These AT-AT Bookends Won’t Fall Over with a Tow Cable

While the Imperial AT-AT Walker was designed as a war machine on legs, it really ended up being quite a flop due to its fatal design flaws. That said, AT-ATs do make pretty cute pets, if you housebreak them. They also work great as bookends if you cut them in twain.

These fun AT-AT bookends come courtesy of MokuShop, and are made from 24 pieces of hand-assembled, laser-cut and engraved wood. They look great painted up in metallic silver (shown above), or left alone as natural wood. They also recommend attaching a leash to them, so the dark lord can command the walker to follow wherever he goes.

They come in two different sizes – 6″ x 5″ x 5″ and 8″ x 5″ x 5″, and sell for $55 to $65 unpainted, or $75 to $85 painted.

 

AT-AT vs. Banana Peel Shirt Highlights Glaring Imperial Design Flaw

I’ve often wondered what happened to the Imperial engineer who designed the AT-AT. I mean, as you build this massive walking battleship of death and come to find out on its first deployment, all it takes to destroy it is some rope. I’d wager Darth Vader tracked the designer down and force crushed his gonads to a pulp.

This is one of the coolest Star Wars shirts I have seen in a long time and I need it. It has an AT-AT walking obliviously to its doom. That banana peel is going to wreck that thing like Mario Kart.

You can get one at ThinkGeek for $19.99(USD) in sizes up to 3XL. It’s made from cotton so it might shrink, but it’s still awesome.

The Crochet AT-AT Strikes Back

You can choose from many crochet patterns in Etsy seller Krawka’s store, but what we are really interested in is an AT-AT, not some droid who speaks Bocce.


This AT-AT is probably the cutest crochet item of them all. It’s pretty large too, at 10.2-inches. This should crush any crochet rebel scum you might have around your house. Unless there is a crochet rebel snowspeeder with a tow cable of course. If so, this thing is in big trouble.


This guy is so adorable, how can you not adopt him and take him home? It’s the eyes. Definitely the eyes. Remember, though, you will have to make him yourself, as you’re only buying the pattern. Guess you could always hire some stormtroopers to do the sewing for you.


[via Nerd Approved]

Ugly AT-AT Sweater Will Rule the Imperial Christmas Party

This sweater looks to me like something straight out of the ’80s, with teal, purple, and black colors that always remind me of Miami Vice. The AT-AT is white and walking along in what we assume is a winter wonder land of Hoth.

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The sweater is made from acrylic, so it probably itches like crazy. Another bit of bad news is that you have to hand wash this thing and dry it flat. If you hang it to dry it will stretch. Fortunately, you’ll probably only be wearing it for that ugly sweater holiday party, then put it back in the closet for another year.

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You can get one at ThinkGeek for $49.99 with sizes for men and women ranging from medium to 3X.

Take Down This AT-AT Desk Organizer with Your Charging Cables

Your desk could use some tidying up. Why not organize your desk stuff while showing your love of Star Wars? Premium Bandai has the perfect desk organizer. The AT-AT Multi Stand is a workspace storage container that also happens to be a 1/72 scale Imperial walker model, measuring in at about 10.6″ tall.

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This fully poseable AT-AT has lots of hidden spaces to store your things, including a coin slot, pen holder, and multiple compartments for stuff like paperclips and other small items. The best part is that it comes with a tiny Snow Speeder, equipped with a tow hook. This lets you wind your charging cables around the legs of the AT-AT to recreate one of the film series’ best scenes.

The AT-AT Multi Stand will be available in December for 9,720 yen (~$95 USD). Best desk toy ever.

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[via Rocketnews24]

This Massive LEGO AT-AT Is Scaled to Minifigs

We’ve seen our share of official and unofficial LEGO AT-AT builds, but Noah‘s 5,000 piece build is something special. This one is properly scaled for LEGO minifigs! How cool is that?

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Noah also built a Hoth diorama to go with it, naturally. Otherwise what would be the point of building it to scale for LEGO minifigs? This thing looks amazing. And since it is to scale, just imagine all of the diorama scenes you could create around this beast.

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Check out the video to see even more detail. You can check out more pics on Noah’s Flickr page. I would love to see him add some scale snowspeeders to the scene.

[via Brothers Brick via Nerd Approved]

DIY 3D Printed AT-AT Cutaway: Walker with a Half Shell

…empire power! A couple of months ago we checked out a 3D printed and motorized AT-AT model. Kirby Downey also designed a 3D printable AT-AT, but his model doesn’t have the exterior on one side to showcase its interior.

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Here’s a time-lapse of Kirby putting the model together:

You can download the AT-AT’s files from Kirby’s MyMiniFactory page.

[via 3D Print]

LEGO Star Wars Minifigs in Ship Costumes: A New KanColle

Flickr user Nick Chen aka solscud made a cute collection of Star Wars minifigures wearing their respective vehicles. For instance, Kylo Ren has his command shuttle, Han Solo is wearing the Millennium Falcon and Rey is, well, in the Millennium Falcon, but with the new different radar dish.

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Check out the rest in the gallery below or wear your browser and blast off to Nick’s Flickr page.

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[via Geyser of Awesome]

DIY 3D Printed Motorized AT-AT: Infinite Orders

Mechanical engineering student Daniel Olson helps the Empire rise again with his design for a miniature motorized AT-AT. You’ll need an electric motor and a 9V battery to make it move, but the rest of its parts are 3D printable, even the gears that connect the legs to the motor.

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It’s going to take you a bit of sanding and trial and error to get the gears right, and it also lacks many of the vehicles’ surface details. But overall I think it’s a cool no-frills build.

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Head to Daniel’s Thingiverse page for the complete how-to as well as the 3D files and the parts list.

[via 3D Print]

Walking AT-AT Project Makes Childhood Dreams Come True

I’m sure we all have these random childhood memories of events that happened that weren’t particularly important or scary, but we still remember them with incredible clarity decades later. One of those random memories for me was going over to my cousin’s house back in the early ’80s and finding out he had just got one of those massive AT-AT walker toys as a gift.

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We played with that noisy and hard to move AT-AT for hours and I clearly recall us both talking about how awesome it would be to have one that really walked. Fast forward a bunch of years and a geek called Dave Stein has made that dream come true.

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What you see here is a vintage ’81 Kenner AT-AT toy that he has crammed full of servos, aluminum rails, and other hardware to make it actually walk. It’s operated by an Xbox 360 controller, and it is full of so much awesome I can hardly stand it. If you want to try and make one for yourself, a full parts list is available on the project’s website, Atatproject.com.