Friday, June 17, 2005

Creative Fandom

You should probably never make fun of people suffering serious injury but two things make the following story different... they were StarWar fans and they deserve to die.
It seems two Star Wars fans in England were injured when they put fuel in two glass tubes and then, while filming, ignited them. The preceding explosion left both idiots in the hospital.
Now for all you Star Wars geeks out there I want to suggest a few more homemade special effects for you to try:
-A pod race using rocket fuel in a propane tank affixed to your big wheel.
-Recreating the Sarlac pitt from on top of your roof over a pile of razor wire.
-Re-filming the destruction of the Death Star with dynamite and a large refrigerator box.
-Staging the Ewok battle in your basement with 50 wild badgers.
-Copy Yoda's lifting of an X-wing by standing under a buick held from a tree limb by yarn.
-Imitate the money Lucas is making by printing money in your bedroom.
If you capture these on film please send me a copy... when you get out of the hospital.

1 comment:

James said...

o Trash compactor scene in a local dumpster.

o Re-enact the "chess game" between Chewie and R2-D2 by taking a chess board to your local biker bar and asking a big hairy Hell's Angel if he would "be your wookie"

o Pour liquid nitrogen on yourself to simulate Han Solo being frozen in Carbonite.

o Use the Jedi Mind Trick the next time you have to deal with the police. "Do you know how fast you were going back there?" "[waving hand, jedi-style] I was going 55." "Actually, I have you clocked on radar at 83." "[waving hand] No you don't. I was not speeding." "Sir, step out of the car or you are going to get tazed." "[waving hand] You don't need me to step out of the caaaaAAAARRRGGGHHH!" (example)