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VIDEO: Star Wars space ship crash lands on Normandy beach

With France, like the rest of the world, in the grip of Star Wars fever, an intergalactic spaceship and its two storm troopers, crash landed onto a Normandy beach at the weekend. Well, kind of.

VIDEO: Star Wars space ship crash lands on Normandy beach
Photo: Mogad Prod/YouTube

The spaceship on the beach at Urville-Nacqueville near Landemer was actually a remnant of World War Two that two artists had decided to give a futuristic makeover.

A local artist named Baby K turned a huge concrete block left over from the war into a Star Wars space ship with the help of a little paint.

The video below shows how they did it.

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German observatory goes viral after Star Wars re-styling

A German professor has brought international attention to Zweibrücken in the country’s southwest after repainting an observatory to look like Star Wars robot R2D2.

German observatory goes viral after Star Wars re-styling
Image: Facebook (Hochschule Kaiserslautern)

Hubert Zitt, an electrotechnology professor at the Zweibrücken University of Applied Sciences in Rhineland-Palatinate, is known for giving his lectures a science fiction feel. 

For decades Zitt has discussed the real-life possibilities of science fiction technology and how they could be achieved.

He came to international prominence by discussing the potential for beaming and warp-drive technologies in his class “The Physics of Star Trek” at universities and science fiction conventions around the globe. 

The observatory in Zweibrücken. Image: Facebook

Thinking that he needed to bring a little science fiction flavour to the observatory, he got together a team of painters – including his father and several of his students. 

The tower’s transformation actually took place in late 2018, but it has only recently gone viral in the American media. 

Star Wars actor Mark Hamill gave professor Zitt a shoutout on Twitter, thanking him for turning Germans into “Giant Nerds”.

Hamill’s predictions seem to be coming to fruition, with Star Wars fans from around the world travelling  to the small town on the French border to get their own slice of viral fame. 

 

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