Star Wars Fan Puts Himself in Carbonite

sneezesteve writes "How do you secure your nerd-cred for eternity? By acquiring a life-size replica of Han Solo in Carbonite, having Han's face removed, and replacing it with your own. 'It is made from fiberglass, and the short story is that a friend who is a special effects guy owned the piece, which was a direct casting off the original prop. He was moving, (aka getting married and yelled at) and asked me if I wanted it. I screamed a huge lispy "Yes!", and picked it up, but knew I wanted to do something cool with it. So I called my other nerdy special effects pals, and they offered to replace Harrison Ford's face with mine. I was so tired of hearing this offer in my daily life, but decided to finally consider it, so off it went.'"

Re:...and

[morgan_greywolf]

Did any of you RTFA? He's gay.

Re:Head as big as his ego?

[anakin357]

http://mirrordot.org/stories/39a95b17d780f88643ca2 4fe07782398/index.html [mirrordot.org]

Re:Desecration of a sacred artefact!

[Scrameustache]

It's a replica, not the original. [...] it's not like he's destroying something other people would want.

An authentic life-size replica, molded from the original movie prop? I want that on my wall!

Re:*Not to scale

[Saxerman]

I highly doubt it was a casting from the original. A few different Hollywood replicate companies [ketzer.com] put out prop replicas. A local hobby shop carried one back in the day with (I think) a $400 sticker on it. A friend on mine eventually picked it up, added LED blinkenlights, and turned it into a coffee table.