“Every Journey has a first step…” Episode I Teaser Trailer Fandom took its first steps into the prequel world on November 17, 1998 with the release of the Star Wars: Episode I teaser trailer. Were we ready for this? What would be our first glimpse of new Star Wars footage?
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Summer 1977 The most common question the summer of 1977 was, “have you seen Star Wars?” My answer was, ‘“No, I don’t want to see Star Wars! Why would anyone want to see that when you could go see the new King Kong movie that has a rampaging ape smashing
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by Richard Woloski Today we mourn the loss of Joe Viskocil, a man whose job it was to blow up Imperial and Rebel ships on a daily basis as a miniature pyrotechnician on STAR WARS and THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. I was lucky enough to work alongside him and hear stories I
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by Richard and Sarah Woloski “Should we?” “Shouldn’t we?” After much debate about whether or not to go to Comic Con this year, we let all the tweets and FaceBook posts get the better of us. Plus now that we have SKYWALKING THROUGH NEVERLAND we figured it would be in our
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by Richard Woloski Sarah, Dave Skale (Skywalking Through Neverland’s Rebel Spy) and I waited outside the Honda Center in Anaheim CA, dressed in our new Clone Wars Jedi outfits. This was the North America debut of Star Wars In Concert! For the first time ever (except in England when
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“This will be a day long remembered,” – Darth Vader, A New Hope I was really looking forward to the wedding rehearsal so I could see all of our ideas come to life. I love a good show so I wanted this to be as much fun for our guests
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Reason #1: Extreme jealousy when your friend wins an R2-D2 and C-3PO Award Statue at the Star Wars Fan Film Awards. Reason #2: The idea and/or story that hasn’t been done yet. Reason 1 & 2 is why I made my Star Wars fan film, TPZ. The concept of
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Direct Link | iTunes Link This was a big week at Disney’s STAR WARS WEEKENDS: we saw the first appearance of Luke Skywalker himself, MARK HAMILL (complete with Jedi beard)! And we have SWW Veteran Dan Berry to give us a recap from ‘a certain point of view’. There was
Continue readingIn 1994, Mark Hamill was starting to appear as a special guest at sci-fi conventions. One of his very first stops was in Anaheim, CA. Eureka! At the time I was living in the San Fernando Valley which was just a 45-minute drive. I never thought the day would come
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by Richard Woloski “1990?! That’s a lifetime from now!” I exclaimed when Henry told me that’s what he’d heard about the release of the next Star Wars movie back in 1984. “That’s twice as long as normal. I’ll never make it.!” I’m glad I didn’t know it was more like
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