Many people will always have a special place in their heart for George Lucas, but it takes a special kind of geek to hang this beauty on their wall. It will cost you $44.95 or $150.

I’d get one but I would never be able to stop yelling at him. You ewok loving, Jar-Jar humping flannel shirted asswipe. If I were any good at CGI I’d shove Yoda up your ass and have him ignite his lightsaber. Fucker! Make a good flick already!

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If you want to sell something, just add the Star Wars element and it will sell. That’s why Georgie-Porgie Lucas pimps out the Star Wars brand all over the damn world. StarWars.com recently published a collection of ‘10 Cool Star Wars Posters from Japan’ and among them are these ads from a Panasonic Star Wars campaign from the late ’80s and early ’90s.

Yeah, that’s real great George, riding a satellite dish while sandwiched between an Ewok and a Wookie. Looks like just another night in your mansion. George and the Ewok both look quite content to be on the receiving end, while the Wookie is really giving them the business.

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The story goes like this: Prop designer Andrew Ainsworth, sculpted the Stormtrooper helmets for the first Star Wars movie in 1977. Ainsworth sells replicas of the helmets and armor, made from the original molds, on his Web site.

George Lucas who has more money then God and can’t make a decent post 80’s Star Wars movie to save his flannel shirted ass didn’t like that, so Lucasfilm sued and won a $20 million judgment against the prop maker in a California court in 2006. Now he’s trying to do the same to this guy in British courts.

Ainsworth is now countersuing, and says the copyright rests with him. He wants his share of merchandising revenue from the six films which comes out to the measly $24 billion Lucas wipes his ass with every morning.

Lucasfilm claims that the design was created by Lucas and his team, and that it was already in place by the time Ainsworth was hired.

Whatever dude. I forgave you the ewoks AND the puppets you used in Jedi. But when I saw that asswipe Jar Jar and the rest of the nonsense from the prequels, you hurt me. You hurt me real bad.

Poptherapy rules in favor of the Prop guy!

Hey, I only just noticed how reinforced the crotch is on that armor. Stormtroopers probably get kicked in the nuts a lot.

[MSNBC]

At the theater-owners convention ShoWest on Thursday, Lucas talked about some of the upcoming Star Wars projects, as well as showing a sequence from “Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” a computer-animated movie due in theaters Aug. 15. It will be continued with a TV series that will air on the Cartoon Network and TNT this fall.

The big screen Star Wars movie will take place in the years between episodes II and III — “Attack of the Clones” and “Revenge of the Sith”. Both the movie and series will have fresh adventures of Jedi warrior Anakin Skywalker, and Obi-Wan Kenobi.

In addition, Lucas is also charging forward with a live-action “Star Wars” TV show that will focus mainly on new characters not named Skywalker. This show will be set in the decades between “Revenge of the Sith” and “A New Hope”.

Let’s hope that all of these projects have more originality then the prequels. Because if they don’t, the franchise may finally fall flat on it’s face, like Star Trek.

[MSNBC]