Boba Fett

Yoga-Inspired Cookie Cutters: Strike, Then Eat, a Pose

What does your collection of cookie cutters say about you? Or, to put this another way, are your cookie cutters shaped like Stormtroopers and X-Wings, or did you leave your yoga class this morning wishing you could bake some cookies that accurately captured your Crescent Lunge pose? If it's the la ... More >>

How a Star Wars Art Show Came to Be

See also: *Boba Fett as a Girl *The Creation of That Super Bowl Ad With the Imperial March Sung by Dogs The star of L.A.-based artist Lekit's Opheleia looks like she's had a brutal day. Her cheeks are sunken, her eyes dazed. Her dress falls off her shoulders, revealing an impressive tattoo collect ... More >>

Wolvesmouth Goes to Comic-Con: Food Nerds Pop Culture Geeks

It's almost universally agreed upon that the food at Comic-Con sucks -- that is, unless you're a fan of floppy pizza slices and soggy hot dogs marked up to movie-theater prices. Yet just like music festivals, gaming conventions and other pop culture gatherings, Comic-Con is experiencing an influx of ... More >>

Nerdist Chris Hardwick Makes the Course of the Force to Comic Con 2012 in Less Than 12 Parsecs

"Wait, isn't a parsec a unit of distance and not time?" you ask. "Who gives a shit?" we say -- because it's all for charity. And also a reference to a fictional universe. But try telling that to all of the nerds, nerdists and nerdettes who showed up this week for the Course of the Force. Chris Ha ... More >>

My Little Pony Project Brings Bronies and Pegasisters to Toy Art Gallery

See also: *More photos from the My Little Pony Project opening at Toy Art Gallery *Top 5 Lessons for Adults From My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic *Boba Fett as a Girl: N.C. Winters Mashes Up Star Wars and My Little Pony in 'Abandoned Menagerie' Just before 8:30 p.m., when the line to enter Toy ... More >>

Top 5 Lessons for Adults from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

See also: "Boba Fett as a Girl: N.C. Winters Mashes Up Star Wars and My Little Pony in 'Abandoned Menagerie.'" It's easy to forget that My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is a kids show. After all, it's mostly adults -- known as Bronies and Pegasisterss -- that we see dressed as Rainbow Dash at co ... More >>

Boba Fett as a Girl: N.C. Winters Mashes Up Star Wars and My Little Pony in 'Abandoned Menagerie'

In "Abandoned Menagerie," open at Gallery 1988 through April 7, artist N.C. Winters delves deep into his childhood memory for a series of pieces based on pop culture figures of the 1980s. The Carlsbad-based artist paints characters from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Gremlins, The Muppets, Super Mari ... More >>

Long Beach Comic and Horror Convention: The Place to Go for Your Comic Book Education

Liz OhanesianClint and Dawn Wolf of Zombie Ranch​Two years ago, Clint and Dawn Wolf launched their comic, Zombie Ranch, at Long Beach Comic Con. The couple returned to the convention -- now called Long Beach Comic and Horror Con -- last weekend, where they sat on the "Tips and Tricks for Indy ... More >>

San Diego Comic-Con Preview Night: Inside Small Press

Shannon CottrellJenn of justJENN breaks out the Boba Fett and Yoda cookies inside Small Press​See more photos in Shannon Cottrell's gallery, "San Diego Comic-Con 2011 Preview Night." "Small Press almost like a mini-con within the Con," said Jenn of justJENN Designs when we interviewed her rec ... More >>

Star Wars Street Art: Free Humanity Talks Barack Obama, Akira Kurosawa and Mr. Brainwash

Keith Plocek​See more posters at "Star Wars Street Art: The Works of Free Humanity."​Jabba the Hutt and Salacious Crumb, stenciled on top a page of the Wall Street Journal with the words "Greed is good." Boba Fett, standing alone with "I'm sorry for the deaths of the innocent but that happen ... More >>

Street Art, Travel Posters and Burlesque: Our Favorite Star Wars Finds of 2010

If the fact that we have a Style Council category devoted specifically to Star Wars weren't already an indication, we have a confession to make. A few of us on this arts/pop culture blog team are Star Wars fans. We've been known to spend hours looking at fan art online and chasing down cosplayers at ... More >>

Star Wars Nativity Scenes: In A Manger Far, Far Away

A long time ago, in a manger far far away...people were revising their Christian iconography to fit a Lucasfilm agenda. Check out these Star Wars themed nativity sets. Sacrilegious, but crafty. 1. What Rebel Child Is This? Are these Stormtroopers Mary and Joseph? Or are they inspecting the newborn ... More >>

Free Humanity's Thought-Provoking Star Wars Street Art at DesignerCon

Booth 105 at DesignerCon was a little different from most of the vending stations at last Saturday's toy and art convention when we passed it. There was no one standing behind the table to answer questions or sign autographs, no huge crowd looking for discounted items. There was, however, a lot of t ... More >>

Daniel Logan Talks Playing Boba Fett in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Clone Wars

Sunday afternoon, we met Daniel Logan at the Shrine Auditorium, where he was a guest for the Los Angeles Comic Book and SciFi Convention. Amongst Star Wars fans, the New Zealand-raised, California-based actor is best known as the young Boba Fett in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and, mor ... More >>

Victorian Star Wars Paintings: Greg Peltz Imagines Vader as Civil War Officer, Jabba as Robber Baron

​These gorgeous Victorian-styled paintings of Star Wars characters--hello! Jabba the Hutt as a 19th century robber baron!--were done by 23-year-old Alameda resident Greg Peltz. Peltz is technical director at Pixar. I like that Civil War painting of Vader. Do you think Vader would have fought ... More >>

Top 10 Star Wars Cakes: Let The Force (of Frosting & Fondant) Be With You

WasabimonStorm Troopers Like Cake, Too​ Cake is one confection that will never, ever go out of style. Witness shows like Duff Goldman's Ace of Cakes, Cake Boss, Amazing Wedding Cakes and now, Cupcake Wars, which not only engineer cakes, but make them, as Goldman says, "Bigger, badder, awesome! ... More >>

Wookiee Brains: Deconstructing the Star Wars Breakfast Cereals

For those of you who haven't been following the Star Wars collecting beat, just FYI, wookiee brains now come in cereal form. ​ According to StarWars.com, 16 types of Star Wars-themed cereal boxes (400 of each) will be given away at this August's "Celebration V" at the Orange County Conventio ... More >>

DISORDER IN THE COURT

Steampunk Star Wars Cosplayers Lose Bus, Costumes in Nashville Flood

You might recall that we recently posted about an amazing steampunk Star Wars cosplay that we saw on Facebook. Based in Atlanta, Outland Armour, has recreated characters like Boba Fett and Princess Leia in a neo-Victorian sci-fi aesthetic. Dim Horizon Studio​

Found on Facebook: Steampunk Star Wars Cosplay

Dim Horizon StudioSteampunk Boba Fett by Outland Armour​ Outland Armour is a multi-talented costume and production company in Atlanta. They travel to anime and science-fiction conventions across the country and frequently sit on steampunk and costuming panels. Check out more photos of their a ... More >>

Star Warz Burlesque Returns with New Characters R2-D2, Chewbacca and Death Star

See more photos in Josh "CuriousJosh" Reiss' gallery. Check out our coverage of Devil's Playground's first Star Warz Burlesque show. It's only been two months since L.A. burlesque troupe Devil's Playground first took on the characters of Star Wars (Episodes IV-VI), but since then, a lot has happen ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Comic-Con '09, Cosplay, Ninjas and Sexy '60s Spies

If city traffic felt a bit lighter over the weekend there was a reason why -- a majority of Angelenos hightailed it to San Diego for the annual Comic-Con to indulge their inner geek, strap on that Storm Trooper costume, spend their savings on first editions, preview new video games and attend panels ... More >>

Boba Fett's Worst Nightmare: The Sarlacc Pillow

If you know what a Sarlacc is, you are a serious nerd. Becky Gould made this pillow in the shape of that sand creature in Return of the Jedi that eats Boba Fett. Gould, 38, is a monster plush artist originally from Bournemouth UK, now living in Vancouver. You may have seen her curious Sarlacc making ... More >>

Comic-Con 2008: For Love of the Con

Big crowds, too little sleep and even less food at San Diego's fanboy mecca

WALL-E: Robots in Love

Movie blasts off to the future by boldly going where every sci-fi film's gone before. And that's a good thing.

Robot Chicken: Star Wars

Turning George Lucas into an action figure

Paint It Black

Artists reimagine the Star Wars villain for The Vader Project

Star Wars Rules/Sucks

Lucas’ best-selling video game shows which trilogy is better

Bart Wars

Vampire Diaries: Getting Geeked on Buffy and Spike at the Sci-Fi Summit

A Fan's Notes: Jedi Nights

Attend Show, Forgive Mom