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Concept art for AT-ST, by Joe Johnston (lemmy.world)

I was looking through old Star Wars comics to see what might be interesting, and the classic Empire Strikes back adaption includes some bonus concept art in the back....

The Best And Worst Star Wars Blasters

Star Wars is driven by aesthetics. Part of the look of the franchise that is front and center has always been the blasters....

Hot take, but I think World Devastators are neat. (lemmy.world)

I know Dark Empire is not everybody’s favorite story, but it does have some neato stuff....

For training, the US Army puts fake front cabins on Humvees to make them look like Soviet produced light vehicles. (lemmy.world)

The first pig to fly. 1909. (lemmy.world)

Article and more pig pictures.

Carrie Fisher making a snowball behind the scenes of Empire Strikes Back (lemmy.world)

Mr. Spock explains the Stars War (imgur.com)

An M22 Locust light tank and a T28 Super heavy tank (lemmy.world)

The M22 Locust was a 7.4 ton light tank. It held a turret mounted 37mm cannon and a coaxial M1919A6 machinegun. It was developed by the US at the request of the British military, and used by the British near the end of WW2....

USS Monitor (lemmy.world)

The USS Monitor was an ironclad warship used by the Union Navy during the US Civil War. It was a radical design that sat low on the waterline to present a very small target, and had a revolving turret rather than a broadside battery. The turret traversed with steam power, being about to make a full rotation in just under 23...

Just some relaxing decor (files.catbox.moe)

George Lucas demonstrating how to use an E-11 blaster on the set of Star Wars (lemmy.world)

‘Remember- no disintegrations!’ diorama by Cpteks (lemmy.world)

Source. make sure to give the original creator a like and/or comment!

Before the prequels were released, what did you personally think the Clone Wars were like?

Empire Strikes Back 25th anniversary poster by Matt Busch (lemmy.world)

Imperial AT-ATs from the 1980 comic adaptation of Empire Strikes Back (lemmy.world)

Art by Al Williamson, coloring by James Sinclair, lettering by Rick Veitch....

A boy in front of the Loews 125th Street movie theater, 1976. (lemmy.world)

Source.

NYPD enter their temporary headquarters near the World Trade Center. New York, NY, September 13, 2001. Photo by Andrea Booher (lemmy.world)

Experimental WW2 Japanese fighter plane, the Kyushu J7W Shinden (files.catbox.moe)

The Shinden was a plane first conceptualized by the Japanese military in 1943, and first flown on a test flight in 1945. Even before the test flight, the Japanese Navy had ordered production of the plane. However Japan’s surrender in 1945 stopped production, and in the end only two of the planes were produced. One was...

Soldier holding an M3A1 fitted with an infrared illuminator from an M2 scope and wearing experimental night vision goggles. Fort Belvoir, Virginia, November 1946 (lemmy.world)