Celebrating 25 years of the LEGO Star Wars theme, LEGO has unveiled five new sets which will hit shelves on March 1st with an R2-D2 buildable display model, three new additions to the LEGO Star Wars Starship Collection in the Millennium Falcon, Tantive IV, General Grievous’ Starship the Invisible Hand, and a new playset from […]
Revisiting the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Were a generation of fans too harsh on the Prequel Trilogy? Tom Jolliffe revisits The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith to see whether they’re worthy of reappraisal, and how they hold up post-Disney Sequel Trilogy… Remember Spaced? The much loved and all too shortly lived sitcom from Edgar Wright, […]
Hot Toys unveils Anakin Skywalker Star Wars DX Artisan Edition sixth scale figure
Sideshow has unveiled Hot Toys’ impressive sixth scale DX Artisan Edition Anakin Skywalker figure which is based on the likeness of Hayden Christensen in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. Limited to 3000 pieces, the collectible is available to pre-order now, priced at $410; check out the promotional images here… Sideshow […]
Every Star Wars Movie Ranked From Worst to Best
Olly Dyche ranks the Star Wars movies from worst to best… The Star Wars universe has grown exponentially since Disney bought the rights to the franchise from George Lucas. Since then we have seen five movies, six seasons of live action TV and over six seasons of animation. There is a tonne of Star Wars […]
The Mandalorian: Who Saved Grogu from Order 66?
Olly Dyche explores the candidates who could have saved The Mandalorian’s Grogu from Order 66… The Mandalorian is without a doubt the best Disney project of the last two decades, absorbing its audience in exhilarating set pieces, great characters and the kind of emotional storytelling that made us fall in love with the franchise in […]
When It’s Time to Let Go of Star Wars
Tom Jolliffe on that fateful day when you realise Star Wars is no longer being made for you. Let go, you must… Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi has been and gone. Rather than roaring like a hungry Wampa, it meekly wheeled itself out like an R2 unit which can no longer beep and boop like it […]
LEGO Star Wars Cad Bane’s Justifier and AT-TE Walker sets officially unveiled
LEGO has unveiled two new LEGO Star Wars sets in The Justifier (75323), the brick-built model of the menacing bounty hunter Cad Bane’s starship from the animated series Star Wars: The Bad Batch, and the AT-TE Walker (75337) from Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, both of which are set to go […]
Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi director reveals whether Obi-Wan knows Anakin survived Mustafar
We’re just hours away from the premiere of Lucasfilm’s hotly-anticipated new Disney+ series Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi, which not only reunites Prequel Trilogy co-stars Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen for the first time since 2005’s Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, but also promises to bring together the former master and apprentice […]
General Grievous gets a new deluxe Star Wars statue from Iron Studios
Sideshow and Iron Studios have revealed the 1:10 scale Battle Diorama Series General Grievous deluxe statue. The Star Wars collectible is available to pre-order now, priced at $365; check out the promotional images here… Sideshow and Iron Studios are proud to announce the latest from the Battle Diorama Series Art Scale 1:10 line – General […]
A Lack of Vision: The Missed Opportunities of the Skywalker Saga – Pharisees & Fiancees
Anghus Houvouras continues his deep dive into the Skywalker Saga… In part one we discussed the missed opportunity of connecting Anakin’s emotional arc to the pain of slavery and losing his mother. Anakin’s disturbing past is abandoned. The anger and rage that we see him capable of in subsequent films never feels sufficiently connected to […]
