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A Star Destroyer on your table: Ars reviews all three Star Wars miniatures games

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This week Ars Cardboard dives into miniatures wargaming—but forget stereotypes of tiny Napoleonic soldiers walking across home-crafted terrain. We’re talking about Star Wars miniatures here, from capital ships to...

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Couple takes pics of Star Wars figure they bought, gets DMCA notice from Lucasfilm

These aren't the figurines Lucasfilm is looking for. (credit: Star Wars Action News)

For the last decade, Marjorie Carvalho and her husband have produced Star Wars Action News, a podcast dedicated to Star Wars collectibles of all sorts. Predictably, they've had a lot to talk about, as waves of action figures and other collectibles have been launched in...

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How to be a tech security Jedi: 5 lessons from the original ‘Star Wars’ movies
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A short time ago, in a city not far from Seattle, I began frantically encouraging (forcing) my pre-teen daughter to watch the original Star Wars trilogy. This, of course, was in preparation for the newest film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. As we watched, it dawned on me that there are tons of subtle parallels between information...
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Alien megastructure? Nothing to see around formerly weird star, scientists say
Comet storm, not alien megastructures
Recent infrared observations of a star that once showed a pattern of weird dimming have turned up no anomalous readings, astronomers say – and that supports the view that a comet blitz rather than the construction of an alien megastructure was behind the earlier observations. The latest evidence, laid out in a paper published in the Astrophysical Journal...
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Google lets users choose between the Dark Side and the Light Side with Star Wars tweaks to Gmail, Maps and more
google star wars choose your side
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is less than a month away, and Google has teamed up with Disney to get fans in the mood. The search giant will let users choose the Dark Side or the Light Side for all their Google-based activities, from putting expansive Star Wars images as the background for Gmail windows to using...
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‘Star Wars’ breaks record with advance ticket sales, on track to be highest-grossing film ever
The new poster
It’s probably not too surprising that Star Wars: The Force Awakens has already set a new record for advance ticket sales, putting it well into contention to become the highest-grossing movie ever. Those are the early numbers being reported, according to the Wall Street Journal. “Most movies would be lucky to open to $ 50 million....
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