An interesting side effect of The Walt Disney Company’s $4.05 billion buyout of George Lucas’ Lucasfilm empire, announced on Tuesday, is that the deal brings Disney closer to Rovio Entertainment, creators of the massively popular Angry Birds franchise. In one of its last moves as an independent company,… Read More »With Lucasfilm Acquisition, Disney Moves Closer to Angry Birds Creators [Update]
The acquisition of Lucasfilm by Disney will see George Lucas move on to an advisory role while veteran producer Kathleen Kennedy take the helm as President of the division. On October 19, 2012, both sat down with the director of PR and Lucasfilm veteran Lynne… Read More »George Lucas and Kathleen Kennedy Discuss Future of Star Wars Franchise
In a major announcement today, the Walt Disney Company announced it would acquire Lucasfilm. The rumors of this acquisition had been percolating to the surface over the last few days. More details soon, but here’s the press release to get starred. As if that big… Read More »Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm
The Walt Disney Company has agreed to acquire George Lucas’ Lucasfilm Ltd, including the rights to the popular Star Wars franchise. There is also talk of a 2015 release for Star Wars: Episode 7. As readers of this blog already know, there have been rumors… Read More »Disney to Buy LucasFilm, Make Star Wars 7
Since just before the 2012 Star Wars Weekends, the Tatooine Traders store at the exit of Star Tours has featured the Droid Factory – a great little ‘build your own toy’ station. You choose six parts (body, head, 3 legs, and a novelty hat) and… Read More »A Kid’s View of Disney – Star Wars Droid Factory
Fans of the original Star Wars series no doubt remember the end of The Empire Strikes Back where Han Solo was encased in carbonite. Now you can own your own mini-version of yourself in Carbon-Freeze condition. Disney’s Hollywood Studios guests can experience the “Carbon-Freeze Me”… Read More »Get the Han Solo Treatment in Star Wars Weekends Carbon Freeze Me Collectible
One of the new merchandise features coming to Star Wars Weekends in 2012 is the Droid Factory where you can build your very own Droid figure. The Droid Factory is open now and will run at least through the Star Wars Weekends festival. Similar to… Read More »Build a Droid Factory at Star Wars Weekends
Disney has announced what looks to be a nearly full roster of Star Wars Celebrity guests for the 2012 Star Wars Weekends at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. It’s going to be hard to beat last year’s event, when they re-opened Star Tours, here’s the scheduled celebrity… Read More »Star Wars Weekends 2012 Celebrity Guests Announced