A Family Exploring the Worlds of Fandom Together
At Nola Nerd Couple, we love exploring the galaxy as a nerdy family. Whether you’re raising young Padawans or are lifelong fans, you’ll find something for everyone here.
On these pages, you will discover:
Join us as we share Star Wars news and experiences for families—one adventure at a time!
(Almost) every week we try to highlight the cons of the upcoming weekend with special attention to guests from Star Wars and Doctor Who. Gen Con: This con will be in Indianapolis, IN from Aug 2-5. It is one, if not THE longest-running gaming convention in the world. The authors…
The Podcast While we have never been to San Diego Comic Con (SDCC), that doesn’t mean we weren’t constantly checking for updates from the SuperBowl of cons. There is always just too much good information for the upcoming year in nerdom to ignore. So after digesting as much as we…
Wednesday has been traditionally reserved for Star Wars on NolaNerdCouple.com except for around movie releases and Celebration. It was randomly picked. In fact, it was until after we started publishing our blogs about the saga on Wednesday’s that we realized that StarWars.com’s The Star Wars Show was released on Wednesday…
For financial and family reasons, I never was able to see Empire Strikes Back in the theaters. I was seven, a perfect age to view it, but we couldn’t swing it. We couldn’t afford it at the time and the one time we went to the movies we took a…
If you are a fan of Star Wars but don’t follow other fans on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other social media, you are probably living the good life. If you do follow those things, then you already know it is a weird place. It amazes me when anyone turns the…
This will probably be the silliest Star Wars think piece that you will probably ever read. George Lucas and LucasFilm are beyond helpful with raising the Nola Nerd Baby. They have provided me with an entire universe to communicate with her. And every time I do, she smiles and talks…
There is not a whole lot of Star Wars Celebration news out there. Probably won’t be for some time. There are still a few rooms to rent under the Star Wars Celebration tent as of this writing (Tuesday afternoon), so check to see if there are still some. Star Wars Celebration…
Star Wars fans love Celebration. The five day passes for adults and kids have sold out! Saturday tickets as well. We had to go out of town for a family medical emergency, so we are thankful we bought our tickets before we left! Celebration will bring back the stages and…
We thought we had a lot of Star Wars stuff. Toys, movies, stuffed animals, posters, etc, we have it. Then we had the Nola Nerd Baby. We couldn’t help ourselves, but at least we have presents for the first four birthdays!