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…
How Star Tours Laid the Stage for Disney’s Galactic Ambitions
Image: Disney The year 2005 was already an important one for Star Tours, however. Although as previously mentioned Star Tours launched with elements of the ride teasing other locales for…
Hasbro’s New Star Wars Toys Herald The Acolyte
Image: Hasbro Hasbro’s latest Star Wars reveals may have been ostensibly for its villain-themed “Imperial March” this month, but really, it was all about The Acolyte. Just a day after…
The Coolest Items on Sale From Anthony Daniels’ Star Wars Collection, From Heads to Cookies
Anthony Daniels poses with C-3PO at a Japanese Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker fan event on December 11, 2019.Photo: Christopher Jue/Getty Images for Disney (Getty Images) There are Star…
io9’s Top 100 Posts of 2023
Image: Hasbro Ten years ago, Hasbro announced something akin to a disturbance in the Force—and Star Wars toy fans’ wallets: The Black Series, a brand new line that would bump…
Ahsoka’s Droids Are Its Best Animated Adaptation So Far
Ahsoka is a show that culminates years of effort on the behalf of Lucasfilm to try and build a bridge between the animated work that kept Star Wars going after…
How Did Star Wars Outlaws Make a Droid So Hot?
But while some pointed towards the humanized design of ND-5 to support their allure, for other Star Wars fans it is ND’s distinctly non-human selfhood that appeals, part of a…
Chopper Is the Chaos Star Wars Needs
Star Wars’ relationship with droids has always been weird. Their portrayal has run the gamut from revolutionary to servant underclass, to killer foes and straight-laced allies. But no droid has…
The Mandalorian’s Relationship With Droids Is Completely Messed Up
Are the droids of Star Wars people? From the moment Wuher glowered at C-3PO and R2-D2 and snarled “we don’t serve their kind,” the galaxy far, far away has danced…