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The Disney Parks blog has revealed the fifth wave of Star Tours toys casting the studios' icons as Star Wars characters. Following four earlier lines covering A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, this fifth wave focuses mostly on Clone Wars characters...

I swore off the Star Wars franchise back in 2005, but last week, there was something that made me want to give it another shot. There was a new version being released that promised to add an entirely new level of visual spectacle to the story that I enjoyed when I was a kid, and while I can't say I was excited about it, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't at least curious...

In honor of Coinciding with the 3-D re-release of Star Wars: Episode One, The Phantom Menace Jason "ToyOtter" Geyer has shared some of the unproduced tie-in product concepts pitched to Pepsi during his time spent working at a promotional merchandise company circa 1998...

Comics artist Ulises Farinas returns with another of his amazing landscape portraits, this time chock full of aliens, droids, Stormtroopers and bounty hunters in the bustling streets of the Star Wars planet Tatooine. Look closely in the hive of villainy for familiar faces like Batman, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Doctor Who, several Star Fleet officers, and more...

If you're the kind of collector who chases every single one of Hasbro's 3.75" Star Wars action figures, then all I can say is, "May the Force be with you." There's simply a ton of toys rolling out in 2012 with the re-release of The Phantom Menace in 3D, the pending release of the fourth season of the CG Clone Wars animated series and continuous demand for the vintage figure line...

Star Wars is one of those franchises that has curiously gotten younger as time has gone on. Now don't get me wrong, I love Clone Wars (and probably get into more heated discussions about it than it warrants), but it would be nice to see a new Star Wars movie or television series that's aimed at people who were alive when Return of the Jedi came out...

Star Wars Uncut, the ambitious crowdsourcing project that asked fans from around the world to recreate the original Star Wars film in 15 second segments, has finally been edited together into a full-length "Director's Cut" version of Episode IV: A New Hope...

Movies: There's something extra classy about the French Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance movie poster. TV: Marvel's The Super Hero Squad Show will move from Cartoon Network to The Hub on January 30. Gaming: The Darkness II playable demo is slated to arrive on Xbox Live, PSN and Steam next week...

Movies: New promo art for The Avengers movie situates the team in some action poses. Anime: A judge has ruled that 4Kids still has the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime rights in America... for now. Digital: Robot 6 has posted the entire first issue of Van Jensen and Dusty Higgins' Pinocchio Vampire Slayer: Of Wood and Blood...

Crime: Police arrested a 33-year-old man after he allegedly attacked shoppers at a Portland, Ore. Toys 'R' Us with a blue lightsaber toy. The dude apparently resisted arrest and managed to deflect a taser cable before getting tackled and taken to a hospital for a mental evaluation...