Disney buys Lucasfilm - Link Round Up Part Two

Earlier tonight I posted a bunch of links and within minutes I thought, oh what about that site and this site.  So after sitting on twitter for a while tonight, I've gathered more links and more great posts related to this epic moment in time.


Entertainment Weekly asks the question, Who should direct the next Star Wars film?  Find out who's on there short list here.

The LA Times is up next and they also asks just Who gets the task of carrying on this epic story from our youth.  They've even got a POLL! A guy named Nobody leads the survey with Joss Whedon a close second.  With Avengers 2 and S.H.E.I.L.D. I'm thinking his plate is already pretty full. 

The Huffington Post TV Division re-tells the story of the 4 year in the works Star Wars tv show that frankly, I thought was dead in the water.  But when the company that now owns Star Wars also owns a tv channel, it might actually be alive again.

Geek Magazine has a quick post, nothing really new here.  They do have a cool play on a classic Mickey image using Death Stars though and that's worth a look.  I will agree with them in that when I first got the email this afternoon I was about to jump on twitter and facebook and tell everyone I know what's happening.  But I had to stop myself in my tracks and think.  Wait a second.  I need to read this first to see if this is real.  Just in case.

Another one of my favorite sites and I don't know how I forgot them the first time around on this, The Wrap has a nice two pager worth checking out.  Apparently those theme parks are profitable because in 6 years Disney has spent almost $15.5 BILLION dollars to aquire Pixar, Marvel and now Lucasfilm.

The always entertaining Alien Bee News has a nice post with a great Disney Star Wars Mashup, the article starts with Holy Sith Balls and ends in a terrible Star Wars Pun.

The great team at Nerd Bastards reacts much like I did while driving home this evening.  Oh by the way, tomorrow is THE worst drive home of the year.  Moving along.

If you want details and lots of it, head on over to Movie Web and they've got that covered.  They've already got a page with the details for Star Wars: Episode 9. I can't believe I just typed Star Wars: Episode 9.  Anyway, I wondered if the folks already have the Star Wars 7,8 and 9 pages in the database already.  They don't. Slackers.

Screenrant drops an article on the news as well as a video with fans/bloggers talking about it all.

This story is so big that even hardware site C-Net got into the spirit of it all.

Wired is all over this one starting here, another one here  to talk about what Disney brings to the table with the Franchise and then talk of the twitter reaction a bit here.

The Hollywood Reporter talks a bit about the what we might expect right over here.  They then get all Wall Street and Business World and talk about the deal and numbers.

Film School Rejects has a bit written, another copy of the press release if you haven't read that yet.  But they've got a great picture of the Lucasfilm logo with Mickey.  The amount of PhotoShop we've seen in the last 8 hours has been pretty awesome so far.

And lastly I'll round it out with the great team over at Slashfilm who have a massive Question and Answer section about this and is way worth the read.   They've started a discussion about how will Star Wars be different under Disney and without Lucas running the show.  Plus they've got their initial article on the whole thing right about here.

So that's it for now, I'm sure in the next few days further news will start to come out after the dust all starts to settle and we'll see where we go from here.

Disney buys Lucasfilm and Announces More Star Wars Movies!!

So today's really big news, other than Brian Butterfield heading over to those Red Sox is that Disney has bought Lucasfilm, Lucas Arts, Industrial Light and Magic plus Skywalker Ranch and Skywalker Sound. That's a whole lot of stuff for 4.05 BILLION Dollars.

Check the video and watch the announcement of the deal to the world.



Let's start right at the official Star Wars site and see what they've got to say.  Click that classic Logo and see what's up.

Lots of great stuff at StarWars.Com tonight that's for sure.  One interesting thing is a blog post about the future of the Star Wars films.  Something very cool is this picture from a 1978 Time article showing that the Star Wars films were planned to be a 12 movie story!

Check the entire blog post here.

You can check out the video where George Lucas talks the future of Lucas Film and Star Wars.




Next on the Official Star Wars site is the actual write-up and it's a long one on the Disney purchase of Lucasfilm here.

Next up I thought I'd head over to the House of Mouse and check out Disney.com and I'm stunned to see that the news of this story isn't on the main page.  Well, frankly they're too busy trying to see you products, trips and theme park packages for this to get in the way.

Let's move right along then.  I first caught wind of this massive story just after 4:00 when I was packing up getting ready to leave work from the great folks at Deadline.  If anyone sneezes in Hollywood Deadline emails their subscribers, so yes.  I get a LOT of email from Deadline.

UPDATE: BREAKING: ‘Star Wars’ Returns — ‘Episode 7′ Slated For 2015 And More Movies Planned As Disney Buys Lucasfilm

Lots of great stuff in there, updates have been added as this story develops.

Shortly after they also added this story.

Disney’s Iger: Three New ‘Star Wars’ Movies Mapped Out; TV Plans Too

So let's head over to one of my favorite tv sites, zap2it and see what they've got to say.

Next up will go to Entertainment Weekly and see what's up over there.  I'm expecting a cover very similar to this one in the next few weeks.

The wonder kids over at NY Mag's Vulture already have "7 Burning Questions" lined up for Episode 7.  Click the logo and check the story.

 

 Next up I head over to the great team over at Joblo.com and see what's up there.  Great image of all the classic Disney/Star Wars toys created.  Nice stuff.

 

 Keeping right along, let's stop off at Comingsoon.net and see what's happening there.

 

 One last place that I want to look tonight and that's the Internet's biggest movie nerd, let's see what Ain't It Cool has to say on the matter.  You can check out there massive write up here.  They also have another piece here that's worth checking about ok, now what for Star Wars.

 

 

Lots to digest, I'm sure we'll all be dreaming tonight of that day in 2014 when the Episode 7 trailer finally drops.  Then we'll all spend weeks tearing it apart and complaining that Mickey has ruined our childhood and that we all want Lucas back ;)

 

 



"Wanted List" - Construction Blocks Edition

The other day I posted my first "wanted list" teaser poster of the Kre-O GI Joe line come next year.  I've followed that up with some more great items that I'd like to have in the ol' Media Room on display for all to enjoy.

First off we've got the Mega Bloks ultimate Halo collection piece, Forward Unto Dawn and it comes in at a great total of 2877 pieces.  These aren't the pieces of our childhood. 

Next up we've got the Lego Ultimate Collector Series version of the Star Wars B-Wing.  At 26 inches tall, this bad boy belongs on most Media Room shelves.

Coming in the near future is a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle line with Lego, I'm not a fan of the sets.  But these mini-figures are pretty awesome.

We quickly get back to Star Wars and the beast of all beasts.  The Lego Death Star and this thing comes with 25 minifigures, measure basically like a 16x16x16 cube and contains a lovely 3803 pieces.  That B-Wing shelf better be re-enforced to also house this thing.

Let's keep that Star Wars theme going and next up is the Darth Vader's ride, the Super Star Destroyer. So big that it will get it's own shelf in the room because it's a whopping 50 inches long and contains a mind boggling 3152 grey pieces. This build would take such a long time and contains so much detail.  The instruction book alone is 228 pages.  228 PAGES!!!

That's it for now, but I'm sure I'll find some more cool stuff that I need to add to the Media Room before long.

Inside the Media Room - Lego Star Wars - X-Wing Build

So after the Tie Fighter was finished and the Jays game was well underway and we're leading on that front.  Time to start the X-Wing Build.

That's exciting and all, but let's take a look at what's in there.

Alrighty, we all know what we need to do here.  Let's get started and see what's in that first bag and what Mini-Figures come with this kit. Note the glass of Zingy Zaps and Skittles.  It truly was a perfect afternoon all around.  The Jays won the game!

Some very cool Mini-Figures in this one.

Let's see the body of the X-Wing after that first bag.

Check out the contents of bags 2 and 3.

After that third bag, the body is pretty much done.

Bags 4 and 5 are the same and they each build 2 Wing Segments.

Completed Wing.

And the completed X-Wing.

And with expanded Wings, don't worry about poor R2.  That's my lone disappointment with the kit.  It should really come with some bricks so you can display it with the wings expanded.

Inside the Media Room - Lego Star Wars - Tie Fighter Build

Yesterday I stopped by my local Chapters to pick up a couple of Lego Star Wars since they had a sale on and I figured I wouldn't get another chance to get such good prices on these, I had to pick them up.

The Blue Jays first Spring Training game was on the radio so it was the making of a great afternoon.

First off I started with the Tie Fighter kit.

Here's the box.

Enough of the box, let's rip this open and empty the contents on the table and get started.

Let's get that first bag on the table and sorted, ready for some build action.

First off, I had to build the included Mini-Figures.

The first bag has been completed, it builds the body of the Tie Fighter.

Let's open that door.

Let's get those wings started.

Finished Wing.

And finally, 1 finished Tie Fighter.

Star Wars Eggs...

This is amazing, someone has got some serious time and serious talent to get their geek on...LOVE IT...

Star Wars, Daft Punk, Snoop Dogg, Oasis and David Beckham make one great commercial...

What else can one say after that intro?  Nothing, let's just play it already.