{"id":359,"date":"2007-09-15T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobafett.com\/news\/spotlight\/in-the-news_070915\/"},"modified":"2024-02-16T18:12:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T02:12:18","slug":"in-the-news_070915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/fans\/in-the-news_070915\/","title":{"rendered":"Headlines: Dragon*Con Fetts, Transformers' Starscream and $500 helmet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dragon*Con Fetts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Photos on Flickr:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/wfdt\/1333678004\/in\/pool-starwars\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Barbie Fett&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/64168034@N00\/3647036\/in\/pool-starwars\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Jango Fett on my street.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/ducttapeavenger\/1324105471\/in\/pool-starwars\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Boba Fett vs. Predator&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/leshoward\/1323183171\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Flame Fett is my favorite.&#8221;<\/a> (Also: <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/10461369@N02\/1323059947\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Flame&#8217;s close-up<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/manahanwill\/1314307968\/\">&#8220;Boba and Fem Fett&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/ceosanna\/1346639554\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The chances of survival are 725 to one.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/7294644@N07\/1317658466\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Boba Fett with your kid&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Boba Fett reference in Amanda Bynes&#8217; new film, Sydney White?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From Duke University&#8217;s college newspaper:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The seven dorks take the center stage in all their role-playing, Boba Fett-worshiping glory. From mega-allergetic Lenny to angsty blogger Gurkin, the seven members of outcast-living hovel, the Vortex, are endearing in their cult passions and comical in their gawky statures. And though Sydney&#8217;s prepubescent boy hobbies add to the mix of geek tribute, it&#8217;s this troop of bungling brains that make the film worth its five hundred calories of feel-good fluff.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>$500 helmet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Master Replicas has a wearable Boba Fett helmet &#8212; ready for you by next Halloween starting this November 2007 &#8212; runs for half a grand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Starscream, the &#8220;Boba Fett&#8221; Transformer?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iesb.net\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1938&#038;Itemid=99\" rel=\"noopener\">IESB.net<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Q: Out of the secondary characters in this film, who do you think is going to be like Boba-Fett, the breakout character?<\/p>\n<p>Murphy: I mean, character wise I think that Starscream is probably the most bad ass villain next to Megatron. &#8230; [B]ecause it&#8217;s everyone&#8217;s favorite Autobot after Optimus, I&#8217;m hoping that Bumblebee ends up with that because Bumblebee has the most screen time of any of the characters because he ends up being the one who communicates directly with a human first.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dragon*Con Fetts Photos on Flickr: &#8220;Barbie Fett&#8221; &#8220;Jango Fett on my street.&#8221; &#8220;Boba Fett vs. Predator&#8221; &#8220;Flame Fett is my...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13755,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/13755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}