These Five Cinematic Robots Are Smarter Than You
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before… A robot walks into a bar. The bartender says, “we don’t serve robots.” The robot replies, “no, but one day you will.”...
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The Real-Life Cost of Darth Vader’s Suit
Quite apart from being the Empire’s greatest leader, it turns out Darth Vader was also a rather expensive commodity, with his suit costing over $18 million. According to Shade Station,...
The Logistics of Building and Operating the Millennium Falcon
Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens was the most highly anticipated film of 2015, and attained the highest-grossing worldwide opening of all time. Fuelled by the success of...
These Off-Duty Stormtroopers Living Banal Lives Will Make You Chuckle
Context is a powerful thing. Sometimes when something is taken out of context it can shift into something else. This is what has happened here. Stormtroopers feature in all of...
Iconic Star Wars Scenes Intricately Cut from Single Sheets of Paper
Three years ago, Marc Hagan-Guirey aka Paper Dandy began practising the highly specialised art of Kirigami. Armed only with a scalpel, he can transform a single sheet of A4 paper...
The Weapons of Star Wars
With a brand new Star Wars film out on December 18th of this year, the buzz around the George Lucas franchise is higher than ever – which is saying something...
LEGO On Hoth: Superb LEGO-based Photography
Vesa Lehtimaki, a Finnish designer, illustrator and photographer, has spent the last few years creating stunning photography pieces using his son’s LEGO, producing a strikingly realistic series entitled ‘LEGO on...