George Lucas (hearts) airports

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These posters are fantastic. They’re pitching the Star Wars weekends at Disney/MGM in Orlando, taking place this month, but for whatever reason, the Star Wars characters are moving through airports, instead of cavorting in the Magic Kingdom. (FYI, this weekend is your chance to meet the diminutive Kenny Baker, who actually controlled R2-D2 from inside the “robot.”)

Regardless of the reason for their origin, these posters are great. The image above is my personal favorite. Darth Vader may have the power to choke a man from afar, and his Death Star could obliterate Princess Leia’s home planet of Alderaan, but when he’s flying coach, he suffers the same security indignities that we all share.

(Something tells me the metal detector is still going to go off.)

Tip o’ the hat to AviationWeek’s Benet Wilson for finding these.

More pictures from the series after the jump.

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(images from starwars.com via Benet Wilson)

One Response to “George Lucas (hearts) airports”

  1. Tim's Ramblings says:

    When Star Wars Characters Travel…

    Now this is funny!
    Apparently Disney/MGM is doing a “Star Wars Weekend” to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the first movie. To advertise this, they made a bunch of posters. But for some reason, the posters show all the characters inte…

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