July 23rd, 20182143Ever since its inception, one of the key elements of Star Wars has been the droids. R2-D2 and C-3PO were the original iconic droids of the franchise. When Disney purchased Lucasfilm and began producing new Star Wars movies, more iconic droids joined the franchise. The Force Awakens delivered BB-8. Next, Rogue One debuted K-2SO. Finally,...
May 3rd, 20183115"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them."-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
One of George Lucas’s initial philosophical ideas when creating Star Wars was man’s relationship with the machine. Does it serve us or do we serve it? A concept at the forefront of the short film...
March 28th, 201801183/30 – 4/1: Awesome Con 2018Washington, D.C. (March 28, 2018) – The sixth annual Awesome Con by LeftField Media, the Mid-Atlantic’s premier pop culture convention, is excited to announce programming highlights planned during the show from March 30-April 1. Fans of comics, technology, science, television...
March 5th, 20180267Did you miss out on any of the Smuggler's Bounty collector boxes from Funko's subscription service? Well, they have select boxes available for purchase online now, no subscription necessary. Not only Star Wars boxes, but also from Marvel, DC, and Disney. Each one is filled with amazing exclusives to add to your collection, or give as a...
January 31st, 2018089I was 18, on the cusp of my last year as a teenager when this little space fantasy I had heard about hit theaters in 1977. At first, I wasn’t sure if I’d go see the film – mostly because it was touted as a sci-fi movie. Truth be told, that really wasn’t my cup of tea back then. However, I had seen American Graffiti four years...
December 15th, 20170124If you’re like me, once Thanksgiving – a fine holiday in its own right – has passed, it’s the thought of once again seeing houses decked out with colorful twinkling lights, tabletops and mantles adorned with cheerful elves, stoic nutcrackers and reindeer-drawn sleighs, getting a whiff of fragrant boughs of fir, pine and spruce...
December 3rd, 20170127The relationship between droid and organic in the Star Wars galaxy has been one of servitude, with the droids typically giving and the organic taking. In most instances, this is the case, and it’s met with contempt in return. Droids were built to serve the need of their masters. But with some droids developing a personality of their...
November 30th, 2017049What is white and orange with a touch of silver and black, rather roly-poly, and resembles a figure 8? That just happens to be the character who stole the show when The Force Awakens hit movie screens a couple of years ago – BB-8, who happens to be my favorite character from the new trilogy of Star Wars films. Off and on over the past...
September 26th, 2017061This week's episode of Science and Star Wars has just landed, and this time around host Anthony Carboni looks at how close we are to actually creating droids, like the ones we see populate the galaxy far, far away. The show introduces some droids and robots that are currently in development and ones that are in use in hospitals,...
April 19th, 2016037We waited. Then we waited some more. Then we waited even more.December? No. January? Nope. February? March? Maybe. What about April? OK, yes. For real this time.More than four months after it was supposed to be released, the Star Wars Special: C-3PO one-shot by James Robinson and Tony Harris was finally released on April 13...
