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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...
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...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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Bring him and the wookie to me.
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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?
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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Who is more foolish? the fool who posts the quote, or the fool who comments on it?
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.
He would have been better off getting his face remodelled to look like Harison's.
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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
http://www.beachheadonline.com/gallery/album66/IMG _2369
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.
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Its like hundreds of megabits of bandwidth suddenly cried out and were suddenly silenced.
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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."
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.
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Yes but did you get laid? A couple of hundred thousand geeks saving up for a sports car want to know?
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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
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.
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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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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.
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.