Disney just put out the most freaking adorable video showing Star Wars: The Force Awakens as done by emojis. I’m just going to state here that seeing the Han and Leia emojis smiling at each other made me tear up. Go ahead. Try to watch it without a sniffle. Go on. You can’t, can you? As a shameless user of emojis and as...
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So I think we can safely say that the Nintendo Wii U is a unsuccessful flop after the phenomenal hit of the original motion control classic Wii. That’s it, we’ve called it, the fledgling platform is dead. Hot off the heels of that news, Nintendo finally admitted defeat 18 months later with the announcement of a brand new platform...
Young female Avengers! Listen up! Disney, Marvel Studios, Dolby Laboratories, Synchrony Bank, Broadcom MASTERS and Science & Entertainment Exchange, a program of National Academy of Sciences (whom, in full disclosure, I sometimes write for) is awarding a lucky young woman a one-week internship with Marvel Studios! Girls ages 15-18 in...
The film Hidden Figures, based on Margot Lee Shetterly’s book, Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Behind the Space Race, which is about African-American NASA engineers Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan, Kathryn Peddrew, Sue Wilder, Eunice Smith and Barbara Holley, released some great casting news today...
Cancel your travel plans and make new ones, stat. ANA, Japan’s largest airline, has announced that the inaugural flight of its BB-8™ ANA JET (Boeing 777-300) will be on March 27. The jet will make a domestic flight from Itami to Haneda before departing on March 29 to Los Angeles, kicking off its international service. It will go on to...
Tony Dyson, the original builder of the beloved Star Wars robot R2-D2 has passed away at the age of 68 at his home on the island of Gozo, according to the BBC. Dyson was commissioned to create eight R2 robots for the film and called the almost half a year he worked on them “one of the most exciting periods of my life.” Two of the...
The Jungle Book director Jon Favreau and visual effects supervisor Rob Legato took us behind the scenes of this year’s retelling of the Disney classic when we attended a recent presentation at Disney’s El Capitan Theater. Thanks in part to Alfonso Cuarón‘s Gravity, Favreau was inspired to take a harder look into the...
On this week’s 26th episode of the Legion of Leia podcast, Moogega Cooper, Planetary Protection Engineer at NASA‘s JPL joins myself and my co-hosts Anastasia Washingtonand Sabina Ibarra. Does she look familiar to you? You probably saw her on the TBS show King of the Nerds! Guys, I can’t wait for you to hear everything she has to...
You haven’t finished your holiday shopping? Good. You make me feel better about myself. I’m pretty far behind as well. At least I can blame the lead up to Star Wars: The Force Awakens this year. As I am currently shopping for techie friends, I thought I’d give you look at the Star Wars coolness I’ve been finding. Hell...
So, my friend just texted me to do this immediately and I did and yes yes yes yes yes! I don’t know why this is so gratifying, but it totally is. Google is paying tribute to the Star Wars: The Force Awakens premiere by turning search results for those terms into the familiar opening crawl, complete with John Williams’ score (which...