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Poor Boba Fett. He came to a pretty lame end by falling into the Sarlacc pit. His jetpack didn’t even help him. Well, if you love that classic Return of the Jedi scene, you can recreate it by making your very own Sarlacc Bundt cake.

Jenny Landa’s sarlacc pit cake awesome because it is easy to make and looks realistic. This sarlacc is made from a split chocolate-covered stawberry, chocolate-gummy worms, and almonds. Just bake the cake, blend up some ginger snap cookies for the Tatooine sand, insert your almonds for teeth and put in your chocolate covered gummy worms for tentacles.

It looks delicious. Better to eat it than fall in and have it eat you.

[via The Mary Sue]

There are fans, and there are hardcore fans. Chris Lee could be thought of as the latter as he has embarked on a mission to create a full sized version of the Millennium Falcon. This is of course not a one man effort and Lee will be joined a team that comprises of Leah D’Andrea, Stinson Lentz, Greg Dietrich, Brian Thompson and Roger Lee. This project is expected to be completed over the course of the next 5-7 years, and according to the project’s description: (more…)

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Star Wars R2-D2 NES console is truly in a galaxy of its own, Star Wars Razer Blade gaming laptop costs 15,000 Republic credits,

From the day that Star Wars came out, I always thought R2-D2 looked like a trashcan on wheels. So an R2-D2 trashcan makes sense as a mechandising tie-in. On the other hand, I never really pictured R2 as an orb. But that didn’t stop Underground Toys from making him into one.

This literal oddball features what looks like the unholy spawn of R2-D2 and Wheatley, with its googly cyclops eye staring back at you. This plush R2-D2 ball even “talks” – whatever that means. I’m guessing that it just beeps like this guy, since the little maintenance droid never uttered an word of English in its life.

If you’re ready to play with your balls, then head on over to BigBadToyStore now, where you can pre-order the R2-D2 Talking Plush Ball for $19.99(USD), where you can also find plush ball versions of Yoda, Chewie and the Dark Lord himself.

[via R2D2Central]

In typical fashion, Rovio has released another teaser for its upcoming Star Wars-themed Angry Birds sequel. It’s a lot similar to the last teaser we saw, in that it shows a short clip from A New Hope, followed by another short clip that features the Angry Birds in some fashion. This time around, Princess Leia and an Angry Birds stormtrooper make an appearance.

This new 23-second video features everyone’s favorite Star Wars female character commenting on how Luke is a little short to be a stormtrooper. The movie clip then cuts to Luke Skywalker in a stormtrooper mask, but instead of Luke, it’s an Angry Bird wearing the mask in Rovio’s version, and yes, he is a little short in this.

Once again, Rovio doesn’t offer any details about actual gameplay, which is what a teaser is in a way, but at least give us at least something to work with, Rovio — we’re gamers who happen to be starving for a Star Wars-themed title in which we fling birds with slingshots at pigs. That sounds like a fantastic combination.

If you missed the first teaser that went live a couple days ago, it featured the Millennium Falcon, with a short Star Wars clip that had Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, and Obi-Won Kenobi talking about the quick speed of Han’s ship. That teaser didn’t give us a lot of details either, but hopefully as launch day creeps closer, we’ll have more information.

New Angry Birds Star Wars teaser shows they’re too short to be stormtroopers is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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We’ve known for a while now that Star Wars: The Old Republic will be going free-to-play, but at first, neither BioWare nor Electronics Arts wanted to get into details when it came to restrictions for free players. Today, we might be finding out why the companies kept these details a secret for so long. BioWare has listed the free-to-play limitations on the SWTOR official site, and as it turns out, players who don’t want to pay anything to play are going to have a lot of restrictions to deal with.

In fact, the only thing that free players will have full access to is story content, meaning that they’ll be able to level their character from 1-50 and experience class stories in their entirety. Aside from that, though, you’re going to have use Cartel Coins or subscribe in order to get the full Star Wars: The Old Republic experience. For instance, free players will only be able to participate in three Warzones, Flashpoints, and Space Missions each per week, and they’ll be locked out of Operations entirely. In order to do more than what’s allowed, players will need to purchase weekly passes.

Character creation will also be limited for free players, as will the number of inventory slots. Free players won’t have access to the cargo hold until they shell out the Cartel Coins needed to unlock it, and even then, the space in the cargo hold with be limited until players pay more Cartel Coins to expand it. Fast travel cooldown will be longer for free players, and they’ll only have one available Crew Skill slot, with the option to buy more slots with Cartel Coins.

While all of that is sure to make players at least mildly upset, BioWare has put in place one restriction that might make their anger boil over: free players won’t be able to equip most purple items. Sadly, if you want to equip some of the best items in the game, it looks like you’ll have to pony up for a subscription or purchase a license from the Cartel Shop. Whereas once we thought that going free-to-play would be a great idea for Star Wars: The Old Republic, after seeing all of these restrictions BioWare and Electronic Arts are placing on free players, we’re not so sure that’s the case anymore. What do you think?

Star Wars: The Old Republic free-to-play limitations detailed is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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