Danish ad agency Advance, having clocked this 2,000,000+ hits YouTube video featuring a Death Star over San Francisco, contacted the creator, Mike Horn, and invited him to remake it as an ad for Toys ‘R’ Us.
They could have simply ripped off the idea. But they didn’t.
Mmf.
Star Wars – adapted by a nine-year-old John White, from Dublin, in 1977.
The comic book is a genuine re-imagining as John had only his recall of cinema screenings of the recently released movie to work off.
The project took him two years.
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Answer: lots.
The new Yodafone ad.
Chewbacca’s feet. That is all.
Bobby the Box writes:
Just on this one image on Google street view in England, if you look up to the sky there is a deathstar pliers… too random!
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Jumping on the promotion bandwagon for the upcoming 3D re-release of The Phantom Menace, Belgian fast food chain Quick will offer the Jedi Burger (what’s that under the top bun? Decorative gravel? Teeth?) and the frankly alarming carbon-black ‘Dark Vador’ Burger.
There’s also Darth Maul-inspired Dark Burger and a yet-to-be-revealed Yoda Burger (which will almost certainly be small, green and wrinkly).
$1165 from UD Replicas. Available in sections or as complete suits from next year in a limited edition of 500. Available in Shadowtrooper black and Stormtrooper white.
Full leather armour reinforced with geek and awesome.
Now all you need is a Honda Chopper.
Designer Peter Norris’s sleek Honda Chopper concept inspired by the 74-Z speeder bike from Star Wars. The powerplant consists of small electric motors built into each wheel hub that lower the center of gravity, improve efficiency and reduce emissions.
Unlike the Imperial speeder, the seating position is feet-forward.
Like the speeder, it may only ever exist in the virtual world.
Virtuoso cellist and Star Wars geek Stephen Sharp Nelson versus himself.
With bonus wookie and Darth Vader accordion solo.
