UK Fan Experience: UK Smelly Rubbers and Pencil Toppers Back in the heady days of the original trilogy, while young kids at school looked out of the window and wished they were in the cantina, or blasting at AT-AT’s in a snowspeeder, there was always a peach-smelling Star Wars eraser to remind us that the […]
The UK fan Experience by Mark Newbold – UK Stars On The Small Screen
UK Fan Experience: UK Stars on The Small Screen While the Star Wars galaxy was being writ large on the silver screen, breaking records wherever it went and changing the face of 20th century cinema, the British stars of the film continued to beaver away on the small screen. During the 70’s and 80’s many […]
The UK fan Experience by Mark Newbold – Muppets and Star Wars
Muppets and Star Wars The magic and mystery of special effects – a description that these days refers exclusively to practical, on set effects but back in pre-digital days meant any kind of physical or optical effect – was opened to the world with the arrival of Star Wars in 1977. Never before had the […]
The UK fan Experience by Mark Newbold – Scoring The Saga
UK Fan Experience: Scoring The Saga It’s impossible to imagine the Star Wars saga without the music of John Williams. Before he ever picked up a pen to write a note for the 1977 original he already had eleven Academy Award nominations and two Oscars on his mantle, for Fiddler on the Roof in 1971 […]
The UK fan Experience by Mark Newbold – Carrie Fisher: The Road to Star Wars
UK Fan Experience: Carrie Fisher: The Road To Star Wars The arrival on the pop culture landscape of Star Wars was like a neutron bomb going off. Within seemingly no time at all, references were springing up across the entertainment world. Guest spots featuring Star Wars actors and characters became commonplace and the iconography […]
UK Fan Experience by Mark Newbold – Easy Wins
As Star Wars blasted off across the planet, and the word grew that this was something very special indeed, marketing departments scrambled to get Star Wars products out of the factories and onto shelves as fast as possible. With action figures taking 12 – 15 months to design and sculpt there was a big – […]
UK Fan Experience by Mark Newbold – The Arrival Of Palitoy
UK Fan Experience :The Arrival Of Palitoy As Star Wars fever engulfed the UK, spreading across the country like wildfire in the early months of 1978, there was one thing conspicuous by its absence – action figures. UK kids were well versed in the play aspects of licensed toys.The Six Million Dollar Man was not […]
The UK fan Experience by Mark Newbold – Star Wars Weekly
UK Fan Experience: Star Wars Weekly (UK) With Star Wars opening to huge success in the United States, breaking records and making history across a memorable summer, the opportunity for companies and publishing houses in the UK to hop aboard the freight train was obvious and inevitable. In the UK as in the States, […]
The UK Fan Experience by Mark Newbold – December 77
THE UK FAN EXPERIENCE – December 26th 1977 Can you imagine a world without Star Wars? Step back in time almost 40 years to May 24th 1977 and for the vast majority of people the greatest space fantasy of all was yet to arrive in our galaxy. A day later, that was an entirely different […]