TR Contest: Even Special-er Star Wars Special Editions
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?First things first: Monday is the American holy day of Labor Day, which means Topless Robot will be closed. Normal nerdery will resume Tuesday morning.
Second things second: I’ve played the news of the changes to Original Trilogy for the Star Wars Blu-rays pretty much to death this week. So… I see no reason why I should stop now. Let’s ride that Bantha corpse a little harder, right? This weekend’s contest — Tell me all the changes George Lucas will be making to the next round of Star Wars Special Editions. For instance:
? Will Vader’s lightsaber only knock Luke’s lightsaber out of his hand at the end of ESB?
? Will an unwilling Ewan MacGregor watch in horror as his CG likeness is used to replace Alec Guinness in all three movies?
? Will Alderaan shoot first, so the Empire doesn’t seem quite so evil?
As usual when there’s a 3-day weekend, you can enter as many times as you want, and may God have mercy on my day off. Also as usual, you have 3.5 days to enter — from now until 12:01 am EST on Tuesday, September 6th. Have a great weekend and try avoid all dairy products. You know why.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.