Of Course Lego’s New Star Wars Sets Come With Darth Jar Jar
Earlier this year, Lego and Lucasfilm lifted the lid on Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy, a what-if style Lego series that takes the already high-zaniness of many of the…
25 Great Things About The Phantom Menace
Image: Lucasfilm Everything about the visual identity of the Naboo is meant to evoke this idea of a pacifist people, a society that prioritizes trade and cultural exchange over military…
Looking Back at the Delightful, Unhinged Jar Jar Binks Merchandise of 1999
Image: eBay Star Wars and merchandise have been hand in hand since the very beginning. But there was still something unlike anything the galaxy had ever seen when, 25 years…
Ahmed Best’s Hope For His Star Wars Future? Jedi John Wick
Image: Lucasfilm Ahmed Best—the man who brought Jar Jar Binks to life and then faced decades of horrifying harassment for it—shouldn’t have needed a Star Wars redemption arc, but he…
An Ode to the Sound Naboo Blasters Make
The sonic background of Star Wars is almost unmatched for legendary, immediately recognizable callouts. The snap-hiss of an igniting lightsaber. The penetrating wail of a TIE Fighter shrieking into view,…
Darth Jar Jar Strikes in Lego’s Crazy New Star Wars Series
The Star Wars Universe gets turned upside down in Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy, a fun what-if style series. When ordinary nerf-herder Sig Greebling (Gaten Matarazzo) unearths a powerful…
Ahmed Best Finally Gets to Celebrate Jar Jar in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
No one deserves their much-delayed accolades as part of the Star Wars franchise more than Ahmed Best, who portrayed Jar Jar Binks in George Lucas’ prequel trilogy. The actor was…
The Force Is With Lego’s May Releases
Image: Lego Moving away briefly from The Phantom Menace—but only kind of! Ahmed Best is a different kind of star here, this time not as Jar Jar, but Jedi Master…
Just Look at This Jar Jar Binks Action Figure
Image: Bandai/Tamashii Nations A lot is going on this May to celebrate 25 years of the prequel trilogy kicking off in The Phantom Menace—a way for us to reflect, and…
Ahmed Best Gets the Jedi Lego He Deserves in These New Star Wars Sets
Image: Lego We might have only just hit April, but Lego is getting Star Wars fans ready for a world of wallet pain next month with the impending arrival of…