Monday, August 23, 2010

Star Wars Stuff: Cool Graphics & Celebration V

I've seen a lot of neat Star Wars related items from The Internets lately.

A friend of mine emailed me this cool panorama of the Hoth ice planet w/ a roving probe droid amongst the mountains of ice. The artist is Dan McCarthy.

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This is a crazy detailed technical breakdown of everyone's favorite droid, R2-D2:


At the annual Star Wars Celebration geek convention, George Lucas unveiled an action figure that combines 2 of my favorite pop culture phenomenons- Star Wars & The Daily Show's Jon Stewart.



To try & balance out the Star Wars geekness, I'm including a photo from the Celebration V- a stage full of "slave Leia" cosplayers... This might be simultaneously the hottest & dorkiest damn thing I've ever seen.


Jabba knew what he was doing.

Then there's the newly revealed deleted scene from Return of the Jedi that would've been a good one to include (minus all the maniacs in the background cheering):




...
Then there's this.

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