Star Wars Wii mod realizes very few of our childhood dreams
By Paul Miller 
posted Dec 18th 2008 9:26AM
posted Dec 18th 2008 9:26AM
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If you buy one of these you deserve to have your hand cut off by Darth Vader.
or George Lucas!
But...it looks really nice. The artwork is flawless. Plus, it is 5bills w/ a game, not too too bad.
flawless? FLAWLESS!? The X-Wing is missing an R2 unit! How's this thing supposed to calculate a jump to hyperspace!? That, sir, is either flawed art or a doomed member of Red Squadron.
It looks like someone's high school art project. Far from "flawless."
I would've settled for matte black and some cool backlighting, or maybe some dials/read-outs like on Vader's chest unit. I don't really need any X-Wing "artwork" on the side, thank you very much.
Understated awesomeness is much more effective.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5s1ynmB4W0
I thought those were called "Light Sabers"... swords?!
Paul Miller, you should be ashamed.
You have no business writing for a geeky tech blog with such pitiful Star Wars knowledge.
I'm not generally one to pile on, but that is so egregious that I demand Mr Miller surrender his geek card at once. May the force be with him - he needs all the help he can get.
I'm pretty sure the whole first part was a joke guys...
umm, I think Light Swords was deliberate. I thought it was funny, he was trying to be just as off target as the artwork he was writing about. "Ewok menace"?? lol
idk, maybe I'm wrong.
I left my sarcasm glasses at home today...
Now that's just strange even for a Star Wars fan boy.
woosh woosh! pew pew!
the people at menclave will love you for that
Grab your Light Sabers! It's time to defeat some Sith to protect the Republic from the evil Empire's menace.
There, I fixed it for you.
on topic though, i love the movies, hate the mod
Why because they did it first or the fact they called Sabers Swords? Either is a great reason.
that's not on topic
Which movies? You didn't specify. I'm going to take a guess and say I-III, because this paint job is classic IV-VI.
It's fun and all, but the orange-peel paint is super distracting. I just can't get around it.
e-Cellulite?
IT'S A TRAP!
There, it's been said.
Why is the X-Wing flying away from the Death Star?
Then a big explosion.
cuz, it's about to BLOW!
Too late.
its Red leader he knows he will die there so he is running away ahuahuhua
"its Red leader he knows he will die there so he is running away ahuahuhua"
That's the second Death Star, so this is the Battle of Endor. Which means Wedge Antilles is Red Leader, and he didn't die. Had this been the Battle of Yavin, Red Leader would have died. But, the Death Star isn't completed, so it's not.
Oh god please somebody help me.
Fred, I pay homage your obviously superior knowledge. You require no help. +1
orange peel = fail!
You are correct sir!
Ewwwww, that black base looks rushed and caked on. The proper way to paint it would have been to do many lighter coats and high grit sanding in between the coats.
I have a bad feeling about this.
Even when you thought the Wii was just a useless piece of crap sitting in the corner collecting dust. Think again! You can mod it and make it look like a Star Wars collectible!
Maybe I should start selling Flash drives with Nesten and 2,000 ROMs with an option to paint anything on the drive to suite your fancy.
"Our cruisers can't repel sh*tiness of that magnitude!"
I think I saw that on the side of a van in 1979...
A long time ago, (1979)
In a galaxy far, far away (Swindon)
mod, or mod not, there is no try.
I have nothing to say. I just thought it'd be cool to have two Yoda avatars in the same thread.
I'm not sure what I dislike more. The orange peel black, or "Light Swords".
No wait, Light Swords is -definitely- more offensive.
"What a piece of junk."
yeah, but it'll make .5 past light speed.
At risk of sounding unpopular, I really hate the wii.
she may not look so great but she's got it where it counts, kid.
Great, kid! Don't get penisy.
@ipubs - that was recockulous
The close up shots really hurt this guy. Maybe he should have used decals instead of hand painting them. :P
Ya, from a distance it looked pretty good, and then the close up shots killed it. From the BAD Black Paint job, to the Bad Paining of everything else. I guess if you want to look at it from 20 feet away in low light, it looks a whole lot better. It's never sell with the close up shots. It took a little effort, but it fell short.
i'll take s-words for $500.
I'll take Bone Ape-tit for $300.
yum orange peel!
what the fffffffffantom menace!!!
***Spoiler Alert***
The Wii makes out with his sister Xbox 360, the Playstation 3, his father, dies in the end.
Looks like someone got happy with a Rattle Can...
Oh never mind. I thought it was a cool console. It's only the Wii.
Lol, that looks epic. wish I could buy one.
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