It’s my favorite day of the year: special day, StarWars.com has you covered: 4s4r8
Say “May the 4th Be With You” out loud and you’ll hear the pun that Star Wars story that binds our galaxy together.
One of the earliest known records of “May the 4th” used in popular culture is in 1979, as described here by author Alan Arnold while he was chronicling the making of The Empire Strikes Back for Lucasfilm:
Friday, May 4
“Margaret Thatcher has won the election and become Britain’s first woman prime minister. To celebrate their victory her party took a half page of advertising space in the London Evening News. This message, referring to the day of victory, was ‘May the Fourth Be With You, Maggie. Congratulations,’ further proof of the extent to which Star Wars has influenced us all.”
Once the Internet allowed Star Wars fans around the world to connect with one another, May the 4th soon became a grassroots tradition each year, with fans online and offline proclaiming it “Star Wars Day.”
You can read more about it here. You can also find a lot of great posts about may the 4th in one place.
A Happy Star Wars Day message from Daisy Ridley:
That is definitely one of my Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
But that’s not all. Something we see every Star Wars art released today and here is one of my favorites:
BB-8 by Kevin Graham
So what are some of your favorite things from this Playing with your Star Wars LEGOs? Let us know in the comments and…
May the Fourth Be With You!
