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archiemcphee:

I know Luke took out a few of these on Hoth, but this is one that even he’d think twice about attacking. I mean, it has glowy lights and stuff so it’s clearly much cooler. This Case mod is actually a Hasbro AT-AT with a Zotax Z68 Mini ITX mobo with an Intel Core i7-2600K CPU, a Sapphire 6870 GPU and 8GB of RAM stuffed inside. I’m going to be honest, I’m not really a spec geek so I have absolutely no idea what that means, but it’s a PC that looks like an AT-AT and it’s awesome!”

Visit Nerd Approved to view a couple more shots of the cooler than cool AT-AT case mod.

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bloggingforcarrie:

Promoting TESB in Japan

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skalja:

Mark Hamill interviewed at Imperial College London in 1978, shortly before the UK release of Star Wars.

This is a fairly lengthy video — almost 30 minutes, including the interspersed movie clips — but well worth it if you’re interested in the early days of Star Wars. Topics covered include the nature of Star Wars as space fantasy (contrasted later on with Trek as sci-fi), acting around the sfx and creating authenticity out of nonsensical worldbuilding gobbledygook, Luke as a Lucas avatar, the economics of being a film vs. tv actor in the ’70s, and dealing with the explosive beginning of Star Wars fandom as one of its primary actors.

Hamill has a really wonderful interview presence here: he’s poised, insightful, almost serene but with a delightful streak of deadpan goofiness. It’s not even snark, really — he just comes out with the most ridiculous commentary in exactly the same register he uses to talk about the audition process or the challenges of overseas press junkets. Contrary to popular presumption (the “Hamill is a terrible actor” meme, etc) he’s not much like Luke Skywalker at all, but you can see the quirks here and there that he brought into his performance.

Seriously, if you have half an hour to spare today, spend it on this.

Source: skalja