Stormtrooper Just Chillin’

Stormtrooper Just Chillin’ in his casual suit.

Star Wars Fun Fact: In the Star Wars Sourcebook, Snow Hawks were a division of Imperial Cold Assault Stormtroopers.

Spooky Stormtrooper Lego

Spooky Star Wars Lego minifigure Stormtrooper

New Star Wars Cereal–Crunchy Stormtrooper

Nice and crunchy Star Wars cereal. High in fibre, high in plastic.

Star Wars Eggs

Eggs, not scrambled, fried or poached but Star Wars style.

In the Star Wars universe there is a restaurant called BanthaQuik located on the planet Bescane. Among the fantastic range of foods served are Tusken Special (which are Bantha meat shish-kababs) and Ithor Delight (that is scrambled Ooglata eggs)!

Bet you thought I couldn’t find a Star Wars reference for eggs, did you

Whole Star Wars Episode IV animated gif

Watch this animated GIF. It is the whole movie , The whole Star Wars Episode IV movie done in a simple animated GIF style. Can’t get much cooler or geekier than this , can you?

Star Wars action-figure boogie

Star Wars stormtrooper action figure dancing the night away – having fun impersonating John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever.

Does Star Wars and Elvis mix?

Does Star Wars and Elvis mix? Well, I think not but it does make a good Star Wars photo. Hey, this Elvis looks like he is having some fun, I am not sure if it is just a costume of some type of Elvis tribute show – it’s good anyway.

Playboy Star Wars trooper

A cool bit of Star Wars art. Someone has made a Star Wars Stormtrooper (I thought it was Vader at first) mask into the famous Playboy bunny logo. And all in pretty pink.

In The Phantom Menace novel, a Devlikk named Wan Sandage was known as a bit of a playboy and was one of the Outer Rim’s best podracer pilots. The podracer he flew was an Elsinore-Cordova Turbodyne 99-U racer.

Stormtrooper Lego stuck in keyboard quicksand

What’s the Star Wars Lego stormtrooper minifigure to do, stuck in the computer keyboard looking just like he’s stuck in quicksand. Or maybe he is just playing hide and seek.

Star Wars fun facts -  In the book Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina a stormtrooper squadron called Alvien was assigned to set up roadblocks around Mos Eisley in order to try to stop C-3PO and R2-D2 from escaping the planet Tatooine.

Captain Jack Sparrow meets Star Wars Stormtroopers

Captain Jack Sparrow meets Star Wars Stormtroopers.

Luke Skywalkers adoptive Uncle was Owen Lars. Owen was Obi-Wan Kenobi’s younger brother and people always thought he would be as great as his famous brother. Owen did not want that kind of stress, so he moved to Tatooine with his wife, Beru Weth, and they set up a moisture farm.

You know the story - They raised Luke as their own son and did their best to keep Luke from realising his true identity. Owen bought the R2-D2 and C-3PO droids , Luke tried to talk him into going to the Academy early. Owen refused to let him go. Luke stormed off. Owen Lars was killed when a group of Stormtroopers were tracking down R2-D2 and C-3PO and burnt down the moisture farm when they did not fine them.

Phil Brown was the actor playing Owen Lars in Star Wars movie but Thomas Hill did the character in the Radio version.

Stormtrooper waiting for a train–funny Star Wars

Ahh, the rat race – everyone has to catch a train to commute to work, even a poor old Star Wars Stormtrooper.

Great Free Star Wars Movie in Paper

Here is a fantastic Star Wars movie – made completely in paper. Gee some people are talented, aren’t they? I am not sure about the music that plays, doesn’t suit the movie for me.

Vintage Star Wars 1977 figures

These maybe are the droids you are looking for. A funny take on the the movie saying with Stormtrooper figures looking through E-bay for the R2-D2 and C-3PO toy figures.

Some R2-D2 facts.

Alvien was the name of the Stormtrooper squadron that was assigned to set up blockades in Mos Eisley to stop R2-D2 and C-3PO from fleeing Tatooine.

In the first draft of Star Wars Artoo Deetoo was designated A-2 not R2-D2 .

According to the original Revell model kit, R2-D2's serial number was Y477Q90 and the instruction sheet says that R2-D2 was manufactured by Imperial Cybernetics Corporation.

All the Star Wars characters as toy bears

I assume these Star Wars bears are toys you can buy but then again maybe someone has just made them up  themselves – I don’t know. Either way that look pretty good and I can see people wanting to collect these star wars teddy bears.

Looks like there is Yoda bear,Darth Maul bear, Darth Vader bear, C3P0 bear, R2D2 bear, Wookie bear, Ewok bear, Trooper bear, Boba Fettbear and others I cant think of at the moment!

Do you know who played the major characters in the first Star Wars movie? Well now you know.

Luke Skywalker MARK HAMILL
Han Solo HARRISON FORD
Princess Leia Organa CARRIE FISHER
Grand Moff Tarkin PETER CUSHING
Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi ALEC GUINNESS
See-Threepio (C-3PO) ANTHONY DANIELS
Artoo-Detoo (R2-D2) KENNY BAKER
Chewbacca PETER MAYHEW
Lord Darth Vader DAVID PROWSE
Uncle Owen PHIL BROWN
Aunt Beru SHELAGH FRASER
Chief Jawa JACK PURVIS
General Dodonna ALEX McCRINDLE
General Willard EDDIE BYRNE
Red Leader DREWE HEMLEY
Red Two (Wedge) DENNIS LAWSON
Red Three (Biggs) GARRICK HAGON
Red Four (John "D") JACK KLAFF
Red Six (Porkins) WILLIAM HOOTKINS
Gold Leader ANGUS McINNIS
Gold Two JEREMY SINDEN
Gold Five GRAHAM ASHLEY
General Taggi DON HENDERSON
General Motti RICHARD LE PARMENTIER
Commander One LESLIE SCHOFIELD

Behind the scenes photo of Star Wars Episode IV

This old original Star Wars photo looks pretty good. A heap of Star Wars stortrooper actors and a … actually what is the creature called, it’s not a Tauntaun because they were on the ice world Hoth and this is the planet Tatooine. Now I know, the creature is a Dewback, isn’t and from episode 4.

When the original Star Wars Ep IV movie was being made, the Dewback creature was, of course, a huge mechanical kind of puppet that could not move easily. With the weather and sand at Tunisia it would not work properly, so it was always moved to back and hidden away in the background of scenes rather than seen close-up. A single Dewback could be seen during the Imperial search for the droids and this is what this old photo is from. The same Dewback puppet was used outside the Mos Eisley Cantina.

When George Lucas remade the newer version of Episode IV Special Edition he had the Dewback changed and made the Dewback much more mobile. He got GCI artists to make computer generated Dewbacks and put them in the scenes. They even added computer made Stormtrooper riders. I think I have mentioned I don’t like the CGI changes at all, they look even worse and stand out more than the cool star wars puppets.

Cool Star Wars photos - Stormtrooper and US Army

I am not sure what this photo is really about. A photo of some US army guys saluting a Star Wars Imperial Stormtrooper. Imperial Stormtroopers are Emperor Palpatines personal army and used by him and his commanders. Where as Stormtroopers in real life, were specialist German soldiers in the Army in World War I, also known as Shock Troops.

 

Star Wars Cool Fact. There was a division of Imperial Cold Assault Stormtroopers called Blizzard Force and they worked with AT-AT assault vehicles and together they worked on Hoth to find and destroy the Alliance base.

Funny Star Wars photo - Pimping Darth and Stormtrooper friend

Pimped Darth Vader reminds me of Huggy Bear from the 70’s TV show Starsky and Hutch , don’t you think? He was their main contact for all the underworld goings on. The part was played by Antonio Fargas.

Did you know that Darth Vader's personal Lambda-class shuttle in Star Wars Return of the Jedi had the designation ST321. And Darths TIE Advanced (I always thought it was a TIE Fighter but it wasn’t), well TIE stands for Twin Ion Engine. Now you know.

Star Wars, I had friends on the Deathstar

The Stormtrooper had friends on the destroyed Deathstar. You know when I was a little kid and saw Star Wars Episode IV in 1977 (before they later on renamed it A New Hope) I always thought the Stormtroopers were robots, or I guess in Star Wars terms, Droids. I never thought they were troops of people.

In some Star Wars stories, not the movies, there were  a group of elite mercenaries called Bright Stars. They were named this because these Stormtroopers had highly-polished, shiny, chrome-plated armour .

Cool Star Wars, Princess Leia mum with Stormtrooper child

I guess this a fancy dress outing somewhere, maybe the Disney theme park that had Star Wars week. What a great mum dressing as Princess Leia and her son or daughter looking just fine as a miniature sized Stormtrooper.

Star Wars Fact - Many Dark Jedi use Force Lightning, which is a corrupted version of The Force and materialises itself as blue lightning. The Dark Jedi then directs it at their opponent. Note that the Light Side Jedi do not use Force Lightening.

Star Wars Baseball

Another cool Star Wars photo. This is from a Japanese baseball game with Star Wars characters playing baseball for entertainment. Darth Vader pitching to the golden C3-P0. Looks like a Storm Trooper is the Umpire / Referee.

Cool Star Wars Fact: Admiral Ackbar's original Mon Calamari Star Cruiser was called the Home One. It served as the command ship for the Alliance during the Battle of Endor and, at that time, it was the largest ship in the Alliance’s fleet.