Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with one helluva geeky contest for you. Nothing spells nerd quite like owning your own replica lightsaber and if that is missing from your life, then read below and take a stab at this contest.
I was contacted by the good folks at Master Replicas, known the world over for their huge assortment of prop replicas, most notably highly detailed lightsabers, although they were pretty big for having the Pulse Rifle from ALIENS a while back... God, that was a cool lookin' piece of hardware!
Anyway, while the good folks refused (politely) to send me everything in their catalogue, they did say they wanted to give away one of the lightsabers from their Force FX line. Given the choice of Anakin's saber from SITH, Luke's saber from TESB or Vader's lightsaber from TESB to give away, I picked Vader's saber. Anakin's saber (which is given to Luke, so it's essentially the same design) is a bit plain, but Vader's lightsaber is iconic.
Now the cool thing about this saber is not only in the precise design of the handle, but it actually works... Well, it doesn't cut through old Jedi like a hot knife through butter, but it has an extension that lights up. Coincidentally, I played with one of these sabers a couple weeks ago at a Barnes & Nobel (of all places) and it really brings the kid out in ya'. The lightsaber not only turns on, it ignites from the handle up, instead of flicking on all at once. Add on the movie realistic sounds that react to how you swing the lightsaber around and you got one amazingly cool geek heaven big-boy toy.
So, now I have one of these bad boys to give away. Take a look at it here:
CLICK IT HERE TO SEE WHAT YOU COULD WIN!!!
This retails for $119, so it's not a cheap piece of hardware. As such, I'm looking for someone extremely creative, with a true, deep down love of STAR WARS.
I'm thinking to celebrate REVENGE OF THE SITH finally looking and feeling like a real STAR WARS movie this contest should be you folks making a Special Edition of THE PHANTOM MENACE or ATTACK OF THE CLONES. I don't want a full movie, but one single still manipulated by you to look and feel more like the Original Trilogy. If that means using whatever photo altering program of your choice to drop in OT characters or props or sets or to manipulate the atmosphere to look like the STAR WARS that most of us grew up with then so be it. That's your call.
I'll be judging on creativity of the scene or characters , the seamlessness of the integration between the Original Trilogy and Prequel Trilogy and just plain geek value. I'm not opposed to a great amalgam of both OT and PT... afterall, that's what REVENGE OF THE SITH comes off as and I think it's a damn good movie. Whatever you think will be the coolest. I'll post the winning picture here after the contest ends...
Speaking of... I don't know how long it'll take Master Replicas to ship the saber, but I'm going to end the contest in enough time to, potentially, get the saber out to the winner in time to show it off to your line pals for the Midnight show of REVENGE OF THE SITH.
OK. You know the contest. Here are the rules:
Email your submission to: quint@aintitcool.com with the subject line I'VE GOT A BAD FEELING ABOUT THIS CONTEST! Any other headline subject to go straight into the trash. Fair warning.
I need your submission no later than 10am (CST) Saturday the 14th (like the movie, funny ain't it?) That's this upcoming Saturday, so get them pics ready.
JPGs preferred. Keep the file sizes to 100k or less, please, or my mailbox will revolt against me and I might start losing submissions. If you send me a ridiculously sized file it'll be deleted. Include your Name and a non-PO Box shipping address in case your entry is the winner. I don't want to throw out the best picture because you forget to include your address.
That's the AICN contest!
If you want a chance to win more stuff, Master Replicas has another contest running on their site with the grand prize being damn cool: limited edition Vader's Lightsaber and Vader's Helmet (!!). Pretty cool, huh? Click the graphic below to throw your name in the hat for that one!
One last thing before you get crackin' on those pics... I hear rumor that you may want to keep checking back to this article and peruse the talkback. It may be worth your while is all I'll say, so keep checking back.
That's it! I look forward to seeing the works of genius you folks come up with!
-Quint
