Star Wars

Steampunk LEGO TIE Fighter Beats the Crap Out of X-Wing, Shows Amazing Vision of Star Wars Universe

Click to viewThis TIE Fighter, and the X-Wing after the jump, is what happens when you put together Star Wars, LEGO and steampunk in the title of a contest. That and a collective geekgasm. Truth is, as fun as the official Star Wars LEGO models are, home-made models like this steampunk TIE Fighter have a…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jan 10

When Adventure Becomes . . . Repetitive

A new mashup of movie trailers proves that Star Wars, Narnia, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Golden Compass are basically all the same movie with different trappings. But more importantly, it proves that Star Wars is much closer to fantasy than science fiction. Just look how comfortably Yoda fits in with Gandalf and…

io9 Charliejane Jan 8

David Hasselhoff’s Lightsaber Duel With Stop-Motion Androids

The Hoff, wearing buckets of makeup, fences with killer bots in Star Crash. The worst of the late 70s Star Wars knockoffs, Crash features lots of Harryhausen-style stop motion animation alongside widescreen space battles. Caroline Munroe has really shiny hair and low-cut tops. But my favorite character is the Southern-accented android (Hamilton Camp), who looks…

io9 Charliejane Jan 8

A Peepshow of the Best Futuristic Vision Systems

Science fiction is terrific at helping you imagine how you’d enhance, hack, and upgrade your own body — especially your eyeballs. Humans have been trying to improve on the sense of sight since 1300, when spectacles were invented. What comes next? Take a look at our list of some of the vision enhancement tools that…

io9 Kevin Kelly Jan 4

Lightsaber Boy Saves Mom

Ruffians outside bakeries are no match for the power of the Force, it seems. An 11-year-old boy fended off his mom’s attacker today in England with his lightsaber. Next he’ll be trying to mind-trick his mom into extra servings of dessert. (Thanks, Rick!)

io9 Kevin Kelly Jan 3

Destroy All Planets with the Best Scifi Superweapons

Let’s face it, there are times when something like a laser pistol, a fancy light-up sword, or the ability to crush people with your mind just won’t get the trick done. When you’re commanding an entire fleet of ships hell-bent on invasion, you need a weapon that’ll really get things done. In the world of…

io9 Kevin Kelly Jan 3

What To Put Into Your Spaceship’s Gas Tank

Since most science fiction vehicles don’t run on unleaded gasoline, would you even know what to fill the tank with if you were lucky enough to get behind the wheel? With everything out there from warp cores to specialized space fuel, here’s a handy list that lets you know what powers some of the more…

io9 Kevin Kelly Jan 2

Six Awesomest Scifi Gadgets That Fit in Your Pocket

A spaceship or a gigantic death ray is cool, but wouldn’t you rather have an awesome scifi gadget you could slip into your pocket or clip to your belt for easy access? When you’re on the interstellar warpath, you want the very best, so we’ve put together a list of some science fiction mobile devices…

io9 Kevin Kelly Jan 2

Sexy Recruitment Posters For The Empire

Although most of the stormtroopers in the Star Wars movies turned out to be vat-grown clones of Boba Fett’s daddy, perhaps some of them were citizens from around the Empire doing their duty. These concept art recruitment posters by Feng Zhu might have been plastered in cantinas and spaceports around the galaxy in an effort…

io9 Kevin Kelly Jan 2

Giant LEGO R2-D2 is 8 Feet Tall, Squeaks and Lights Up

While most LEGO models are smaller than the objects they resemble, this eight foot LEGO R2-D2 Technabob found stands considerably taller than the actual Star Wars droid. The model not only looks like R2-D2, but features working red and blue LEDs and authentic sound effects as shown by the video. Master LEGO builder Dan Steinenger…

Tech News Adrian Covert Dec 30

Prisoners Explore Industrial Underground City in Scifi Indie

The Men Who Fell is a low budget sci fi indie film that’s been busy flying low under the radar. It screened at Cannes earlier this year and scored itself a Japanese DVD release (which came out last Friday under the lame title Biohazard X). But what is this movie all about, other cool effects,…

io9 Kevin Kelly Dec 28

Porkins’ B3-3R Astrokeg LEGO Droid Mixes Our Three Favorite Things

Forget about the LEGO Millennium Falcon. Here’s the definitive LEGO model that mixes three of our favorite themes: LEGO, Star Wars and beer. This LEGO B3-3R is Porkins astromech droid and beer keg. And probably his best friend too. Porkins and B3-3R are just the last of the dozens of LEGO models that Mike Crowley—aka…

Movies Jesus Diaz Dec 26

Sorting the 5,195 Pieces of the Millennium Falcon Gives Strange Pleasure, Back Pain

If the first time you saw all those bags you thought the LEGO Millennium Falcon was big, it’s not big. It’s HUGE. Like some of you asked for, I spent four hours and nine minutes sorting all the pieces out to make the construction easier. The condensed video shows the complexity and giganormous size of…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Dec 19

The Construction of the LEGO Millennium Falcon Part I: the Unboxing and the Licking

We got the LEGO Ultimate Collector’s Millenium Falcon and here’s a video of me getting all dorky and excited about this awesome 24-pound, 5,159-block LEGO masterpiece. This is just a teaser of what’s coming later this week: the time-lapse video of its construction by only one single dork, and the review (and in case there…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Dec 18

Imperial Stormtroopers Arrest Santa, Emperor to Take Over Xmas

SANTA’S FACTORY, North Pole (Agencies) – An Imperial Stormtrooper commando broke into Santa’s Factory on the North Pole yesterday evening, killing an undetermined number of elves, arresting the owner and confiscating his sled. Joe Kwazansky, local spokesman for the Evil Galactic Empire in Los Angeles, appeared in a press conference this morning confirming the rumors…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Dec 16

LucasFilm Christmas Cards Are a Gift in Themselves

If you are lucky enough to be on the LucasFilm Christmas card list, you get a lot more then updates on how little Anakin Skywalker is progressing with his potty training. You get a card that is absurdly cool collector’s memorabilia…perfect for framing, eBaying or taping to the skin over your heart. This Stormtrooper pop-up…

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 15

The Seven Best Torture Porn Scenes in SciFi

Nothing warms the hearts and soothes the soul at holiday time like a hot laser slicing through your pain receptors. That’s why we put together this list of the top seven torture scenes from science fiction, including one that spawned one of the lamest action figures in the world. (We didn’t include the Star Wars…

Movies Kevin Kelly Dec 12

Donna Summer is the Mother of Science Fiction

Donna Summer’s "I Feel Love" was the futuristic dance music song of the late 1970s. But she wasn’t the only disco goddess to get futuristic. Disco historian Tim Lawrence told io9 that the music that got the Village People in a sweat was also science fictional to its core. Not only did disco borrow from…

io9 Charliejane Dec 12

Patton Oswalt Compares ‘Star Wars’ To Ballsacks

Famous indie comedian/comic book writer/video game talent Patton Oswalt is known for his love of science fiction and most other things from Planet Geek. We caught his show last week in Los Angeles where he spouted off about his fantasies of murdering George Lucas for making the Star Wars prequels. Check out the highlights after…

io9 Kevin Kelly Dec 10

io9 Talks to Malcolm McDowell at The Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival

The Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival “where Science meets Fiction” started this weekend in Los Angeles, and io9 was there. This is only the second year the festival has been in the United States (they’ve been running it for several years in France), but they’ve managed to draw a host of science fiction talent from…

io9 Kevin Kelly Dec 10

Steampunk LEGO TIE Fighter Beats the Crap Out of X-Wing, Shows Amazing Vision of Star Wars Universe

When Adventure Becomes . . . Repetitive

David Hasselhoff’s Lightsaber Duel With Stop-Motion Androids

A Peepshow of the Best Futuristic Vision Systems

Lightsaber Boy Saves Mom

Destroy All Planets with the Best Scifi Superweapons

What To Put Into Your Spaceship’s Gas Tank

Six Awesomest Scifi Gadgets That Fit in Your Pocket

Sexy Recruitment Posters For The Empire

Giant LEGO R2-D2 is 8 Feet Tall, Squeaks and Lights Up

Prisoners Explore Industrial Underground City in Scifi Indie

Porkins’ B3-3R Astrokeg LEGO Droid Mixes Our Three Favorite Things

Sorting the 5,195 Pieces of the Millennium Falcon Gives Strange Pleasure, Back Pain

The Construction of the LEGO Millennium Falcon Part I: the Unboxing and the Licking

Imperial Stormtroopers Arrest Santa, Emperor to Take Over Xmas

LucasFilm Christmas Cards Are a Gift in Themselves

The Seven Best Torture Porn Scenes in SciFi

Donna Summer is the Mother of Science Fiction

Patton Oswalt Compares ‘Star Wars’ To Ballsacks

io9 Talks to Malcolm McDowell at The Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival

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