There’s no shortage of things to get excited about with regards to Rogue One. The trailers have teased everything from the return of Darth Vader to blind Donnie Yen wiping out a whole mess of Imperial Troopers with a staff. But one of the biggest moments that’s triggered the ol’ nostalgia senses is seeing a handful of monstrous AT-ATs back in action. Errr… AT-ACTs in this case. Luckily, we don’t have to wait for the movie to have more AT-ACT in our lives however, because YouTuber and (delightful) madman Colin Furze built a real-life version of the Imperial walker. And it’s a playhouse and we want to live in it.
Furze, who’s risked life and limb—seriously his limbs—with projects like this hoverbike and this flame-throwing guitar, used the “2 x force” in this case to construct a massive 5.5 meter-long AT-ACT that has fully functional components like a loading ramp that descends from its belly and laser cannons that can move up and down.
Furze’s AT-ACT doesn’t have the key distinguishing component that the movie-version AT-ACT has versus the AT-AT, “a dedicated cargo bed for the transportation of heavy building materials or combat munitions,” but what it does have is something significantly better: a playhouse full of Star Wars toys and also some pretty groovy neon lights.
Like all of Furze’s YouTube projects, this mightily awesome contraption is a one-off, so odds of actually going inside one of these seems pretty slim. But it does live in a little boy’s backyard now, so presumably he’s waking up every morning amped out of his mind. (Grooming a padawan, Furze may be?)
You can watch the month it took Furze and his team to build the AT-ACT compressed into eleven minutes in the video below. It’s worth the watch if you’re into using tools or just enjoy some good ol’ Imperial Trooper-helmet antics.
What do you think about Furze’s massive AT-ACT? Do you want to live inside of it and use it to get to work and maybe even intimidate a boss or two? Let us know what you’d do with this thing in the comments below!
Images: colinfurze
