Darth Vader stars in an ad for GPS maker TomTom. Vader’s been hired to provide the voice track that guides you to the dark side.

It’s pretty good. I hope Seth Green get Vader in on the funny in his “Star Wars” comedy coming soon.  Thanks Scifiwire.

I was the perfect age to be bug eyed in teenage lust when I first saw the lovely Leia in slave girl gear at the appendages of the slimy Jabba in “Return Of The Jedi”, the last Star Wars movie that made any sense.

My dear wife, forever may she reign, has never seen “Star Wars” or “The Empire Strikes Back” or any of the other Wookie loving, fun filled, Lucas spawned films of mixed quality. I’ve been kind of saving the first trilogy for her for the day she could view it on the big screen TV in all it’s potential 1080P glory.

Now I’m pretty sure this is not a late April Fools joke. Pretty sure. Mostly sure. I mean it’s the 5th right? I’ll forge ahead. Seth Green and Matthew Senreich are reportedly working on a “Star Wars” based comedy with the blessing of Sir George himself. This is really confusing. Could George have stopped taking himself so seriously?

We’ve been waiting for it and now it’s here. Mr. Plinkett, the deranged but brilliant alter-ego of Milwakee film maker Mike Stoklasa returns to bring us an 88 minute utter dismantling of “Attack Of The Clones”. I knew Attack was bad (I frowned through the whole thing), but now I know just how bad it was. I remember how badly I wanted to like it after the “Phantom Menace” disaster. I would have grasped at anything at all good in the thing but there wasn’t a shred of the first three movies in first two prequels.

I wasn’t holding my breath for the arrival of the promised or hinted at Star Wars live action television series. The Lucas people are pretty good at keeping secrets and we are hopeful that the time being spent will make for a better product. I had assumed it was a few years away. This may not be the case.

Hard to fully describe the complete heights of awesome that both of these LEGO Sci-Fi dramas reach in their portrayals of the Roy Batty death scene in “Blade Runner” and a made up but wicked light saber battle, “Star Wars” style. I love people with ridiculous amounts of time on their hands. Thanks Topless Robot.

Being an evil Empire, Darth, The Emperor and his pals need some extra incentives to lure recruits away from the Rebellion with their beautiful desert, frozen or swampy bases in the hidden and far away corners of the galaxy. If a nice white helmet isn’t enough for you, you might be persuaded by these propaganda posters that demonstrate clearly that might does make right. Thanks to cliffchiang and io9 for the word.

Coruscant is the capitol city of the “Star Wars” universe for all you non Nerds out there just checking into Scificool to see how your neurons could be functioning. Dubai (if it remains solvent) is the instant Sci-Fi city of your dreams if you had billions and billions and maybe billions of oil cash and you wanted to create something in the sand that will remain after the oil gets eaten like your milkshake.

Just a little nod to all you Darth Daddy lovers out there. This is a full sized new helmet for the Sith Dark Lord based on early concept renderings from genius Ralph McQuarrie. The helmet is leather lined and a touch more obviously menacing than the helmet that would eventually encapsulate the scarred dome of the morally confused Anakin Skywalker.