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Star Wars Fan Puts Himself in Carbonite

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the instead-of-dating dept.

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.'"

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  1. Desecration of a sacred artefact! by Scrameustache · · Score: 4, Insightful

    replace Harrison Ford's face with mine He took something I want on my wall and removed all value!

    I'll grab my torch, you get your pitchforks, let's go have a word with our attention whoring friend...
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    1. Re:Desecration of a sacred artefact! by lolocaust · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Exactly, imagine the killing he could have made on eBay for that thing. Now with his ugly mug instead of Harrison Ford's it's worthless.

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    2. Re:Desecration of a sacred artefact! by Keebler71 · · Score: 4, Insightful
      apparently, the thought never crossed his mind to cast the whole thing and then simply modify the duplicate. Hell, he could have quit his job, made them one after another and spawned them on ebay... you know what they say... "a fool and his replica of carbonite of Han Solo are soon parted..."

      I can vaguely feel the disturbance of his reading this post, as if his of voices suddenly cried out in terror and was suddenly silenced.

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  2. Re:*Not to scale by cayenne8 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Overall, sounds pretty stupid. I'd think with this thing originally being a 'casting' from the original Star Wars movie prop used in the movie.....it would have had some value.

    Ain't gonna be worth sh*t with his face on it now....

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  3. Jeez... by bmo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  4. Re:*Not to scale by ChefInnocent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This story is another reminder of the way the fan to content relationship is changing. From t.v. to the web the lines are blurring between fans as passive consumers of entertainment to active participants.


    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.
  5. No, it's the scale that's wrong by tkrotchko · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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