The new Clone Wars movie, which opened this week and sits in third place at the box office, was planned to lead into a new Star Wars animated series. The opinion of the movie — an unusually low opening weekend and unusually low critical reviews (19% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) — suggests younger fans are amused, while older fans and fanatics are not.
Sci-fi blog IO9.com is running the top 5 things they want
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From Commander Appo, member on our message boards:
Karen Traviss has officially announced that she will write a 5th book in the Republic Commando book series! The title is Imperial Commando, and judging by the name of the book, I'm guessing that it will take place during the Empire.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Imperial_Commando
Now in the RC book series, there will be:
Hard Contact
Triple Zero
True Colors
Order 66 (comes out on September 16th)
Imperial Commando (Comes out at an unknown
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WetaCollectors.com has posted pictures on their blog of the new Gentle Giant statue. Extra points for defying the "no photography" sign.
High resolution pictures direct from the show floor of Comic-Con 2008 featuring the Boba Fett, Stromtroopers and Carbonite Han Solo diorama from Gentle Giant. A great overall composition with the incorporation of the floating element, make this an incredible strong piece. Pretty much everyone loves to see Han suffer.
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As all Star Wars fan should know by now, there is an upcoming Clone Wars animated movie coming to theaters August 15. Along with the TV show which will be released afterwards, a new line of figures has come out today, July 26. Among the animated Clone Wars figures are a line of 'Legacy Collection' figures that are from the entire Star Wars saga and Expanded Universe. Thankfully, Boba Fett was not forgotten.
First up is
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From Entertainment Weekly:
As for the new Star Wars special, Green promised that the bounty hunters would finally get their due, with sketches that would peek into the backgrounds of favorites like Dengar and Bossk (the writers-room favorite, who Root is determined to get into a tuxedo at some point). Another sketch: One that Meyer promised would finally articulate the true nature of the relationship between Boba Fett and the Sarlacc Pit. Production has already
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