A group of unknown students at Minnesota’s Carleton College decided to PWN their very own Goodsell Observatory by dressing it up to look like a very familiar astrometric droid from Star Wars. The epic pranksters decorated the observatory with pre-fabricated drapes and taped them around the building to look like R2-D2. Just to be on the safe side, no spray paint was used for the prank so there was no serious or permanent damage to the property. Smart! On top of that, the decorations were accompanied by Artoo sound effects as well! No one has officially come forward and claimed the deed, but these prankster may have pulled off one of the greatest Star Wars pranks of all time.
Hit the jump to see the result of this EPIC Star Wars college prank.
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If you are a die-hard geek, you can’t have just any old wedding cake. Ya gotta give it a geek twist and make it one of a kind. However, if you don’t have the cash to pitch out hundreds of dollars to get a custom cake made for your wedding, why not go with a bad ass geek cake topper. Etsy community member, Hilda Fernandez (AKA HILDOOM) offers a cool variety of cute geeky cake toppers like Han Solo and Princess Leia from Star Wars (pictured above). If Star Wars isn’t your thing (and shame on you if it isn’t), she also offers custom cake toppers of Link and Zelda from… well, Zelda, Jack and Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas and Mario and Princess Peach from Super Mario Bros.! Even Luigi gets some time in the spotlight in his own cake topper with Princess Daisy! Each of these adorable cake toppers are hand sculpted and made of polymer clay and colored using acrylic paint. HILDOOM also takes special requests so if you want something different from what she has to offer on her Etsy shop, just drop her a line. Considering each of these cake toppers are each created by hand, she only charges around $85 each (more pending on the difficulty of the request)! A small price to pay to personalize your big day and to have a keepsake from your wedding that screams geek!
I too have requested the services of HILDOOM to create a one-of-a-kind cake topper for my wedding next week (and yes, I am getting married…). Unfortunately, as much as I would KILL (KILL I said!) for a pair of his and her Scout Troopers beating down on an Ewok as my cake topper, I will be getting two frogs named Kerori from Sanrio, because Mrs. geektrooper said so. Sigh~
Check out HILDOOM Etsy shop and hit the jump to see more of her awesome geek cake toppers!
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Theres been a shit load of Star Wars stuff coming out lately and now that Summer is coming soon, why not roll out the Halloween decorations… right? Well, Funko (the group behind all the cool bobble heads you see in your local comic book store) will be releasing a group of bobble heads that will be a mash up of classic monsters and some of your favorite Star Wars characters. The first four to hit stores will be Were-wookie Chewbacca, Gargoyle-Yoda, Franken-Darth Vader, and an emaciated Skele-Stormtrooper Wacky Wobbler bobble heads. These bobble heads will each come inside a small coffin as well. These will be available at the end of August for around 12 bucks each. ARRGGGHHH~
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Illustrator, Mattias Adolffson of Sweden specializes in baroque-style (a popular art form from the 16-18th century) art and his love of baroque has lead him to reimagine the world of Star Wars in baroque form. If you’re still confused about what baroque is, think of it as something similar to steampunk. If you don’t know what steam punk is, I urge you to go hit up Wikipedia. Mattias has created an array of beautifully designed illustrations of the Death Star, Darth Vader, Chewbacca, Jabba the Hutt, Stormtroopers, and more. Mattias’ delightful designs gives each Star Wars character an unique and whimsical twist. Personally, I think the best of the series would have to be Boba Fett and Jabba. It’s always the baddies that look the coolest!
Hit the jump to check out more pix from Mattias’ Baroque Star Wars collection!
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Teefury’s latest design on sale today is a magnificent illustration of our favorite bounty hunter in the Star Wars universe, Boba Fett as a luchador! Titled “El Boba”, this epic illustration comes from illustrator/graphic artist, John Sprengelmeyer (also know as Captain Ribman on Teefury). I am surprised that this has not happened before. Boba Fetts’ Mandelorian armor design would make a brilliant luchador costume! John designed a pretty hilarious mash up of Boba Fett’s costume into a tight fitting luchador costume, including a very pimp Boba Fett’s helmet styled wresting mask. I would definitely buy one of those suckers if anyone would make one.
John Sprengelmeyer on his design: El Boba. Years after escaping the Sarlacc pit, with his bounty hunter status in ruins, Boba Fett occasionally freelanced as a Mexican wrestler.
Unfortunately, like all Teefury shirts, it is only available for 24 hours and you can get one for only a meer 9 buckaroos! Booya!
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