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Celebrate the Empire Strikes Back With Your Avatar

Written by Aaron Mitchell | Saturday, 22 May 2010 04:02

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Hard to believe its been thirty years since the last decent Star Wars movie was released. Yes, The Empire Strikes Back taught a generation of impressionable young children that life completely sucks, evil usually wins and then you get your hand cut off into the bargain. Those kids grew up to embrace grunge and industrial techo and hate everything for years to come. To repair the damage the brave creator George Lucas made three appalling prequel films so we could all direct our bitterness and hatred directly at him instead and teach a new generation of children that Lord of the Rings is much better. God bless you sir.

Anyway, if you wanted to demonstrate your love of The Empire Strikes Back, as well you should, you can purchase one of several Avatar outfits from the Live store right now.

 

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StarWarsAvatars3Okay, Arctic Storm Trooper and Boba Fett, awesomely cool. Lando Calrissian get up, interesting. Chewbacca costume? Someone should be fired for that thing, I can't even look directly at it without shuddering. There's actually a few more outfits in the store which aren't shown here including the Bounty Hunter Bosk for any big Bosk fans, I know you're out there.

The lightsaber animation for the new green one is very different from the old blue lightsaber Avatar animation, this one is genuinely quite cool and I'm very tempted to fork over more of my hard earned money for a second lightsaber for my Avatar. I would have been tempted to fork over for the adorable pet TaunTaun which you can see to the right there, but only if it made that gargling noise, fell over dead, then a mini Han Solo ran in and cut it open. Unfortunately none of those things happen.