Topic: Star Wars

Lego Imagination Center a world of creative genius

By David W. Shelton | July 21, 2007 |

If there was ever any question that Lego was an important part of my childhood, it was completely erased yesterday as I entered the Lego Imagination Center in the Mall of America. I was visiting southern Minnesota on business this week and we capped off the trip by visiting the country’s largest shopping mall. I couldn’t care less about the four stories worth of shops. I wanted to see the Lego store. And boy, did I ever.

I was in Lego nerd heaven. According to the Lego website, it was the first Lego store in the United States, built in 1992. The Imagination Center wasn’t just a store for Legomaniacs, it was a store for me. I had two loves in my childhood. One was Lego, the other was Star Wars. My heart fluttered when I saw the Lego Death Star (retail price: $299.99). But even that was dwarfed by the magnificent 25-foot-tall Lego clock tower. Just imagine that… two and a half stories worth of Legos! «Read the rest of this article»

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Movies in the Park: Harrison Ford Double Feature

By Bill Larson | July 20, 2007 |

The City of Clarksville, Tennessee and Bill Roberts Automotive will present the next Movies In the Park at Fairgrounds Park on July 28 as part of The Leaf Chronicle’s Parks After Dark Series.

This month, the event will include a double feature with movies starring Harrison Ford as a legendary action-adventure hero. Pre-show games will begin at 7:15 p.m. and the movie will begin at 8:30 p.m. Both movies are rated PG. Admission is free and concessions will be available. «Read the rest of this article»

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Star Wars: a story about a father and son

By David W. Shelton | June 16, 2007 |

I can’t believe I missed it. I’m a horrible, wretched, pathetic loser. I missed one of the most important anniversaries in my life. It was the anniversary of what is arguably the single most important event in my childhood—the event which defined my imagination and helped to create the imaginary world in which I lived for years.

Yes, dear friends, I missed the 30th anniversary of the opening of Star Wars. Maybe it’s appropriate, really. Maybe I should have remembered the day that we first ventured to the local theatre to see that landmark picture. After all, when George Lucas’ historic space opera opened just before Memorial Day of 1977, only 40 theatres across the country played it. «Read the rest of this article»

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Not so long ago in a theater near you …

By Christine Anne Piesyk | May 24, 2007 |

Once upon a time there was a handsome young man from a broken family, living on a planetary wasteland with an aunt and uncle…he races around his lunar-like landscape on a landspeeder, running errands for his uncle — things like buying androids and robots from very short creatures wearing inter-galactic versions of monks robes — but in one violent afternoon, he finds himself en route to becoming an inter-gallactic hero …

Welcome to world of Luke Skywalker, Director George Lucas’s ground-breaking fantasy that would rev up the imaginations of millions of moviegoers. That was 30 years ago (May 25, 1977). Where were you when Star Wars changed the face of movies? «Read the rest of this article»

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