New Disney display explains Kylo Ren's Crossguard Lightsaber

by Ben | Nov 16, 2015 | The Tech Behind the Movie

New Disney display explains Kylo Ren’s Crossguard Lightsaber

Digitalspy.com reports that since late last year when the teaser trailer for The Force Awakens came, a lot of fans where puzzled by Kylo Ren’s crossguard lightsaber.

According to a Star Wars fan that spotted the lightsaber in the Star Wars Launch Bay gallery at Disneyland, a description next to the lightsaber explains:

Kylo Ren’s unusual lightsaber is an ancient design, although the one he carries is recently constructed. The crossguard blades, or quillons, are raw power vented from the primary central blade.

From reading this description of Kylo Ren’s lightsaber I’d say that it does make perfect sense! (Here’s a link to my Kylo Ren extendable lightsaber unboxing video.)

Here is a photo of the Lightsaber from the gallery in Disneyland:

Wanna build your own BB-8? There's a club for that!

by Ben | Oct 15, 2015 | The Tech Behind the Movie

Wanna build your own BB-8? There’s a club for that!

Rebelscum.com reports that members of the R2-D2 builders club have started a new droid builders club—The BB-8 Builders club. This club launched in April 2015 although their website is still under construction.

Here are two videos of an interview with the Co-Founder of this new droid builders club:

Yes, that is a full life-sized AT-ST walker!

by Ben | Oct 9, 2015 | The Tech Behind the Movie

Yes, that is a full life-sized AT-ST walker!

Autoevolution.com reports that a Star Wars fan (who remains anonymous) created a life-sized AT-ST two legged imperial walker. According to the site this life-sized replica of this imperial AT-ST walker is made out of timber wood, plastic, and bits of scrap metal.

If you can recall these walkers where used during the battle on the farthest moon of Endor. Plus one of the walkers was commandeered by Chewie and two Ewoks.

Here are some photos of this life-sized imperial walker replica from the front, back, left, and the inside:

How to make a BB-8 droid of your very own

by Ben | Sep 11, 2015 | The Tech Behind the Movie

How to make a BB-8 droid of your very own

Make Magazine today has a great article on how to make your BB-8 astromech droid. This site is similar to the Astromech.net site that I blogged about earlier.

Here is a group photo of the team are making BB-8 and photos of the parts to make him:

The crew making BB-8 isn’t finished yet. I’ll keep you posted on what the final droid looks like.

BB-8's origin story: How J.J. Abrams brought this little droid to life?

by Ben | Aug 27, 2015 | The Tech Behind the Movie

BB-8’s origin story: How J.J. Abrams brought this little droid to life?

BB-8 got a start as a sketch on a napkin by Star Wars director J.J. Abrams, according to an article on StarWars.com. And where did the name come from? Well as Abrams explained previously, the name for this new droid came from the sketch’s resemblance to a figure 8.

Here below is a concept art sketch of BB-8:

To learn more on how BB-8 was brought to life, go here.

New concept art of the Knights of Ren group

by Ben | Aug 17, 2015 | The Tech Behind the Movie

New concept art of the Knights of Ren group

On Indierevolver.com, the site has revealed some leaked concept art photos of the mysterious group that Kylo Ren works for, the Knights of Ren.

Although I blogged previously that Kylo Ren is not his real name and that he is a member this unknown group. The concept art images of the Knights of Ren, below, make me wonder if they aren’t similar to other groups like the Night Sisters:

Can’t wait to find out who they are and how Kylo Ren got involved!