Star Wars internet Rabbit holes

this is a place to share links to general interest Star Wars websites that you have gotten sucked in by and fell down the proverbial rabbit hole for hours …here are a few of my faves …https://www.starwarsarchives.com/ the pdf’s of old magazines like Cinefantastiqe , Starlog and others are a wealth of information on the making of the OT …https://starwarsaficionado.blogspot.com/…a treasure trove of behind the scenes pics from throughout the saga…http://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/…reminds me of the physical Star Wars scrapbooks I made as a kid . would love to see more resources like this .

 
Sweet idea for a thread, mate! 👍

I love the vibe of that stylish Star Wars Archives site you linked to (and their facebook and twitter pages).

Darth Neo has done an awesome job on it, from 2007 to present - The Star Wars Archives, a different kind of preservation

 
SaveStarWars.com - zombie84’s site; comprehensive research into the history of Star Wars - also highlighting much of the revisionism / contradictions from George…

Secret History Of Star Wars - another zombie84 website, as above this time re zombie84’s book; website is re-hosted by none

Star Wars Special Edition Visual Comparisons - doubleofive’s quality and intriguing resource blog

Star Wars Holiday Special website - for me, the definitive SWHS site; run by SKot

HelloGreedo’s ‘Star Wars Profiles’ video series of actors and people BTS of the Original Trilogy (and beyond…)

Jambe Davdar’s Filmumentaries Site - video projects, documentaries and interviews etc

The People Vs George Lucas - website for the 2010 documentary : Internet Archive page : OT.com thread

Star Wars At The Movies - a beautiful looking resource for the OT films (with articles, blog and podcasts)

Kitbashed - The Origins of Star Wars - absorbing and insightful e-book/blog on Star Wars origins (run by Heilemann)

The Making of Star Wars - Timeline - a superb resource of the OT in chronological format (www.audiori.net/starwars)

the old Official Star Wars blog - at WordPress - May 2007 to January 2008; before the 2011 closedowns and changes. From when official Star Wars platforms still interacted and engaged with the fans + their various diverging interests in the GFFA.

 
• Star Wars Archives (Darth Neo) - https://starwarsarchives.com
• Star Wars Aficionado - https://starwarsaficionado.blogspot.com
• The Star Wars Trilogy - www.thestarwarstrilogy.com
• Star Wars Revisited (adywan’s Revisited project & info site) https://swrevisited.wordpress.com
• Saving Star Wars - http://savestarwars.com & http://fd.noneinc.com/savestarwarscom/savestarwars.info/index.html
• Secret History Of Star Wars - http://fd.noneinc.com/secrethistoryofstarwarscom/secrethistoryofstarwars.com/index.html
• Star Wars Visual Comparisons - https://starwarsviscomp.wordpress.com & https://twitter.com/starwarsviscomp
• Star Wars Holiday Special website (by SKot) - www.starwarsholidayspecial.com
• HelloGreedo’s ‘Star Wars Profiles’ - www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLa0pLSAuZw3zBdmouzOaXP7Cp8QEHlZ90
• Jamie Benning’s Filmumentaries (Jambe Davdar) - https://filmumentaries.com & https://twitter.com/jamieswb
• The People Vs George Lucas - http://peoplevsgeorge.com & OT.com thread
• Star Wars At The Movies - www.starwarsatthemovies.com
• Milners Blog: Star Wars - https://milnersblog.com/category/star-wars
• Kitbashed: The Origins of Star Wars (by Heilemann) - https://kitbashed.com
• T-bone’s Star Wars Universe (by T’Bonz) - https://starwarz.com/tbone
• Star Wars 1977-1983 - https://twitter.com/StarWars7783
• Star Wars 1977-1996 - www.facebook.com/StarWars1977.1996
• Classic Star Wars - https://twitter.com/ClassicStarWars
• Star Wars Underworld - https://twitter.com/TheSWU
• Lou Tambone (Sequart) - http://sequart.org/author/lou-tambone
• Rebel Scum - www.rebelscum.com
• Starkiller: The Jedi Bendu Script Site - www.starwarz.com/starkiller
• The Star Wars Collectors Archive - http://theswca.com
• From the Desk of Charles Lippincott - http://therealcharleslippincott.blogspot.com & www.facebook.com/charles.lippincott.9
• The Music Of Star Wars website - www.restrainingbolt.com/sw/starwarsmusic.html & www.restrainingbolt.com
• The Making Of Star Wars - https://starwarsstoryboards.wordpress.com
• Star Wars Comparison’s youtube channel - www.youtube.com/channel/UCJEyKHOhAZJpQvB6Y-2IhBw/videos
• Star Wars Home Video reference site - www.starwarshomevideo.com
• The changes made to the Original Trilogy films down the years - OT•com thread (with links to some older sites and sources)
• A few useful links for info and projects; some old, some new, some long forgotten - OT•com thread
• Original Trilogy Film Crew & People Behind The Scenes: Profiles, Info & Links - OT•com thread
• Taking a stand against toxic fandom - OT•com thread
• Stinson’s All Things Star Wars - https://deeplyobsessed.blogspot.com
• Star Wars Actor Appearances - http://starwarsactorappearances.blogspot.com
• Star Wars Locations - www.starwarslocations.com & https://twitter.com/swloc
• Star Wars Defined (video playlist) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYcp42hsULg&list=PL9DcNxTVwGux0MRI1fln1UjRQ1K1vfILN
• A collection of vintage British Star Wars memorabilia - www.ukstarwars.com
• EC Henry’s youtube channel (OT•com member Aalenfae) - www.youtube.com/c/ECHenry/videos & www.echenry.com
• In A Far Away Galaxy - www.inafarawaygalaxy.com
• Nick Maley “that Yoda Guy” YouTube Channel - www.youtube.com/c/NickMaleyYodaGuy/videos
• Star Wars 77-80 Collectors Blog - http://starwars77-80.blogspot.com

The ‘Useful Links & Information (from some familiar names & faces around here…)’ section of the An Index & Help Thread for Original Trilogy Discussion thread also features some intriguing rabbit holes, alluring sites, and compelling sources of info.
 

📍 a few useful links for info and projects; some old, some new, some long forgotten… 📍 may also be of interest.

As well as…

• The Original Trilogy: Trailers/Promos thread (YouTube/Vimeo, etc. finds)
• The Original Trilogy: Making-Ofs & Documentaries thread (YouTube/Vimeo, etc. finds)
• The Original Trilogy: Random Videos thread (YouTube/Vimeo etc. finds)

• Beyond the Original Trilogy: Trailers/Promos Thread (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. video finds)
• Beyond the Original Trilogy: Documentaries Thread (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. video finds)
• Beyond the Original Trilogy: Random Videos Thread (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. video finds)

• General Star Wars Documentaries (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. finds)
• General Star Wars YouTube/Vimeo/etc… Star Wars random video finds

• Guide to Star Wars Documentaries and Special Features (spreadsheet & info links)
• Star Wars Documentaries section of An Index & Help Thread for The Expanded Universe

^ superb work from ZkinandBonez in creating, compiling, and maintaining many of the video threads found on this site.

Some of the material below may be critical - yet more like the ‘old-skool’ and balanced manner of reviewing content from the GFFA from years ago (what they liked, what they didn’t, what they’d alter, what they hope for in the future etc), along with some insightful and informative content. Yet it contains no Fandom Menace / ‘click$-for-hate’ / politicalised alt-right agenda channels, sites or podcast content at the time of compiling this. If a channel listed here does become toxic/TFM please let me know and I’ll remove it.

There may be an overlap for some channels and the categories they are listed in below - as well as certain content providers evolving…

 
EW / Entertainment Weekly
Hollywood Reporter
Variety
Deadline
BBC
The Guardian
The Independent
The Metro
Wired
Empire / Empire Online
Flickering Myth
ComicBook
Fantha Tracks
Jedi News
Star Wars News Net
StarWars.com - News : Star Wars Twitter / X : Star Wars Facebook : Star Wars youtube : Lucasfilm News : ILM youtube
reddit Star Wars Leaks - beware of spoilers; and always check sources for clickbait / hits-driven outlets / bullshit…
reddit Star Wars News - beware of spoilers; and always check sources for clickbait / hits-driven outlets / bullshit…

 
Pitch Meeting
Honest Trailers / Screen Junkies
How It Should Have Ended
Robot Chick / AdultSwim
Mr Sunday Movies / Caravan Of Garbage
ScreenCrush
Heavy Spoilers
New Rockstars
Prime’s Theater : OT - Part 1
Bombastic
John Campea
Jeremy Jahns
Maj0r Lee
Dan Murrell
RavensFilm Productions
CinePals
Ladyknightthebrave
Pillar of Garbage
ArTorr
Rowan J Coleman (mainly Trek and sci-fi/fantasy etc)

 
Nathan Butler (superb resource on many Star Wars home media releases over the years - including rare formats and variants etc)
Nathan Butler - Star Wars Home Video - Year by Year video playlist : From the Star Wars Home Video Library video playlist
SG10 Film Archive
Star Wars Comparison
Harmy
adywan
doubleofive
Filmumentaries - Jambe Davdar
TheStarWarsTrilogy.com - TN1
Star Wars News & Views - zombie84
Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader - captainsolo
Film Spaced / Tommy Blase - 13las
EC Henry - aalenfae
gordongecko1975 - Haarspalter
HelloGreedo
Force Material - and their Force Material X podcast
Dork Side Of The Force website - and Dork Side twitter

Star Wars Defined (youtube playlist of positive outlook video channels)
Browntable
Original Trilogy Talk - an ‘old-skool’ youtube channel focused on all things the OT (and uses footage from the theatrical cuts)
Lost Acolyte
Attilathefinnster
Just Star Wars
Force Center (documentaries & specials, reviews etc)
Inside The Force
Star Wars Meg
Girls With Sabers
Generation Tech
Wit & Folly
Media Musings
TheMarySue
AT-AT Chat
Simon Talks Star Wars
Skywalking Through Neverland
Adam Savage’s Tested

 
Spaceman
Designed by Kirk
ScreamingLake
Just Write
FilmSpeak
A.M. Cinematics
Pillar of Garbage
ShotDeck
That0therGeorge
Thomas Flight
CameroN xM
Movie Overload
The Gold Man
Morphologis
MaceAhWindu
RemniCore
Star Wars Fanatic

Behind the Seams
From A Writer’s Perspective
caprisanh
ScoopHash
The Editing Podcast
Cleaver Rebooted
Ladyknightthebrave
Schaffrillas Productions
Colt Jay Krieger
Science Fiction with Damien Walter
Morphologis
Coffee With Korriban
VisualBarrage
Movie Overload
Sheev Talks (often marmite; + can ramble on repeatedly… making for very lengthy videos)
Katagiri
The Canvas
Star Wars Unlimited Universe

 
The Expanded Universe website. #ContinueLegends
The Star Wars Expanded Universe Timeline
The Twin Suns Foundation (for the continuation of Star Wars Legends / EU material)
Christopher Nelson (youtube channel on Star Wars Legends / EU material)
Matt Wilkins (youtube channel on Star Wars Legends / EU material)
Manda-LORE (youtube channel with the focus on the original Expanded Universe - before 2014)
Hyperspace Database (youtube channel with the focus on the original Expanded Universe - before 2014)
Meg Reviews (youtube channel with focus mainly on the original Expanded Universe - with occasional canon content)
Youtini (website for Star Wars books and comics + more… from both Legends & Canon)

Star Wars Explained
Red Five
Vader’s Fortress
The Lore Master
Bombastic
Corey’s Datapad
Star Wars Insider
Star Wars Lore
Geetsly’s
The Scoundrel’s Cantina
Star Wars Centralized
Vader’s Order
Steren Cantina

 
Jamie Benning Filmumentaries podcast & Jamie’s twitter
Trash Compactor
Force Material - and their Force Material X podcast
Talking Bay 94
Rebel Force Radio
Star Wars At The Movies
Dark Side Divas - A Star Wars Podcast
Coffee With Kenobi
A More Civilized Age
SkyTalkers
FanthaTracks
Thank the Maker: A Star Wars Podcast
Star Wars Underworld
SteeleWars
Blue Harvest
Blast Points

 
StruggleNation
Kim Ellendale
Kyle Katarn
Fandom Zone
Late to the Party
sesskasays
Wave Squadron
LouiseJulie
Reel Rejects
Nerdy Nightly
Jessa and Alex Watch
The PWHustle / 8TracBrown
funnylilgalreacts
Heroes Reforged
Laura Reactions
The Normies
Blind Wave

Gallifrey Gals
Remote Rebels
Omn1Media
Watch with Marcella
Jedi Jive
Kat & Sonny
pReview’d
AngryJoeShow
Imon_Snow
A Guy Who Loves Star Wars
UConnPopCast
Catherine LaSalle
Kristian Harloff
Holden & Jen Hardman
The Ringer-Verse
The RaeSide

ReactTV - a compilation of reaction videos
ReactionaryTV - a compilation of reaction videos
YoureMrLebowski - a compilation of reaction videos
First Time Watching - a compilation of reaction videos

 
Heroes Fan Productions
SWFT
FLEdits
Colonel Gascon
Cinemacape
Oryon
Forstford
Shahan
Vertigo
Ghosts
GalacticWildfire
TatyanaOracle
Artagon
Swan Station
AD_edits
The Admiral
McGuffin Studios
CW Edits
Gamerstrix
Amazing Shots

 
Daz Tibbles
Samtubia & Samgoma Edwards
Blood Brother Cinema Inc
Escape Velocity Content
Michaels basement
Transmute Pictures
Pj Tamayo (Moondoggie Films)
T7pro
Jason Satterlund
Star Wars Origins Film
Jamie Costa
Justin Christie
Impossible Objects
SpyGER ARTS Studio
Benjamin Eck
Sava Zivkovic
OtaKing77077
Stephen Vitale
Scout: A Star Wars Story
SkyForge
MAV Films
Maxime-Claude L’Écuyer
Anthony Pietromonaco
High Ground Animations
Darth Angelus
Versus thewaytoshadow
DonBittersIII
Paul Constantakis
 
Star Wars Fan Films / Shorts - a general discussion thread - with links and an Index to other SW Fan Film threads on the OT•com

^ a whole section is dedicated to ‘Star Wars Fan Films / Shorts’ in An Index & Help Thread for The Expanded Universe

a thread for short Fan Films found online at youtube / vimeo etc - including non Star Wars content.

 
Not Obi Wan Kenobi / Charlie Hopkinson
Auralnauts
Alien’s Guide / Garyx Wormuloid
Count Binface / Lord Buckethead (intergalactic Space Lord from the SW parody ‘Gremloids’ + also now a UK politician & satirist)
Coffee With Kenobi
Henry Silva / rocknroll41 blog
Star Wars Interviews
Star Wars ScreenCaps
Deskplans Alliance website
Sean’s OT.com tribute page - from 2005
Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader
Reconstructing the end of ROTJ with Storyboards - by timdiggerm. OT.com page
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Archive - by pineapples101. OT.com page

Death Star PR (parody twitter)
Darth Vader (parody twitter)
The Spaceshipper (twitter)
70’s Sci-Fi Art (twitter)
SciFi Art (twitter)
The Beauty of Star Wars Concept Art (twitter)
Star Wars Concept Art (twitter)
Phil Szostak (Lucasfilm creative art manager on twitter)
Classic Star Wars (twitter)
Star Wars Fonts (twitter)

 
Original Trilogy (a reddit for the Original Trilogy)
Star Wars Cantina (a positive outlook reddit)
Maw Installation (a constructive & thoughtful outlook reddit)
OT Memes (a reddit for Original Trilogy memes)
Star Wars Collecting
Star Wars Collectibles
Star Wars Games
Star Wars Speculation
Star Wars Leaks - beware of spoilers - and always check sources for clickbait / hits-driven outlets / bullshit…
Star Wars Cosplay
501st reddit
Rebel Legion
R2 Builders
Droid Builders
Star Wars EU
Star Wars Legends
Star Wars NSFW - erotic media based on or related to the Star Wars universe. 18+ only according to their own rules. Obviously NSFW.
Star Wars Andor
Andor - more active and in-depth than the above SWAndor reddit + allows in-show and real-world political discussions.

Here’s to also hoping ‘the algorithm’ stops promoting such toxic / Fandom Menace / ‘click$-for-hate’ platforms online - or that fans themselves stop fueling… watching, liking and subscribing to such channels… and find other more reasoned or balanced discourse.

Taking a stand against toxic fandom (2018 thread; by screams in the void)

Culture, politics, and diversity in Star Wars (2018 thread)

Strong Female characters in the Star Wars universe (2018 thread; by screams in the void)

^ more similar threads can be found at the end of the ‘Sequel Trilogy’ section of An Index Thread for Beyond the Original Trilogy.

Hopefully there is something of interest in a few of the above channels and content - if you know of any more to include here - please PM me with them. Or if more of a ‘rabbit hole’ - simply add them to this sweet quality thread by screams in the void. 👍
 

^ thank you both , I have seen some of the stuff you have posted and some is new to me , loving the content !

and here is another great site that has been around for many many years and has a lot of info and pics of OT cut scenes , His site has changed a bit over time , but he was one of the first on the web to offer a repository of cut scenes pics and info long before they were available on blu ray …http://starwarz.com/tbone/

screams in the void said:

and here is another great site that has been around for many many years and has a lot of info and pics of OT cut scenes , His site has changed a bit over time , but he was one of the first on the web to offer a repository of cut scenes pics and info long before they were available on blu ray …http://starwarz.com/tbone/

Also one of the few fans to ever anger the flanneled one, (over reporting on a certain Episode III cameo) and get banned from the ranch so to speak.

T’Bonz…

A quality reminder for his top site - cheers, Screams 😃

Not sure if Screams wanted to include twitter pages (as they’re not really websites) - yet thought these may be of some interest - especially from an OT point of view…

Star Wars 1977-1983 - some great pics and info

Star Wars 1977-1996 - some great pics and info, from a more civilised time…

Classic Star Wars - as above, with an emphasis on the toys / merch at the time

Star Wars Underworld - decent enough news and info site for all things Star Wars

OriginalTrilogy.com - seems familiar somehow… 😉

^ oojason …thank you ! these are the droids I’m looking for ! love that first link the most . and Silverwook …what was the cameo that T Bone let out of the bag ?

Shopping Maul said:

Awesome thread Screams - thank you! I’m gonna get lost for days amongst all this…

you’re very welcome .

screams in the void said:

^ oojason …thank you ! these are the droids I’m looking for ! love that first link the most . and Silverwook …what was the cameo that T Bone let out of the bag ?

George as Papa Smurf…I mean Baron Papanoida. 😉

^ lol . I did not know that .He is one of my recent facebook friends .I don’t remember seeing that on his site leading up to ROTS , but the site has changed over the years . He has also been collaborating with some other people and making books on Star Wars , Blade Runner and others and is working on a sweet looking book on Battlestar Galactica in celebration of it’s 40th anniversary this year .Here is another site that has his books and misc…http://sequart.org/author/lou-tambone/

^have enjoyed looking at that site for years . nice one !

another great site with insight into the various script drafts of the OT …http://www.starwarz.com/starkiller/

can’t believe I forgot this one …a great collectors resource and a very fun nostalgia trip for those who grew up with the OT and have fond memories of the toys and other merchandise of the era …http://theswca.com/

‘From the Desk of Charles Lippincott’:-

http://therealcharleslippincott.blogspot.com
 

http://therealcharleslippincott.blogspot.com/search/label/Ad Concepts - some intriguing posters for promoting Star Wars that were deemed to be ‘failed ad concepts’…

With a lot more Star Wars content too - http://therealcharleslippincott.blogspot.com/search/label/STAR WARS 😃

(as well as other projects he has worked)
 

Great find, Jason. I already blew an hour or so perusing that site. 😃

^ Awesome ! these are the droids I’m looking for !

Nice one 😃
 

This may be of interest for fans of some of the old school vinyl and cassette music releases:-

‘The Music Of Star Wars’ website - www.restrainingbolt.com/sw/starwarsmusic.html

www.restrainingbolt.com/sw/misc/sw_music.php?format=cassettes (also albums, 45’s, 8-tracks, misc, and advert sections)
 

I haven’t had a chance to go through the rest of the Restraining Bolt website yet - though seems there may be some intriguing stuff on there, especially in the Music, Collection, Prop tutorials and Photo Gallery sections…

http://starwarsstoryboards.wordpress.com

found by none - here; https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Story-Boards-Thread/id/13004
 

Very interesting thread. thankyou.
If i find more to add i will.

Star Wars Comparison’s YouTube video channel for comparing OT theatrical cuts to official blu ray and various fan projects.

^ I imagine it’s by someone on here? 😃
 

A quality find by JayArgonaut, in his Video8 release of ROTJ thread:-
 

JayArgonaut said:

Here’s the V2000 of Star Wars, taken from this amazing site that I’m shocked that I didn’t know about much sooner: http://www.starwarshomevideo.com/

I am loving this thread screams in the void. So many discerning links and sources of cool info.

^ Thanks Biggs ! Glad you are enjoying it . This is hands down my favorite site on the web , incredible community, resources and talent on all the boards here .