Star Wars Crawl Creator: Site lets you write your own adventure in scrolling text

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Kelly Rissman

US News Reporter

Star Wars’ crawl opening is truly iconic, making the hairs stand up on the back of your neck from the moment the orchestra sounds and the gold lettering blasts onto the screen.

Well now you can make your own, thanks to a charming Crawl Creator on starwars.com.

Sadly you can’t change the Star Wars logo itself, but all of the scrolling text under it can be rewritten into whatever backstory you desire.

The mini-game has actually been around for a couple of months, but is proving particularly popular this week following the release of The Force Awakens.

Inevitably, the stories got silly very quickly:

In celebration of the new film, Google recently made the results for the search term: 'A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away' crawl up the screen.

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