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.
Although the legs look like one of the small walkers. I doubt it’s a copy of either though, just a coincidence.
The only thing I find it resembles is to this, which is a battle droid from Episode I & II. But that’s really a stretch.
Otherwise, I really don’t find it similar to none of the Imperial machines. And I’ve seen all the movies quite a few times.
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j.
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.
You can see a picture on the left side of this page
First thought, though, when I saw the picture, was also the battle droids in Episodes 1 and 2.
Jman
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.
Kind of a stretch?
Given that one said it looked “right out of Star Wars” and another said pretty much the same, I expected a greater resemblance.
My first thought was that it looked like an ATST Scout Walker.
Silly people, it’s a grown up Luxo Jr. dressed in costume to see the premier of The Phantom Menace.
Silly people, it’s a grown up Luxo Jr. dressed in costume to see the premier of The Phantom Menace.
It’s a Skutter.
Only that’s not from Star Wars.
You are all wrong. It’s a tredwell robot from “A New Hope” aka The original film. Look…
http://www.starwars.com/databank/droid/wedtreadwell/index.html
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?
No, that was round. And it had an eye.
