{"id":35745,"date":"2017-10-31T12:40:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T17:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/?p=35745"},"modified":"2017-10-31T16:08:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T21:08:41","slug":"fantha-tracks-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2017\/10\/31\/fantha-tracks-launches\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantha Tracks Launches"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To quote Darth Vader himself: \u201cThis will be a day long remembered…\u201d<\/div>\n
Star Wars fans around the globe will be rejoicing as a network of Star Wars enthusiasts return to the\u00a0fold with a new venture \u2013 Fantha Tracks<\/strong>.\u00a0Dave Tree, Mark Newbold, Brian Cameron and Matt Booker are all respected members of the Star\u00a0Wars fan community. Having spent seven years as the daily content manager for Jedi News, Mark felt\u00a0that now was the right time for a fresh challenge.<\/div>\n

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\u201cI left Jedi news just over a month ago,\u201d says Mark.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s a big step, obviously \u2013 I was associated with that site for seven years. Prior to that I had run\u00a0Lightsabre.co.uk for 10 years and other sites beforehand since 1994.\u00a0\u201cI decided in the summer that it was time for a change.\u201d<\/div>\n
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For those in the know, Fantha Tracks is a nod to the original Star Wars fan newsletter that launched in\u00a0the late 1970s \u2013 Bantha Tracks.\u00a0Indeed, the logo \u2013 or mascot \u2013 for Fantha Tracks includes a newly imagined character dressed in Star\u00a0Wars apparel and wearing a Bantha mask \u2013 or is he a bi-ped Bantha? Only time will tell. He is<\/div>\n
certainly a Fantha.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWe have members of the team who have been with Star Wars from the start back in 1977, myself\u00a0included,\u201d says Mark.\u00a0\u201cOur oldest team member turns 47 in November, but we have members of all ages that share one\u00a0common bond \u2013 a love of all things from a galaxy far, far away.\u00a0We want Fantha Tracks to be a ‘talking shop’ \u2013 a forum for all things Star Wars. We have launched\u00a0initially with the website but the podcast will follow, probably early December.”<\/div>\n
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Dave Tree is known to UK fans for his vintage collecting event Farthest From and his Palitoy Archive\u00a0from the first Celebration Europe event back in 2007 and brings his knowledge of the UK scene and\u00a0vintage collecting.<\/div>\n
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Matt Booker will oversee the sites social media outlets, a role he held previously at Jedi News. During his time at Jedi News he developed the sites following across all platforms, something he intends to emulate on Fantha Tracks.<\/div>\n
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Brian Cameron, former Literature Editor at Jedi News, will again be head up the literature section. He will also serve as the sites webmaster, having built both Jedi News and Fantha Tracks websites and be involved in the forthcoming podcast network.<\/div>\n
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In addition, there is a growing team of contributors, both in the UK and around the world who are primed and ready to bring the latest news to Fantha Tracks.<\/div>\n
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With decades of combined Star Wars reporting experience and thousands of pages posted to a\u00a0variety of sites, Fantha Tracks contributors have covered events across the planet. Star Wars<\/div>\n
Celebration, New York Comic Con, Star Wars Fan Days, San Diego Comic Con, MegaCon, New York Toy\u00a0Fair and more. The reporting team has been present at many of the major Star Wars events this<\/div>\n
century with every intention to attend many more.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWe want to build up a team where we enjoy what we are doing, have fun and experience new\u00a0adventures along the way,\u201d adds Mark.<\/div>\n
\u201cWe plan on giving our readers the chance to name our Fantha mascot.\u00a0It will be good to embrace the fans and involve them in the site.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Facebook:\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fanthatracks<\/a><\/div>\n
Twitter:\u00a0https:\/\/twitter.com\/fanthatracks<\/a><\/div>\n
Instagram:\u00a0https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fanthatracks\/<\/a><\/div>\n
Website:\u00a0http:\/\/www.fanthatracks.com<\/a><\/div>\n
For press enquiries, email mark@fanthatracks.com<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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To quote Darth Vader himself: \u201cThis will be a day long remembered…\u201d Star Wars fans around the globe will be rejoicing as a network of Star Wars enthusiasts return to the\u00a0fold with a new venture \u2013 Fantha Tracks.\u00a0Dave Tree, Mark Newbold, Brian Cameron and Matt Booker are all respected members of the Star\u00a0Wars fan community. … Continue reading Fantha Tracks Launches<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2456],"class_list":["post-35745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collecting","tag-fantha-tracks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35745"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35753,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35745\/revisions\/35753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}