Happy Friday! Can you believe we are halfway through this year already? I don’t know about you but time seems to be flying yet going incredibly slow at the same time. Don’t ask me how that works it just does. Anywho let’s get to the fun facts! Rey’s lightsaber from the end of The Rise of Skywalker glows green and then blue before igniting yellow. Pretty neat right? I recently came across this fact and immediately pulled up the movie to see if it was true and it is! I’m not really sure why they added in this effect but I like it! Cal’s Homestead poncho looks awfully familiar. If you’ve played J ..read more

Happy Friday, or as I now like to call it Bad Batch day. Anyone else loving the show? I definitely am. Anyway, let’s get to this week’s fun facts, enjoy! All five clones in the Bad Batch are voiced by the same person. With The Bad Batch show finally out I thought it only proper to start with a fun fact about the show. This fact is actually true for all of the clones but did you know that Dee Bradley Baker is the voice behind the Bad Batch? Like all of them? How fun to get to play around with your voice and be different characters! Carrie Fisher and James Earl Jones didn’t meet until years afte ..read more

Happy Friday! It’s been a crazy few weeks and I haven’t had the time to sit down and write but I’m back and in celebration of Hayden’s birthday this last week I thought it would be the perfect time to do a celebrity fun fact post. Check out this week’s fun facts below He always hoped to act in the Darth Vader costume. When Hayden was chosen to play Anakin Skywalker he had no idea what George Lucas’s plans were or if he’d get the chance to wear the suit. Finally, the day came when George told him he would finally get the chance. It was exhilarating… I was really hoping that I was going to ge ..read more

Happy Friday! I hope you guys had a great week! As always I’m so glad it’s Friday but even more so today because I can finally share the project I’ve been working on this last month. You may have noticed this week’s blog post has a different title and you probably asking yourself who the heck is Forces of Fandom?! Don’t fret, you’re about to find out! Are you as excited as my man Thor up there? You definitely should be. So who or what is Forces of Fandom? Well, it’s a podcast, not just any podcast but one for fans from many fandoms to enjoy. I’m not going to give away too much just yet so for ..read more

Happy Friday! As always I am so ready for the weekend. I thought I would change it up and do some movie edition fun facts so check out this week’s The Phantom Menace edition. Costume colors are specific to the planets they are on. Iain McCaig worked together with costume designer Trisha Biggar to create the color schemes gray, brown, and black for Coruscant, green and gold for Naboo, and light sandy colors for Tatooine. Fodesinbeed Annodue While recording their podracing commentary, Greg Proops and Scott Capurro wore full makeup and prosthetics. The footage would later be used as a reference f ..read more

Happy Friday! I don’t know about you guys but it’s been a long week for me and man am I glad it’s at its end. Anyway, check out this week’s fun facts below. I loved you. As if the duel between Anakin and Obi-Wan in Revenge of the Sith wasn’t heartbreaking enough there is a deleted scene that is sure to make you cry. The scene where Obi-Wan defeats Anakin was originally a bit longer and had additional dialogue between the two. If you have seen the prequels and even more so The Clone Wars then you understand the bond Anakin and Obi-Wan shared. After everything that happened between them on Musta ..read more

Happy Friday! Can you believe we are at the end of yet another month? Somehow next week is March, I’m not even sure how that happened. Since it’s the last Friday of the month enjoy the celebrity edition of fun fact Friday. She was born to famous parents. Carrie Frances Fisher was born October 21st, 1956 to Debbie Reynolds – a Hollywood actress who was best-known for playing Kathy Selden in the 1952 classic Singin’ in the Rain – and Eddie Fisher, a singer, actor, and TV presenter. At just two years old her parents divorced, her father later went on to Marry Debbies best friend, Elizabeth Taylor ..read more

Happy Friday! We are cruising along right through February. Can you believe the month is nearly had over? I know I can’t. Start your Friday off right but checking out this week’s fun facts. That’s not the Imperial March. In ‘Return of the Jedi’ when Darth Vader picks up the Emperor and throws him down the shaft, The Force Theme is playing instead of his regular Imperial March. This is the only time The Force Theme plays over a shot of Vader and is symbolic of him returning to the light side of the Force. Han wasn’t originally supposed to be frozen in carbonate. In early drafts of ‘The Empire S ..read more

As if we needed another reason to celebrate our favorite Togruta, did you know today is Ahsoka Tano day? Thirteen years ago today it was announced that Anakin was getting his very own Padawan, little did we know she would become one of the most beloved characters this galaxy has ever seen. Concept art released by Dave Filoni Ashley Eckstein was the voice for Ahsoka throughout The Clone Wars and then again in Rebels. She poured her heart into Ahsoka and you could really feel that. Ahsoka became a symbol of hope and strength for so many fans. She became extremely popular, especially among young ..read more

Well, here we are the last Friday in January. We went from 2020 feeling like it was never going to end to blowing right through the first month of 2021. Since it’s the last Friday of the month it’s the celebrity edition so check out these fun facts about our beloved Adam Driver. Adam is a talented musician. Not only is the man a phenomenal actor but he is a talented musician as well. Growing up, both his father and stepfather were preachers, and he sang in the church choir. He got to show off a little of singing skills in Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis as well as A Marriage Story. H ..read more