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Gizmodo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
Prime Day Keeps LEGO Star Wars Alive With Phantom Menace BrickHeadz 6-Pack for Peanuts
Today is Prime Day, which despite it's name actually last four days. From the time of writing until the end of the day July 11, you can save a ton on all sorts of products across every category on Amazon—including Lego! Check out this Lego BrickHeadz set. It comes with six fan-favorite Star Wars characters from Episode 1 The Phantom Menace. Normally, this set goes for $55, but for a limited time, you can scoop it up for 31% off. That brings the price down to just $38, saving you $17. Lego absolutely rules. There's so much joy to be found in the process of the build. It's soothing to just tune out for an hour or more, listen to a podcast or throw on an old-favorite show or movie in the background, while you just put things together brick by brick. It's a mindful activity that can be an therapeutic excuse to not be doom scrolling on my phone. You can let your stresses go and just focus on the pieces in front of you. And when you're done, you've got some sick toy or display to put on your shelf. See at Amazon BrickHeadz are basically Lego's take on Funko Pops—cool character's from various media franchises reimagined as little guys with big heads and beady eyes. I think they're more fun though because you get to build them yourself. This Star Wars Phantom Menace set includes six of these fellers. In the box, you get 732 pieces that together make up six characters featured in the first movie of the prequel trilogy. They include Jar Jar Binks, Anakin Skywalker, Queen Amidala, Captain Panaka, Qui-Gon Jinn and Darth Maul. They even come with authentic accessory elements like lightsabers or a blaster. Anakin is seen in hit pod-racing outfit and measures in adorably shorter than the rest of the gang. My favorite detail is Darth Maul breaks away from the templated back eyes with white dots most character have by default. He has his iconic and menacing red and yellow eyes that still fit into the BrickHeadz playful design. He's also got ten horns coming off his head. This Lego Star Wars Phantom Menace was made to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Lego Star Wars. For Prime Day, you can save a bit of cash on these six display figures. Typically priced at $55, Prime members can get the set for just $38—a 31% discount. That's save you a whole $17 through July 11. See at Amazon
Geek Tyrant
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
ANDOR Season 2 Hid a Secret Darth Maul Easter Egg — GeekTyrant
Weeks after the final season of Andor came to an end, production designer Luke Hull dropped a fun detail from the Star Wars series over on Instagram that flew under nearly everyone's radar. In the final episodes, a good portion of the action takes place on Ghorman, a silk-producing planet known for its native arachnid species, the Ghorlectipods. As it turns out, one of those silk-spinning spiders was hiding a face you might recognize… Darth Maul's. Hull shared a mural of one of these creatures, and if you stare long enough, you'll spot the unmistakable red-and-black, tattooed snarl of the former Sith apprentice subtly embedded in the creature's design. No, this doesn't mean Maul was secretly hanging out on Ghorman. This wasn't setup for some wild crossover. It was just a cool visual nod. As Hull put it, it was 'created just for aesthetic reasons.' But even a simple Easter egg like this is still pretty cool, especially when you remember Maul's own spider-adjacent past. After Obi-Wan famously sliced him in half in The Phantom Menace , Maul survived on Lotho Minor, held together by rage and the Force, and gave himself robotic spider legs, which we saw in The Clone Wars . It's a bizarre, memorable look, and seeing a literal spider with Maul's face painted onto it in Andor is the kind of subtle fan-service. While Maul's end came in the Rebels episode 'Twin Suns' with a final duel against Obi-Wan on Tatooine, Star Wars has kept him alive in other corners of the timeline. His cameo in Solo teased more criminal dealings to come, and Clone Wars Season 7 gave us his brutal control of Mandalore. He's also getting his own animated series: Star Wars: Maul — Shadow Lord , which will explore the rise of his syndicate and the training of a new apprentice. So while Maul didn't make an appearance in Andor in the traditional sense, his shadow still crept in.
Geek Tyrant
02-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
STAR WARS: MAUL – SHADOW LORD Star Sam Witwer Says the New Series Is 'Bad Guys vs. Worse Guys' — GeekTyrant
Sam Witwer is back to voice Darth Maul, and if you thought Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord might soften the Sith assassin's edges, think again. In a recent appearance on Katee Sackhoff's podcast, the actor teased a deeper look at what to expect from the upcoming animated series, and it sounds like we're in for a morally bleak, brutal ride. 'It's about bad guys vs worse guys. This isn't going to be a show where you find out Maul is a real teddy bear, man … We're not doing that. But is he as bad as Sidious or Vader? Actually no. 'From the Sith perspective, this guy has flaws ... [there's] humanity that seeps in at various points because of things that have happened to him.' Set in the year following The Clone Wars (around 19 BBY), Maul – Shadow Lord picks up after the fall of the Jedi and the rise of the Empire. According to Lucasfilm's official synopsis, the show follows Maul as he attempts to rebuild his criminal empire on a remote planet untouched by Imperial control. But this isn't just a crime saga, it's also about reckoning. Witwer teases that Maul's growing discomfort with the new galactic order plays a key role in the story: 'Maul will question whether creating the Empire was a good idea. [Maul's] like, 'Is that what [Sidious] had in mind? This is a little scary. 'Maul comes from a time of swords, sorcery, magic and knights, and now all of that color of the universe is being sucked out of this mechanized Empire. And Maul's like, 'Is this right? Is this the universe we were trying to build?'' That doesn't make him a hero, but it gives him a point of view. Fans worried this series would attempt a full redemption arc can rest easy. This is still the same Maul we've come to know through The Phantom Menace , The Clone Wars , and Rebels . He's dangerous, cunning, and filled with rage, but layered with the scars of betrayal and loss. Maul's journey through the Star Wars canon has been interesting. He started as a near-silent enforcer in The Phantom Menace , got cut in half by Obi-Wan, then reemerged angrier and outfitted with metal legs in The Clone Wars . He built a criminal syndicate, tangled with Mandalorians, and even returned in Solo: A Star Wars Story as the leader of Crimson Dawn. While the franchise's live-action follow-ups to Solo have been scrapped, Shadow Lord seems ready to fill that void, offering a darker corner of the galaxy to explore, and with Witwer back behind the mic, you can expect the character's internal storm to come through loud and clear. This isn't a redemption story. It's a power struggle in the shadows, and Maul is right in the thick of it.
Gizmodo
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
‘Star Wars' From Darth Maul's Perspective Sounds Fascinating
When Obi-Wan Kenobi cut Darth Maul in half over 25 years ago, most of us thought that was it. Maul was clearly one of the coolest and most interesting Star Wars characters ever, but George Lucas chose to kill him. However, as fate would have it, the character has now come back time and time again, in large part due to Lucas's protégé Dave Filoni, and soon, we're gonna get way more of him than we ever thought possible. Maul: Shadow Lord, a new animated series, was announced at Star Wars Celebration Japan last month and it'll bring the former Sith Lord back to the forefront in a big, big way. Speaking with fellow Star Wars star Katee Sackhoff, voice of Maul Sam Witwer revealed a few broad clues about what we can expect from the show, including how Maul perceives the plan formulated by his former master, Darth Sidious. 'This is a guy who knew that the Empire was coming, and he was part of that,' Witwer said on The Sackhoff Show. 'He was supposed to be part of the Clone Wars. He was supposed to work with his master, and they were going to bring about the destruction of the Republic and the destruction of his hated enemy, the Jedi Order. He was raised to hate them. He trained his whole life to destroy them. Well, now we have a show where, OK, all of that was done, but Maul, yeah, you killed a bunch of Jedi during the Clone Wars, but you did not work with Sidious. You didn't know the whole plan. And in fact, you got so scared about his plan that you tried to stop it at the last second.' 'Now the Empire's here, which Maul would have known that that was his master's intent,' he continues. 'But now that he's seeing it, he's like, 'Is this what he had in mind? Because this isn't what I thought it would be…' Maul comes from a time of swords and sorcery and magic and knights and now all of that color is being sucked out of the universe by this mechanized empire. And Maul's like, 'Is this right? Is this the universe that we were trying to build?'' That's fascinating, is it not? Seeing the grand plans of Emperor Palpatine through the eyes of someone who worked with him before Darth Vader. Before Count Dooku. Before Grand Moff Tarkin or Grand Admiral Thrawn. Someone who was there at the beginning and is now confused about what he thought the plan was, and what it ended up being. But, as Witwer explains, that's kind of the aim of Maul: Shadow Lord. 'It truly is a show about bad guys versus worse guys,' he said. 'And our bad guys are still bad guys. This isn't going to be a show where you go, oh, you find out Maul is just a real teddy bear, man. He's just misunderstood… But the idea is, in fact, that even though he's a bad guy, is he as bad as Sidious or Vader? And the answer is actually no. From the Sith perspective, this guy has flaws. And these flaws are… the humanity that seeps in at various points. And some of this is humanity he did not have maybe early in Clone Wars. But because of things that happened to him, he's rethought a lot of things.' Rethinking things is part of what is making Maul: Shadow Lord work too. Witwer explained that, as he was working with Filoni on Clone Wars and Rebels, they'd come up with ideas for Maul that they loved, but couldn't fit in the show. Now, all those ideas are coming back. 'There were ideas that I had back in Clone Wars that I would present to Dave, or even in Rebels,' Witwer said. 'And I also know things that Dave wanted to do. And Dave would go, 'We're going to cut this part out of the script that I have that I like so much because this isn't Maul's show.' Or I'd say, 'Dave, what if this happens?' And he goes, 'It's not Maul's show. You can't go into that little level of detail. We're seeing this from Ezra's perspective or Ahsoka's perspective.' And every time he said, 'This isn't Maul's show,' it never occurred to me that Maul could have a show. So I just took those ideas and I'm like, well, I guess we'll never see that. And now he's like, well, it's Maul's show.'' You can watch the full clip below and keep an eye out for Maul: Shadow Lord in 2026.
Time of India
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
How to get Darth Maul's Lightsaber and Force Throw in Fortnite's new update
Fortnite's ongoing Star Wars: Galactic Battle crossover is in full swing, and this time it brings back one of the franchise's most iconic villains - Darth Maul. Whether you're looking to channel the Dark Side in battle or simply want to slice through enemies with his signature red lightsaber, Chapter 6 Season 3 offers a variety of ways to experience the Sith Lord's return. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Darth Maul hologram appears randomly on the map In the Battle Royale mode, Darth Maul appears not as a traditional NPC but as a hologram. He doesn't spawn in a fixed location but can be found at random points on the island, usually after the first storm circle has formed. Players can locate him via a special red lightsaber icon with a black-and-red background on the map. Interacting with the hologram grants access to a Rift Gate, leading to a cutscene where players unlock Maul's Sith Apprentice Lightsaber and Force Throw ability. While the lightsaber can sometimes be looted from other players, the Force Throw skill - allowing users to lift and launch rocks - is exclusive to those who complete Maul's training. The ability, when used effectively, can deal significant area damage. Activated by holding block and tapping attack, it offers both crowd control and destructive potential with a cooldown of around 15 seconds. Darth Maul bundle and LEGO skin Alongside the in-game powers, Epic Games has also added Darth Maul to the Item Shop. His standalone skin is priced at 1,500 V-Bucks, while the full Darth Maul Bundle is available for 2,200 V-Bucks. The bundle includes his iconic outfit, the Sith Probe Droid back bling, Maul's Poleaxe pickaxe, the Sith Infiltrator glider, and a themed weapon wrap. Players can also access a LEGO Fortnite version of Darth Maul, complete with his double-bladed lightsaber in charming brick form. This adds a unique visual twist to his otherwise menacing presence. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now From hologram interactions to stylish cosmetics, Darth Maul's addition is among the highlights of Fortnite's latest crossover. While reactions from the community vary, the new mechanics and customisations offer something fresh for both casual players and dedicated Star Wars enthusiasts. Whether you're training with the Sith or just flaunting the red and black look, now's the time to embrace the Dark Side.
