Our pal Darren Hayes alerted us to this, posting as he did a question asking where the sequels to this video originated. Well, Star Wars Begins, Building Empire and Returning To Jedi are by Jamie Benning, who has just released Inside Jaws, and this 7 hour video brings all three documentaries together in one place.

For anyone with even a passing interest in the behind-the-scenes aspects of the saga, this is absolute gold. Watch it while it's still available on YouTube.

The Sun are offering a lucky winner the chance to attend the biggest party of the summer in Essen, Germany with a competition allowing 4 guests to journey to Celebration Europe.

Win a trip to Star Wars Celebration Europe

Star Wars Celebration Europe, the official Lucasfilm event in Essen, Germany is July 26 – 28, and is a three-day ultimate fan experience. One winner will be able to take three guests to the event, with flights, hotel and passes included.

Celebrate all things Star Wars, an out-of-this-world event produced by fans for fans making it the biggest party this side of the Galaxy. Star Wars Celebrations bring fans of all ages together, from all points of the globe, to celebrate the pop-culture phenomenon that is Star Wars. Whether it's young fans of Star Wars: The Clone Wars or die-hards fuelled by the nostalgia for the original Star Wars trilogy; curious, casual followers; gamers, readers, costumers or collectors — there's something for everyone at Celebration.

It's three fun-filled days of exhibits, interactive show floor, fan films, fan screenings, exclusive merchandise, celebrity appearances, behind-the-scenes insights, autograph sessions, fan-inspired activities, and other surprises celebrating all things Star Wars.

And sneak peeks at the future of Star Wars together with special events to show off the passion of some of the saga's most dedicated fans and professionals. See the official website at www.starwarscelebration.eu/

To win this exclusive prize package all you need to do is:

Tell us what was the name of the Ewok Warwick Davis played in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi? Was it?

• a) Wicked
• b) Wicket
• c) Willow

Closing date: Wednesday June 19 2013. First correct entry draw will win and the winner and three adult guests, or winner and one adult guest and two children will fly from a local airport, with airport transfers to a three star hotel including bed and breakfast, with passes to each day of the Star Wars Celebration on July 26 – 28. Walking distance from the hotel.

Good luck and see you there!

The Emmy for Performer in an Animated Program goes to– David Tennant for Star Wars: The Clone Wars! Congratulations! #CreativeArtsEmmys

— Daytime Emmy Awards (@DaytimeEmmys) June 15, 2013

Congratulations are in order for Actor David Tennant, who has won an Emmy for his work on The Clone Wars:

Here’s a nice early morning surprise for those of us burning the midnight oil: David Tennant is an Emmy winner now, people.

The Scottish actor — who will star in BBC AMERICA’s Broadchurch and reprise his role as the Tenth Doctor in the upcoming Doctor Who 50th anniversary special in November — claimed his very first Emmy last night (June 14) at the Creative Arts portion of the Daytime Entertainment Emmy ceremony. He was named Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program for voicing Huyang, a droid who trains Jedi on how to build lightsabers, on Cartoon Network’s Star Wars: The Clone Wars series.

Clone Wars supervising director Dave Filoni said Tennant’s work as Time Lord convinced him that the actor, himself a Star Wars geek, was perfect for Huyang: “I absolutely loved what David Tenant was doing on Doctor Who. There was such a quizzical nature to his character, a sense of whimsy, but he could still get very powerful emotion out of the character — a lot of intensity, a lot of anger — just an incredible display of range.” Filoni adds that George Lucas was impressed with Tennant on the series. (Maybe he can persuade J.J. Abrams to cast DT in the upcoming Star Wars features?)

Essetial for the #StarWars Kitchen - Boba Fett Kitchen Aid Mixer http://t.co/e9jXiOWCBG pic.twitter.com/LP4cQrjkQy

— Between The Pages (@BTPBlog) June 15, 2013

For those of you wondering, the Celebration Europe app ia also available via iTunes, so Apple people get on over there and start downloading.

You've got just under 4 hours to grab today's special from Shirt Punch. And for anyone with even a passing interest in helmeted Mandalorian bounty hunters, this is a must-buy.

$10.00 to $13.50 from small to 3XL this will keep the boutny off your head on Ord Mantell...until tomorrow that is.

Qwertee bring us this new tee featuring Artoo and Threepio in a scene from the classic film E.T.

If you want to bring this tee home in a basket, throw down your £8.00 over the next 3 hours and he'll be yours.

Thus proving that Star Wars is about a lot more than blaster fights and galactic domination.

Dear Master Jedi, this is an open letter of deep appreciation to you. I hope that somehow it finds its way to your computer screen.

You are an actor, and a damn funny one to boot. You’re really skilled at working with the unpredictably of kids and turning it into entertainment. I really hope that when you auditioned for and won this gig, that you’ve been as pleased with your job as your audiences have been with your performance. I also hope that this leads to bigger and better things, if that’s what you choose. You’re a supremely decent man and I’m ever in your debt for how you helped me out Tuesday, June 4th at the end of the last show of the day.

You see, during the months of planning for our Disneyworld trip, I found out about the Jedi Training Academy in Hollywood Studios and knew that my little boy would LOVE participating in it. He has been diagnosed with autism, and is typically oblivious to what goes on around him–except for Star Wars. I found an online clip of the Jedi Academy that some parent uploaded and showed him. He was so excited!

“I want to do that! I want to fight Darth Vader!”

For the rest of this heart-warming story click here.

The wait continues for official Episode VII plot details to be revealed by Disney/Lucasfilm. We've had quite a few rumors and speculation such as this from various "sources", but nothing concrete from the people who are responsible for bringing Episode VII to the silver screen.

That's changed...at least in a small way.

In an article posted over on Contact Music, director J.J. Abrams revealed that a love story will be a central storyline in Episode VII:

The 46-year-old super-producer was careful not to give too much away about the hotly-anticipated film's plot, but revealed there will be a central love story.

Quizzed about the possibility of on-screen romance, he said: ''No doubt, even if I already know I want to approach this project in a different way ... We're only in the initial stages [of making the film] and it's difficult to talk about it other than to say it's very exciting.''

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He's not mincing his words, your friend and our Warwick Davis definitely wants to return to the galaxy far, far away and he wants to play a baddie.

“We celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Return of the Jedi this year. Without that film I wouldn't have had a career so I owe everything to that movie. My grandmother heard this radio commercial and suggested I applied for a part. For me it would be full circle if I appeared in one of the new films. My ideal role would be a villain, preferably with a lightsaber.”

And further to that Warwick will be interviewing Kathleen Kennedy at next month's Celebration Europe.

"I am hoping to drop a few auditions in there and to tease out a few details about the new films.”

Ron Howard has given the Lucas Cultural Arts Museum a ringing endorsement in the year celebrating the 40th anniversary of American Graffitti.

Dear Presidio Trust Board Members:

I am writing in support of what strikes me as an exciting and progressive new project that is under your consideration, the Lucas Cultural Arts Museum on the Presidio. With its inclusion of so many contemporary creative disciplines, Lucas Cultural Arts Museum promises to deepen our understanding of the significance of populist art in our lives as we experience them every day.

This project would also offer important insight into the cross pollination between art and technology which the Bay Area has been uniquely at the center of. Digital arts and digital artists have forever changed the creative landscape in ways that are both readily apparent and surprising. In each case, it is an important idea to define and celebrate achievements made in the universe of Digital Arts, and San Francisco is the place to showcase those achievements for the world.

Finally, a word about my friend George Lucas. I have had the privilege of being involved with or witnessing from the wings many of his accomplishments from directing a stylistically ground breaking low budget movie, American Graffiti, to the realization of Star Wars, the establishment of visual effects leader, Industrial Light and Magic, the development of his work space properties and his almost single handed leadership in terms of the development and application of digital technology in the arts. George never aims low, and never settles. If he has determined to put his energy, imagination and resources into the establishment of a new Cultural Arts Museum, rest assured it will inevitably become a stunning, attractive, and extremely constructive addition to the community.

If I can be of service in this matter, even though I don't live in the Bay Area, please feel free to call. I'm a believer.

Sincerely, Ron Howard

Yoda Chronicles writer Michael Price has been chatting with our friends across the pond at RebelForce Radio about the next episode of the show, and who we should expect to see in that episode.

"The second one will air either towards the end of the summer or the beginning of the fall, and the third one will air more towards the end of the year. But I think they're really fun, they continue the story of the first one, with what's going to happen with this new character Jek and how the Jedi respond to it and what will Dooku and Palpatine and Grievous do to win the war. I can't tell you too much more about it, I know you guys are big fans of the Clone Wars and there's a major, I think, Clone Wars character who has a nice little cameo in episode 2. He's a certain bounty hunter who wears a big hat. He has a little moment there, and somewhere along the way, and I'm a big fan of obscure characters, we have a nice little moment from one of my favourite characters Poggle the Lesser."

Click on the above image for a closer look at the brand new print from our good friend Mark Daniels at Sublevel Studios which features artwork from the Disney film The Black Hole (Disney's answer to Star Wars).

The print is limited to 150 pieces and features silver metallics and is available now from ACME at DarkInkArt.com now!

If you are lucky enough to attend this weekend's LEGO Star Wars Weekend in California and you need any assistance, look out for this tee because chances are the people who can best help you will be wearing them.

Here’s what the Star Wars Weekend volunteers will be receiving as part of their swag this weekend at LEGOLAND California. In addition to the exclusive Clone Lieutenant minifig revealed a few days ago, volunteers will also receive the above Yoda Chronicles-themed t-shirt to wear, sell, or wash their car with. We hope they’d wear them though.

Star Wars Weekend is happening at LEGOLAND California this weekend June 15-16, father’s day weekend.

Want to be kept bang up-to-date about all the latest LEGO news? You'd better sign up for the new LEGO Magazine.

When you sign up, you will receive: Home delivery of a LEGO® Club Magazine, full of LEGO news, comic adventures, games and puzzles, building challenges and Cool Creations built by LEGO fans!

You will also get:

• Club Codes to secret content online!
• An email newsletter with exclusive LEGO Club news, building steps and competitions!
• Invites to special building events and exclusive meetings!

We will need a parent or guardian to give permission by email.

And this news from our own Matt Booker.

Has new exclusive 2 page rancor pit and Jabba's Palace comic strip.

If you don't already get the club mag it's totally free, 24 pages long regularly has Star Wars features and is bimonthly.

To officially clear up any lingering confusion there may be pertaining to the title of the game, EA Games boss Patrick Söderlund has confirmed that DICE's upcoming Star Wars Battlefront will indeed be a brand new release.

“This is DICE’s interpretation of what Battlefront should be. That’s the best description you can have,” he told Eurogamer. “There are absolutely things in the previous Battlefront games that you’ll recognize and remember, but DICE wants to put its own flavor on it. That’s the only way we can do it.

“Hence it’s called Star Wars: Battlefront, without a 3 at the end. We want to say it’s something new. But again, it’s going to be very Star Wars and very cool.”

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Our fellow The Force United partner Yodasnews continues their spotlight series on the various art prints that will be available for fans to purchase as part of the Celebration Europe Art Show.

Today they are featuring 'Homecoming' by Brian Rood.

Head on over to Yodasnews for the article.

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Enjoy the latest official blog post by the man in the hat himself, Mr. Dave Filoni.

If you have followed the Clone Wars TV series over the years you will no doubt be familiar with the names of some of my team who are, for the most part, behind the scenes. When I was first making my transition from traditional hand drawn animation to the possibilities CG animation offered, I was very concerned with how the drawings Kilian Plunkett and I were doing would be realized in three dimensions. How did we solve this problem? Enter design artist and sculptor Darren Marshall. Darren has been a member of the Lucasfilm Animation team for eleven years. Predating the creation of The Clone Wars, Darren was part of a special team of artists who were pitching animated concepts to Lucasfilm. When I came in to direct The Clone Wars, Darren was about to leave, believing his time at Lucasfilm was over, since it is rare to have a sculptor on a television series. However, when I saw his work, I knew that Darren would be able to make the critical translation between line art and three-dimensional form work. Simply put, Darren defined the style of the characters on Clone Wars, and has done so as a critical part of the design team for the past eight years.

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Head on over to Newsarama to check out an interview with famed Star Wars author J.W. Rinzler on the upcoming release of Dark Horse's 8-issue The Star Wars comic adaptation series, which is slated to hit comic book shelves beginning in September.

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We've heard that tonight's episode of RebelForce Radio will feature some breaking news about Episode VII!  This is what Jimmy Mac and Jason Swank will be discussing...

Doug Chaing is back working on Star Wars for Episode VII!  He started the year working on Jurassic Park 4, which has been postponed, but about a month ago he moved on to Star Wars.  He’s working as an independent contractor and he’s pitching various ideas with the hope of being brought onto the project full time.

JJ Abrams is working closely with the art department at ILM as well as making script revisions as things move forward. There’s a small ILM team working on the art and as things get more involved on the production this work might completely shift away from ILM to Bad Robot!

Sounds intriguing!  Tune if for the latest episode of RebelForce Radio later today...

Wishing our good friend and the worlds largest private collector of all things Star Wars a very happy birthday! This photo was taken last Saturday at Star Wars Weekends at Walt Disney World during the motorcade parade. Have a great year Steve from all your friends at Jedi News. You can keep up with Steve on Facebook or at Rancho Obi-Wan.

Talking of birthdays, yesterday would have been the 84th birthday of Ralph McQuarrie (another great friend of Steve's) - gone but never forgotten...

If you’re reading this, you know the rest of the story so far. George Lucas sold Lucasfilm to Disney in late 2012, and Disney immediately announced that it would milk the Star Wars franchise for all its worth, including making the fabled Episodes VII-IX. As of this writing, we still don’t know the whole story, but I hope you’ll allow me a small measure of conjecture.

My guess is that the Star Wars bug had bit George Lucas again, hard. But a few things stood in his way. First was his age. He was getting older, and while some of his contemporaries are still working feverishly, I wouldn’t blame him for worrying about his health. Especially since making these movies are notoriously stressful to him. The fact that a vocal minority of the fanbase completely turned on him and poisoned the public conversation probably didn’t help matters. He’d be understandably fed-up. But it’s still his baby in the end, and he’s fought hard to maintain the ability to make his movies his way. While he’s been determined to say his role in VII-IX is minimal, I would be very surprised if he takes such a big backseat.

Take a read of the latest update for Angry Birds Star Wars and get those thumbs ready to take on those evil pigs and annoyed avians.

If you want a good deal on the recently released 12" figures get down to Tesco where you can grab Anakin and the Clonetrooper figure for just £11.25 each instead of the usual £15.00.

Check out this photo from the third episode of the Course of the Force videos. Michael Rooker, aka Merl from The Walking Dead in fett armour feeding Chris 'Nerdist' Hardwick a banana with his arm blade.

And as wrestling fan Mark pointed out, don't forget mat legend and big-time Star Wars fan C.M.Punk. Full of Sith: Special Release: Kevin Kiner
Reported by Mark on 13 Jun 2013 15:29

Join Tha Mike Pilot, Bryan Young and Consetta Parker for the latest episode of Full of Sith.

Mike and Bryan get the chance to speak to the Emmy nominated composer for The Clone Wars, Kevin Kiner. He talks about his first experiences with Star Wars, John Williams, his method for scoring the show, and what it’s like to work with Dave Filoni and George Lucas. He also gave teases about what was to come on The Clone Wars and his hopes for Star Wars: Rebels.

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We're well and truly going European as we hit the final few weeks before Celebration Europe II and with that in mind here's a video sent to us by Ornicard. It's a French/German rap collaboration.

Hello Jedinews, congratulations for you website. I have release last week a new rap video clip, inspired by Star Wars and "The Clone Wars". Is it possible to publish it on your website, Jedinews? It would be so great! It's a french german collaboration.

Elfensohren is playing: Yoda and I'm playing: Anakin.

Best Regards, Ornicard.

As part of their announced assortment of 8x10 Celebration Europe Autograph Lithographs, Official Pix has dedicated a special photo for the 501st Legion shown above.

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Mark this one down as one of the more unusual releases of recent years. Not to be outdone by the Klingon Language Institute releasing all of the bards works in the 'original klingon', here we have Star Wars, Shakespeare style.

Check out EW.com for an excerpt from the book.

“Darth Vader, only thou couldst be so bold.”

Carrie Fisher may inexplicably have a bit of a British accent during the beginning of Star Wars: A New Hope, but this latest genre mash-up puts the epic space opera in the hands of the Bard himself. Debut author Ian Doescher blends protocol droids with iambic pentameter in William Shakespeare’s Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope.

Tapping into the vein of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, William Shakespeare’s Star Wars follows the basic structure of the original Star Wars film but molds it according to the style of a Shakespearean play. Lord Vader still seizes the spaceship of Princess Leia of Alderaan in search of the Rebellion’s plans against the Galactic Empire. C-3PO still cries and complains about everything. R2-D2 still beeps and buzzes — but this time in flowing verse.

So if you’re a fan of Stormtroopers and/or soliloquies, check out Act I, scenes 1-4 of William Shakespeare’s Star Wars: