Local fans unleash the force for 'Star Wars' day

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Whatever the arguments and counterarguments may be, one thing is for sure: The Star Wars Day celebration is here to stay, given the kind of massive and fanatic fan following the franchise boasts of.

May the Fourth be with you, but especially with Riz Ahmed, who beat everyone else at showing their Star Wars appreciation on the sort-of-but-not-really-real holiday for those dreaming of galaxies far, far away. This coincided with the release of the first standalone Star Wars Story: Rogue One on the 16th. The novel introduced many fan favourite characters including Mara Jade and the blue-skinned Admiral himself.

This year's Star Wars Day featured a duel with light sabers at the Living Mall, a shopping mall with a giant orb that resembles the film's Death Star space station.

While the situation where Mark Hamill puts on a cheap Darth Vader mask is a great one, easily my favorite part of this video is the one where a woman is reenacting the scene from the end of The Force Awakens.

This year, "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" will premiere in December, the second film in the "Star Wars" sequel trilogy.

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With Star Wars Day upon us, the staff at outcome of Sound made a decision to size up the existing Star Wars televisual universe. If you want to keep corporations from co-opting the day, then bust out your Princess Leia costume and let yourself get a little weird today.

The Tories took out an ad in the London Evening News that read, "May the Fourth Be With You, Maggie".

Several teachers at Osceola have a firm love for Star wars a few of them are Mr. Sadler, Mr. Yarbrough, Mr. Martens and Mr. Ziesenheim.

While there are many ways to celebrate Star Wars Day, Canada's Globe and Mail reported that the first official celebration of May the 4th was back in 2011 in Toronto.

This is how Star Wars is adapting itself to modern society's idea of what good and bad is, in a world where the enemy is not easily defined, and where the right choice and the morally right choice do not match up.

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