Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru Immortalized At Last

The fans have been clamoring for years, and it seems the time has finally come - Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru in all of their molded plastic glory for your action figure playing pleasure!  Yes, the loving couple whose untimely passing after the droid were traced to their home launched Luke Skywalker on his galactic adventure.  None of this prequel nonsense, this is Owen and Beru Lars just as we remember them from A New Hope.  Maybe they should have let Luke go to the Academy with Biggs and Tank...

And speaking of Star Wars and untimely ends, from Dorkly comes "8 Lines That Would Have Ended Star Wars Real Fast".  In honor of Uncle Ben:

Get the rest of the list here:  http://www.dorkly.com/article/17253/8-lines-that-would-have-ended-star-wars-real-fast.

Lego + Star Wars + Christianity = Awesome

You just never know what those wacky Danish geniuses are going to come up with next.  Just in time for the holidays, Lego has announced their 2011 Advent Calendar Set - and It's Star Wars themed!

For each of the twenty-four days leading up to Christmas, there's a Star Wars Lego surprise.  There doesn't seem to be much linking the set to the birth of Jesus, and I am unfamiliar with St. Augustine's meditations on The Force, but love Santa Yoda you must:

It's available now from Lego's on-line shop for $39.99.