Neatorama points us towards this gallery of an Art Sled Rally at Minneapolis’ Powderhorn Park. Other entries included a wooly mammoth, a truck, and a whale.
Weekend project: Needlework
Star Wars Crochet and Knit Charts by Leah Fenton. Also includes the Falcon, both Death Stars, an X-Wing, logos, and a variety of heads.
Weekend project: LED blaster
For the electronically-minded, instructions for a ‘working’ Rebel blaster.
Video du jour: Craft visits Bonnie at LFL
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The fandom minute: Cub Scouts and cannon fodder
- Crafts: Father and son create LEGO-sized landspeeder for Cub Scout Pinewood Derby. (via)
- Poll: How will Ahsoka Tano die? Face it, girl’s got that nice shiny Sibwarra aura all over her.
- Fandom: Fan gets married in Vader costume; bride dresses as Jedi. Guests included Dr Who and Ming the Merciless. Sadly, no pictures.
- Lists: Han Solo, Millennium Falcon namechecked in io9’s
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Spaceship Captains; taking financial inspiration from Star Wars.
Random LEGO moment: Alien in brick
Here’s another LEGO sci-fi gem – this Predator bust is the creation of Brickshelf user MisterZumbi. Brick or not, there’s something rather adorably Animal about it. (via)
You might want to also check out the Mini LEGO Star Wars sets featured on Gizmodo and TOSblog.
Slightly used Biths for sale
You can be the proud owner of a custom-made, award-winning set of Modal Node costumes. Sadly, a thousand bucks does seem rather steep – you can get used Stormtrooper armor on eBay for about half that. (Thanks, James!)
More LEGO creativity – Sailing Falcon
From Monsterbrick, the same mind that brought us the Steam War AT AT ELE Walker, a Turn of the Century Falcon. He also has a variety of original Star Wars LEGO creations.
Star Wars Etsy finds: Indie goodies for geeks
The cream of the crop for this go-round are these two uber-impressive Obi-Wan sock monkeys – your choice of Padawan or mentor Ben – by Siansburys. (She also has a John McClane.)
- Three Barbies in Carbonite. We’ve seen these before, but this time they’re actually available!
- Neat C-3P0 and R2-D2 sculptures.
- R2-D2 greeting card and bracelet.
- Most impressive sterling silver Imperial logo pendant and Who Killed Princess Leia earrings. Clever!
- Vader and Fett sling purse, just the right size for con-going. Also, NJO wallet/card holders.
- Checkbook covers made with art from an old kids book.
- Four Star Wars finger puppets.
- Chewbacca, Threepio, Artoo and Vader jewelery from dvrdown.
- Look away Wookieepedians: Classic Marvel comic pins.
- Battle droid earrings
- Two felted Leia pins.
- Star Wars potholders.
The fandom minute
- Projects: Back in September, Finkbuilt tinkered up some two-minute dueling sabers. Then, in October, the real thing. Then came the costume boot tops, a Flashsaber, and why am I only finding all this now? It’s good stuff!
- Lists and such: i09 gives The Phantom Menace a hat-tip in their list of Greatest Car Chases In Science Fiction (Part 2), while THX-1138 gets face time in The Scariest Settings Ever Created in Scifi Movies. They also found an inappropriate t-shirt that brings, if nothing else, a cheap, shameful laugh.
- Expanded Universe: Drew Karpyshyn will join EUCantina.net for the EUCast on February 2nd.