Thought some might find this interesting…not only is Disney bringing back the OGs of Star Wars to Disney Land (pretty sure World is on its way too)….but they shockingly listened to fans regarding the actors for Han and Leia….

Kinda interesting…..

Taking the kids to Disneyland in July.

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Taking the kids to Disneyland in July.

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You'll get to do the new mando/grogu mission on the falcon. Based on this poster, i sure hope Grogu can hold his breath.



I will never get tired of these views being a place I can go in real life

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Based on this poster, i sure hope Grogu can hold his breath.

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Well, Grogu is kinda a Jedi, right? And The Last Jedi clearly establishes that Jedi can breath in space.

I was watching the Empire Strikes Back last night and I think I stumbled on a hidden sub-plot.

When Han turns the Falcon around and goes right at the Star Destroyer after escaping the space worm, we all know that he look like he's going to hit the bridge, then disappears, makes some sort of unreal G-Force braking maneuver, and attaches the Falcon to the back side of the SD. Captain Needa rightfully predicts that the ship doesn't have a cloaking device, and which point he gets the call that Vader wants an update on the situation - 15 minutes later, RIP Captain Needa.

Something never sat right with me about this scene, and I think I've figured it out. The dude who says Vader wants an update is way too tall to be sitting at that station. No way he's sitting there 12 hours a day, or whatever the standard Imperial shift is. He's all legs. No way he'd take that job. He's there because he's up to something, and I think I know what it is. Wookiepedia says his name is M'Kae, which is what Mr. Garrison says on South Park.




You've got Captain Needa, already high up the hierarchy, running the SD Avenger, still a young man, guy has the world on a string, right? Born on Coruscant, his dad probably bought him an officership so he didn't have to spend 18 months as a stormtrooper on the Outer Rim.

So one day, homeboy is on leave and he bumps into this good looking woman at a bar. A little flirting, he asks if she's ever done it in a TIE Interceptor before, and at that point she has to mention she's actually married to a guy who is also in the fleet - and it's the tall guy in the picture - M'Kae. Now Needa doesn't know this guy from an Ewok, he's just some scrub, and Needa's a damn captain. So he decides to hook it up with Mrs. M'Kae, figuring it's a hit and quit, like bullseying womp rats in a T-16, but she grows on him and eventually one night after she finally lets him hit it Tauntaun style, he says he loves her and she decides to kick M'Kae to the curb.

She dumps M'Kae over the holonet, but she doesn't realize that Needa was checking his email on her computer and the message sends from his account. Now M'Kae is heartbroken and knows that Needa stole his wife. So he starts plotting his revenge. Probably going to off him on the bridge and then kill himself, so there's no trial, no hard time on Belsavis. He pays off some dude to get up on the bridge, but all of a sudden they're attacking Hoth and then they're in an asteroid field, so he can't do it now or he'll endanger too many people.

Then, everyone is talking about Vader force choking Admiral Ozzell for being a moron, and M'Kae gets an idea - I don't have to kill Needa and ruin my career if I get someone else to do it for me.. So he starts hatching a new plan and suddenly the opportunity is in his lap. Needa's lost the Falcon and doesn't know what to do next.

Which leads me to my real point. Vader asked for an update on the pursuit? Can you imagine Vader saying to any person, "Hey, let's get an update on that healthcare policy? I've got the kids this weekend and I want to wrap it up before 5 on Friday?"
Hell, no. Vader probably was looking at the radar on the Executor, saw what happened, and went back to his hyperbaric chamber to sulk.
But ol M'Kae just lobs the grenade, "Oh, hey, Captain Needa, Lord Vader is demanding an update on the pursuit."

And that makes it even worse for Needa. Because now he flies over to the Executor, interrupts Vader while he's watching his Boonta Eve win from 32 BBY on the Podracer Classic channel, and tells him something he already knows. Boom, Needa's down and M'Kae, like Darths Maul and Sidious before him, at last has his revenge.

Aint nobody got time to read all that

Are you on the clock while drinking this much?

The story we missed due to The Last Jedi screwing the pooch and costing Solo a poor run at the box office….

Happy Sunday yall! Enjoy a little funny I put together this evening.

Incredible…

Is Freddie Prinze Jr right about Star Wars fans ? pic.twitter.com/cmsBKRGfOa

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A big Disney trailer will reportedly release tomorrow morning.

(Source: @DanielRPK)

We predict it will be the first trailer for ‘Ahsoka’ Season 2 to celebrate Star Wars day* pic.twitter.com/wLzWZ7EoI6

— Cinema Wire 🎥🎞️ (@CinemaWireNews) May 3, 2026

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He said big; that doesn't sound that big...

This never gets old. May the Fourth be with you.

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Incredible…

Is Freddie Prinze Jr right about Star Wars fans ? pic.twitter.com/cmsBKRGfOa

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If Star Wars is "for f**** kids" then why do so many adults love it?

Sure, it has stuff geared toward kids, but it is a lazy take to say this is for kids. When I was 10 watching Star Wars for the first time, all I saw was the whiz-bang stuff, the X-Wings, the light sabres, etc. As I got older and had been exposed to more literature, I recognized themes in Star Wars that I never would have known earlier, I saw where Lucas drew inspiration to craft his own story, stuff like that. A kid sees the Ewoks as cute or fun; I saw them first as annoying as f*** and paraphrase what Lucas once said about them, in that advanced technology can be defeated through primitive means. The Phantom Menace comes along with its story inspired in no small part by the rise of Adolf Hitler reflected in the machinations a senator from Naboo uses to gain power - no kid is coming up with that connection.

But yeah, Star Wars is just for kids.

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— Marie Isabella (@MarieIsabellaB) May 4, 2026

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Nah, I think I'll go right on as I am

Made cannon by Mando and Grogu, this toy came out in the 80s despite never being in the movie.

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In all fairness, Prinze was coming pretty hard after adult Star Wars fans in that clip with kind of a douchy attitude. I've posted on here before that I think Star Wars is one of the few cinematic properties that at this point almost feels like its "owned" as much by the fans as it is the original creator, Lucas ( I think the fans sure as hell "own" it a lot more than disney does). I think Cinco was just reacting to that.

To that, Prinze is missing the point. Adult SW fans simply want two things: Disney to stop crapping all over it by making absolute turds like The Acolyte and The Last Jedi, and Disney to stop trying to retcon it.

But man TC, you knew you were gonna stir up a hornet's nest with that post. You can't just drop that, run, and then say "Lighten Up!", lol.

I don't agree with Prinze, but that was a pretty funny rant.

Somebody posted about The Big Picture podcast Star Wars draft a few posts back, and its worth a listen simply because they have a great conversation about Star Wars fandom and how much of a hot mess it is, how hard it is to love something so much that seems to go off the rails so often, etc.

I do think Star Wars fandom is interesting, because while there are A LOT of huge Star Wars fans, everyone is coming to it appreciating different things about the franchise and then expecting different things from it in the future, which I think is why its been so hard to please the fan base. There are sci-fi elements that people love, fantasy elements, heroes journey, epic battles, kids humor/storytelling, the list goes on and on. And I don't think there is a way for the franchise to hit the bullseye the way the original trilogy did, so there will always be very vocal groups of detractors no matter what Disney/Lucasfilm puts out.

I mean, maybe Andor/Rogue One are the most close to getting universal acclaim and fans, but even they miss out on the kids aspect. Like, my kids can't watch Andor until they are in their teens, not just for adult content, but the storytelling will be way over their heads.

I'm not trying to let them off the hook for the complete cluster of the sequel trilogy. I just do think that perhaps Star Wars fans are expecting too much from their IP of choice.

With Star Wars turning 50 next year, you could equate to the fandom of someone like Paul Mcartney or Bob Dylan - you can be a fan of theirs without all of their catalog being great, and you can admit that their early stuff was the best, but once in a while theyll put out a song or an album that really holds water. It's probably never going to be as good as the thing that first made you love the movies, same as whatever the first song/album you fell in love with, and the artist/franchise veers off in all sorts of different directions to try and create new stuff, experiment, and find more commercial success. Different people come in at different points in the timeline and have their own favorite stuff, and think everyone else is nuts for not loving it.

One of the healthiest things I ever did a couple of years ago was not stop caring about other people criticizing Star Wars and just embracing my own joy of it. Sort of like when I stopped living and dying with Aggie football. Feels a lot nicer.