Indoor rock climbing usually involves getting to the top of a wall via boring hand holds. They may be green or yellow or red, but they’re not terribly interesting. The folks at Hangfast Adventure Structures are changing that with their Star Wars themed hand holds. You can dangle from the Death Star, hold on to R2-D2 or take hold of the Millennium Falcon on your way to the top. I wonder how Vader would feel about saving people instead of letting them plummet to their doom?
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We’ve all seen those gazillion piece Lego sets of Imperial Star Destroyers and the Death Star. They’re cool, but so very complicated. Check out these simple, clean, mini scenes from Star Wars that aren’t currently available, but could be with your help. They’re up over on Lego Cuusoo and if they get 10,000 votes they’ll officially be pushed through to the powers that be to see if the kits can be made and sold to the public. There is a whole series planned with the potential for more if the project gets approved.
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Entertainment Earth is now offering this plush Death Star that measures 7″ in diameter and has an illuminating tractor beam. Best of all, it will only cost you $13, a far cry from the estimated price tag of $852,000,000,000,000,000 for the real deal.
Deliveries of the plush Death Star are expected to begin in July.
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If you’ve entertained thoughts of building a full-scale Death Star, prepare for a devastating reality check. The folks over at Centives crunched some numbers and determined that, based on the density of a modern warship and scaled up, it would take about 1 quadrillion tons of steel to build one Death Star. Even though Earth’s iron supply is sufficient to produce an astonishing 2 billion Death Stars, production of the required amount of steel would take 833,315 years. And the cost? In 2012 dollars all that steel would set you back about $852,000,000,000,000,000 – or roughly 13,000 times the world’s GDP.
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A crafter has figured out how the Death Star weakness could have been avoided – it just needed to be made of yarn. This Death Star is soft and huggable and won’t destroy planets. You can make one of your very own with this pattern on Ravelry. Laser not included.
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The other day we got a peek inside the AT-AT, one of 1400 that are apparently on the Death Star. Indeed, the inner workings of the Death Star are infinitely more complex, but you can check out a simplified infographic after the break that chronicles everyone’s favorite moon-sized space station.
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