The Planet Hoth Wampa Cake was created by Jill from Kitchen Fun with My 3 Sons to celebrate her son’s 6th birthday. I sure hope that he knows what a wampa is at his age, so he can fully appreciate its awesomeness. The cake perfectly captures the Wampa’s ice cave, replacing the frozen bits with cookie frosting and white chocolate. The walls of the lair are made primarily from pretzel rods and graham crackers, with a cake forming the floor. Yum, I like sweet and salty together.

While Luke, his lightsaber and the wampa are just off-the-shelf action figures, it still looks great – though I would have liked to chomp on a bit of wampa arm if given the opportunity.

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Instructables contributor Jetpack5 has put together a tutorial showing how you can make these fun desk toys using old 3.5-inch floppies, and a couple of everyday tools like needlenose pliers, a hammer and a nail. Oh, and the Death Star requires a bunch of rubber bands too. Both the Falcon and the Death Star are made identifiable by the round metal floppy spindle, while the X-Wing is comprised mostly of those metal shutters which used to protect the delicate floppy disk innards.

I think these little models manage to capture the spirit of the originals, despite their relatively primitive shapes. If you’d like to make some for yourself, use the Force and head over to Instructables for the full instructions.

What other Star Wars creations do you think you could make from old floppies? I think you could probably make a pretty cool Darth Vader helmet from old black 5-1/4″ floppies. Any volunteers?

They also have some triangular pieces, one of which has the Millenium Falcon on it, but it doesn’t look so hot in that shape. A Star Destroyer would have been better. If you are a rock climber who is also a Star Wars nerd, you might want to check them out here.

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These handpainted Boba Fett Toms shoes look comfy enough, and will slip onto your feet faster than you can say “Sarlacc Pit.” They’re made by GeekyFootwear, and perfectly capture Fett’s iconic helmet design – except on your feet instead of your head. I don’t much care for using them to stomp on Chewbacca’s head though. Actually, I’m pretty sure Chewie would rip off your arms (and legs) before you could even attempt such a feat with your feet.

But anyhow, I digress. If you’d like some Boba Fett shoes for your feet, a pair will set you back $80(USD) over on Etsy.

The clock is made by hand by the Etsy store owner NotByLaser. It works on a wall or on your desk. The design was inspired by the creator’s first box of records. Each of the handmade designs is custom-made, including the label color, style, and genre of the record. The design can also be flipped 180 degrees if you need that for the proper Feng Shui.

The Star Wars AT-AT clock sells for $39 on Etsy. If that’s not to your liking, he’s got other incredible clocks, like this Dali melting vinyl clock.

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The classes are run by Flynn Michael, who doesn’t seem to teach an actual fighting technique so much as share the style and choreography of lightsaber battles from the Star Wars prequels. Obviously the biggest draw about the club is the community, meeting and playing with other fans. Because no Padawan wants to role play alone. Here’s a short feature on the club by Diagonal UK:

Use the force of the Web and head to the New York Jedi website for more info, or to apply as a Jedi Web Designer. I wonder if there’s also a Sith Academy somewhere in this wide and strange world of ours. But at only two members maximum that will be a much lonelier club.

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Just one question: Where are the laser cannons?

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While I may personally find the eyes disturbing, many others have found them to be adorable. I’m fine with whichever decision you choose to make, just know that when it comes time to eating people because we ran out of chocolate bars voting people off of the island, you’re my first pick. “Where are you going to vote me to, you moron? We’re stuck on an island. This isn’t Survivor.” I see your point… we’ll have to feed you to the large gorillas that I saw roaming the cliffside, then.

Though we might be able to agree that the Ewok Cake is slightly disturbing, nobody can argue with its accuracy and detail. Bake a couple hundred of these and we can make a new Star Wars movie based off of the social class struggles of the Ewoks. It’ll be the next Scarlet Letter, the next Uncle Tom’s Cabin. This is going to be huge! Even if it’s horrible, just saying that it’s a commentary on society makes it very sophisticated and famous. Everything I just said: summary of what I learned in all of my english classes. Also, Shakespeare is more risque than you might think.

If you love this Ewok Cake, then you’ll want to look at some other Star Wars baked goods. Check out the Star Wars Flat Cakes and the AT-AT Cake if your in the mood for food.

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Jack Kieffer owns Cool Gizmo Toys, a site that tailors to geeks.

This custom x-wing fighter/batjet was created by LEGO mastermind Kevin Ryhal (aka M<0><0>DSWIM). Now I can only imagine what the Joker’s TIE Fighter might look like. As you might imagine, Batman’s story has changed just a little bit. “After Bruce Skywalker’s aunt and uncle are killed by the evil Darth Joker, he learns the ways of the Force and becomes the Bat Knight, vowing to fight crime across the galaxy and defeat the evil Empire!”

That is a pretty sweet LEGO ride. I think the Astromech should have been done up in Robin’s colors though. Great custom ship!

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The purpose of the rain barrel is to capture rainwater runoff to be used for outdoor irrigation instead of turning on the hose. That would probably be a very good thing to do in Texas, if we didn’t go months without getting any rain. What may be the coolest rain barrel in the history of rain barrels was created specifically for this contest… The R2-D2 rain barrel.

The rain barrel was primed and painted in full and accurate R2-D2 likeness by artist Curtis Glover. Better yet, the R2 barrel is up for auction with proceeds going to charity. While it can’t project holograms or hack into the Death Star’s security system, I think the R2-D2 barrel will still bring a pretty penny.

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Instructables contributor iminthebathroom posted this video of his wife filling up the R2-D2 “Dark Roast Edition” coffee maker to prove to us that it really works.

Just pour the water in his head, and out drips the coffee through that funky looking orb/filter basket in front of him and into the carafe. R2 started out as a Bunn industrial coffee maker, along with a bunch of custom parts including aluminum, brass, copper and steel. While you could follow the Instructable for building your own, we can only hope that Mr. Coffee and Lucasfilm see this thing and decide to produce their own R2 coffee maker for the rest of us.

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If you’d like to make some Yapples for yourself, just head over to Yodalicious Apple Snack for Jill’s detailed directions. It’s perfect for kid’s birthdays. Adults too. Frankly, you are never too old for geeky treats.

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Artist Jakobi created this AT-AT sculpture by meticulously bending lengths of galvanized steel and stainless steel wire. He says it’s one of the more complex wire sculptures he’s ever created, and it definitely looks like it was challenging to get the shapes just right.

The sculpture measures about 12″ long by 10″ tall by 4.5″ wide, and would look great in an Star Wars collection. You can find it over on Etsy for $120 (USD).  He’s also got a little AT-ST sculpture available for $70 if you prefer your walkers with two legs.

While you’re there, be sure to check out Jakobi’s other cool wire sculptures and paintings, and if you’re looking for other AT-AT stuff, be sure to check out the Imperial Walker cake and the AT-AT PC Casemod.

Carbon Freeze Me will let guests step into a “carbon freezing chamber” which will snap digital images of your face and convert them into a 3D model. These will then be used to create an 8-inch-tall 3D model of the classic Han Solo frozen in carbonite, but with your face replacing Han’s. It’ll cost you $99.95(USD) if you want one, and that also includes a commemorative LED Carbon Freeze Me wristband. Additional 3D figurines can be ordered for $74.95 each.

Carbon Freeze Me will be on hand for four weekends starting on May 18th, 2012 at Walt Disney World’s Hollywood Studios. You must reserve a spot in advance by calling 407-WDW-TECH, and placing a credit card deposit.

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What you’re looking at above is a micro-scale scene of the Death Star hangar and Imperial Shuttle landing as envisioned by toomuchcaffee (2MC). The set is one of several that are currently being pitched for consideration over on LEGO Cuusoo, including tiny versions of Hoth, Tatooine, and other locations from the Star Wars saga.

Each set would use a minimal number of primitive bricks to convey classic scenes from the films, going well beyond the few examples shown here. Personally, I think they’re just swell, and it’s kind of fun to know you could assemble each of these tiny dioramas with ease – in stark contrast to some of the massive multi-thousand brick LEGO Star Wars sets out there today.

If you like these sets as much as I do, hop in your Land Speeder and head on over to LEGO Cuusoo to show your support. With enough votes, I’m hopeful that LEGO will be convinced to put these into production.

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This adorable Tauntaun was created for the 2011 Stitch Wars crafting competition, by Mariangela Tan. It is a needle felted tauntaun/amusement park carousel. It is great work and she has lots of other cool geek crafts at her site too.

The detail is really nice on this guy. Just look at the ridges on his nose. I would love a felt tauntaun like this for my desk, but if I tried to make one it would just look like a blob.

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Modder Asphiax has put together this Imperial Walker PC using one of those giant Hasbro AT-ATs as the starting point. Instead of Imperial troops, the AT-AT PC has a Zotax Z68 Mini ITX mobo inside with an Intel Core i7-2600K CPU, a Sapphire 6870 GPU and 8GB of RAM.

The system is cooled by Koolance 370 CPU and mosfet waterblocks along with a Heatkiller NB/SB waterblock, and XSPC pump, 2 x 240 radiators, 4 x 120mm Enermax Fans, and controlled by a Scythe Mediabay. Boy, that sounds more complex than the insides of an actual AT-AT. Then again, they probably didn’t need much cooling on Hoth.

It also has a USB powered Arduino which controls a pair of red lasers installed in its head-cannons. Cool.

You can check out more photos of the AT-AT PC build, and many other sci-fi inspired mods over on Asphiax’ website or his SCIFI OCD Facebook group.

These lightsaber replacements seem to light up and down smoothly, just like in the movies, thanks to “an ultra smooth magnetic gravity system.” Just shut up and take my money now.

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R2-D2 is that spunky robot with a personality that makes the ladies swoon.  ”He’s not that cool.”  Yeah, well next time a beautiful woman paints your body on her fingernails, call me.  And then call the police and get a restraining order, because you have a serious problem that you need to nip in the bud.

The detail of these nails is pretty impressive – better than I can do, anyway.  I was at a loss when I tried to find who is responsible for these beauties, so if anyone reading this would like to take credit, go ahead.  Then, for verification, we’ll need to send you a glove to try on.  ”It does not FIT!  YOU MUST ACQUIT!”  Oh, no, O.J.  I am going to make this glove fit your hand if it is the last thing I do.  Get the WD-40 and the shrink ray.  ”We don’t have a shrink ray.”  DON’T ARGUE, JUST GET IT DONE!

If you love these nails, then you’ll be infatuated with the R2-D2 Ballerina Costume and the R2-D2 Short Shorts. We love short shorts!  *Clapping*  I love short shorts!  *Clapping*

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Jack Kieffer owns Cool Gizmo Toys, a one-stop-shop for geeks of all kinds!

He also made a sweet Star Trek emblem stained glass window. They are both some amazingly awesome work. I hang my head now to pray for more amazing and geeky stained glass.

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