May The 4th Be With You: Star Wars Day Gets Tribute In MassDOT Highway Signs
CBS Boston 5/4/2021 Syndicated Local – CBS Boston
BOSTON (CBS) – It’s May 4, or as Star Wars fans prefer, May the 4th be with you. And the Massachusetts Department of Transportation is ready for Star Wars Day.
Some that you may see in rotation on @MassDOT Signs today#MayThe4thBeWithYoupic.twitter.com/m1lkvqrfQh
The agency has posted Star Wars-themed message boards up on local highways with sayings like “trust the force and wear your seatbelt,” and in a tribute to Yoda, “there is no try, wear a seatbelt you will.”
Star Wars Fans Are Loving The Simpsons Crossover Special On Disney Plus
Happy
The Bad Batch to enjoy, but today also delivers a new
Simpsons short that crosses over with that galaxy far, far away.
Titled
Maggie Simpson In The Force Awakens From Its Nap, it sees Homer and Marge’s youngest attending a Star Wars-themed daycare center, complete with recognizable franchise characters working there and Maggie’s nemesis Baby Gerald dressed up like Darth Maul. Be warned, it’s not a full-length episode and is only a slim three minutes long, but it’s proving to be enough of a fun crossover to hit the sweet spot for folks on social media, as evidenced below.
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Until and unless you managed to go completely off from social media, you must have seen people celebrating Star Wars Day and tweeting May the fourth be with you . If you re wondering what is it and what that slang is, we have got you covered. Here we will be answering why is May the 4th the official Star Wars Day and what is the story behind the globally recognised slang.Â
Well, May the fourth be with you is a pun for Disney s popular Star Wars catchphrase, May the force be with you. Reportedly, the first recorded official use of the May the Fourth pun was on May 4th 1979, when Margaret Thatcher became the United Kingdom s Prime Minister. A congratulatory statement in the London Evening News read, May the fourth be with you, Maggie. Congratulations.  Star Wars Day is an informal commemorative day to celebrate George Lucas s Star Wars media franchise. Even though the holiday was not created or declared by Lucasfilm, man
04 May 2021, 12:05 pm
Disney just teased a realistic Star Wars lightsaber replica with glowing blades that actually extend and retract at will.
The lightsaber reveal comes on Star Wars Day, as part of Disney s announcement about the opening of its upcoming Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser resort in Florida, which has been delayed until 2022.
To commemorate the titular movie franchise, Star Wars Day is celebrated on May the 4th as a wordplay of the iconic phrase May the Force be with you.
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The lightsaber replica, created by Walt Disney Imagineering Research and Development, was first introduced at a private virtual news conference held on Apr. 8.
May 3, 2021
The Simpsons is getting in on the Star Wars celebrations planned for Tuesday - aka May The 4th.
The show will be releasing a Star Wars-themed short starring Maggie Simpson, titled The Force Awakens - From Its Nap.
They also released a fake movie poster featuring Maggie and the Star Wars droid BB-8. The cartoon will appear Tuesday on Disney+. How do you plan to celebrate May the 4th? What other classic movies deserve their own holiday?