Hoth on a Space Hopper - LFF sweded Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back film

Here is a little film me and the boys did one snowboarding holiday a few years ago. It was one of those days when the snow was coming down hard and the mountain was closed. Being stuck in the apartment we drank, ate and chatted about things. Eventually we got the idea to do some filming in the snow (we'd already been videoing ousrselves doing stupid stuff - but wanted to make something a bit more substantial...but still a bit stupid).

Someone mentioned how it looked like Hoth outside so we got our gear together, wrapped up warm and headed outside. On the walk down we quickly went through what happened in those opening scenes of Empire Strikes Back. Luke sees the meteor strike, gets hit by a Wampa, escapes from the cave, sees Obi-Wan, Han sets off on Taun-Taun to find him. Cool and the gang but we had no Taun-Taun. Luckily we had a space hopper and that worked splendidly. The lightsaber was a can of deep heat I think and it went pretty well (although it got cut short as the cold ate into the battery time.

Everyone did a cracking job, especially Rob who, as Luke Skywalker, was willing to stay in the snow even though he was freezing. I did the filming, Jinja was Han Solo, Andy D was Taun-Taun wrangler and Obi-Wan, Ian was Chewbacca, Rich and Chisholm were rebel soldiers and prompts.

Jinja did the editing and matched it up perfectly with the sound track. He also flipped the image so Luke was hanging from the ceiling as I didn't think to turn the camera upside down on the day!

I keep trying to figure out how we can do the speeder bike chase from Return of the Jedi using vacuum cleaners.

Have a look and let me know what you make of it. Brilliant, while getting the embed code for it from Youtube I've just seen that it has had over 8,000 hits. I'll post the other bits of film we've done over the next few days.

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Cool Hoth diorama made out of Lego.

I saw this over on /film and just thought it was amazing.
Mark Borlase created a 5 foot by 10 foot Star Wars Hoth diorama using LEGO. The display took over 4 years and $3000 to create, and consists of over 55,000 pieces, 50 real LED lights and a remote controled mechanism which deploys troops from the AT-ATs.
All the lights are controlled by 1-9v train regulator and the doors are controlled by a second 9v regulator. The diorama won the recent Star Wars LEGO creation challenge and will be featured in the official LEGO magazine.

Many more photos of the diorama here.
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