The Volkswagen Darth Vader commercial was one of the Super Bowl’s best and a lot of it had to do with the adorable kid dressed up as the Sith Lord. The cute kid behind it, Max Page, is now a healthy six-year-old but at four months old he was diagnosed with Tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital heart defect found in children.
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Big honking Saturday morning rumour here! According to IESB.net, George Lucas will be creating a new trilogy once the first six Star Wars movies go 3D. This echoes what Lucas did in the 1990s after the original trilogy was rereleased.
The first Star Wars sequel turns 30 this year, and to celebrate the occasion, fans are being treated with J.W. Rinzler’s The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. These incredible photos alone are worth the $US50 price tag.
We now know that the crazy-powerful Spyder III Arctic laser actually emits a visible, fearsome blue beam, just like a real lightsabre. George Lucas’ lawyers saw this thing and fired off a cease and desist faster than Han shot Greedo.
In today’s Remainders: the Dark Side of the Force. Boingo tries to seduce you with $US2 Wi-Fi access; Fake Steve Jobs runs into TV show trouble; College Humor espouses the Galactic Empire State of Mind, and more
