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Image: AT-AT Storms Downtown Chicago
Artist Tony Bamber depicts the assault of an Imperial Walker, barreling down State Street in the Windy City.
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Video: Watch This Kid Discover Who Luke Skywalker’s Father Is
I remember replaying this part of the VHS the first time I saw it, because I couldn't believe it was true. (via nerdbastards.com)
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Video: 4-Year-Old Discovers Vader Is Luke's Father, Mind Blown
Faris recently took in one of cinema's biggest oh-shit moments, and he reacted appropriately. Oh, to go back and experience Empire for the first (or thirty-seventh) time, that'd be bliss. (via tastefullyoffensive.com)
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Video: “Empire Strikes Back” Deleted Scene
From the Star Wars Blu-ray collection, another crumb of footage off George Lucas' editing room floor. Han and Leia exchange some stilted intercourse in a cramped tunnel. The sexual metaphor is strong with this one. (via insidemovies.ew.com)
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Image: Imperial Walker, Texas Ranger
Seriously, you think Chuck Norris could brave the Hoth blizzards and easily agitated wampum? Eh, probably no worse than Luke made out.
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Star Wars Suitcase
Culture Buzz Belonging to a well-traveled Jedi. Sith tourism is a shameful yet thriving industry.
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30 Images Of Star Wars Behind The Scenes
Movie Buzz May the 4th be with you! Happy Star Wars Day everyone! What better way to celebrate than to look back at the making of pop culture history? Mmmm, sunbathing Slave Leia.
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Image: The Cat-Cat
Star Wars and cats, two of the primary ventricles keeping the internet's heart beating. The scene from “Return of the Jedi” where the Ewoks crush an AT-AT's head with logs is now doubly horrifying. (CORRECTION: As has been pointed out in the comments, it was an AT-ST instead of an AT-AT which was destroyed by Ewoks in “The Return of the Jedi.” I can't believe I just typed that sentence.)
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New York is Now the Ice Planet from Star Wars
Culture Buzz A photographer in Williamsburg, Henry Hargreaves, refashions snow-entombed Brooklyn into the ice planet Hoth from “The Empire Strikes Back.” If you're stranded in Williamsburg, don't slice open a hipster's belly for warmth. And you thought they smelled bad on the outside.
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Image: Irvin Kershner, ‘Empire Strikes Back’ Director, Dies at 87
Irvin Kershner, the veteran filmmaker who directed the pivotal 1980 “Star Wars” sequel “The Empire Strikes Back,” as well as big-budget features like “Never Say Never Again” and “Robocop II,” has died. He was 87.
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Link: Rare Photos from 'The Empire Strikes Back' Set
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To mark the film’s 30th anniversary, Vanity Fair presents rarely seen photographs from the Empire Strikes Back set, annotated with behind-the-scenes details.
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Video: The Empire Strikes Back: 1950
Let's turn back the clock to a distant time in an alternate universe far, far away… The 50s! A hidden gem of this period in cinema is a little film called The Empire Strikes Back, the second chapter in a planned three-part epic science fiction trilogy. Here is the trailer for this scintillating 1950s 3-D space opera. (Via STWOR Strategies.)
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The C-3PO Backpack
Style Buzz It's been 30 years since The Empire Strikes Back was released, and finally, someone actually turned the C-3PO backpack into a reality. The backpack doubles as a full size plush toy when not in use, and is big enough to carry a laptop in backpack mode.
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Image: “The Persistence of Star Wars” by Salvador Dali
The Battle of Hoth meets the Surrealist movement.
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Video: TaunTaun Costume 2009
A tauntaun costume that that is beyond amazing! [Editor's Note: Hey, we'll keep posting these geeky Halloween costumes as long as they keep being awesome. Also, here are some AT-AT Kids, while we're at it.]
