In the late-1970s, Michael Hirsh seized an opportunity. An experimental filmmaker whose love of art (and occasional LSD trips) drove him to animation, Hirsh eventually turned his passion into a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You did eventually sneak the Empire into one of the final episodes, "Battle for the Sunstar." Would you have done more of that had ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

"STAR WARS: THE VINTAGE COLLECTION WICKET & KNEESAA – (HASBRO/Ages 4 years & up/Approx. Retail Price: $36.99 / Available: Spring 2024). Wicket's friendly, adventurous and mischievous nature makes him ...

The Ewoks weren’t particularly cool on the big screen, and the world of animation didn’t do them many additional favors. Set before the original trilogy, in a time when the forest moon of Endor, where ...

For many fans, the franchise’s television legacy began with the debut of Star Wars: The Clone Wars in 2008. But many don’t know that The Clone Wars wasn’t the first TV show. Star Wars first arrived on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Ewoks animated series of the ’80s isn’t exactly considered canon these days, so Hasbro surprised everyone on their official ...

Not everything in the past was better. When it comes to science fiction franchises from the 1970s and 1980s, we often have a tendency to romanticize the so-called purity of the way things used to be.

The Ewoks are one of the more controversial elements of Return of the Jedi. George Lucas originally planned for Wookies to fight the Empire on Endor but later replaced them with Ewoks. While some fans ...

“Forty years of EWOKS! Sometimes, a lot of the times, this job is just a dream — and for someone who grew up watching Return of the Jedi after every single Sunday Ski Trip, getting the chance to ...