Let’s face it kids, you weren’t going to be a doctor. Time to give up on that dream. But what about the equally exciting and significantly less bloody world of droid repair?
via Star Wars Operation lets you get to the bottom of the R2-D2 booster rocket debate — Engadget.
For thirty years, people have been writing Star Wars books. That’s a long time (and a jumbled canon) but yesterday, finally, Star Wars entered the future. Lucasfilm and Random House announced that the entire library of Star Wars fiction titles (Del Rey/Bantam Spectra) will be available in eBook format, as will any future releases under the imprints. That’s 100+ books added to the 30 that were available already. It’s probably going to take you longer than 12 parsecs to read them.
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On September 1st, Lego will release the Super Star Destroyer Executor set. When built, it will be four feet long and weigh 8 lbs. It will consist of 3,152 bricks. It will have a removable section with a command bridge underneath, and come with Darth Vader and the bounty hunters you see above. It will cost $400.
via Topless Robot.
With three interior decks plus a detailed cockpit, forward and reverse movement, remote steering, a working ramp and crane, and interior lighting, the Sandcrawler is about as faithful a model as LEGO can build.
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