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  • Star Wars/Angry Birds Event Hinted at by Rovio

    In just three short years, the Angry Birds mobile games have become known throughout the world. Angry Birds-branded plushies, bedsheets, and apparel can be found not just online, but in stores across the U.S. Now that Bad Piggies is a runaway success, it’s all but certain that toys inspired by the industrious pigs will soon turn up in stores.

    So, Rovio has build a solid brand, but today the company hinted that the Angry Birds are going to be combining forces with the brand. The one that showed the world just how shameless and widespread merchandising could become. I’m talking, of course, about Star Wars.

    Rovio’s official Angry Birds Twitter account (which the pigs seem to have made their own lately) today tweeted out a link to a brand-new Tumblr blog for Angry Birds:

    The Tumblr blog has only one post so far, consisting of a short .gif and message. The .gif depicts what is clearly an angry bird in Jedi robes “holding” a lightsaber, though it’s not clear how that feat is being accomplished. The force, I suppose.

    The image is accompanies by a cryptic message hinting that some sort of Angry Birds/Star Wars announcement or event will take place at the Toys R Us in Times Square at 10am EST. A “hint” suggests that people get to the store at around 8 am EST.

    What’s going to happen at that time is anyone’s guess. Will Rovio be releasing Star Wars-branded Angry Birds plushies? A new cross-over game? Considering the success the pigs have been having lately, I’m hoping we get to see The Angry Birds Strike Back.

  • 15,070 ‘Official’ Jedi Knights Reside in Czech Republic

    Generally, census data is extremely boring to sift through and traditionally doesn’t make for a fun news story. Would you believe the Czech Republic has trumped this trend, and has provided Star Wars fans a reason to care about a census? Well, they have.

    According to a census taken in March, the first since 2001, the Czech Republic has 15,070 people registered as Jedi Knights for their official religion.

    This wasn’t some viral stunt either, where people simply wrote it in as a joke. The Czech Statistical Office provided a legitimate option for people to select, as mentioned by one of their representatives, “We included this option (in the census form) despite a fierce debate over whether it’s serious or not. But it’s not up to statisticians to say what is or is not a religion”

    The largest group of Jedi’s per capita reside in the capital city, Prague. 3,977 Jedi Knights live there, which accounts for 0.31% of the city’s population. The statistical office believes the amount of people who signed up proved it was a legitimate option, “Fifteen thousand adherents, which is the size of a small town, is not a negligible social phenomenon“.

    It makes you wonder if these people have given up love and other emotions of the flesh, as we all know they lead to fear, which leads to anger, and of course hate. Personally, I couldn’t get past the training regiment.