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Star Wars Death Star Trench Run Cake: I’m Going In!

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Because there’s no birthday like a Star Wars birthday, Redditor jiggleyourpuffs96 (real mature!) went and crafted this very impressive Death Star trench run-inspired birthday cake. The whole thing is edible, too, except for the little plastic ships and their stands, which I wish I would have known before biting into one and losing a filling.

A lot of the pieces were textured by pressing modeling icing against the tops and bottoms of LEGO bricks to achieve that newly built space station look. If they’re anything like me, though, hopefully, those bricks were sanitized first because mine spend most of their time strewn across the living room floor, and I can’t even remember the last time I vacuumed. I’m pretty sure The Phantom Menace was still in theaters.

I’d eat it. Of course, there are very few things I wouldn’t eat, and, much to my wife’s dismay, items in the trash aren’t excluded. I always jokingly say I was raised by raccoons, but I can see the scorn in her eyes, especially when we have company over and somebody just threw away a pizza crust.

[via Neatorama]

Death Star Ball Bearing Maze: That’s No Moon

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Because who hasn’t ever dreamed of participating in the Battle of Yavin (aka the Battle of the Death Star), Paladone has created this Death Star Maze. Sure it’s absolutely nothing like flying an X-wing and battling the Galactic Empire but use your imagination. A lot of it. Use every last bit of your imagination, and then some.

Available from Entertainment Earth, the $17 maze consists of the upper half of a Death Star with a transparent outer shell and plastic labyrinth inside and a small ball bearing to guide towards the super laser in a full 360-degrees of getting lost and frustrated. Or, if you’re really using your imagination, as I suggested, you can pretend the ball bearing is an ion torpedo, and you’re trying to guide it through a thermal exhaust port leading to the reactor core. I’ll even call you Luke Skywalker if it helps in this little fantasy of yours.

Tried solving the maze but struggling to finish? No problem, do you own a hammer? When all else fails, smack it with a hammer – that’s one of my mottos. Along with ‘You can never have enough duct tape,’ and ‘Honey, have you seen the Band-Aids?’

Solid Gold Death Star Coins: That’s No Beskar

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Released by the New Zealand Mint, these 1-ounce Death Star Coins are engraved with an image of the Empire’s moon-sized superweapon on one side and Queen Elizabeth on the opposite. A nice combo. Personally, I would have gone with an Ewok on the other side to commemorate the Battle of Endor, but I wasn’t asked. I’m never asked.

Limited to an edition of 500, the 0.9999% gold coins are available for $2,900 apiece. And, with the current price of gold hovering around $1,900, you’re paying roughly a thousand extra bucks for that Death Star engraving. Should you just buy an ounce of gold, mint a coin shape, and engrave your own? I’m not here to tell you what to do, but you absolutely should, and make me one while you’re at it.

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If I had the money, I would buy all five hundred of them, then slowly release them on eBay for an even steeper profit. Or end up selling them for less than I paid for them – it’s happened before. I’m not really a great investor. Take, for instance, the time I invested in a complete set of original mint-in-package Kenner Star Wars action figures from 1977, then tore them all out of their packaging and played with them in the bathtub. I… have regrets.

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Giant 6-Foot Death Star Beach Ball: That’s No Moon

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Because nothing says fun in the sun like a giant space station designed to obliterate planets with a single blast of its superlaser, NINOSTAR is selling this 6-foot diameter Death Star beach ball on Amazon (affiliate link) for $75. It’s no moon, but it will be the talk of everyone at the beach provided you can inflate it without passing out.

From what I gathered from the product description on Amazon, they’re not actually calling it a Death Star beach ball, which in layman’s terms means it’s not an officially licensed Star Wars product. Of course, if it were, it would probably cost $150, and $300+ from greedy resellers on eBay.

Obviously, it will be my duty to ion torpedo any Death Stars I see on the beach to prevent any other planets from suffering the fate of Alderaan. And by ion torpedo, I mean pop with the pointy end of beach umbrella pretending it’s a lightsaber. Will children cry and parents yell at me? Probably, but such is the life of a Jedi.

[via DudeIWantThat]

This Death Star watch won’t wipe out planets, but its $150,000 price tag it will obliterate your life savings!

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Priced at $150,000, the Death Star Watch comes designed by Studio Kross in an official partnership with Lucasfilm.

So what does that $150,000 price tag get you? Well, for starters, the watch is a part of a highly exclusive limited edition of just 10 pieces. It comes with a 45mm titanium case, capped off with a domed anti-reflective sapphire crystal. Underneath is pristine casing sits the watch’s piece-de-resistance, a tourbillion encased within a Death Star Cage. Designed to rotate once each minute, the tourbillion lends accuracy to the watch, while the skeletal-shaped Death Star gives it an eerie appeal that commands the attention, allegiance, and respect the dark-side expects from you. Look closely and you’ll also notice the watch’s hour hand is actually a miniature Imperial-Class Star Destroyer, while the minute hand is a Super-Class Star Destroyer. Together, both aircrafts make several orbits around the Death Star throughout the day, creating a miniature universe on your wrist! The watch’s outer body honors the extended Star Wars universe too, with hand-finished decoration techniques including Star Wars iconography such as the esthetic Galactic Empire emblem and the Aurebesh script.

The watch comes along with an elaborately designed Imperial kyber crystal container, crafted at 1:2 scale. Open it up and you’re greeted by three vials, one containing the Death Star watch, another housing an extra strap, and a third encasing an actual kyber crystal prop used from the film Rogue One!

Designers: Kross Studio in collaboration with Lucasfilm

Death Star Inspired 3D Printed Planters: That’s No Moon

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3D printed to resemble the Death Star II still under construction, Etsy shop StoryBrookBoutique is selling these Star Wars-inspired plastic planters. Available in 5 and 6-inch varieties ($16 and $24, respectively), one of these is going to look great on the window sill in front of my kitchen sink.

I like how the planter top isn’t perfectly circular, like the actual Death Star II while it’s being built. I think I’ll put a trailing plant in there and let it spill out over the edge and onto the window sill below. There’s no doubt in my mind it’s going to look great for about a month until the plant dies like so many did on Alderaan.

The mobile space station planters are available in traditional silver, or, my personal favorite – pink, which I can only assume is the color the Galactic Empire had in mind for its Death Stars before realizing how much all that paint was going to cost. Honestly, If I were Palpatine I would have done it anyway.

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Someone Built the Death Star II from Cardboard: That’s No Amazon Box!

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If there’s one thing you can count on in the Star Wars universe, it’s that if you build a big round killer space station, it’s sure to have some kind of major weakness that can be exploited to blow it to smithereens. In the case of the original Death Star, it was the exhaust port. For the Death Star II, its deflector shield could be remotely deactivated. This Death Star’s vulnerability? It’s made out of cardboard and hot glue.

YouTuber Epic Cardboard Props does exactly what his name says, and creates amazing props and replicas out of cardboard. He’s built all kinds of amazing constructions, including a cardboard Millennium Falcon, a cardboard Space Shuttle, a cardboard M41a pulse rifle, and this here cardboard Death Star II, which is based on the space station’s look prior to its construction being completed.

It’s a pretty amazing build with lots of nifty details, like those exposed interior floors made from stacked up layers of cardboard. The build video shows how he put it all together, and offers lots of tips and tricks should you decide to make your own cardboard Death Star.

Like what you see? You can support Epic Cardboard Props’ future build efforts on Patreon, or you can purchase templates for his various designs from his shop. The Death Star II template is just $1.99, and all you need is a bunch of cardboard, some hot glue, an X-Acto knife, and an endless supply of time and patience.

Death Star Cheese Board: That’s No Brie!

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There is nothing cheesy about the Death Star – especially if you lived on Alderaan. But that didn’t stop Disney from making a fully-operational cheese board that looks like Darth Vader’s killer spherical space station.

Unlike the actual Death Star, this one is crafted from rubberwood, and holds a set of cheese utensils inside: a cleaver, planer, fork-tipped knife, a spreader (and a Stormtrooper.) Rather than an exhaust port, I think this Death Star’s primary vulnerability is the dishwasher, so it’s best to handwash it.

Measuring in at about 10″ across, it’s also a whole lot smaller than a real Death Star or even the original Death Star model they used to make Episode IV. On the other hand, it’s just the right size for serving up some Stilton or Edam on your dining table or kitchen counter. Want one? Head over to ShopDisney, who has these for sale $44.95.

That’s No Moon! That’s a Death Star Toaster!

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There’s something immensely satisfying about housing one of the kitchen’s simplest tools inside a compact model of one of the most complex and diabolical weapons in the history of the sci-fi universe. This 2-slice Death Star toaster from Pangea Brands is a must-have for any fan of Star Wars and the most important meal of the day.

The bulbous killer space station toaster remains cool to the touch as it burns Tie Fighter silhouettes onto bread slices. Hungry for more power? Warm your waffles or bake your bagels with the mere push of a reheat or defrost button. When a Pop Tart pops up, is it too light? Use the manual thermostat control to command the officially licensed toaster to turn to the darker side.

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LEGO Death Star Trench Run: Stay on Target!

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South Korean LEGO Certified Professional Wani Kim has recreated the Death Star Trench Run scene from Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope with his team, Olive Seon and it is a thing of beauty. This is a true LEGO masterpiece.

It’s pretty huge at 8.79 ft. long by 4.49 ft. deep and stands 3.60 ft. tall. It features some amazing detail. It even has explosions and sparks on Luke’s X-Wing and the Y-Wing from Lord Vader’s pursuit in his TIE Advanced along with another pair of TIE Fighters. This is version 3.0 of Kim’s diorama, and is the biggest version. The other two versions were built to be store installations so their size had to be kept smaller.

The entire thing lights up too thanks to a power supply, and many, many LEDs. An Arduino board coordinates the various lighting effects to recreate the scenes from the movie. How many thousands of dollars would this cost as an off-the-shelf LEGO set?

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