Discusses the well-known appearance on the Holiday Special as well as the 1979 action figure. But most interesting is the early comic book appearance in 1979. artikel includes a lot of panels from the comics.
Lucasfilm's Steve Sansweet appeared at the San Diego Comic-Con and confirmed that the "Star Wars" animated series is now scheduled to premiere in 2008 while the live action series will begin sometime before 2010.
Lucas has often acknowledged Dune as an inspiration. In early drafts of the bintang Wars script the influence was much lebih obvious - the story was full of feudalistic Houses and dictums, and the treasure the Princess was guarding wasn't the Death bintang plans, but a shipment of "aura spice."