Expanded Universe – From 4-LOM to Zuckuss.com

Hasbro’s Fan’s Choice Results – Semifinals

Yesterday, the results of our Hasbro Fan's Choice Poll were tallied and submitted to Hasbro. The results of our poll will be combined with the 18 or so other site's participating and will be presented on Starwars.com for a final fan vote prior to this month's San Diego Comic-Con. This year's results were very interesting as characters no longer a part of the official Star Wars universe dominated many of the polls. We were not alone in experiencing Expanded Universe dominance. Our partner on TOY RUN: The Star Wars Action Figure Cast, JediBusiness.com ended up with 3 of the top 4 nominations going to EU characters. Jeditemplearchives.com's poll had Darth Talon taking the number one spot and over at Yakface.com EU favs Starkiller and Mara Jade earned spots [...]

StarWars.com Officially Announces EU

Today Starwars.com announced in a press release that all previous Star Wars content outside of the six theatrical episodes and the six seasons of the animated series The Clone Wars as Expanded Universe. This of course comes at a time when Lucasfilm, and its new adoptive parent Disney, are in the process of creating a sequel trilogy which is set to take place in an era of Star Wars which has already been documented in novels and comics. So in order to eliminate this issue Lucasfilm's story group has chosen to streamline by making all future stories in comics, television and novels as canon thus making most everything that has been released in the past Expanded Universe. We have an unprecedented slate of new Star Wars entertainment on the horizon," said Kennedy. "We're [...]