Star Wars Crawl

June 22, 2008 7:50 AM

StarWarsCrawl.com. Generate your own Star-Wars-style opening crawl.
posted by Prospero (41 comments total)

If you can read this, you dont need glasses...
posted by wheelieman at 8:01 AM on June 22, 2008

Wheelieman is a Druish princess.
posted by rokusan at 8:06 AM on June 22, 2008 [1 favorite]

Version 1.0
A NEW WASTE OF TIME

That's awesome.
posted by Octoparrot at 8:06 AM on June 22, 2008

Broken? It appears the "crawl text" field is combined with the "name" field.
posted by yhbc at 8:28 AM on June 22, 2008

Broken in so many ways...
posted by munchingzombie at 8:34 AM on June 22, 2008

Works fine for me, but only in Firefox. It's broken in Safari.
posted by Prospero at 8:37 AM on June 22, 2008

Broken for me, too! No space for "crawl text." BOO!!!
posted by rtboo at 8:39 AM on June 22, 2008

Linkfilter won.
posted by Senator at 8:48 AM on June 22, 2008 [1 favorite]

Works great for me on Firefox.
It's also insanely addictive. I just "crawled" the first lines of "Finnegan's Wake". Surreal.
posted by TDavis at 9:09 AM on June 22, 2008

You must try this ....
posted by mrgrimm at 9:12 AM on June 22, 2008 [2 favorites]

The Best of the Web...
posted by brevator at 9:31 AM on June 22, 2008 [1 favorite]

It seems to cut off the text quite a bit (among some other mentioned bugs ...)
posted by mrgrimm at 9:41 AM on June 22, 2008

This piece of shit website ate my goddamn lecture to the girlfriend about not doing her part to keep the kitchen clean and now I have to talk to her face to face about this?

What the fuck, internet? What the fuck, indeed?
posted by beaucoupkevin at 9:56 AM on June 22, 2008 [1 favorite]

See also: SWTSG
posted by majick at 10:17 AM on June 22, 2008 [3 favorites]

Oil Wars
posted by flarbuse at 10:51 AM on June 22, 2008

Ugly
posted by eperker at 11:06 AM on June 22, 2008 [1 favorite]

If this thing had actually worked for me, it would've been the most awesome recipe for baking powder biscuits ever.
posted by katillathehun at 11:28 AM on June 22, 2008

Well that was about as successful as Episode One...
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 11:37 AM on June 22, 2008

Totally works for me with Firefox 2 on Windows XP. I just made a recap of our last D&D session with it.
posted by baphomet at 11:49 AM on June 22, 2008

Fair Use Wars!
posted by saslett at 11:54 AM on June 22, 2008

Damn it! They need to make this work in Safari.

I want my money back!
posted by vertigo25 at 12:07 PM on June 22, 2008

Works for me on Firefox2 on MacOSX 10.5; did the intro for the Champions game for this evening on it.

They should be highly amused.
posted by mephron at 12:41 PM on June 22, 2008

Dear loser
posted by vorpal bunny at 12:48 PM on June 22, 2008

this
doesn't
WORK AT ALL
posted by swift at 1:03 PM on June 22, 2008 [1 favorite]

It says, "For entertainment purposes only." Thats what makes it legal.
posted by thinman at 1:07 PM on June 22, 2008

I need to grow up a bit.
posted by autodidact at 3:07 PM on June 22, 2008

Isn't the Star Wars company, like, extremely supportive of fan-created derivative works? Fan movies have even been screened at film festivals, etc.
posted by roll truck roll at 3:17 PM on June 22, 2008

+1 for broken.
posted by Effigy2000 at 4:00 PM on June 22, 2008

What, nobody's thought of this yet? Internet, I'm disappointed.

http://starwarscrawl.com/?id=13392
posted by Strange Interlude at 5:20 PM on June 22, 2008

Let's try that again...

What, nobody's thought of this yet? Internet, I'm disappointed...
posted by Strange Interlude at 5:22 PM on June 22, 2008 [2 favorites]

No, the internet is far more into this now...
posted by Navelgazer at 6:23 PM on June 22, 2008 [2 favorites]

You've bested me this time, wiley AJAX. I will be re-re-re installing firefox in the name of creative expression to bring my vision to these series of tubes
posted by hellojed at 6:37 PM on June 22, 2008

This is kind of fun...
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 6:52 PM on June 22, 2008

Except of course that Iliad is spelled with one L, and there is no edit function...

And I'm a little drunk.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 7:15 PM on June 22, 2008

An oldie (post) but goodie.
posted by pushing paper and bottoming chairs at 9:39 PM on June 22, 2008

It's still funny!
posted by Faint of Butt at 10:32 AM on June 23, 2008

This site has been closed.

LucasFilm has asked us to remove this site, as they felt it infringed on their properties. We have enjoyed seeing the tens of thousands of users over the past several days, and thank you for your interest.

Oh, George.
posted by Dr-Baa at 12:43 PM on June 23, 2008

Poof.
posted by cashman at 12:46 PM on June 23, 2008

The more you tighten your grip, Lucas, the more websites will slip through your fingers.
posted by Faint of Butt at 12:55 PM on June 23, 2008 [1 favorite]

Aw, nuts.

By the way, Mac users in this thread who haven't checked out majick's link above really should.
posted by Prospero at 1:39 PM on June 23, 2008

I'm not sure I understand Lucas' objection or (more importantly) the website's capitulation. While the use of "Star Wars" in the title and url might be problematic, I don't think Lucas can assert a copyright or trademark on yellow text crawling against a space background. Seems whatever infringement exists could be easily rectified by a few word tweaks and a disclaimer.
posted by pardonyou? at 2:11 PM on June 23, 2008