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This Star Wars Short Turns the Battle of Hoth Into a Vader Rampage Worthy of Rogue One

Darth Vader is scarier than he used to be. While he’s always been intimidating, knowing that he was once a little kid who built C-3PO hurt his threat factor. For a while. Rogue One, arguably, changed that, melding the prequel and original trilogy versions of Darth Vader into a Force-powered walking tank of terror. The…

Movies Julie Muncy May 18

The Iron Giant Will Pop Off Your Wall in This Vibrant New Poster

Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s Hogarth and his Iron Giant. Artist Craig Drake tackled one of fandom’s most beloved animated films, Brad Bird’s The Iron Giant, for his brand new solo show opening this Friday. We’re excited to debut not just this work, but also a few other…

Movies Germain Lussier Jan 10

Lego Star Wars Returns to Hoth With This Amazing Playset

There have been rumors of a massive new Star Wars set based on Echo Base from Empire Strikes Back for ages now, but they’ve finally been confirmed: Lego have just announced a gigantic new set jam packed with so much goodness even the smell of Tauntaun insides couldn’t ruin it. Assault on Hoth contains over…

Tech News James Whitbrook Feb 13

F-16s flying over Greenland look like snowspeeders over Hoth

Enjoy this cool video of some Royal Danish Air Force’s F-16s flying low level over Greenland. I imagine the pilots wearing rebel helmets looking for Imperial AT-AT walkers. Pew pew. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

Sploid Jesus Diaz Aug 22

Real military images feel like lost frames from The Empire Strikes Back

I came across some wintertime military photographs that looked like lost frames from the Battle of Hoth, in The Empire Strikes Back. So much, in fact, that I couldn’t resist adding some laser gun turrets and AT-ATs. Check them out and post your mashups in the comments. A U.S. Air Force airman defrosts a C-130J…

Sploid Attila Nagy Mar 10

Science Proves Luke Skywalker Should Have Died In The Tauntaun’s Belly

It is one of the weirdest, wildest moments in Star Wars history. Han Solo picks up Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber and slices open the belly of his dead tauntaun and stuffs Luke in to to warm him up and save his life. But is this scene at all realistic? If you were freezing, would jumping inside…

io9 Keith Veronese Aug 7

Daily life on Hoth, illustrated with Lego

Opportunities for skiing aside, life on Hoth can be brutal. The planet features little life (and some of that life wants to eat you), and if you’re separated from your home base and your tauntauns, you’re likely in for an icy death. The dramatic Lego scenes capture the highs and lows of life on the…

io9 Lauren Davis May 6

Bulgaria’s abandoned Socialist monument is secretly on the ice planet Hoth

We’ve looked at some abandoned Bulgarian Socialist architecture before, but never like this. This winter, photographer Timothy Allen braved snowstorms and horrific cold to shoot the UFO-like Buzludzha monument in the Bulgarian Balkans. The resulting pictures look like the lost Communist equivalent of Echo Base. https://gizmodo.com/the-otherworldly-fortresses-that-are-bulgarias-socialis-5630648 Allen traveled 250 kilometers outside of Sofia to get…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 1

Watch a 7-hour train ride through Norway set entirely to electronic music

The Norwegian documentary Bergensbanen details the gorgeous 300-mile, 7.5-hour-long train ride from Bergen to Oslo. An intrepid group of DJs have scored the entire journey, which traverses the frozen region of Finse (a.k.a. Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back). Bergensbanen aired last year on Norway’s NRK2. The documentary’s creators encouraged artists to remix this footage…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Nov 13

The Magicians of Industrial Light & Magic

The Industrial Light & Magic team has been responsible for some of the most iconic scenes in modern movie history. Their magic has graced Star Wars, E.T., Raiders of the Lost Ark and more. Here’s a peek behind the curtain. VanityFair.com has an incredible set of shots showing the ILM team at work on various…

Movies Kyle VanHemert Nov 11

Curl up on your own Wampa Rug for those chilly Hoth nights

The temperature’s dropping, and with the chillier weather comes the inevitable Wampa migration. Most municipalities deal with this influx of tundra-dwelling reptomammals by cowering in fear. Nonetheless, brave entrepreneurs have transformed the savage beast into a home furnishing. Thinkgeek is selling this Wampa Rug for $99.99. Lay it down, drop some Max Rebo Plays The…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 6

A Rebel Alliance Secret Base, Right Here On Planet Earth

These aren’t film frames from The Empire Strikes Back, even while they look exactly like Rebel Alliance’s Echo Base, ion cannon included. They are not on the icy surface of planet Hoth, but much nearer, in the Artic circle. Photographer Christian Houge took these beautiful pictures of a science research base in the Artic circle.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 12

Spot the hidden probe droid in this exclusive new Star Wars poster

A single probe droid scours the icy landscape of Hoth, in this new Star Wars poster which we’re bringing to you exclusively, a day before it goes on sale. The last three posters sold out within an hour. This poster, “Hoth,” by artist Dan McCarthy, is a limited edition Star Wars print. It’s the fourth…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 19

From Grape-Hutts to Count Dookula: fake Star Wars cereals

Folks who attend the Star Wars Celebration collecting panels will have a chance to collect 16 puntastic mini-cereal boxes. (Hothsted Flakes! Frost = cold! Get it?) Star Wars Celebration runs from August 12-15 in Orlando, Florida. [StarWars.com via Super Punch]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 17

Furry Wampa Rug Is Essential for Making Hoth Love

If you think the Tauntaun sleeping bag was pretty hard to beat, you are wrong. Play some Barry White, get naked, and jump onto this furry Wampa Rug. You will make your significant other and polar bears worldwide very happy. https://gizmodo.com/drop-the-knife-the-tauntaun-sleeping-bag-is-now-real-5378464 The 62 x 30-inch rug is made of synthetic fur and has a non-slip…

Tech News Jesus Diaz May 17

Beautiful Lego in Hoth Photos Have Me in Total Awe

These are not the biggerest of Lego spaceships nor an impossible balancing act. It’s just Lego Star Wars perfectly photographed using a very clever, and deceitfully simple technique. This is how the expert Finnish photographer Avanaut did it: https://gizmodo.com/lego-colonial-space-ship-is-big-enough-to-terraform-rea-5102362 In his own words: There’s been some questions about how I do the snowshots. I’ve given…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Dec 15

This Star Wars Short Turns the Battle of Hoth Into a Vader Rampage Worthy of Rogue One

The Iron Giant Will Pop Off Your Wall in This Vibrant New Poster

Lego Star Wars Returns to Hoth With This Amazing Playset

F-16s flying over Greenland look like snowspeeders over Hoth

Real military images feel like lost frames from The Empire Strikes Back

Science Proves Luke Skywalker Should Have Died In The Tauntaun’s Belly

Daily life on Hoth, illustrated with Lego

Bulgaria’s abandoned Socialist monument is secretly on the ice planet Hoth

Watch a 7-hour train ride through Norway set entirely to electronic music

The Magicians of Industrial Light & Magic

Curl up on your own Wampa Rug for those chilly Hoth nights

A Rebel Alliance Secret Base, Right Here On Planet Earth

Spot the hidden probe droid in this exclusive new Star Wars poster

From Grape-Hutts to Count Dookula: fake Star Wars cereals

Furry Wampa Rug Is Essential for Making Hoth Love

Beautiful Lego in Hoth Photos Have Me in Total Awe

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