Mania #184

Open your minds and search your feelings. The Force is telling you that you want to watch Star Wars: The Force Awakens! You also want to enjoy all the amazing Star Wars content in this issue, like the Star Wars jokes, science, memes, mysteries and trivia. Have fun and be sure to avoid the dark side of the Force young Padawans! EMAIL Dom: dbayley@nextmedia.com.au The cast... You’re about to experience a brand new episode of Star Wars starring these awesome peeps! TWEET US! @MANIAZINE US! FACEBOOK.COM/MANIAMAG…

Send in your letter with your best drawing, poem or painting, plus a photo dudes! Yo, MANIA! I think there should be a new character event for the game Yugi-oh ZEXAL: World Duel Carnival. I’ve seen every season of Yu-gi-oh ZEXAL and there are interesting new characters that should be put into the game! I buy your magazine when I go on holidays at my nanna’s house. I love reading the jokes. I would love to get my picture in your magazine. Sparky eats all the electricity out of people’s houses. He glows in the dark. That’s a great drawing of Sparky! We hope you will see your picture in our mag when you’re at your nanna’s house in the summer holidays! It’s super cool that Sparky glows in the…

NAME: Joel Lok CHARACTER: Andy Lau FROM: Melbourne FILMOGRAPHY: Sea Patrol, Tangle, Nowhere Boys HOBBIES: Architecture, collecting sneakers FAVE FOOTY TEAM: Bombers MANIA: How different was filming a movie compared to the show? The JL: action “The acting is great was . W approached e have an awesome more realistically stunt team . We and had they much guide bigger us through crew and our drones own stunts fi lming !” . MANIA: Coolest stunt you have performed? JL: “I had a scene last season where I was fl oating in the air, when my character was the restoring demon! That was really fun to shoot up in a harness!” MANIA: How much are you like Andy? JL: “My personality is pretty different. I wish I was as intelligent as…

INTERPLANETARY PLOT! Not too many details have been released about Episode VII but rumours say it is about the hunt for Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber, which has fallen into the hands of an ex-Stormtrooper named Finn! WHERE’S LUKE? The latest trailer brought back all the classic characters like Han, Chewy, Leia and R2. Luke appears in the trailer with his face covered and he’s not on any posters! Why are the filmmakers being so secretive about Luke? Some rumours say Luke has gone to the dark side, but MANIA’s Star Wars experts say this is just Sith rumour mongering! GALAXIES MOST WANTED! The First Order have their sights set on these rebellious heroes! SITH DISCIPLE Kylo Ren is a follower of the dark side of the force and a member of…

What upgrades would you give the Millennium Falcon? I would give it more guns and lasers so that it could blast even more Storm Troopers ! JAYDEN The Millennium Falcon should be painted a fun colour like bright pink, purple red! EMMA It should have sonar detectors that could track ships all the way across the galaxy! ZARINA I’d make it invisible, so that wat it could be super fast and even harder to find! ALEX Something on the inside like a pool so Chewy and Han can have fun between beating the bad guys! ZEE…

DREAM COLLECTIBLES! A bunch of props used in the Star Wars films have become super collectable and are worth a heap! This year a miniature X-Wing used in the filming of Star Wars: A New Hope sold for a whopping $225,000! Ka-ching! Another prop, Luke’s lightsaber from Return of the Jedi sold for $30,000! Nice! TUBULAR TOYS! Toy company Kenner produced the first series of Star Wars figures following the release of Star Wars: A New Hope in 1977. The toy line became extremely popular and more than 100 unique toys were made! Today they are even more collectable, especially since it’s hard to find these toys in mint condition and some are super rare. One Jawa figure is said to be worth more than $10,000! Awesome Skylanders collection Lucas!…