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If you've ever fantasized about being a Jedi, VR can take you there better than any other medium. The Star Wars Trials on Tatooine short game will be available as a free download for HTC Vive owners starting on Monday.

It would be remiss of us to let today pass without saying "May the Fourth be with you!" While Star Wars Day lasts for only 24 hours, there have been three days of preparation at Legoland Malaysia as it has been building what it claims is the largest ever Lego Millennium Falcon.

While a small-scale version of the newest Star Wars droid – BB-8 – was one of the hottest toys over the holiday season, more ambitious fans now have another option, with creator Ed's Junk making his plans for building a full-scale replica freely available.

The Force Block extension for Chrome scans the dark side of the web for Star Wars: The Force Awakens spoilers and preserve the plot's purity for your own precious premiere. ​​

A lot of people are getting excited about a special day that's coming up … that's right, we're talking about Dec. 17th, the opening day of Star Wars - The Force Awakens. In honor of the event, German laser-tinkerer Patrick Priebe has created a "working" model of the original Death Star.

Ural is the most recent motorcycle manufacturer to join the blacked-out dark side, with its limited-edition Star Wars-themed Dark Force model ... complete with a 3-foot extendable lightsaber. The company is making only 25 of the gloss-black sidecar rigs, with pricing set at US$15,000.

Following a long wait with teasers, snippets and working versions of robotic characters to whet the appetite, the third and final full-length trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens has debuted.

Star Wars by Devon is a new wristwatch released to coincide with the new film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It's a handmade timepiece designed to sit astride the wrist of the biggest Star Wars fans in the world, or at least those with very deep pockets.

Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens doesn't hit cinemas until December, but already the rolling, bleeping BB-8 droid that features in it has proved a hit with audiences. Now you can buy your very own working version of the robot, thanks to a replica toy produced by Sphero.

It's no secret that Star Wars is full of scenes that defy the laws of physics. From space battles inspired by WW I and II dogfights to beams of light clashing in lightsaber duels. Researchers in Poland have now created a film to show what a laser bolt would actually look like.

Here's one for Star Wars diehards. A group of drone pilots have taken their vehicles to a dense forest in the French Alps, weaving in and out of trees in a spectacle that paid homage to the high-stakes pod races of Episode 1: The Phantom Menace.

The force is strong in South Korea. Moon Hoon has built a Star Wars-inspired home that would look at home on a George Lucas Movie Set. It was completed in 2013 and cost a total of 200 million KRW (around US$192,000).