It’s a reminder of how close the entertainment mediums are to converging.  The video game engine behind Star Wars 1313, one of the casualties of LucasArts closing operations, has been resurrected as a post-production technology for movies.

This is fairly outstanding.  An industrious tech geek named Ted Pietrusky recreated the opening crawl to A New Hope entirely in HTML using a combination of HTML, CSS and Java script.  The best part is that the code is available for download.

The short film Black Angel, which was shown before The Empire Strikes Back in Australia and parts of Europe, will be screened for the first time in 33 years at the Mill Valley Film Festival in Marin County.

“Hoping it’s where they stored anything to do with Jar-Jar,” one Twitter user wrote about the blaze, which caused no injures and “minor to moderate” damage, according to Marin County fire officials

The Her Universe official Facebook fan page shared a pic of the ultimate Star Wars refrigerator.  Every man needs this fridge so if his wife tries to rearrange the kitchen, he can say “I like Captain Solo where he is.”

Kenny Baker, the man behind R2-D2, turns 79 today.  Join us in wishing one of the brightest and most courageous heroes of the rebellion a Happy Birthday.

Do you have at least $15,000 to spare and a child (or inner nerd) you want to spoil rotten?  The site Posh Tots is offering a generically named Deep Space Fighter Bed and Galaxy Mural starting at $15,000.  While the name might be an attempt to not infringe on LFL intellectual property, one quick look tells you it’s probably not different enough,

If this doesn’t hit you right at home, get out.  Get out now. You don’t belong here.  X-Ray films has released a sneak peek trailer for their upcoming documentary, Plastic Galaxy: The Story of Star Wars Toys which will be available on DVD in September, 2013.

Plastic Galaxy: The Story of Star Wars Toys SNEAK PEEK TEASER FOOTAGE! from Plastic Galaxy on Vimeo.

This is a pretty neat article on Visual News about the evolution of the Star Wars logo.  It was a long road to the “Star Vader” font we all love.

The Guardian opines on the viability of a “long-form” live action Star Wars television series.  Their ideas have me intrigued and honestly excited at the prospect.  Plus they discuss the concept of Jar Jar’s Sopranos style execution and use the phrase “interminable rubbish”.  You gotta love the Brits.

Okay, I admit it.  This one is a little off beat.  But as someone who has dreamed his collection had some sort of philanthropic destiny (* cough * Ranch Obi-wan * cough *), I thought this was cool.  Lifelong Star Wars fan, Cory Rogers, and his brother Cory have their collection on display in the Georgia Room of the Augusta-Richmond County Library.

You may well have heard of it, but maybe you haven’t seen Return of the Ewok, a cute short film starring a very young Warwick Davis with appearances by the primary cast of the Original Trilogy. It’s not the best quality, but worth a viewing.

Tracking the Star Wars Holiday Special online is a bit like tracking the McRib in real life.  It’s never in one place too long.  The entire special is currently on Daily Motion inclusive of the vintage commercials, which are the best part.  Stream it in the background while you’re at work.  It’s one of those things that’s been bad for so long, it’s somehow coming back around to being good.

I’ve been meaning to cross promote this for a couple of days, but the news flood took me off track.  Anyway, our friends at YakFace post an incredible Endor diorama by OGTrilogy.  The most fun I get with the hobby is setting up my displays in dioramas, so this was quite the inspiration.

In what HAS to be one of the more unique pieces of Star Wars memorabilia to come available, the Toledo Mud Hen Chewbacca themed jerseys will indeed be sold through the teams “Swamp Shop”.  The following information comes from Craig Katz, Director of Merchandise and Licensing for the Mud Hens:

We are currently taking pre-orders for Chewbacca themed jerseys that we expect to receive in June or July. If you would like to place a a pre-order, please call the Swamp Shop at 1-800-736-9520. They would be available in sizes S-3XL.  They cost $79.95 - $84.95 depending on size.

Very cool!

Update:  More info from Craig:

They will be a very limited edition… Thanks Chris!

Also, please mention that the jerseys worn this weekend by the Mud Hens will be auctioned off Saturday and Sunday with proceeds going to the Spina Bifida Association of Northwest Ohio.  These game worn jerseys will have player numbers on the backs, and will be autographed by the player who wore it, who will most likely become a future Major League Baseball player.

Okay, an autographed game worn Star Wars themed jersey by a future MLB player is very near the top of the list for cross over Star Wars collectibles.  And it’s for a good cause.