Recently I've been poking at a fun mash-up side project.
So it's well documented that George Lucas had originally wanted to recreate Flash Gordon, but couldn't obtain the rights and so he made Star Wars instead. My project imagines a 1950s show called The Star Wars, which would have aired alongside Flash Gordon, and that it's this show that Lucas idolized. In this version he successfully obtained the rights to it and rebooted it to great success in 1977.
Here are some of the props I've designed so far...
The Falcon
Star Destroyer
A Stormtrooper Bucket
and finally, R2-D2
Updated 2026
When I posted this in 2017, I had these crappy screengrabs from sketchup because I really liked the ideas but didn't want to spend any more time on it. Got myself sidetracked this morning updating the renders. Really happy with the results keeping my original clunky details but realizing them fully without taking months off my life for an admittedly very silly little project.
That R2 is worth building. I would love to see it roaming around with the others out there.
ReplyDeletethanks! someone on the RPF said the same thing.
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