Posted on Feb 28, 2010 by Pete

Score! Lego Star Wars Foosball Table

Okay... anyone who's ever spent three minutes in an arcade or a frat house or in the basement of the cool kid's house in Anytown USA, has played foosball (table soccer). It is quite possibly the greatest, most enjoyable time waster on the planet.

But whoever created this Star Wars foosball table must understand that they are torturing me. I want one... oh how I want one!

The table is made completely from Lego bricks and is fully functional! In perfect form, the creator pitted the Rebels against the Imperials. Score!

(Via CraziestGadgets.com)

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Posted on Feb 23, 2010 by Pete

Star Wars Lightsaber Flash Mob!

According to Wikipedia, a Flash Mob is defined as follows:

"A flash mob (or flashmob) is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and pointless act for a brief time, then quickly disperse. The term flash mob is generally applied only to gatherings organized via telecommunications, social media, or viral emails. The term is generally not applied to events organized by public relations firms, protests, and publicity stunts."

Well, other than arguing the point that playing with a lightsaber is pointless (lol), on February 13th, 2010 there was a flash mob in a mall known as Cabot Circus in Bristol, United Kingdom. The event was organized via Facebook. Check out the madness!!!!





(Via Examiner.com)

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Posted on Feb 19, 2010 by Pete

Swagalicious: Star Wars Speakers From Funko

Eat your heart out Bose! That's right... you don't make the coolest speakers on the market any more.

But who does then?

Would you believe Funko? Yeah, that's right... the company that makes those bobble heads! They recently announced that they're planning on releasing a new line of Star Wars speakers (seen above), which feature their classic over-sized head designs. Now we have no idea what type of quality you're going to get from these things, but really... who cares? They're STAR WARS speakers!!!!!!!!

(Via GadgetReview.com)

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Posted on Feb 15, 2010 by Pete

Swagalicious: Lego Star Wars Minifig Alarm Clocks

According to the Folgers coffee commercials, "The best part of waking up... is Folgers in your cup." Well, if you own one of these Star Wars Minifig Alarm Clocks, we respectfully disagree! The folks at Hobby Media nabbed photos of these swagalicious items at the 2010 Nuremberg Toy Fair.

The figures appear to be 8" tall and feature an oversized LED digital alarm clock in their tummy. Tell me every member of the 501st Legion won't have the Stormtrooper one on their nightstand!

(Via technabob)

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Posted on Feb 13, 2010 by Pete

It's the Great TIE Fighter, Charlie Brown!

We love mashups... especially when they're so odd and unique that they blow your mind. I had never considered Star Wars and Charles Schultz' Peanuts side-by-side before... but Tom Torrey certainly did. Posted on his gammaraybots flickr page - "blockhead1" certainly takes flight amongst the coolest mashups I've seen in a long while.

(Via Walyou.com)

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Posted on Feb 13, 2010 by Pete

I Can't Believe It's Not Yoda!

Okay... NOW we've seen it all! Haven't we? What else could possibly be out there from the Star Wars universe that could be cooler and/or more odd than this?

This Yoda sculpture by artist Olenka Kleban is indeed carved from butter. Mmmmmmmm..... buuuuutter!

(Via Great White Snark)

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Posted on Feb 13, 2010 by Pete

X-Wing Subway Ticket Origami

The folks at Neatorama posted a very cool tidbit from French artist Hubert de Lartigue, who managed to learn how to fold a jaw-dropping X-Wing Fighter from his Parisian metro ticket. Via that site the artist says:

“I’m very proud of how it turned out and I feel like I am the author of a little masterpiece. I got to the point where I asked myself whether the Parisian metro tickets hadn’t actually been designed to enable me to one day use it as a canvas for this ‘work.’ Their proportions and even the patterns and drawings on them take part in the whole of the work. I’m not kidding, I find that there is a great underlying mystery here…”

For instructions on how to do it yourself click through to Neatorama.

(Via Neatorama)

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