A long time ago, on this very blog, I posted something nebulous about rapper Kanye West. Bear in mind that was prior to his notoriously car...

Amazing! Sensing the huge amount of support for the top two entries in the Chick-fil-A Cow Appreciation Day contest, the food chain decided ...

The competition is pulling out all the stops in the Chick-fil-A Cow Appreciation Day competition and the 501st Legion's very own Noel Gr...

Just donated to a great (and fun) cause. On November 22nd, 501st member Joe Schonberger (TK-3699) will run the Philadelphia Marathon in Sto...

I just received a great note from a fellow trooper... I was going through some old boxes yesterday and I found my son's first wallet whi...

In 2005, with Star Wars Celebration 3 quickly approaching, I saw the need for something to hand out to young fans at troopin' events. D...

TK-899 celebrated 37 revolutions around the sun today. A somewhat mild day for a Stormtrooper, playing with the little clones on the farm an...

The reason for this seemingly random post will be revealed at a later time.

I've been creating 501st PR material for some time now, on both the local and Legion level. I really enjoy creating flyers, advertisemen...

The 501st Carolina Garrison was asked by Warner Brothers to supply some characters for a Charlotte, NC, press screening of Star Wars: The C...

I came across the full hearing document from propmaker Andrew Ainsworth's recent court loss to Lucasfilm regarding claims of intellectu...

If you buy the new Clone Wars 501st Legion Clone Trooper action figure you will get an instant membership in the famed 501st Legion costumi...

I stopped collecting Star Wars toys twice. Once around 1985 when I thought I was getting "too old" to play with toys, and then ag...

This is actually some older news, but I wanted to document it on tk899.com for posterity. The 2008 Guinness Book of World Records has decla...

Tonight, 26 members of the Fighting 501st Legion will appear on NBC television's popular game show " Deal or No Deal " as cust...

It's all over the news lately, and inevitably friends and co-workers will ask us Star Wars fans if we have been following the story. Br...

Why is it that the media doesn't fact-check anymore? I'm not even going to go into the details about the current controversy surroun...

Each year, the 501st Legion elects its Legion Commanding Officer (LCO)---the equivalent of a President and CEO for this fine volunteer cost...

Any respectable Stormtrooper is always tinkering with their costume, whether it's adding new parts or improving old ones. The colloquial...