Stormtrooper motorcycle suit. Yes, really.

Pocket-lint.com brings news of a company selling leather stormtrooper motorcyle suits--complete with helmet, gloves and boots. Only CDN$1,165 for the entire outfit.

I really don't get these costume afficiandos--the 501st Legion types, the Slave Leias, and the rest. It's fine for Halloween, but beyond that it makes for a strange hobby. But this is weirder still. Would a grown man really wear a stormtrooper helmet and suit while biking around town? Wouldn't you worry at all that you might look a bit...silly?

Pocket-lint.com: Star Wars Stormtrooper leather motorcycle suit lets you show imperial allegiance

More nerd nuptials

Another nerd wedding. This video is particularly odd in that the appearance of the best man (0:54) is treated as unremarkable, as though Star Wars characters are always invited to weddings. Or maybe Ernie couldn't afford to rent a tux so wore the nearest thing to it he had in his closet.

You won't want to watch the whole video. Weddings are great for those involved but pretty boring for the rest of us. 

Vimeo: Louis and Jenny's Wedding - August 2011

Amazon.com Star Wars Halloween costumes: get your inflatable Tauntaun

Halloween is just around the corner, but Amazon.com can handle expedited shipping. Head over there now to choose from Inflatable Tauntaun, Inflatable Jabba, Secret Wishes Princess Leia (?) and more. Sorry, the hilariously crappy C-3PO costume is out of stock.

Amazon.com: Inflatable Tauntaun Adult Costume

Amazon.com: Jabba the Hutt Inflatable Costume

Amazon.com: Secret Wishes Princess Leia Costume

Amazon.com: Adult C3PO Robot Star Wars Halloween Costume

Hard-hitting journalism from the Daily Mail on greyhound's AT-AT costume

Artist Katie Mello has turned her dog into an AT-AT walker. Lots of blogs and web sites have picked up the "story", but the UK's Daily Mail has dug deeper. Find out just about everything there is to know about Bones the All-Terrain Attack Greyhound by following the link below. There are many photos.

Daily Mail: The Greyhound Strikes Back as artist creates Star Wars AT-AT suit for her pet

Update on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 6:24AM by Dark Helmet

Bestweekever.tv brings us 50 more photos of dogs in Star Wars costumes.

An entire web site dedicated to Boba Fett costumes

Many reasonable people would think that a grown man who keeps a blog about Star Wars is obsessive, crazy or just sad. Sometimes I think so myself. And then I come across something like TheDentedHelmet.com and realize that I am at worst a rather mild case. 

The Dented Helmet bills itself as the definitive Boba Fett costume resource. I cannot vouch for that, but for the good of humanity I hope it is true. Surf over to learn more than you thought possible about Boba Fett helmets, visors, chest displays, abdominal plates, shoulder "bells" and collar pieces, back plates, gauntlets, codpieces, knee pads, and knee darts. 

TheDentedHelmet.com

Blind Star Wars-mad brothers create Stormtrooper uniforms by touch

Wales Online (a web site you no doubt visit regularly) reports on identical Welsh twin brothers Steve and Paul, 40, who create life-size replicas of Stormtrooper uniforms largely by touch:

“We tend to use our hands a lot as well for feeling to see if something is solid and straight.

“We were brought up on Star Wars and our parents used to buy us the figures – that’s where it came from really.

“It is just a childhood thing and the Stormtrooper suits is just something that’s so iconic.”

Steve and Paul take three months to create the 45-piece suits which are made of papier-mâché, painted and varnished before being distressed with tea bags.

Stereo knobs and plastic bottles are used to add the odd finer touch.

The suits are even worn in public by Steve and Paul and create masses of attention among people who are amazed to learn the brothers are blind.

 Blind Star Wars-mad brothers create Stormtrooper uniforms by touch