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Star Wars Fan Puts Himself in Carbonite
sneezesteve writes "How do you secure your nerd-cred for eternity? By acquiring a life-size replica of Han Solo in Carbonite, having Han's face removed, and replacing it with your own. 'It is made from fiberglass, and the short story is that a friend who is a special effects guy owned the piece, which was a direct casting off the original prop. He was moving, (aka getting married and yelled at) and asked me if I wanted it. I screamed a huge lispy "Yes!", and picked it up, but knew I wanted to do something cool with it. So I called my other nerdy special effects pals, and they offered to replace Harrison Ford's face with mine. I was so tired of hearing this offer in my daily life, but decided to finally consider it, so off it went.'"
From the looks of those pictures his head is a little too big, just like his ego undoubtedly must be.
Is it just me, or is his head way too big for the body? If he was ever unfrozen, his neck would instantly snap under the weight of that enormous melon.
it all sounded pretty cool, but this bit, well I just don't know.
The one thing I didn't know until later was that my friend Dana had been holding his bare ass and balls directly in front of my algae covered face while my head was encased. Talk about a missed opportunity.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
I'll grab my torch, you get your pitchforks, let's go have a word with our attention whoring friend...
You can't take the sky from me...
That's no moon...
And only four comments in.... [sigh]
...if he survives the freezing process.
...his parents must be so proud.
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We can only hope the rest of the fan base follows. It would make it much easier for their mothers to dust around them when they cleaned their basements.
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"Waiting for thesneeze.com"
Zomg, I already have to wait for my real sneezes...
Bring him and the wookie to me.
My first thought was: this has got to be the uber-nerdiest thing I've seen in years on the periphery of fandom.
My second thought: if the guy who used to have it got rid of it because he was "getting married and yelled at," is he marrying the right person? Find someone who can appreciate, or at the very least tolerate your hobbies. 'Cause if they can't stand your hobbies, what exactly do they see in you?
Mommy's basement will never be the same.
> You can take a closer look at Rob in Carbonite
No thanks. I've seen enough of Rob, closer would just be that much more uncomfortable.
How did you convince your mom to let you keep it in your room?
I'm not a big Star Wars fan, but it seems to me that he took a genuinely collectable piece of memorabilia and.... well... defaced it.
This guy is a S.W.U.B. S.W.U.B = Star Wars Underwear Boy
Did anyone else read the title and post and immediately think: "Shit, what's Adam done now?"
What if it is just turtles all the way down?
... would have figured out how to laser, CT, or MRI the original (preferably still in the original packaging to preserve the value) and made it available for download. Maybe insert his own face depending on ego. Replacing the face on the original (ok, original copy) is the mark of an interesting idea poorly thought out.
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Who is more foolish? the fool who posts the quote, or the fool who comments on it?
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Blasphemy! Taking an cast from the original molds and defacing it in that manner is absolutely insane. Now, how long till someone checks the whois on his webhost and egg's his house? I take no responsibility if someone actually does that btw...
If sharing a song makes you a pirate, what do I have to share to be a ninja?
Why not Lucas? Then maybe we'd be able to get a decent re-mastered original trilogy.
There are so many things wrong with this story.
"He was moving, (aka getting married and yelled at)"
Something like that is good enough to get auctioned off at a real auction house and not Ebay, for real money. It's not as if _real_ Star Wars stuff gets on the market.
And she was yelling at him for it? How about "This is going to pay for the wedding" or "Down payment on a house"? End of argument right there. Dumbass.
And the second dumbass removed all value?
Wow.
Please, if someone is giving away stuff like that, please give it to me. I'll be sure it will be taken care of properly.
To quote Ox in Revenge of the Nerds, "NERDS! NERDS!"
He would have been better off getting his face remodelled to look like Harison's.
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It's not a Star Wars thing; Star Wars is cool. It's not a desicrastion thing; this was a replica made from a mold of the original--not one of the oringal props to appear in a movie. My issue is logical:
geek: And here is my replica Han in carbonite, with my visage in place of Harrison Ford's.
nerd: If this is suppoed to be you encased in carbonite, then who's here standing next to me?
geek: I've wasted my life.
If you're going to replace Han's face, wouldn't it make sense to replace it with a face that might actually be in the carbonite? You know, here's my Einstein. Here's my Walt Disney. Here's my Ted Williams. Basically, anyone other than yourself.
OTOH, this guy is all set when it comes time for a tomb stone.
This is really uncool. You are not supposed to destroy one of a kind movie props.
Moron.
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As featured on destructoid Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and Carnegie Mellon University created a partial replica of the Death Star for the booth during carnival. (A big competition for nerds which results in a huge party, one of the few cool things CMU does). http://www.beachheadonline.com/gallery/album66/IMG _2375
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These are the result of being frozen in carbonite. We took a plaster mold of the whole body and back filled it and reinforced it on a 2"x4" frame. The result is a 300lb plaster replica of Hans in carbonite. Check the site if you want to see more of what the booth looked like.
Loser.
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For the geek with everything... freeze them in carbonite! Have the souvenier of a lifetime when you return from your vacation to Bespin! Amaze your friends, shock your family! And you can pick and choose when you are dethawed! Wake up in a week, a month, a year, when the Cubs win the world series, it doesn't matter! So come on down and have yourself frozen today!
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I'd have taken a dump on his face and told him it was a mud mask that he needs to rub into his skin.
But that's just me....
It's spelled "virginity," not "nerd-cred."
Yep. The power of the Force has been confirmed once again.
for Christmas this year!!! I have a spot in my home theater that needs filling!!
This was a cool thing until the the piece was altered because of the new owner being consumed with his own vanity. The entire coolness factor of this piece was in the piece itself. It is now lost forever. What a maroon.
I didn't know that Arnold J. Rimmer really was alive and well.
"...the shortest distance between two points may be straight line, but it is by no means the most interesting."
Yes but did you get laid? A couple of hundred thousand geeks saving up for a sports car want to know?
...he finally got laid.
What I want to know is, couldn't he have at least taken out his retainer for the mold?
Agreed, I was a little dissapointed to read that he didn't actually encase "himself" in carbononite, but rather only created a fiberglass replica.
What a poser. a real star ware fan would've used real carbonite.
Put some braces on those teeth and I would swear that his is butthead frozen in carbonite.
DO NOT WANT
I can see it now: "If this were an original Harrison Ford model, it would be worth $5 million, but because your grandfather's brother* replaced Harrison Ford's handsome mug with Butt Head's, the piece is now only worth $5,000**"
Great niece nods and grits her teeth look while trying to hide her disappointment/embarrassment.
*has to be handed down to nieces/nephews -- no way this guy is breeding
** $5 adjusted for inflation
This, gentlemen, was a piece of art. Most likely a one of a kind. Can you hear comic store guy and everyone like him cry out in agony and disbelief? How can he? How dares he? How could anyone take a piece like this and mount his own head on top?
... hell, take any arbitrary amount that comes to your mind. Do you want to be he would have found someone to buy it?
He could've put it on EBay. And ask for
Personally, if that guy was my friend, he would be an ex friend of mine. I mean, can you see that someone has to be some kind of rather fanatic Star Wars fan to actually go out of his way to acquire something like that? Ok. Now picture said Star Wars fan when he finds out that the friend he trusted this piece of Star Wars history to went and "refurbished" it.
I don't know about you, but I'd start finding out what really existing substitute for Carbonite exists and start getting to work...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
"This, gentlemen, was a piece of art. Most likely a one of a kind. Can you hear comic store guy and everyone like him cry out in agony and disbelief? How can he? How dares he? How could anyone take a piece like this and mount his own head on top?"
I think Comic Book Guy would be aghast that he took the life-sized Hans Solo in Carbonite(tm) out of the giant life-sized plastic blister pack and played with it! And of course Comic Book Guy would be moaning in pain on the floor if he heard that this "fan' cut off Harison Ford's head...
The guy may be a "fan," but he's no **collector**.
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I have altered the fiberglass replica from the original casting. Pray I do not alter it further.
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Around 2030, when those who were kids when SW came out start dying off, Lucasarts is going to license replica carbonite coffins.
how did so many dumbasses manage to misspell "sacrilege" in the tags?
The original can't be a full-sized replica of Harrison Ford; it's probably like an 80% model so it wouldn't be so big in the shots. But he cast his head at 100%. Then he made it worse by positioning the head too high.
It looks awful. I would try to put the original back together and never admit I did that if it came out that poorly.
You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you
When I saw the pictures I thought they had frozen Napoleon Dynamite in Carbonite.
Dude.
...taking it up the ass. Which come to think of it, puts your bizarre 'missed opportunity' comment into more of a context...if you know what I mean.
The look on Han Solo's face is one of being frozen in Carbonite.
The look on your face is more akin to that of...oh, say,
PS: Your fucking head's too big.
This is both really gay and really retarded. Why is this even considered newsworthy? This is the geek version of a Paris Hilton article. High five jack-asses!
But did he shoot first?!
That's right. I said it.
I prefer (screamq YES) because sometimes, those damn 's are a little hard to see.
Wait is it him or her?
From TFA:
"Yes, that is me, finally fulfilling a mother's dream by being encased in Carbonite"
Which may make the comments about the "missed opportunity" make more sense?
like Han Solo, imagine what he'd do if he got his hands on some props from one of the A-list characters...
...like a pair of Jar-Jar's ears.
Meesa don't think he's getting a date with those either.
What an awesome way to make something of high value to collectors lose all value instantly.
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I'd say something witty here, but I'm not that bright.
What a FAG!
I've heard people say 'unthaw', but never 'dethaw'. Logically, both words would refer to the process opposed to 'thaw', aka 'freeze'. But somehow I don't think either means that.
Maybe someone's brain needs to be thawed out.
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Rob: "I love you."
Harrison Ford: "I know."
I think chicks digg that kind of stuff
Don't tell me I'm the only person who thought of Carbonite Backup before the material I was wondering how some trekkie finally digitized himself.
Unfortunately he completely destroyed the piece's value as a collectible, if indeed this was the original.
Thinking he'd become famous, he's become infamous. He got his 15 minutes and maybe the most attention-worthy thing he does his whole life is to destroy an icon of movie-lovers everywhere. A trufan does not destroy unique artifacts. This guy is an egomanical poser. Funny how your personality comes out through the things you do.
Now if he had told everyone how to do the carbonite process at home he could have become loved by all subscribers and idolators of Make Magazine, and he'd be a cool craft nerd. But he isn't. He is a narcissist and nobody cares except to mutter "oh, no." Quite disappointing.
According to Wikipedia, Carbonite is 1) an explosive, or 2) a fictional ionic compound used in Star Wars. If this fellow used #1 to remake the statue, I hope none of his nerdy friends party with blasting caps. If #2, only his imaginary friends could help.
otherwise this whole thing would be a crime.
1. Nerdy pals promise egotistical friend a face replacement.
2. Nerdy pals make complete cast before defacing original.
3. Nerdy pals sell copies claiming "It
4. Profit!!
5. Rinse and repeat!
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LOL! I had the same thought -- What? It's just a prop? he's not really frozen?? Bah!
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