Stormtrooper Sam alone and surviving in Salina, Kan.

[aceplace57]

He’s just started posting videos on Vine. I’m hoping the recent news will get him more views and he’ll post longer vids.
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Chris Burns, 27, told the Daily News that the premise of Stormtrooper Sam is he was sent to Earth and rendered jobless, and broke, after the fall of the Empire.

The ensuing videos, which can be seen on his new Twitter account and Vine, show him fumbling around while riding a bike, exiting a car and answering the phone at his job hailing the emperor Darth Vader.

“It’s just a comedy idea,” he said. “I like making people laugh.”

But Burns did cause a commotion in the town of Salina last week when a person saw Burns in his getup — complete with a small toy rife — and called police.

[Snowboarder_Bo]

George Lucas would have had lawyers send cease & desist letters before the first tweet had a million views; I wonder what Disney is thinking about all this?

Surely they can’t just allow someone to make money as one of their IP characters, can they? Could they go so far as to make a case that he is simply using it (the whole Star Wars Stormtrooper mien) illegally and needs to stop?

ETA: It’s a cute idea; did he do this before the EmpTV Cribs thing?

[thelurkinghorror]

Chad Vader did a parody, and got the LucasHammer dropped on them. Which is to say, Lucas liked the videos and the actor got voice work roles in several video games, Star Wars and Soul Calibur.

[Chronos]

I think that’s roughly the same result the Robot Chicken Star Wars parodies got. Lucas is often amused by such things, and when he is, he doesn’t deploy the lawyers.