I bought this desk lamp a couple of weeks ago. Two of my friends have told me that the design is a rip-off from one of the Imperial machines in the Star Wars series.
But they haven’t been able specify which one. Any afficionados able to be more specific? A link to a pic would be appreciated. Closeop of lamp’s head here.
With the leg construction, it could also be considered to look a bit like one of the ATST Scout Walkers in ROtJ. The head doesn’t look anything like those, but the construction of the joints COULD be seen as resembling them, but it’s kind of like cloud pictures…occasionally you can find stuff that looks like common items, even if no one else agrees with you.
Thanks, I can see the resemblance to the battle droids, though I agree it’s kind of a stretch. Jman, I doubt it’s the scout walker, since the comments were about the lamp head, which is why I included a second closeup of it.
I saw the 1st three SW movies, which IMHO got pregressively lamer, and haven’t seen any of the newer ones. So I thought maybe there were some new machines with a remarkable similarity to desk lamps.
Isn’t it…in Return of the Jedi, at the very beginning, Threepeeo and Artoo go up to Jabba’s door, and there’s this little camera thing in the door that pops out, twists around and looks at them. Is that it?