Help Give a Rancor Its Cave

You might remember back in August of 2012, when we told you about the 501st legion making a life sized Rancor monster named Roxy. Well, Roxy needs a home and you can help.

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Roxy is a giant Rancor prop that the 501st brought to life, but what is a Rancor without a cave? Just a big dumb monster, that’s what. So of course, The 501st wants to build a life-size modular cave set to go with the monster to provide total immersion for photo ops at upcoming conventions.

Basically, it would also act as a portable shipping container for Roxy and a cool set piece at the same time. The prop gets broken often when they move it and this will help keep it safe so you can ogle it in person. Help them fund the project on Kickstarter with a pledge of as little as $5. Higher pledges get you fast access to see Roxy at appearances, as well as all kinds of other Roxy the Rancor swag.

Life-sized Darth Vader Cake: Use the Forks, Luke!

This life-sized Darth Vader cake could feed an entire Death Star or a whole village of ewoks on Endor. Heck, it could probably satisfly that huge asteroid worm that tried to eat the Millennium Falcon. It stands six feet, seven inches tall and looks both evil and delicious.
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This huge and impressive cake showed up at the recent Star Wars Celebration VI in Florida. 600 people attended the 501st Legion banquet in Orlando and got to enjoy this tasty treat. It weighed 500-pounds before they dug into it. Now that weight is evenly distributed to so many nerd thighs and hips.

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It took baker Amanda Oakleaf and her crew (who also made the popular edible stormtrooper) 386 eggs, 57 pounds of butter, 46 pounds of sugar, 210 pounds of marshmallow fondant and a lot of Star Wars love. Luke, I am your dessert!

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501st Legion Builds a Life-sized Rancor Monster, Malakili Cries

There are a lot of huge monsters that I would like to meet in real life, just because they are cool, but the Rancor from Return of the Jedi is not one of them. The Rancor will tear you limb from limb and pick the meat out of it’s teeth with your bones. Still, this life-sized Rancor statue is looking pretty bad-ass.

rancor monsterIf it attacks you, you know what to do. Just pick up a bone from one of it’s previous victims and shove it into it’s mouth. It isn’t smart enough to get it out so it will just get more ticked off. Then pray that there is a heavy gate nearby to drop onto it’s head.

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This beast is Roxy the Rancor, a sculpture by the 501st Legion. If you like to poop yourself, it will be unveiled at the upcoming Star Wars Celebration at the end of the month in Orlando, FL. The detail is incredible. Don’t show up in a black Jedi costume. These monsters hate that.

[via Obvious Winner]