Cool Stuff: Create Your Own Star Wars Crawl

Posted on Monday, June 23rd, 2008 at 1:18 am by: Peter Sciretta

StarWarsCrawl.com allows you to create your own custom Star Wars opening crawl. It’s simple, fun, now go annoy your friends with your creations!

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790 Says:

June 23rd, 2008 at 2:01 am

Its ironic a computer wizard friend of mine came up with this 9 years ago.
Makes me wonder. Hmmm

Cinexcellence Says:

June 23rd, 2008 at 5:00 am

Haha. Excellent.

Wordy Dude Says:

June 23rd, 2008 at 5:19 am

How about this one….

http://www.starwarscrawl.com/?id=16008

Because it’s REAL.

Webogirl Says:

June 23rd, 2008 at 7:03 am

The box where you ener the crawl text isn’t there when I go to the page. I can enter text in all the other fields, but not that one so it won’t gernerate the crawl…Is anyone elsehaving that problem?

J.D. Says:

June 23rd, 2008 at 7:41 am

Works great for me! The only problem is the audio not lasting long enough — it allows tons of text for the crawl, but provides not enough music to accompany it.

Otherwise, it’s GREAT!

Jeff Says:

June 23rd, 2008 at 8:18 am

ya Im having the same problem…no where to enter the main text

Zadi Says:

June 23rd, 2008 at 8:45 am

Im having same issue ><

Brent Says:

June 23rd, 2008 at 8:56 am

Star Wars Crawl is my site. I wasn’t aware of this text box bug. Can someone who is experiencing it please send me an email at budden [at] gmail, with your browser version, and what exactly it looks like. A screenshot would be excellent if possible.

Thanks, and hope you’re all enjoying it!

rich101682 Says:

June 23rd, 2008 at 8:59 am

I tried to do it twice now, and when I generate the crawl, the intro and title show up, but not the text I enter.

Brent Says:

June 23rd, 2008 at 9:05 am

Ok, I’ve fixed the text box disappearance bug.

tronman Says:

June 23rd, 2008 at 9:06 am

http://www.starwarscrawl.com/?id=17714

Evil dead

Seth Says:

June 23rd, 2008 at 10:52 am

Whenever I put in my crawl text and crawl headers, well, it’s not showing up.

Davezilla Says:

June 23rd, 2008 at 12:37 pm

stupid Lucasfilms removed it

http://www.starwarscrawl.com/

Dan Says:

June 23rd, 2008 at 12:59 pm

That was fast :(

Wolfgangg Says:

June 23rd, 2008 at 1:06 pm

Closed.
:(

DAMN YOU LUCAS!!

DAAAAMMNN YYOOOOOUUUUUUSSSS!!

Heckle0 Says:

June 23rd, 2008 at 1:30 pm

Brent come back to us and maybe tell us where we can get the code. That was so much fun.

Cplus Says:

June 23rd, 2008 at 3:58 pm

http://idustrialrevolution.com/component/option,com_sobi2/sobi2Task,sobi2Details/sobi2Id,10/Itemid,/

There’s a motion template, for use in FCP or Motion on the mac.

Also, Brent….Lucasfilm wouldn’t be able to do anything at all if you removed the SW logo and changed their text somewhat.

It’s very disconcerting to see them be little bitches about this, after all, what you did was something to honour their creation. I would put the site back up, minus their intellectual property and submit the whole sordid tale as a story to Slashdot and Slashfilm. Also, throw up a banner ad and make a few bucks for your trouble.

Brent Says:

June 23rd, 2008 at 4:30 pm

Thanks guys for your words..

I’m not angry at Lucasfilm and hope you all aren’t either. I think it would have been in their interest to let it stay, as it did generate fan interest in the franchise. But I’m still a Star Wars fan. Maybe in the future, I could pull off a ‘generic’ crawl, but for now, the site will remain closed.

Mikey M Says:

June 23rd, 2008 at 8:06 pm

I think I am going to buy a Fuck Lucas shirt.

Craig M. Says:

June 23rd, 2008 at 8:08 pm

Dang it. I favorited the link earlier cause I was busy and now its closed. Rassum Frassum Lucasfilm. Lucas didn’t even invent that crawl thing. He stole it from old movie serials.

Greg Says:

June 23rd, 2008 at 9:01 pm

Removed. George Lucus really is a C U Next Tuesday. First Indian Jones, now this.

Jamie Says:

June 23rd, 2008 at 9:36 pm

Brent, I’m not entirely sure your site was violating any laws. You were essentially parodying the Star Wars crawl.

Parody is a legal form of expression.

Also, someone overseas will probably just recreate what you did and do out of the reach of Lucasfilm lawyers. It is in this way that lawyers do not serve their client’s interests as they are ethically supposed to do.

But, anyway, fuck you Lucasfilm.

pete Says:

June 24th, 2008 at 12:41 am

seems George Lucas has got his legals eagles on the case and shut the site down … anyone else thing this is a tad OTT ?

790 Says:

June 24th, 2008 at 12:54 am

I agree Lucas legal is OTT big time. !!
This is BS!!!! Don’t treat the fans like this George , gheesh why do you think some hate you so………….

But look at it this way, Lucas’s people are listening and out there………..

Send your comments….

J.D. Says:

June 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am

What a joke. Just when I started feeling some nostalgia for the Star Wars franchise, I’m IMMEDIATELY reminded of what’s become of LucasFilm.

And now I’m back to thinking about Jar-Jar.

big daddy Says:

June 24th, 2008 at 3:38 pm

i dont know if i would describe george lucas as ‘on the toilet’ like some of you have but i do think its a bit over the top. it wasnt like he was making fat wads of cash off of it or something. if anything they should have offered him something, to promote the game and upcoming animated thingamajigger.

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