Lego’s Star Wars constructions kits are legendary. Even though the company has dozens of cool kits based on popular movies, there’s still nothing like seeing your favorite Star Wars characters miniaturized and given the proper Lego treatment. YouTube user Bar Van Dijkwent went a step further. He built the new Lego Death Star (Item #75159 to all the collectors) in front of a camera and put together a nice little stop-motion video for everyone. The results are incredible. Not only do we get to see how difficult it is to connect all 4016 Lego pieces in the right places, but we also get to watch iconic scenes on the Death Star come to life—like the ones in Emperor Palpatine’s throne room and the trash compactor. The creator even spliced in some audio from the original movies to really set the scene. This is by far the most satisfying Star Wars Lego video we’ve ever seen.Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is the prequel tale revealing how the Rebellion stole those Death Star plans that kick off the events of A New Hope.But back on Earth, it's the film's director Gareth Edwards who nabbed the blueprints for the Empire's superweapon, and not a single Bothan had to die in the process*."
There was only one thing I wanted the whole shoot, and the entire time I kept whispering to people, like, 'Where do you keep that? Where will it be at the end? How do I get a hold of it? Can I have it?' And they were like 'No, this is going to be archived. A part of history'," said Edwards during a live Facebook chat with Rogue One's cast and creators (via io9)."So, I obviously didn't do this, because they'll want it back... I stole the Death Star plans." It doesn't seem that obvious to us, Gareth.The cast then joked that they were just the people to steal them back.Things have changed considerably since the early days of Star Wars, when many of the props were lost or destroyed.Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Jiang Wen and Forest Whitaker star in the upcoming movie, which will be the first in a (probably very long) series of Star Wars spinoffs - although we shouldn't expect any direct Rogue One sequels at least.Rogue One: A Star Wars Story will be released in the UK on December 15 and in the US on December 16.*We're fully aware that the Bothans stole the plans for the second Death Star, not the first.
Want up-to-the-minute entertainment and tech news? Just hit 'Like' on our Digital Spy Facebook page and 'Follow' on our @digitalspy Twitter account and you're all set.Building the mammoth Death Star Lego set is the kind of project that can take weeks to finish, especially for beginner brick enthusiasts.Amsterdam-based Lego fan Bart van Dijk didn't just build his Death Star Lego set, he also filmed the process. The result is an impressive stop-motion animation that shows every one of the 4,016 Lego pieces fitting seamlessly into place. The video shows the animated build accompanied by special effects sounds, Star Wars dialog and '80s-inspired music by Chill Carrier. You'll also see minifigs of Darth Vader, Stormtroopers, Jedi Masters, Princess Leia, R2-D2, C-3PO and Chewbacca in action.Previously, van Dijk has created build videos for Lego sets of Disney castles. In the Star Wars universe, he's built a Rebel Combat Frigate, a TIE fighter and the Millennium Falcon. Say hi to Snapchat and Specs, your secret AR 'gateway drug'
Page Not Found (404) Sorry, what you're looking for can't be found! The page might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavaible. Or it probably just doesn't exist.The Death Star isn't normally associated with peace and goodwill to all, but a gingerbread version of Darth Vader's deadly space-ride fits right in with the festive holiday season.The highly detailed rendition of the planet-destroying craft features red, green and white icing along with a selection of small candy canes, stars, gingerbread men and wreaths. The shape is impressively spherical, a real achievement considering most gingerbread creations are blocky.Reddit user Freedomtoast9 snapped a hunger-inducing photo of the spaceship, likely taken just moments before it unleashed an attack on a gingerbread Alderaan.The gingerbread Death Star is not located in a galaxy far, far away, but rather at the Rosewood Sand Hill hotel in Menlo Park, California. It's part of a Star Wars-themed set of fanciful holiday decorations.
It makes sense that Star Wars would pop up in the seasonal decor for a Silicon Valley hotel, especially with the big December opening of the new Star Wars movie "Rogue One."The Rosewood Sand Hill should put out a call for hungry Jedi to come make a trench run on the gingerbread Death Star once the holidays are over.Share your LEGO creations, free! | Welcome to the world's greatest LEGO fan community! Explore cool creations, share your own, and have lots of fun together. Brands and themes » Star Wars » 7,985 viewsMicro Trench Run 4,066 viewsStar Wars - Episode IV Death Star trench (micro-scale) 22,215 viewsLEGO Death Star 20,237 viewsDeath Star Gunner inspection 5,441 views10188 Death Star scaled down (same playability) 4,298 viewsStormies just wanna have fun! 2,504 viewsDeath Star Vigenette by oucho t cactus 7,555 viewsMini Deathstar II 1,890 viewsTeam Jigsaw's Alternate Star Wars by - Arkov - by LukeClarenceVan The Revanchist
He told her he envisioned a standalone film set between Episodes III and IV about “how the Rebels stole the Death Star plans,” something hinted at in the opening crawl of A New Hope and bits of dialogue in that 1977 blockbuster. Now, four years later, Rogue One is in theaters, tracking to be a hit.But, as a certain subset of Star Wars fans might tell you, there already was an explanation for how the Death Star plans wound up in the hands of the Rebellion. That story dates back two decades, and involves a character named Kyle Katarn, roguish hero of the video game Dark Forces.In 1993, the game Doom was all the rage. The revolutionary first-person shooter put players into the action; it also allowed them to build and share their own modified levels. Soon enough, Star Wars-based mods proliferated, including some set aboard the Death Star. LucasArts, then the gaming division of George Lucas’s empire, took notice and assigned a team to begin developing its own Doom–meets–Star Wars title.
In February 1995, Dark Forces arrived. The plot involved the new hero Kyle Katarn, a Stormtrooper dropout-turned-mercenary who falls into a Rebel Alliance plot to destroy an Imperial factory. Per gaming convention, the opening level served as a tutorial, allowing players to get used to the controls and solve some rudimentary puzzles along the way. The objective of the introductory segment: yes, steal the Death Star plans. The game’s opening crawl lays everything out. The New Order of the Empire stretches its evil clutches across the galaxy, consuming planets with devastating results. Through many struggles, the Rebel Alliance has learned of a new Imperial battle station, the DEATH STAR, with enough power to destroy an entire planet. Unable to acquire the plans to the deadly space station, the Rebels have employed the skills of Kyle Katarn. Known to most as a mercenary for hire, Katarn is a rogue figure who has a partial alliance with the Rebels. Armed only with a blaster pistol and an intimate knowledge of Imperial methods, Kyle prepares to infiltrate the Imperial base where the plans are kept…
Some of the elements will sound familiar to Rogue One fans. At the behest of Mon Mothma, “rogue figure” Kyle Katarn — armed only with a blaster pistol! — needed to infiltrate a secret Imperial facility, navigate through enemy forces, find the secret chamber where the plans were kept, and then deliver them to the Alliance. In the video below, you can see the full level, which takes about eight minutes to complete. When he retrieves the plans (at the 7:20 mark), Kyle says, “This is too easy.” (Even if the Lucasfilm brain trust wanted to repurpose the Dark Forces storyline for Rogue One, it would have required some substantial padding and a tad more suspense.)Following his introduction in Dark Forces — which, not surprisingly, was a hit — Katarn became a key figure in what was then known as the Star Wars Extended Universe, appearing in follow-up games (where he would train to be a New Jedi), novels, and comics. But when George Lucas sold Lucasfilm to Disney, the company decided to push the reset button on the EU, rendering those stories noncanonical and stealing Kyle Katarn’s glory.