Category Archives: Star Wars Just For Fun

The 10 Best ‘Star Wars’ Deleted Scenes

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Via Collider.com:
Ah, deleted scenes — the backbone of any good special features menu. When it comes to Star Wars, they can be hotly contested, due to The Almighty Canon. Some scenes offer additional insight into George Lucas‘s world, while others have been revisited or reworked in comics, books and TV shows. Then there’s the vast majority of Star Wars deleted scenes, which either pad out or bog down already existing sequences — in other words, they were probably deleted for a reason.

That said, the saga does include a few gems, which is why I pored over every Star Wars deleted scene and picked out what I think are the best ones from Episodes I-VII (listed in chronological order).

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Bamboo Death Star

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Via Thenextweb.com:

While we don’t have a lot of occasion to write about physical items that don’t contain a processor, graphics chip, display and all the other fun bits that usually go together to make the most interesting devices, this video of Frank Howarth putting together a bamboo Death Star is just too good to pass up for any Star Wars fan.

You’ll need a workshop of tools, a lot of patience and more than a modicum of woodworking ability if you want to make your own, however.

To get the iconic appearance just right, each half of the Death Star is made out of nine rings of bamboo, made up of 13 segments per ring. There’s also an additional ring to cover the overlap where the halves join.

The video’s about 11 minutes long and will give you a good overview if you want to get started on making your own – unlikely as that is – as a gift. For everyone else, there’s fun Star Wars sound effects to keep you interested. Or you can just skip to the end for the bit you wanted to see.

Whichever route you take, that’s one hell of a bit of carpentry, and it’s nice to see something Star Wars-related that doesn’t need batteries or mains power.

The Empire Strikes Back As A Bond Movie

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Via Theverge.com:

The Star Wars opening crawl is probably the most famous film opening in history, but while the hand-cranked yellow text is memorable, it’s hardly stylish. This video from Kurt Rauffer changes that, reimagining the intro sequence for The Empire Strikes Back in the style of the second-most famous film opening — that of Bond movies. The result is a hyper-stylized tweaking of the Bond formula, replacing guns and girls with spaceships and Sith lords.

Rauffer has used long and languid shots of some of Star Wars’ core iconography, zooming slowly in on lightsabers, snowspeeders, and Darth Vader’s helmet. The Death Star trench run, the pivotal moment in the previous movie, is rendered in red and blue wireframe, a hyper-stylized version of the movie’s ’70s-era user interfaces, and there’s even a nod to Luke’s famous fall in Cloud City after he reject’s Vader’s truth.

The video, which serves as part of Rauffer’s student thesis at New York’s School for Visual Arts, only falls down slightly in music choice. It’s set against Radiohead’s “Spectre,” a rejected song for the Bond movie of the same name, and while the track certainly sounds Bond-ish, it feels a touch too Earthly to go alongside Star Wars’ swashbuckling sci-fi. Even so, the effect works, and makes me want to see a reversal featuring Bond movie stories explained by block yellow text. “It is a dark time for MI6…”

Star Wars – Episode V “The Empire Strikes Back” Homage (Title Sequence) from KROFL on Vimeo.

 

Steel Star Wars Death Star II Fire Pit

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Via Laughingsquid.com:

Redditor Alphacodemonkey recently took photos of his incredible steel fire pit based on the iconic Death Star II battlestation from Star Wars. According to Alphacodemonkey, the custom fire pit was a high school welding project that got auctioned off. The winner of the auction gave it to Alphacodemonkey as a gift. More photos are available to view on Imgur.

We previously wrote about the steel Death Star fire pit that 84-year-old Kenneth Triplett built back in 2014.

They said they sphere was a propane tank. An art student drew up the designs on paper, they cut it up with a hand plasma cutter, painted it with a high temp engine black paint, and attached some some stainless steel pieces.

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Art Print Featuring Star Wars Spacecraft and Vehicles That Are Reimagined as Monsters

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Via Laughingsquid.com:

Star Wars Ship Monsters is an art print by Utah artist and teacher Jake Parker featuring illustrations of popular Star Wars spacecraft and vehicles that reimagined as monsters. Signed prints are available to purchase from Jake’s online shop.

Click below to check these prints out!