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Star Wars Celebration 2016 - Gallery and highlights!
The force was most certainly strong with this event! We loved every minute of it, rubbing shoulders with wookies, Jedi Knights and Sith Lords. Read more...
Escapade to be at Star Wars Celebration 2016!
Calling all Jedi and Sith lovers. Whether you are a fan of the dark side or want to be a Knight of the Old Republic, there was something for everyone at the European Star Wars Celebration! Read more...
The Force Awakens
On a scale from 1 to 10, how excited are you about The Force Awakens? Read more...
The Empire Strikes Back Secret Cinema: Star Wars Edition
Last summer we saw an installment of Back to the Future, this year’s theme had been announced as The Empire Strikes Back! Perfect timing as we build up to the release of The Force Awakens later this year. Read more...
Sushi chef creates Star Wars sculptures out of food
Read entertainment news as you browse for Star Wars fancy dress with Escapade One of Japan's top sushi chefs has been delighting his customers with Star Wars sculptures made out of food. Okitsugu Kado, who works at Minayoshi, originally trained as an ice sculptor and is also a member of the Japanese fan group Jedi Order. So, he decided to combine his two passions and create likenesses of Star Wars characters including Yoda and Han Solo out of everything from sweet potato to pumpkin. The finished creations often take more... Read more...
Harrison Ford fights with Chewbacca
Read entertainment news as you browse for Star Wars fancy dress with Escapade Harrison Ford may come across as gruff and awkward in interviews, but he has shown he has a great sense of humour by taking part in a sketch for a US TV show. A scene opened for the Jimmy Kimmel Live programme that showed the 69-year-old actor apparently getting his makeup done while talking on his mobile about a possible movie called Air Force One Two. However, his face turns stony as a familiar face appears in... Read more...
Star Wars prop designer wins legal battle with George Lucas' empire
Read entertainment news as you browse for Star Wars fancy dress with Escapade One of the prop designers for the first Star Wars movie in 1977 has won an epic David and Goliath battle against LucasFilm after taking his case to the Supreme Court. Briton Andrew Ainsworth made the white Stormtrooper helmets seen in the original movies from 2D drawings and sold two of them at auction in 2004. However, problems arose when he began making replicas himself and selling them on the internet. Although he insisted he had the... Read more...
Star Wars Day trends on Twitter and crashes official website
Read lifestyle news as you browse for Star Wars fancy dress with Escapade Fans of Star Wars took to social networking sites in their thousands yesterday to celebrate what is increasingly being referred to as Star Wars Day (if you're not sure why, it's twisting May the Force Be With You to May the 4th Be With You). Messages based on the sci-fi saga trended on Twitter and the official website was crashed as droves of people checked it for an exciting new announcement. A clock had been counting down... Read more...
Star Wars-style planet 'might be able to support life'
Read lifestyle news as you browse for Star Wars fancy dress with Escapade When George Lucas dreamt up the planet of Tatooine in Star Wars, he probably wasn't thinking about whether or not it would really be able to support life. However, he may have been more scientifically correct than he realised, according to Jack O'Malley, a PhD student at the University of St Andrews. He has carried out research and found that a planet with two or more suns may indeed be able to house life, as there would... Read more...
Prop designer to feel wrath of the empire over Star Wars Stormtrooper costumes
Read entertainment news as you browse for Star Wars fancy dress with Escapade The man who made the Stormtrooper costumes for Star Wars is facing George Lucas' empire in the Supreme Court in an epic battle, not over the freedom of the galaxy, but over copyright. Briton Andrew Ainsworth made the white helmets seen in the original movies from 2D drawings and sold two of them at auction in 2004. However, problems arose when he began making replicas himself and selling them on the internet. Although he insists he Read more...
Fans show off Star Wars fancy dress at exhibition
Three movie fans have been showing off their Star Wars fancy dress at a museum exhibition in California. Daniel Nichols and pals Hannah and James Littier made their way to Turtle Bay in Redding, California in order to visit a display entitled Out Of This World: Extraordinary Costumes, KRCTV.com reports. Featuring more than 40 models, outfits and props from classic films such as Tron, Terminator and Blade Runner, the exhibition aims to show people how good designs can help to create iconic characters that really stick in people's minds. Of Read more...
Star Wars fancy dress auction sure to cause a stir
An authentic Star Wars fancy dress costume is expected to raise a fortune when it goes up for auction later this month. The Darth Vader outfit, which is thought to be the one worn by James Earl Jones in The Empire Strikes Back, is being sold by an anonymous American collector at Christie's. According to expert estimates, it could pull in as much as £230,000 as fans and sci-fi enthusiasts clamour to get their hands on a piece of movie Read more...