Luke's Blue Milk Re-Poured

 Ive often wondered if I could recreate the famous blue milk tupperware scene from Luke's moisture farm home in Star Wars, A New Hope.

Well, with the help of Luke MoonBase Junior Skywalker we had a go.

Deploying props from the kitchen, we made some blue milk with food colouring. A simple white play doctors top completed the look and hey, presto! 

Ha ha! 

Blue MoonBase milk! 

Great fun.

Have you recreated any scenes from films or series readers?

Looey's What's the point of Sale?

I was mooching around Kaoomba's K-Mart store yesterday. I suddenly saw a Star Wars display that entranced me!

Apart from the colourful backing card, the real appeal was the little clear bubble with an actual piece of merchandise inside.

As a cashed up retiree, I was tempted to buy the entire box in one go, just so I could get the display!

Luckily my saner self intervened, asking where exactly was I going to put it.

Even my home cinema is pretty well displayed out. I settled on buying an example and taking a photo

-it'll last much longer and it's much more compact!

What do you think, Moonbasers?

Looey in Oz Base

 

Is that Greedo?

This simple Spanish pistola espacial has super card art. There's craters, saucers and planets.

And is that Greedo holding the gun?

And that big red S. Good old Shambers!

Ed's Ferrero Star Wars Happy Hippos

Woodsy,

Here's a few pics of the Happy Hippos Star Wars crew from 2002. 

To the best of my knowledge there were 10 figures, the Landspeeder, and a 150pc puzzle. Each of the figures has a nice insert with a short storyline of the character, but unfortunately, I only have five of the ten inserts.

 I haven't yet started taking photos of my Burger King 'Revenge of The Sith' stuff.

From Rebel Base Vegas

Ed

Kevin's Scratch Built Light Sabre

Hi,

As requested, here are some pictures of my Star Wars light sabre scratchbuild. Couldn't get a Graflex, so I had to fake it.

Cheers,

Kevin

Card Wars

https://youtu.be/ulVscDewRPI?si=2T6bECVNDeqhTeSP 

hi Woodsy a little late for May the fourth, check out this incredible tribute to Star Wars 

Live long and..... oops that's the other one

MJ

Star Wars Memorabilia to go on show in Beverley

Star Wars toys in Yorkshire! 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0l2pp6l67jo 

Star Wars Darth Vader Voice Changer TV Commercial

I picked one of these up recently. A great toy and so comfy to wear. Mine's the 2004 edition. Did anyone have one in the late 70's? 

https://youtu.be/pARlZRl0XzQ?si=bXFwNduqZ2gwroLi 

What's your fave Star Wars collectable?

May the fourth be with you! 

May The 4th Be With You!

Woodsy,

I thought I'd get this out early in preparation for Star Wars Day.

From Rebel Base Vegas

Ed

The Car Boot Strikes Back

Here's my car boot booty from this morning. 

Skeletor 1981, Darth Vader voice Changer 2004, little mystery figure, Shredder 1988.

Any good?

Lionheart Art

 There are hundreds of film covers and posters knocking off the famous Star Wars New Hope cover art.

Here's another one, Lionheart. This one is a VHS.

That could almost be Luke and Leia on the artwork! 

Do you know of any sci fi film cover art that's a knockoff? 

Star Wars Recycling

 There's a Star Wars toy in here somewhere.

Any clue?

Got it?

I had thought it was this, mini-rig MTV 7

But I'm with Yorkie, another mini-rig, the ISP 6

Star Wars World at Shibuyu

While I watch my shirts go round and round at the local Laundromat, I'll sort some holiday snaps for you Moonbasers!

Star Wars World in Shibuya is basically an exhibition on the Ground floor of one of the big Department stores.

The full size costumes were very popular and in the Basement, was the pop-up Merchandise store!

Sadly most of the slick goods were as astronomical as their inspiration! The groovy T shirt was about £25 and the small backpacks £135!

But i did get some SW themed mini Japanese lanterns for prezzies!

May the Forsu be with you! 

 Looey

Japan

Licence to Whill - Looey's Obscure Star Wars Reference

I'll never know why George Lucas called his early draft of Star Wars "Journal of the Whills" and I guess this far on, it really doesn't matter...

So here I am in a nice little hotel in Asacusabashi Tokyo. The railway station has a big poster for a local business called Yoshitoku Dolls that makes traditionally crafted Japanese dolls.

That is, until they got a License from Lucasfilm to make traditionally Japanese themed Star Wars dolls.

Here's our favourite Sith Lord with a heavy dose of Bushido styling...

Sadly the top of the range version, with a silk painted background view of Mustafar, is already sold out.

And with a price tag north of Au$ 3,400 each, they must have made someone a nice little packet!

" I find your lack of availability disturbing..."

Looey

Oz Base in Japan

LUKE SLIPSTREAMER

Slipstream: 

My interest in this old flick was piqued by the name Mark Hamill, old Luke himself, in the cast list, so I decided to give it a whirl on You Tube.

I have this flick on big box VHS stored away. I was reminded of it in my loo library, whilst browsing through my book, the W.H. Smith Guide to Videos from the 1990's. 

The three main actors in Slipstream are: 

Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hamill; A L I E N S' private Hudson aka the late Bill Paxton and Jurassic Park's embattled gamekeeper to be, the late great Bob Peck.

An auspicious trio with a not-too-bad screenplay about a global wind encircling a shattered society.

Yes, Slipstream is about a post-apocalyptic world in which the dominant feature is a tremendous wind [no jokes please!] blowing across the Earth's surface, which is the slipstream of the title. 

The story follows a grizzled bounty hunter turned cop [Hamill], his equally tough female assistant [Kitty Aldridge] and a dodgy peddler [Paxton] who, along with a suited man [Peck], is the film's central figure. 

Bob Peck has the most interesting character and in a windswept world seems completely out of place with his suit and suave accent. There is more to him than meets the eye but you'll have to watch the film to find out what. There are a few interesting planes and kites too.

I enjoyed it to start with, especially the Mos Eisley-like settlement complete with cantina and music. I also liked the harder edge to Mark Hamill, a sort of older bitter Luke tinged with a little dark side. 

I did think the ramshackle plane at the heart of the film and the video sleeve was a bit weak though and lacked any screen presence. In the end I had to turn it off!

Overall it reminded me of a sort of Waterworld mixed with something like Blade Runner - lite. Sadly, apart from the initial interest of seeing a new role for Mark Hamill back with his old Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz, I found the film boring. 

I can see why it flopped back in '89. Viewing format: You Tube and PC. Score: 3 out of 10.

Have you seen Slipstream?

Ed says May The 4th Be With You

Happy Star Wars Day!

While I'm no longer big on watching TV, a couple of weeks ago I ended up binge watching Star Wars: Skeleton Crew on Disney+. 

It's a nice little kid-centric adventure series focusing on a group of kids who find themselves on a runaway starship. 

Jude Law plays a scoundrel in this one who at times helps the kids and ultimately hinders them. 

Now I'm thinking of watching Andor - uh-oh, the Dark Side has grabbed hold of me! 😄

From A Galaxy Far Far Away

Ed

The Force Just Wasn't With Them!

 

What a hoot! Star Wars A New Hope auditions! 

Over an hour of nervous readings with youthful wannabees like Kurt Russell no less and less-well known actors like William Katt, who went on to star in the cult horror movie House in 1985. Cindy Williams was already known as Shirley in the hit TV show Happy Days and Robby Benson, who I personally don't know at all.

Did George pick the right actors?

Is Star Wars like Lord of the Rings?

 I have a theory, albeit a flimsy one, that Star Wars is basically Lord of the Rings in space.

The journey of Luke, under the tutelage of Obi Wan, battling with the forces of evil and ultimately finding triumph as a Jedi against The Empower is essentially the journey of Frodo, under Gandalf's wing,  facing the powers of darkness until his ultimate victory against Sauron at the fires of Mount Doom.

OK, it leaks but here's my list of comparable characters. See what you think!

Luke - Frodo

Obi Wan - Gandalf

The Emperor - Sauron

Darth Vader - Sauron

Leia - Galadriel

Han Solo - Strider/ Aragorn

Chewie - Gimli

Can you think of any more?

Have you got a theory? Shall I just pack my lightsabre and leave for the Rebellion?

Is Zero-X bigger than the Millennium Falcon?

 Does anyone know?

RIFFING WITH THE SITH

 The Outer Realm have a cool gallery of some Star Wars knockoffs and general space toys riffing on the Lucas blockbuster.

Feel the force!

https://theouterrealmsw.com/5_and_dime_store_toys.html