George
Lucas is likely best known for bringing us Star Wars, but he
did a film before that which was hugely popular as well. That film was
American graffiti. But, let's imagine, what would we have gotten if he
had combined BOTH films into one?
Why, we'd
have gotten:
Star Graffiti Wars!
The story so
far...
Young Luke
StarRacer was bored on his uncles' evaporator farm, so he set out to
find some fun and adventure with his friends. Along the way, they tried
to locate the beautiful blonde princess who kept cruising in and out of
their star system, encountered a rougish pirate named Han Solo and his
Bigfoot copilot Chewie, linked up with the famous Obi-Wan Milnobi and
helped defeat the massive DeathDrive-In, a huge spacestation that
cruised from system to system destroying its' competition! Luke used his
trustworthy Incom T-32 Star Rod Fighter, heavily modified and chopped,
dropped and capable of lightspeed in a blazing 6.5 seconds! In the
climatic sequence we all know so well, Luke was saved at the last minute
from destruction by County Sherrif Garth Vador by the timely
intervention of Han in his Millenial Falcon freight StarTruck. The
rebellion was saved, and the young racers could compete for
intersystem pink slips in freedom!
The scene
here is of course the moment outside of the Yavin DragStrip where a
StateStormTrooper is attempting to give Luke an "undue care and
attention" ticket, but Chewie has other ideas! Truly a great moment
in the film!
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images below to see larger images
The Kit
One day, at
the hobby shop where I work, we bought a collection of car kits, and in it
was the American Graffiti '32 Ford. Lacking all the chrome, it was
relegated to the "Heavily Discounted" rack, where I rescued
it. It occurred to me that George Lucas did both American Graffiti AND
Star Wars, and since I was looking for something to enter in the local
model contest as a '32 Ford, it was a natural. Parts from the Ertl Speeder
Bike and some bits from the scrap box fleshed out the idea. I added the
"S" foils from sheet plastic, and the decals were run off on my
inkjet printer at home. Artoo is made from scratch. The majority of the
body was painted by using Tamiya spraycans, and the burning marks was done
by airbrushing on layers of yellow and brown Tamiya acrylics. The Luke and
StateStormTrooper were metal keychains, and Chewie the BigFoot was a bad
ripoff Planet of the Apes figure.
Alvis 3.1
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