Day 83: Actor Mark Hamill, who portrays farmboy-turned-jedi-knight Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars saga, turned 64 today. That’s a couple years older than Alec Guinness was when he began work on the original Star Wars film. Like Guinness’ Obi-Wan, Hamill sports a “contractually obligated”… Read More »100 Days of Star Wars Trivia – Day 83: Mark Hamill
As part of the 2015 Shanghai Tourism Festival, Disney hosted a parade to both kick off the event, and promote the upcoming release of the new Star Wars movie, “The Force Awakens.” Organized by Disney, and led by some of the hit film franchise’s most… Read More »‘Star Wars: The Force Parade’ Invades the 2015 Shanghai Tourism Festival
We knew from Disney CEO Bob Iger that Disney is excited to get the new Star Wars franchise into the theme parks. In fact, groundbreaking was expected to take place in 2016. We know have an idea of how soon that will be and what… Read More »Star Wars Lands construction sends six Disneyland attractions into hiatus
With all the Star Wars news made at D23 Expo, the theme song of the event might as well have been the Imperial March. The music is growing loud again as Disneyland has announced when the first new Star Wars experiences will be coming to… Read More »Season of the Force Star Wars Experiences coming to Disneyland November 16
Day 84: Before he accepted the role of Jedi Knight in hiding Obi-Wan Kenobi, Alec Guinness called the story “fairy-tale rubbish” in a letter to a friend. Once filming started he actually loved his role but worried about it dominating his acting legacy. After his… Read More »100 Days of Star Wars Trivia – Day 84: Guinness
It’s a big day on Facebook today as they roll out their new 360-degree videos in the news feed. Disney and Lucasfilm partnered with Facebook to showoff the technology is an exclusive 360 experience from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. This clip takes you speeding… Read More »Star Wars: The Force Awakens 360 preview launches new Facebook feature
Day 85: In an ironic twist George Lucas originally considered using Wookiees as the forest creatures to take on the Empire in “Return of the Jedi.” However, Lucas and his team figured the Wookiees were too technologically advanced for the plot. Yes, the same plot… Read More »100 Days of Star Wars Trivia – Day 85: Ewoks
Earlier this month, we announced that All Nippon Airways (also known as ANA) was partnering with LucasFilm on a trio of Star Wars-themed airplanes. On September 12, the first of the three, an R2-D2 embellished Dreamliner plane was officially rolled off the Boeing factory line,… Read More »All Nippon Airways Rolls Out R2-D2 Dreamliner Airplane to the Public