stormtroopers
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Melting Is Now One Of Many, Many Terrible Ways A Stormtrooper Can Die
Stormtroopers are the disposable pawns of the Star Wars universe, and there’s more ways for them to die than movie spin-offs planned for the next 20 years. But in addition to dying from blaster fire, TIE fighter crashes, Death Star explosions, and lightsaber attacks, it appears that melting is yet another peril the Empire’s forces…
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Art Wars: 12 Stormtrooper Helmets Get Hilarious High-Art Makeovers
In a film packed with great costume and set design (Leia’s buns! The AT-ATs! Tauntaun guts!), the Stormtroopers’ glistening white exoskeletons are among the most memorable details from Star Wars. Which is what makes Art Wars a lot of fun: As part of a show at London mega-gallery Saatchi, 19 artists were given a trooper…
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There’s A Special Place In Nerd Heaven For Carbon Fibre Stormtroopers
Making your own set of Stormtrooper armour is a huge undertaking, but making it out of carbon fibre instead of plastic vacuum-forming techniques? You’ve just earned yourself a place next to Gene Roddenberry and Gary Gygax in nerd heaven.
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A Stormtrooper Falls
I don’t know what hellish battlefield took their comrade, nor do I know if it falls into official Star Wars canon. I don’t care. Stormtroopers may be clones, but they ache just like any of us! [Flickr via Brothers Brick]