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Chewbacca

The title pretty much says it all

Chewbacco

by James Plafke | 4:50 pm, October 20th

Terry Border made the above sculpture of Chewbacca out of chewing tobacco. Obviously, spawning Chewbacco. The sculpture is actually on sale over on eBay right now until October 29, so go pay money for it.

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This. Changes. Everything.

Chewbacca Bento Box

by Robert Quigley | 1:19 pm, May 25th

The food in this bento box is arranged to look like Chewbacca, who is a character from the popular Star Wars franchise.

(ICHCB Noms via Dorkly via Neatorama)

Bad Nostalgia

The Saddest Star Wars Related Thing Since The Rancor Trainer Crying Over His Dead Pet

by Susana Polo | 5:59 pm, December 15th

N-

Wait.  This is Star Wars.  We can’t do a Big No.

So we’re just going to go have our sad over in the corner.  Interspecies bromance for life.

(via The High Definite.)

Chewbacca Digs Vinyl

by Robert Quigley | 12:33 pm, December 2nd

From a vintage Starlog magazine. Who knew that Wookiees’ lower bodies looked like Paddington Bear?

(via It’s Clobbering Time)

Where Did Chewbacca Come From?

by Robert Quigley | 10:22 am, September 23rd

Geeks with an interest in how our culture is produced should definitely take a look at Michael Heilemann‘s long, insightful, well-sourced essay on the creative process that gave rise to Chewbacca. While George Lucas claims to have gotten the idea for Chewy when he saw his dog sitting in the passenger seat of his car, Heilemann argues convincingly that many ingredients went into the making of the character, from a ’30s pulp sci-fi illustration to an Analog magazine illustration by John Shoenherr (above left) to an acquaintance of Lucas’ amazingly named Ralph Wookie.

Heilemann’s aim, though, isn’t to play the pedantic parlor game of saying ‘X stole from Y,’ although his essay is titled “George Lucas Stole Chewbacca, But It’s Okay”; rather, it’s about how Lucas and legendary designer and illustrator Ralph McQuarrie kept pressing on and on to make Chewbacca into exactly what they wanted, borrowing from their lives, the worlds around them, and, yes, the work of others in the process.

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The Best Picture of Chewbacca Riding a Giant Squirrel and Fighting Nazis You’ll See Today

by Robert Quigley | 5:28 pm, July 27th

DeviantARTist gamefan84, a.k.a. Tyler Edlin, has given us the painting of Chewbacca riding a giant squirrel and using a crossbow to fight gun-toting Nazis that we’ve yearned for before we even knew why. See also: Betty White wearing a metal bikini and riding a John Ritter Centaur while wielding a burning chainsaw. (Nazis not included.)

If you, like DeviantARTist “pooface12345,” wish to “hang this on the wall of [your] mahogany paneled study,” you’re in luck: small prints are available for $9.32, and large ones for $33.32.

See the whole thing below, fully sized:

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