Updated With The Winners! SWNN’s 4th Birthday: Help Us Improve “Star Wars News Net” And Win 1 of 10 Awesome Prizes.
October 30th is a day that all but the newest of Star Wars fans will have permanently ingrained in their minds. It was on this day just 4 short years ago that it was announced that Disney would be purchasing Lucasfilm and kicking off a new era of unprecedented Star Wars output. But to those of us here at SWNN it has additional meaning. It is our birthday.
That’s right! SWNN was born the same day that the mouse house stuck its toe into the waters of the Galaxy far, far, away. We’ve come a long way in those four years. We started as the small, off the map, Star Wars 7 News. A site that was dedicated to bringing our readers all the news that could be found around the 7th episode in the Star Wars saga.
Since that special day we have grown into a community of thousands of fans all looking to read, consume, and discuss all things Star Wars. So, to show you just how much we appreciate the community that has joined us in the last four years, for our birthday we will be turning the attention back to you, the readers.
Of course we have some giveaways for a few lucky readers. But we’ll also be turning to you for some discussion about what you’d like to see from SWNN as we move deeper into the new era of Star Wars. What sort of content would you like to see from the blog? What are we doing now (or have done in the past) that you’d like to see more of? What could we be doing better? What would you like to see added to The Cantina to facilitate more of those great Star Wars conversations that bring us here day in and day out?
You are the reason we exist, so we want to know what you want. You just have to sign in to the form below and have at it in the comments and let us know what you’d like to see from SWNN next and keep reading below for a brief information of the prizes that you might win. This contest is worldwide.
Here’s a brief info on the prizes that you could win. The prizes were picked by us. We’ve tried to choose the most interesting and popular items that have been (or will be) recently released.
- Star Wars: Rogue One Imperial Death Trooper Voice Changer Mask.
- Star Wars: Rebels Sabine Wren figure (3.75 inch).
- POP Star Wars: Rogue One – Scarif Stormtrooper.
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens Collector’s Edition [Blu-ray 3D] [Region Free].
- Star Wars Rogue One: Death Star Plans Light – A green and black solid LED tube light featuring detailed plans of the iconic superweapon.
- Star Wars: Galactic Atlas – explore a galaxy far, far away in this stunning guide to the worlds of Star Wars.
- Star Wars: Complete Locations – packed with more than 50 full-color, intricate cross-section artwork and 3-D maps, Star Wars: Complete Locations is an amazing visual guide into the incredible worlds and locations of a galaxy far, far away.
- Star Wars The Black Series: Rogue One Captain Cassian Andor (6 inch).
- Star Wars Year by Year: A Visual History – this updated edition includes a whole new chapter covering Star Wars: The Force Awakens as well as the ongoing animated TV series Star Wars Rebels.
- Star Wars Propaganda: A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy by Pablo Hidalgo – includes fifty dazzling pieces of art representing all seven episodes—including material related to Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Also includes ten removable art prints.
We hope you like the prizes. Good luck to everyone, and thank you once again for riding along with us in this exciting Star Wars journey.
UPDATE!
The ten lucky winners have been picked. You can see their names in the form above. Their order matches with the order of the prizes, meaning that Kevin F. gets the Death Trooper Voice Changing Mask and so on. We will contact the winners shortly. Congratulations!
Well, I think you guys are doing great (I say this because I have developed an addiction and visit this site many times in a day lol) So yea I guess I would have to say keep doin what you’re doin! I guess maybe some more reviews/reactions on certain things would be cool just to see what you guys thinking. But yea, thanks for an awesome Star Wars news site.
Love the site. It’s my first stop for information on the movies. I do have trouble with photos not showing up on your home page using Safari.
You guys run a fantastic site. I check this site almost everyday. Sometimes even multiple times in a single day. Keep up the great work!
Love the content you guys are putting out. Any chance we could see some video reviews and commentary videos? I know you discuss things on the podcast but it would be cool to get some short videos about theories and other news.
Congratulations from Russia, guys! You are one of my main sources of the Star Wars News. I even can’t say what you need to do. Maybe more articles about some little interesting facts and easter eggs. And maybe some posts about your team
Congratulations once more!
Found you guys shortly after episode 7 was announced and been reading ever since. I like to see a bit of retro love and maybe review old legends books or vintage star wars toys every once an a while. That would be loads of fun!
I’d personally just like more/better proofreading. It’s always a bit frustrating to see small but critical errors. Other than that, I love this site the way it is.
I visit this site few times a day, it’s definately my number 1 source of SW info! To me this site is perfect, I have absolutely no issues with it.
Congratulations to us! 😀
I would like if we tried to get some interviews from the authors, voice artists and, why not, actors of Star Wars. We could start with e-mail interviews and progress to podcast as we build the reputation.
Congrats, heck of a achievement.
No changes, I’m happy with all you’ve done!
Congrats on the anniversary! Great job so far!
If I had to make any suggestions to help the site grow, I might suggest perhaps some regular features, such as a regular, titled article that focuses on, say, collectables, or the music of Star Wars, etc. But you guys are doing a great job so far!
Congratulations on 4 years! Been reading the site many times a day for over 3 years. I really enjoy your scoops on the new movies. Not so interested in all the podcasts. Keep up the good work!
I have enjoyed being a Cantina member this past year and I post and read almost daily. It’s a great forum for SW discussions! An improvement will be if mods were a bit more active in monitoring content. For example there are many threads which overlap as people who start threads don’t check if there is already a similar existing one – mods should monitor this and merge threads when there is already an existing thread. As to the website. There have been quite a few mistakes in reporting news – this should be avoided.
I would love too see more info on the Star Wars toys,love the way the site is setup
can’t believe its been four years already. kinda take this new golden age for granted now.
The site is great. My only suggestion may not be feasible. And it it’s related to the comments. Could there be a way for users who know they are openly discussing something that is potential spoiler to click something so that when others come upon their comment you have to knowingly click it so the comment expands or somehow becomes legible? I don’t mind certain spoilers. But I usually click articles on topics where I am okay reading about that topic – my mistake ends up going to the commentary where someone launches into an all out spoilerfest and I read something I did not want to read. My only recourse is to not participate in the discussion as it’s impossible to know when or where that comment will appear that cannot be unread…
Love the site already, but a few more analytical/thought-provoking editorials on concepts within and outside the universe would be cool.
I love this site! I stop by 3-5 times a day! Keep up the good work! I particularly enjoyed your posted diacussion a few weeks ago on the nature of the force.
1.)Perhaps you could include more posted staff roundtable discussions?
2.)Or pose questions to the comments sections that get an actual dialogue going?
I don’t visit the cantina too much, can’t comment on how that goes. Thanks for your reporting.
I like articles that focus on the music/VFX/cinematography in addition to rumors and insider information!
First, let me say I only use this and Starwars.com for SW info. I’d love to see a discussion board/forum to ask/answer questions (both queries and hypothetical) and to discuss specific media that comes out. For example, I just finished Bloodline but that obviously has been out for awhile. I have some questions and thoughts about Leia’s storyline. I’d love to see other people’s questions and be able to post mine (and maybe give my input to questions) instead of having to go back to the review that you have, which I’m guessing is somewhere. It also seems you are privy to certain outlets and people that us commoners are not, which you could use to supply answers. While I do not use other SW news sites, I’m not sure how you compare, but I would think that you have a large enough fan base that you could get some official connection to the Lucasfilm Story Group to help with answering questions. Right now my only way to get an official answer is to tweet Pablo H. and hope I get a response. (Which I have once!) You guys may even be an outlet to help reduce the number of questions he (they) must get on a daily basis.
I’ve been reading this website from day one. SWNN is my go to Star Wars news site. You guys do a bang up job! Keep up the good work! I’ve enjoyed the articles on Star Wars gaming, film news, and even news on Indiana Jones, even though it’s technically not Star Wars, that doesn’t bug me at all though.
I would like to see a little more interaction with the comments section, while I have a cantina account I’ll admit I’ve seldom used it. I’m just more interested in posting on the news articles rather than discus it in a seperate forum topic.
Thanks for all your hard work and here’s to many more years of SWNN!
I like it all ! I spend time in The Cantina , but I can’t always check out everything so I just want to comment I really look forward to the weekly social buzz article to catch things I may have missed. Thanks for all that you do here.
I stepped back from the cantina a little under a year ago because… Life. I will be back though closer to Ep VIII! I still read SWNN daily. Happy Birthday and big thanks!
Hey guys, awesome that this site is doing great! I have SWNN in my bookmarks since Star Wars 7 news! Checking it atleast a couple times a week but mostly once a day.
What I would like to see as improvement is an option to select some sort of grid view so you can overview the most recent news! Keep up the good work!
Thank god for the -back then- StarWars7News! It took me a long time to get used to the new name. This site has been awesome since the beginning, but there is always room for improvement!
These are my suggestions:
1) Weekly articles about a certain “Star Wars Portrait”. Whether it’s about a character, a planet, an item or a concept, the article of the week shall portray its significance in the Star Wars universe (movies/books/series of appearance, relation to other characters etc) and spark discussion in the comments!
2) Interacting with the fandom by hosting (weekly) an article written from a fan, possibly from different country every week! It would be interesting to read about the impact of Star Wars in different film cultures, how it was promoted/received there etc.
Hope you agree, but anyway…
Keep up the good work!
Four years already? Wow! I still remember the day I discovered this site. It was the very day it was created, so, four years ago today. 🙂 Totally not ashamed to say I’ve been here since the very beginning, originally going by a different name in the comment section (I called myself Tigress). To be honest, I can’t really think of anything else you guys can do to make this site better. You’ve all done a great job with everything. Although, I wouldn’t mind a little more focus on fan-made content, at least in the Cantina. 🙂
Here’s to four (plus) more successful years for Star Wars News Net! 😀
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Congratulations on 4 great years of information and entertainment. I love this site – it keeps me updated, it’s fun to read, and the participants (both the article writers and the fans like myself) for the most part have a good nature and a good sense of humour.
If you left the site alone, I would be completely fine with that – I think it’s great.
One minor suggestion would be to display more articles on the front page. At the moment, I think we get about 7 as we scroll down before we have to click to another page. I usually check the site once a day, but occasionally I’m away for a few days. No big deal, but it would make it easier to see which articles I need to catch up on.
I guess you could also have a function that shows us articles we have NOT read – although that may be overkill.
Overall, great job, thank you for a wonderful service!
One of my favorite sites. Happy Birthday and keep up the good work. I can’t think of any improvements on an already perfect site.
The best SW news site!
Happy Birthday. You guys are an amazing source of news and really help build the excitement for the new movies.
Happy B’day! This is definitely the best SW Community, period. None other beats it.
What I really love and would like to see more is Editorials on the main page. I enjoy reading the hell out of those! Keep ’em coming!
Here’s to more years of SWNN goodness!
I really enjoy your website but if I would have a possibility to fix or add something, I’d try to decrease comments’ loading time on smartphones and write a bit more editorial, as I really enjoy them. Otherwise, happy b-day and May the Force be with You, always!
Happy Birthday! Aside from starwars.com, this is the only place I look to and believe for all Star Wars news. You guys are wonderful. Thank you for the years past and the years to come. Now, what would I like to see? I really like everything y’all are doing. I have too much going on and y’all never make me feel overwhelmed or underwhelmed with content. It’s all short and to the point, and I like that!
Happy Birthday folks, just celebrated mine today also but your still
young! My kids say I’m an old fossil! wonder were they got that from??
Have a great day.
Happy Birthday SWNN! This site is a daily visit for me and the job you guys and gals are doing is just fantastic.
Some suggestions for Improvements:
1) ratings scale for reviews. Maybe do a 5 point scale. So you get a 4/5 tie fighters or x-wings/light sabers etc
2) have an upcoming stuff tab. Where you can see and track when certain products and films are coming out, and maybe we links of where to purchase said stuff. Could be a good way to get partnerships with the site and generate a little revenue.
3) Try and highlight the benefits of the cantina vs just regular comments. Commenting seems to be way easier to track and see who replies. I do understand animus commenting is always desired. Maybe have nightly open threads so that people can comment about whatever and it will help keep other threads on topic.
Happy birthday SWNN! Honestly best site around for Star Wars news. I joined about two years ago and have been checking the site everyday since! Love this site and hope it keep doing what it does best don’t change a thing! Cheers to SWNN, may it live on for another 100 years!
I’ve been checking this site for about one year and a half, I think. I think you’re doing a great job. I really like the minimalist layout with the news on the top of each other, it’s very satisfying to browse. But IMO, the best part about this website, the one thing that sets it apart from the others, is this comment section under every article. I love to read other people’s opinion and talk with other SW fans from time to time, when something interesting concerning the new movies has been disclosed, for example, but I find forums too time-consuming. This is a perfect compromise. Keep up the good job!
Happy Birthday! Since Starwars7news.com and for the past few years i’ve tuned into this page everyday religiously. It’s where i like to come for all my Star Wars News. Since the buyout you’ve made yourself the premiere site for news on our favorite galaxy far,far away and have made great strides every year with making this site what it is today. I’ll continue to check back everyday. The mods, writers and everyone on board has made this the place i want to be for my SW news. Keep it up and hope you guys stick around much longer.
Kudos, SWNN – take a bow: You folks do a really nice job of aggregating the leads us spoiler-hounds slobber over!
Happy Birthday! Just keep up the great work!
I want banthas, banthas, everywhere banthas!
You guys are really the go-to page for star wars news and help keep my hype up for the movies coming up. I also really love when you upload the Roundtables, because we can get an insight on the opinions of the members of the site.
You are awesome
This really is my daily go-to for star wars news. I found it when randomly searching around during the Force Awakens hype and now I can’t imagine not checking in here. I’d love to see more of those podcast type things, I love listening to people chat about star wars.
Honestly, I check this site daily. Every time I’m waiting for any type of news reguarding star wars, I just go here. My only suggestion would be to make an app, which I’m sure everyone here would buy
I think this site’s pretty decent. One thing you guys could do would be to do more investigative stories and uncovering info on your own instead of mostly just using second-hand info.
Also, some of the articles can sound pretty cheesy with their tone, cliches, and over-enthusiasm, though that mostly seems to be particular writers. And then there are particular writers that are just spectacular, no exaggeration.
Overall, though, thanks for the amount of articles written and the wide range of topics covered. I’ve been reading nearly every article for about two years now, and will probably continue to. An enjoyable pastime.
I really like your site for all your news and updates, perhaps another way to branch out would be regular updates on the lore and canon or maybe commentaries on certain aspects of the Star Wars universe that I’m sure fans would like to know more about. Given the we’re always getting new bits of information from the books, shows and films, it’ll be nice to see articles that deal with individual topics such as the rise of the Sith etc to show how far the Star Wars universe has come, other than that, keep up the good work 🙂
Happy birthday guys! 4 years is a great accomplishment! ookfoward to many more years of you guysL
I love this site, I visit it daily, sometimes more than once a day. I’ve been here for 2 years now, and I’m happy to see all star wars related news in one place. Keep up the good work, nothing need to be changed ! 🙂
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What I’d really like to see is more interviews articles. I love the creators perspective on their additions to Star Wars! I really love the respect you have for all types of fans, the fact that you let us know right away “SPOILER ALTER” and also don’t post just any old theory or rumor. Keep this up! Honestly, I really enjoy most of what you’re doing now. I think a useful little addition, if I’m not missing it that is, would be a schedule of the weeks that new Rebels won’t be airing, I totaly didn’t know I wasn’t getting an episode this week 🙁
Keep up the awesome work y’all!!!!
Just wanted to say thank you so much for this site! I’ve been a big fan from the beginning when you were starwars7news. I check here multiple times every day. ( its a bit of an addiction!) I love the resistance podcast! I usually listen on my way home from work. It really makes an otherwise stressful ride home into a joy. I really enjoyed the podcasts leading up to episode 7 last year and while I’m excited for rogue one, I’m really looking forward to Episode 8 and hearing what you guys have to say about it. I like how you have included listeners questions on the show. Please include more of that. It might be interesting to have a live show where you can take on questions from listeners.
Also, I wanted to commend you on how you have improved to look of this site over the years. Everything is much more smooth and more intuitive in function. Also, it looks a lot better on mobile devices than it had early on and loads more quickly too. Someone mentioned an app, I think that would be a great idea. I would buy it. I have amazon apps so please think about including one in there.
This has been my go to site since closer to the beginning than I realized. I think it was November or December 2012 that I started checking this site out. I’ve been here almost every day since. This is a site for the fans, and the fans appreciate it! Thanks for all you do!
Thanks for all the hard work you put in here. I have to wait each week for Collider Jedi council and in the meantime I am here every day to see what you have uncovered. Then more often than not they reference you for items they talk about!
Stay on target.
You guys are the best! May the force be with you, always.
I love the site, though I’m so much into the “canon” stuff. To me Star Wars will always be about the movies. So as long as you keep up the movie coverage and the forums discuss and speculate on the movies, I’m happy!
Love the site. Great source of Star Wars news! Keep up the great work.
Keep up the good work guys! I would suggest more opinion articles. I always like the ones where you theorize on certain stories to come.
Keep up the great work guys, cant wait to see what you guys have in store for us in the next 4 – 10 years from now!
Thank you so much for all you do to keep us updated on all things Star Wars! I can’t think of any suggestions for improvements. I will say I joined your email list mainly to get updates on where they’re at with filming, implementing new projects, etc., so information on those topics is always appreciated.
Great site so far, mobile side works really well too.
This has become my goto for any SW news – faster, more comprehensive and less gag-inducing than TFN, better design than Makingstarwars. The one thing I would like to see is a automated snark filter in the forums that would delete facetious comments and all suspected sarcasm.
Great site, I’m checking it everyday for Star Wars news. Keep up the great work!
I really liked the round-table discussion on the force. It would be great to see more discussion-format posts in which the writers of SWNN discuss and debate a variety of topics. I also really enjoy reading editorials such as the recent “Why the Han Solo Move Will (Probably) Be Fine.” More of those would be great, especially during times when there isn’t a whole lot of news going on. Of course, that shouldn’t be an issue for you guys at the moment as Rogue One will be released in 45 days!
Great site since day 1. The wait for Episode 7 was incredibly fun thanks to this site.
Love the site! I’ve been using it for about 2 years now. I’d like to see more editorials that discusses upcoming projects, and what projects we would like to have as upcoming in the future. Then maybe a poll of these wanted projects and a discussion about why we chose what we chose and what else we would like to see Disney do in the future, in the comments. For example, I’m pretty sure we would all like to see an Old Republic project announced by Disney, but why? What is it each of us wants out of it? The poll could be used to measure the fans’ desires about Disney’s motivation going forward.
And maybe a sub-forum on here where people can role play in the Star Wars universe whether it’s in the literature sense or like a table top game. That would be cool
Editorials, I love hearing what other Star Wars fans think, and we need more of them. A stronger moderation team, there’s still a lot of bile that slips through. Beyond that, I’ve always enjoyed this site.
Strip out the ads, return to form.
Focus on the good stuff.
I’d love more editorials. Alway good for lively discussion
I like going on this site for 2 reasons:
1) Getting new info not only about the movies but all of star wars. Being a full all canon star wars fan I love being informed about the upcoming stuff.
2) Discussion in comments. Although sometimes this goes beyond the acceptable, I like tha various discussions the comment section offers.
#ColliderJediCouncil brought me here 😉
I love the informative posts I get to read here!
Happy birthday!
I love this site. I visit 1-2x daily and love it when news breaks!
I love this SWNN. I visit it a couple of times a day. I’m a big fan of the Cantina and I can’t really critique it much. In regards to SWNN expansion – we have a busy few years ahead as Star Wars fans; so maybe expanding SWNN into YouTube and creating a vlog of some sort might be good.
Keep up the good work everyone!
This is my favorite Star Wars site…you guys are doing a great job! Happy Birthday!
Ever since they announced they were making more movies I’ve been visiting this site pretty much daily. You have brought me news that made me weep with joy, shake with excitement & helped to deepen my love of all things Star Wars. Long may you continue!
I just love this site, its my favorite SW news related site and the content its so good, you guys are doing a great job. Happy Birthday SWNN!!
I dont have any critiques really. It is my go to news site. Maybe a little more info on the merchandise of star wars as well as the books.
do you guys have a mobile app ? if not that would be nice thank you for all the hard work you guys put into this website
Same stuff so awesome mobile app would be great!
I have been using this site since November 2012. I visit it everyday and read and comment on almost every article. I always trust this site first. I like how it’s for the fans. Maybe update the logo and get a mobile app. Other than that it’s perfect. Happy birthday SWNN and may the force be with u always!..
There really isn’t too much more you can do with the site to make it better. But, I would like to see some interviews with some of the voice actors from Rebels and actors from the movies. Even if you could interview someone from the Story Group or some from the crew would be really cool. The authors of the books are out there too. I would think others would be on board with this, also.
Thanks again for all you do!!!!
Using the forum on an iPad is virtually actually a worse experance than the website on an iPad. It’s a free site so I will stop there.
I know this is probably extremely vague, but i would love to see some more content on Star Wars props and stuff. Like, maybe some articles exploring the mandalorian mercs and their helmet builds, or the lightsaber community, etc.
Maybe a weekly or monthly article delving in to specific sub-cultures of Star Wars, or maybe even reviews of outside of the normal books/tv/movies.
I don’t know, i am just jonesing for an hour documentary on the lightsaber/blasers/armor building of TFA lol…. which we got that….
I will be building my second lightsaber this month, so i am totally interested in such things 😛
In short….. more original content is what i guess i’m getting at. Happy Birthday!
I always enjoy the site and check it out every day, so keep up the good work! Suggestions to make it better:
– how about more interviews with Star Wars actors or behind the scenes talents?
– How about toy reviews for those of us who are SW collectors? You publish book and comic reviews; why not toys?
– During production of TFA, it seems like you published more potential spoiler material/ production rumors than you have with Rogue One or SW VIII. I enjoy the rumor mill and speculation and wouldn’t mind seeing more of that. Or are the new productions more secure than TFA production was?
– more articles about the entire SW world (OT, prequels, Clone Wars, Rebels, etc.)
Overall, keep up the good work. Great site!
Happy Birthday! This is definitely the best SW Community
Congratz guys!