Out with Flowers, In with Stormtroopers

Next weekend marks a changeover of sorts, with the final weekend of the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival and the first of four Star Wars Weekends. Mickey Dolenz performs at Epcot in the final Flower Power concerts of the year in place of the late Davy Jones, his Monkees bandmate who passed away earlier this year.

Meanwhile at Disney's Hollywood Studios, Ray Park (Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace ), Jerome Blake (Rune Haako/Mas Amedda in The Phantom Menace ), and Dee Bradley Baker (Clone Captain Rex and Clone Commander Cody in The Clone Wars ) are scheduled to appear, along with event hosts James Arnold Taylor (Obi-Wan Kenobi in The Clone Wars ) and Ashley Eckstein (Asoka Tano in The Clone Wars ).

In further news, the final celebrity guest for the third weekend has been announced as Catherine Taber, voice of Padmé Amidala in Clone Wars . Here is the now-final listing of all celebrity guests:

In the end, it's more about what it's taken away. In pretty much every LEGO game series to date, there's always been a melee attack, ranged combatants, special ability users, and a bonus level or two with special controls. In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 (HP 5-7), brought to Mac by Feral Interactive , there aren't any melee attacks and the characters use a limited set of spells that perform different functions. As a result, you end up running in circles mashing the spell key until the item you need to destroy is on the ground in pieces. It just isn't as satisfying as whipping, cutting, or sabering your way to success. In addition, the limited spell set that pretty much every character shares decreases the variety in characters. Sure, some can use pets and others have a special spell, but you're basically just running around as Harry mashing that spell key.