Ahh, the ’80s. When safety precautions barely existed, and kids could get excited by the mere thought of a 4-sound electronic console. Just look at their happy little faces. Even the dog is smiling. [Boing Boing]
Hide wires, powerboards, your prized mini-figs – heck, even the droids the stormtroopers are still looking for, all in this tidy flatpacked AT-AT model from China.
As someone who has an original AT-AT taking pride of place in her lounge, Lifegood Design’s AT-AT lamp has just been offered adoption by yours truly.
Yesterday’s AT-AT Walker boombox was awesome, but a little too 80′s for my taste. I like my music digital and my gadgets gilded. This iPod-compatible walker satisfies on both counts.
While nothing matches the spooktastic BigDog for infusing terror–or hilarity–into the population, this fire-breathing RoboDog–half Mad-Max bike, half AT-AT–probably comes in second place. But as the video shows, Larry is a good guy.
Just like Walt Disney, George Lucas won’t die. He’ll be encased in some form of carbonite and woken up every 100 years to create another Star Wars film. And over the millennium, the technology in the Star Wars universe will evolve, until Jedi and Sith spend weekends playing forceball against eachother in a galactic tournament and AT-AT vehicles fight for independence from the Empire. Oh, and they’ll walk upright, too.
Before that happens though, you can instead own a T-shirt from Brisbane designer James Lillis mapping the evolution of the AT-AT for $27.30.
[Redbubble - Thanks James!]
