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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.'"
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...
Ain't gonna be worth sh*t with his face on it now....
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Reading the article would mean that you'd have to be one of the lucky 6 people to get to it before it was slashdotted. I've seen some articles go fast but this one takes the cake.
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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.
Most of us here should be surprised that George himself has not used this as yet another way to extract merchandising revenue out of the fanbase: customized carbonite encasements.
If there's some desecratin' to be done, and money to be made, George will be the first in line.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
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."
It's not a one-of-a-kind movie prop. It's a replica of a one-of-a-kind movie prop. which is a dime-a-dozen. Kind of like all those replica's of one-of-a-kind paintings from Monet, Dali, Picasso, Van Gogh, etc. No one's going to care if I throw away my house calendar, except maybe my wife.
Any true geek would make his own mold than take it from a pre-created replica. Afterall, it sounds like he's got enough friends with connections to do it.
Unfortunately, many people don't understand what it means to be a true fan. I am often called a fan of StarTrek, but the truth is that I simply enjoy it. I've been to 1 convention and will never go again; I just don't want to deal with those who are fanatical enough to go in costum, or debate what the real chronological order of TOS should be. I have every episode on DVD of all the series, but I can't tell you what episode redshirt #3 died on plant who-really-cares. I know people who don't own any episodes, but could give you the information and the precise minute into the episode it happened.
I think of fans as those who are fanatical enough to make something a deep part of thier daily lives, and I just enjoy the content. Yet because I have every episode of StarTrek on DVD, I get accused of being a fan.
Maybe we need a new word for the consumers who enjoy a particular activity and those who are fanatical about it. Even more so, the word shouldn't just exist, but be used by the masses.
Why couldn't he have just made a copy of the copy, and modified that? Heck, he might have made a small fortune making (unlimited) customized replicas for various idiots with more money than sense. What a dimbulb.
They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...
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
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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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.
I'm speechless. Dumb-struck. Flabbergasted. That's no moon... ... but it should be, because you, my bulbous-skulled friend, are an idiot.
(Just my opinion.)