That seems like a really long post title, so let me break it down for you. Star Wars came out in 1977. Next year, being 2007, will be the 30th Anniversary of the franchise. To celebrate such an occasion, Hasbro is putting out a special line of 3 3/4 inch figures. They have finally announced the figures in Wave 1.

• Galactic Marine
• Mustafar Lava Worker
• R2-D2
• Obi-Wan Kenobi
• Mace Windu
• Clone Trooper
• Super Battle Droid (can attach to R2-D2)

You can see pictures and descriptions of these figures here on Hasbro’s site.

I do realize it’s called “LEGO Star Wars” despite the fact that I call it “Star Wars LEGO” a number of times in this review…

In the grand tradition of Spaceballs: The Movie, Spaceballs: The Book, and Spaceballs: The Documentary; a new animated series has been greenlit for G4, set to debut in the fall of 2007. The series will include a one-hour pilot and 13 half-hour episodes, though oddly, the pilot is set to pretty much retell the story of the movie, with Lone Starr and Barf being hired to save Princess Vespa from Dark Helmet, complete with his scheme to steal the air from Drudia.

I suppose this is less of a surprise with the revelation that the fantastic Mel Brooks & Thomas Meehan – two of the movie’s three writers – are writing the pilot. Meehan will also take a story editor role, wherein he will possibly write some individual episodes, but oversee the writing of them all. And to my pleasant surprise, the show even boasts Brooks doing the voices for Yogurt and President Skroob!

All in all, for once, I’m sad I don’t get G4.

A powet.tv exclusive! A review of advanced copies of the new Star Wars DVDs planned to be released on next Tuesday September 12th 2006.

Special thanks to Dave for giving me the heads up that the Zellers at Place d’Orleans in Ottawa was selling these DVDs a week early and to Janine my loving and patient camerawoman/stunt double/lover.

Update – September 9th

Compare the video quality between the new updated versions (left) and original vesions (right) images have been scaled to a common size and correct aspect ratio for easier comparison

Oh boy, this is going to be a regular ongoing joke, isn’t it? [Read the rest of this entry…]

As if performing in bath robes on Conan wasn’t wild enough, soul-super group Gnarls Barkley (Danger Mouse and Goodie Mob’s Cee-Lo) put on Star Wars attire to perform their international hit “Crazy” for MTV’s Movie Awards. And yes thats Borat introducing them.

In a turn of events that frankly shocks me, Lucasfilm has decided to release a completely unmolested DVD release of the original Star Wars Trilogy: episodes IV, V, and VI.

You’ll recall slight edits being made to the THX remaster released on VHS in the 90s, and massive CG insertion to the 1997 theatrical re-release in the special editions.  The most recent release in 2004 on dvd added even more CG work, and even went to far as to replace some performances with prequel actors.

Needless to say not a lot of fans were happy, but since George Lucas had complete control, we had to wait until he changed his mind.

NOW HE HAS.

Celebrate, my friends.  Let us put our overplayed Bootlegs of CBS/FOX VHS tapes and LaserDiscs to rest and enjoy not what was intended by the creator, but what was delivered, and what we fell in love with.

Sideshow has announced their exclusive for the San Diego Comic Con. The exclusive will be a 12 inch Darth Vader just after he turns to the dark side. He features ‘Sith eyes’ (they’re yellow!), a ‘unique lava droid base’, and exclusive packaging. Supplies will be limited to 6000.

Preorders for convention attendees begins April 27th at 10AM, while preorders for non-attendees starts at 10AM the next day.