Both Droids and Ewoks premiered as part of ABC’s Saturday morning lineup on Sept. 7, 1985, but neither proved popular enough to carry the Star Wars torch forward. Droids lasted a single season, while ...
Star Wars fandom often calls the era after Return of the Jedi and before the Expanded Universe in the ’90s as “the Dark Times.” During these years, there was very little new Star Wars media. But there ...
For most Star Wars fanatics, September 7, 1985, is not a day well-remembered. It’s not May 25, 1977; it’s not even May 19, 1999. However, the date does have some significance to that galaxy far, far, ...
As celebrated by Hasbro‘s Star Wars line, Lucasfilm’s 50th anniversary has primarily meant throwback packaging and color styles from every era of Star Wars toys. And now it’s the turn of the 1985 ...
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 ...
Between the virtual learning, social distancing, and the cold, Midwestern winter, my family has been spending a lot of time at home lately. Needless to say, we've been going a bit stir crazy, so I was ...