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cockeyed.com - 11/16/2009

Scott's Tauntaun Costume

— cockeyed.com — The following is Scott Holden's tale of building a Luke Skywalker on a tauntaun costume. For anyone... who doesn't know, this is an animal Luke Skywalker rode in Empire Strikes Back. (more) Scott's Tauntaun Costume

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starwarsblog.starwars.com - 11/17/2009

Amazing Tauntaun Costume

— starwarsblog.starwars.com — It seems like tauntauns are the new zombies. First we had the tauntaun sleeping bag , then... the tauntaun groom’s cake , and now one of the coolest tauntaun costumes ever! Crafty Star Wars fan Scott Holden blogs about this amazing costume ... (more) Amazing Tauntaun Costume

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Amazing Tauntaun Costume
The Official Star Wars Blog — It seems like tauntauns are the new zombies. First we had the tauntaun sleeping bag, then the tauntaun groom’s cake, and now one of the coolest tauntaun costumes ever! Crafty Star Wars fan Scott Holden blogs about this amazing costume and how he made it. After designing his costume on the computer in Solidworks, he went straight to work. Using wood, expanded metal and Plaster of Paris I made a skull, then sculpted clay over the skull to add the detail. Then came more foam, plaster, clay, silicone, plastic, PVC, a back pack, drywall ...

Video: The tauntaun costume to end all tauntaun costumes
Club Jade — Now that is dedication. Anyone will to walk around in stilts after a couple of beers has my respect.

Unbelievable Custom Tauntaun Costume
TheForce.Net — [image] Wow. That just about sums up the first word that comes to mind when you lay eyes on this incredible fan-made lifesize tauntaun costume. Head on over to the Official StarWars.com Blog to read about Star Wars fan Scott Holden and what the process was to design & create this truly amazing costume. "Getting into the costume is difficult, it requires the ‘rider’ to first put the stilts on. Then the ‘handler’ lifts the body up and over the rider where the rider then has to put the backpack straps on. Then the handler runs to both sides of the costume and snaps the fur onto the hips hiding the riders real legs and stilts." And ...

This Week in Geek 11/30/2009
Geek Twins — James Cameron hired a team to create an entire alien language and planetary biology for his movie "Avatar". This will only be interesting to the type of people who listen DVD commentary, and will be meaningless on-screen. Thankfully, I am one of those people. The ...