposed land is boggy wetlands and can’t support any life. But the two native races started to build cities that floated, made out of the minerals and rocks that they mine from the ocean floor. the cities are a little like icebergs, some are exposed above the water surface but the most of Calamari cities lay under the ocean.

Star Wars pics, Homeless Darth needs a job

Darth Vader is homeless and needs a little cash to start up again. Geez Darth can’t even spell.

True Star Wars facts - Sy Snootles was the lead vocalist in the Max Rebo Band
The band starred Max Rebo on keyboards and Droopy McCool on the various wind instruments. She had a long snout and skinny legs and was one of the best jizz-wailers in the galaxy. Sy Snootles was acted by Annie Arbogast in Star Wars Return of the Jedi.

Cool Star Wars Photos, Cutest Star Wars Toys

I have no idea what the brand of these toys are but the do look good. Cute, Japanese style Star Wars characters.

Cool Star Wars Photo facts: Star Wars Return of the Jedi was at one stage Revenge of the Jedi – there are even some toys out there thet have that name on them, if you find one keep it.

Cool Star Wars Pictures, Meet Chewbacca's Family

Look at the lovely family portrait of Chewbacca and his wife plus three cute Chewie kids! Nice family holiday photos at the back as well :) Cool Star Wars Pictures fact: Chewbacca has always been a Wookie but did you know that in the first original screenplay draft for Star Wars New Hope (Ep.4), Chewies mate Han Solo was not a human!

Cool Star Wars Photos, Star Wars cars

A couple of great photos. Darth Vader in a race type car (I think it is a Lotus) and the other is a Stormtrooper in a white Lotus. Black Vader in a black car, white trooper in a white car.

  Cool Star Wars Photo facts: The cast for the original Star Wars movie in 1977 is…

Luke Skywalker MARK HAMILL
Han Solo HARRISON FORD
Princess Leia Organa CARRIE FISHER
Grand Moff Tarkin PETER CUSHING
Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi ALEC GUINNESS
See-Threepio (C-3PO) ANTHONY DANIELS
Artoo-Detoo (R2-D2) KENNY BAKER
Chewbacca PETER MAYHEW
Lord Darth Vader DAVID PROWSE
Uncle Owen PHIL BROWN
Aunt Beru SHELAGH FRASER
Chief Jawa JACK PURVIS
General Dodonna ALEX McCRINDLE
General Willard EDDIE BYRNE
Red Leader DREWE HEMLEY
Red Two (Wedge) DENNIS LAWSON
Red Three (Biggs) GARRICK HAGON
Red Four (John "D") JACK KLAFF
Red Six (Porkins) WILLIAM HOOTKINS
Gold Leader ANGUS McINNIS
Gold Two JEREMY SINDEN
Gold Five GRAHAM ASHLEY
General Taggi DON HENDERSON
General Motti RICHARD LE PARMENTIER
Commander One LESLIE SCHOFIELD

Cool Star Wars Photos, Blue Harvest

I know a few people that didn’t like the Family Guy Star Wars episode, I thought it was pretty good. Every one would have seen this as you can download it easily.

Many people don’t know what Blue Harvest is and why this Star Wars episode said it. This photo is the poster of the Family Guy Star Wars Blue Harvest episode. Click for a bigger photo.

Cool Star Wars Photos fact -

Blue Harvest was one of the names Lucasfilm used to describe the production of the movie Star Wars Return of the Jedi. It was a fake working title used to hide the films production and pretended to be an upcoming horror film that Lucas was making.