N(quite)SFW: Ghetto Vader

Made the rounds at E3, but cosplayers no wanna play:



Downloading Soul Saber to listen to while playing Darth Vader on Soul Calibur IV. Perfect!

Cloverfield Monster is Emperor's Hand?

This awesome fan-made video by Michael Horn shows the Empire overtaking parts of San Fransisco. Bonnie interviewed him over at the OS blog. Sweet!

Tales of the New Republic fan animation

This little trailer created quite a buzz on youtube recently. It seems that the smoke has lifted mostly, and this animation is now allowed (or maybe they couldn't stop the signal :p). If only they had incorporated a disclaimer IN the video itself that it was not a product of any Lucas company, life would have been easier. Basically, it's so good, most people thought it was a leak of some secret Lucasfilm animated project. In case you haven't figured it out yet, it's not. This is a fan made animation from Tales of the New Republic (check out Thrawn too! sic). Here's the quote from the creator's youtube post:

A fan produced teaser trailer in the style of an animated cartoony Star Wars series.
www.TalesOfTheNewRepublic.com. This is 100% NOT Official (Just incase people get confused again :-)) Inspired by the look of Genndy Tartakovsky's Clone Wars and Gentle Giants Animated Statues. Production assistance provided by the Digital Animation and Visual Effects School www.DAVESchool.com

Here's the web page for this project: www.talesofthenewrepublic.com
Check out the interview with creator Lee Stringer over at Expanded Universe (thx Thrwn! ;)

For the sake of a post this week... SW Lego videos!

I don't think I could live with myself (okay that's stretching it) if I didn't put a post up here this week... so, I bring you some of youtube's finest (from this week at least) fan made Star Wars Lego videos. That's right. I aimlessly search the web for geeky Star Wars stuff so you don't have to.

A pretty good rendition (considering it's stop-motion Lego) of what was voted as the most epic battle scene of the saga... by some magazine. The Phantom Menace duel to Qui Gon's death:



Ooh! Thanks to Thrawn for this next one! Seems to be a trailer made for ROTS before we even had the title ROTS - ? Excellent photography in this. The end credits said something about this site, so must be a bunch of comics/toy buffs.



Amazingly, Obi Wan and Anakin's duel in ROTS didn't make the top spot in above mentioned vote from whatever magazine or website that was (I'll try and dig it up), but someone did a pretty good Lego version:



This one isn't Lego, but it seemed to flow pretty well from the video above. I don't know where or who this is, but Force FX lightsabers look wicked cool (yeah, I'm from the east coast) at dusk:



Also not Lego, but going with the theme here... who can resist the Simpsons and Star Wars? Click to view this one on the youtube page and check out the related video for a lot more...



Coming soon...

More fun Star Wars stuff, and notable fan interviews. I'm going to try and post video more frequently too, since there's a ton of fan stuff out there.

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