Make your Star Wars snowflakes

It happens every year. The days get shorter, a sub-zero chill is in the Hoth air, the wampas start venturing into your hidden home base, and new Star Wars Snowflakes are introduced for holiday crafting fun. New to 2013, battles. It just isn't Christmas without a T-47 Snow Speeder making an attack run on an AT-AT, or Luke Skywalker facing down a hungry Rancor beast. Enjoy 13 new designs. So, get yourself a sharp cutting blade and have fun. 

download them all - anthonyherreradesigns.com

The Only Lego Set You Will Enjoy Destroying More Than Building It (LegoKinja)

I guess this had to happen sooner or later: Lego's latest and greatest Star Wars megaset is not an awesome spaceship, a short astromech or a moon-sized metal ball that makes death. No, my dear friends, this $250 1,990-piece set is the Ewok Village.

For that price, you get to build "a tree-trunk hideout, secret Lightsaber stash, spider web, net traps, slide, catapults, an elevating throne, a bridge, rope walkways, vine and leaf elements, kitchen, food storage area, bedroom and a planning room."

X-traordinary! Life size X-Wing is largest Lego ever built (Daily Mail)

- Model took four months to complete

- Built in the LEGO Model Shop in Kladno, Czech Republic 

- X-Wing is a 42x the size of LEGO Star Wars set #9493 

- Steel was used to enable it to withstand the rumble of the subway and earthquakes

An enormous Star Wars X-Wing spaceship has landed in New York's Times Square.

It took 32 master builders more than five million LEGO bricks and too 17,000 hours to put together the full-scale replica of the Star Wars fighter.

The Lego X-Wing is the largest Lego model in history. It's as big as the real thing and would be capable of fitting the real Luke Skywalker inside.

The full scale mode imitates the official $60 Lego 9493 X-Wing Fighter - except it's just 42 times larger.

However instead of just 560-pieces and a few inches in length, this model uses more than five million pieces. It's 11-feet tall, 43-feet long and has a 44-foot wingspan.

The engines also glow and roar as per the films - and you can sit inside.

The Star Wars-themed, 46,000-pound spacecraft arrived in 34 sections by container ship from Kladno in the Czech Republic.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2329993/The-largest-model-built-The-making-life-size-LEGO-X-Wing-plane-Star-Wars.html#ixzz2UCOpTV14
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Caption this comic for a chance to win a copy of Vader's Little Princess! (io9)

I love these books!

"In Darth Vader and Son, cartoonist Jeffrey Brown asked the question, "What if Darth Vader raised Luke Skywalker?" Now he's giving Leia the same treatment with Vader's Little Princess. Want to get your hands the book for free? Write a caption for this Vader/Leia moment for a chance to win a copy.

Vader's Little Princess comes out April 23, 2013, but if you want a chance to win an early copy of the book, leave your caption here (io9.com)"

Celebrating Earth / Technosphere by James Law Cybertecture (eVolo)

"Resembling of a super buildings in science fiction movies, the Technosphere, designed by James Law Cybertecture, is to be located in the Economic Zones World in Jabel Ali, Dubai, UAE. The concept behind the design is environmentally engaged – it celebrates Earth’s ecosystem and interprets it as a Cybertecture building that mimics the forces of nature to produce a structure, symbolizing the power of synergy between Nature and Technology.

Directed by sustainable principles, Thechnosphere is designed to use technologies which will enable the building to generate self breathing environment and to generate electricity form solar power, as a supplement resource. Sky gardens for offices and hotel not only give a outdoor terrace advantage to the occupants but also provide passive solar shielding from the sun as well as natural green plantations to contribute oxygen to the environment. Sphere-like building is equipped with water recycling system which minimizes the use and waste. This progressive development actually explores sustainable technologies and the planning principals to create a desert community that will be carbon neutral and zone waste."

More info and gallery - eVolo.us