It’s the work of Chris Weibert, who’s also known as ChristopherTalosian on YouTube. The whole thing was jury-rigged together using everyday items. The water vapor is produced by an ultrasonic humidifier that’s been hacked onto a laminar flow nozzle, which in turn is made out of a bunch of drinking straws. Now that’s a cool use of straws. The humidifier came from a thrift store, while the fans came from computers.

The thin, even sheet of vapor mist is able to catch light projected onto it from the rear, giving it an effect not dissimilar from the original projected Leia in A New Hope. Now he just needs to build the projector into an R2-D2 robot and it’ll be perfect.

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No princesses were harmed to make these 6″ buns, because they’re made from synthetic hair.  I can’t guarantee the safety of synthetic princesses though. They could be clones working for the Empire. By default, the buns are made of auburn hair, but you can also ask for blonde or red hair. The buns will also come with instructions for both temporary and permanent attachment.

Use the Force to guide your browser to Etsy, where seller JacquieLongLegs is selling the buns for $24(USD) per pair. Headphones and Jesus dress not included.

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Chris McVeigh came up with a couple of fun scenes of a LEGO Star Wars Christmas. The Halifax-based photographer has all sorts of fun minifig photos and other cool LEGO creations that you can check out on his Flickr site or his Tumblr.

If you like these then you can get some prints of these and other shots over at Chris’ Society6 site. Most of them are available as 10″×7″ prints and sell for $16 (USD) each.

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While it’s not exactly beach weather around here in Chicago, I could see hanging out in one of these for a tailgating party – as long as you don’t mind being ridiculed by your football buddies.

The R2-D2 folding armchair is available now over at ThinkGeek for $39.99 (USD).

Photo, costume and cat by Jennifer Kumpf in preparation for the eventual all-kitten edition of the Star Wars trilogy. Funny thing is that kitty looks just about as happy in her costume and hair buns as Carrie Fisher did.

You can download the full 7′ poster here (as a jpeg) or here (as a pdf). You don’t have to pay anything for the poster, but you might want to hit up the dad’s Tumblelog and donate to his daughter’s college fund. Don’t wait until she’s Vader-sized and comes to your house to force choke you for being cheap.

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Taken during the filming of Return of the Jedi, a young Carrie Fisher is seen chilling out and catching some rays in her famous Slave Leia getup along with her stunt double.

I’ve heard that at the same time, Jabba the Hutt was in his trailer having his hair done.

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This perfect likeness of  the sexy bikini-clad Leia strangling the life out of Jabba is available now as a handpainted polystone diorama. The 14.5″ (W) x 7.5″ (H) x 9″(D) sculpture is incredibly detailed, and if you squint real hard, you see that Leia is even strangling him with a tiny little chain.

Want one, head on over to Sideshow Collectibles, and whip out your credit card. Only 400 of this limited-edition collectible are being made, and they sell for $229.99 (USD).

It’ll look great on your desk next to your cute and cuddly Hello Kitty and Domokun collections.

Leia can be found cooking in her Jabba the Hutt slave outfit, while Vader is making his grub in his standard black get-up.

So what are you waiting for? You can grab the Leia one or the Vader one for just $24.99 (USD). They’re on pre-order now, and ship starting August 5th.

Surprisingly, FederationLisa and KlingonLisa were created by two entirely different people, probably on opposite sides of the globe (or the universe). And most definitely, it was not the guy who created this masterpiece:

[via Fanpop and StrangelyDrawn]

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What could be more awesome? Optimus Prime and Leader One doing a dance-off?

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Enemies put down their lightsabers and sat down to enjoy a meal together. There was much dancing and posing and who the hell is that dude in the back supposed to be?

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If only the Jedi council knew that all they needed was some Sea Chicken.

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Unless of course you have a thing for slimy giant slugs with one of their eyeballs about to pop out of its socket because they’re being choked to death. But if that was the case Princess Leia would just be a distraction. Dammit! Make up your mind diorama! The “You’re Going To Regret This” diorama won’t be released until the 3rd quarter of this year, but you can pre-order it now at Sideshow Collectibles for $225 (USD).

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If little Anakin was wearing that when Qui-Gon Jinn met him, I’m sure the Jedi Master would’ve iced the Naboo slave on the spot. Or not. The costume is cute after all. But what if your kid is a little older, and really wants a taste of the Dark Side? Etsy seller katesy has got just the thing. Give her your child’s measurements (your child’s sir, not yours) and $200, and she’ll whip up this…this…thing.

The picture reminds me of this joke I read somewhere: dad buys his son a Darth Vader mask, son wears it and goes, “Daddy, I am your father.” Anyway. We have to call on Yoda to defeat this Crocs-wearing Sith Lord!

FORCE SMILE! It works all the time. The Yoda costume is also available at Amazon for $22. But what about your little girl? Dress her up in this Princess Leia Costume. It sells for $19 to $28. Cinnamon roll hair included.

If on the other hand you think your kid will grow up to be a robot enthusiast, you might want to get the $20 R2-D2 Costume. Actually don’t. I only included it here for the sake of completion; I’m sure you can come up with something better than this.

What about for parents who hate their kids? I’ve got something for you as well: for only $20 to $37, the Chewbacca costume will ensure that your kid will have no treats – or friends – come Halloween. Your kid will look like Ultimate Warrior dunked in poo.

What if you want to eat your kid? Two words: Pizza Baby.

I’m not really that big of a Star Wars fan though, so I don’t which Episode Pizza Baby appeared. Was Pizza Baby in the Cantina scene?

The project was posted by the aptly named Wurlitzergirl (who presumably cranks old-timey organ music through those those cuddly koala bears.) She says that all you need is one pair of cheap headphones, two stuffed animals (preferably the type with a seam up its back,) a seam ripper, needle and thread, and some quality music- and she claims you can make ‘em in only 10 minutes. Not too tough. Of course, this is all assuming you want to have the Princess Leia-style look in which the cinnamon bun thingies are replaced with rather large plush animals. Which you probably don’t. Still, A+ for creativity and for having the cojones to wear this out in public.

On another note: do you think all that stuffing and fuzz has noise-canceling properties?

Peep the project at Instructables.

The video is pretty boring except for the fact that it’s a guy on stage talking to two holograms of people who are in other countries. In fact, they look so realistic that it took me a while to figure out that they were holograms. I kept advancing the video to look for the hologram part. So I think that’s proof-positive that this is fully legit.

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This is really heartening because there are so many things from the 70s and 80s that we were supposed to have in the future, and we still don’t have them. Hello, hoverboards? Robot servants? Flying cars? Vacations on the moon? Robocop? And all we got is the Internet. OK, OK, actually the Internet is way cooler than all of those things I just named. But still, I’m glad someone’s ticked one of these “future” technologies off the list and put it squarely into the present.

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