For the Star Wars Fan with Everything #25

An opportunity not missed.

For the Star Wars Fan with Everything #23

If you were anywhere near the internet yesterday, particularly those wee social media haunts such as Facebook or Twitter, you were probably bombarded with the earth-shaking news of Disney acquiring LucasFilm for some insane sum which could feed an entire starving nation, which in layman's terms, basically means that Star Wars has become part of the Disney family (Twitter's still going nuts with the news). It also means that we can expect a brand new Star Wars film sometime in 2015, although George Lucas won't be directing it. This acquisition means a lot of things and opens up a lot of possibilities, not least of all giving fans "a new hope" for a franchise whose legacy has somewhat been tarnished by the crappiness of the prequels. Ol' Darth seems to be settling in fine:

For the Star Wars Fan with Everything #15

Star Wars as a silent film with intertitles:



This cute pint-sized Vader Volkswagen ad has over 40 million views but it's the first time I've seen it, so just in case you're in the same boat:

For the Star Wars Fan with Everything... #9

Armed robbery isn't funny, but it's hard to not to crack a smile at this. Expectedly, news reports everywhere are having a field day with Star Wars-related puns ("The Empire Strikes Bank", hur hur).