Here's a custom project where a guy made a hot air balloon shaped like Darth Vader's head. The article about it is somewhat light on details but it does say they sent a 3D object file to the hot air balloon manufacturers�and then made custom modifications once they received the final balloon.

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Here is a bizarre video featuring a guy who dresses up like Darth Vader and plays a violin in a city downtown. Some of the comments of the video claim it was filmed in downtown Victoria, BC, Canada. The guy sings along with his violin busking though it's pretty difficult to make out what he's saying. At least he is somewhat original moreso than some of the�buskers in other entries (like the guy from San Francisco). The video might be better if the guy actually knew how to play the violin.

Check out the video of Darth playing the violin below or click over and view it on the host site.

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If you are looking for what NOT to buy your local Star Wars nerd for Christmas this has probably got to be at the top of your list. I'd like to know what marketing genius or focus group came up with the idea of a red Darth Vader for Christmas and though it would sell a billion copies. What exactly do you do with a red Darth Vader + yuletide wreath + Christmas light's decorated Star Destroyer background? You can't exactly throw the red Darth Vader down with your other Star Wars nerd toys and get it on can you? What's the play? Darth Vader slipped in some red paint and is REALLY MAD NOW? I think you're way over the top now George. Which part of the continuity of Star Wars does a red Darth Vader fall into? What's next? Darth Vader in a Santa suit? I guess maybe you could stick it on the top of your Christmas tree if you were a real Star Wars nerd.

Check out the full size photo of the red Darth Vader action figure for yourself over at Rebelscum.

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In this video we have a guy wearing a Star Wars Darth Vader suit scratching on a record turn table. The song he is re-mixing is the Star Wars Imperial March. I haven't figured out if this a parody or a tribute to Star Wars yet but I'm leaning towards tribute. I'm not sure that I actually care for the re-mix of Imperial March but the video is kind of funny to say the least. You have Darth Vader scratching on a turn table instead of wielding a lightsaber�and force choking people to death. Darth, I didn't know you cared.

Check out the full length video of Vader scratching on a turntable below or click on over and view it at their website.

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Here is a pretty funny commercial from LucasArts for their Revenge of the Sith franchise milking machine video game. It is a fake home movie at the dinner table with the family. There is the blonde mom, the annoying brother, the bespeckled dad, the loopy uncle, and the little sister. The loopy uncle is talking trash to the little sister about his claw hand. He bust out the cup and pretends he is Darth Vader. The little sister gets fed up and whoops out a lightsaber, promptly cutting his hand off before sitting down again like nothing happened.

Waste time at work watching this stupid but amusing LucasArts commercial.

This Star Wars fan film is a year or more old but if you haven't seen it, it is pretty funny. They used Star Wars Galaxies (a game) to film the video and it is basically a rap music video by Boba Fett (the bounty hunter in Star Wars). It's probably one of the better fan films I'm seen because it doesn't have Star Wars geeks as actors. Boba Fett raps about all sorts of things such is Jabba the Hutt, Vader, his Corvette, and apparently syncronized dancing. Go figure. Don't quite your day job Boba.

Get your Star Wars nerd going on with this video.

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Here we have a commercial for what I think is a cell phone company (Orange?). Anyway Darth Vader is attempting to pitch a new movie for himself to a group of "marketing" people sitting on a panel. Suffice to say they don't buy it even when Darth Vader busts out with the Jedi mind tricks. What is missing from the commercial is where Vader pulls out his light saber and cuts this clows down to size for talking back to him. Who ever heard of calling a cell phone company "Orange" anyway. Idiots.

Check out the stupid commercial which whore's out Darth Vader for yourself.

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So Masterfoods USA decided they didn't want Darth Tater to get all the action and came out with Star Wars M&Ms. The slogan is that these are dark chocolate M&Ms and the pitch being "Go to the Dark Side". The package features M&Ms dressed up as storm (or clone?) troopers and Boba (or Jango?) Fett. They didn't dress Darth Vader up as an M&M though according to the photo of the M&M wrapper. I guess a squat round Darth Vader just wouldn't be the same.

Check out the full size photo of the new Dark Side M&Ms package.

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One of the most emailed photos right now is of Darth Vader and Darth Tater at the International Toy Fair. A couple months ago Hasbro announced Darth Tater and released photos of the toy which quickly became one of the most emailed photos on Yahoo. In this photo it shows Darth Tater holding a Darth Vader "action figure" and Darth Vader holding a "Darth Tater" toy (also known as Darth Tator). I just checked the date and this photo as actually from back in February so I'm not sure what spured it to hit the top emailed photos now.

Check out the full photo of Darth Tater and Darth Vader togather for yourself.

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It looks like Hasbro is getting into the Star Wars spirit this year with their new Mr. Potato Head themed Darth Tater. Scary. It looks like he has a potato body�and all the accessories are from Darth Vader including mask, arms, light saber, cape, helmet, and feet. The eyes are Mr. Potato Head though; I'd know that look anywhere. It looks like you will be able to buy it in February. I wonder if the light saber has an LED in it or they just went with a classic no break toy on this one.

Another Star Wars Toy, Darth Tator.

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