{"id":16639,"date":"2015-03-24T08:33:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T16:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=16639"},"modified":"2023-01-23T11:52:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T19:52:04","slug":"star-wars-hobbyist-creates-custom-drone-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/star-wars-hobbyist-creates-custom-drone-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Have You Seen a Galaxy Far, Far Away in the Sky Lately?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hobbyist Olivier C. brings a galaxy far, far away so much closer to home with this do-it-yourself RC Tie Interceptor! If I saw these flying through the air, I&#8217;d run down to the Cantina in search of a scruffy-looking nerfherder with a ship of their own.<\/p>\n<p>The custom TIE Interceptor isn&#8217;t the first <strong><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?theme=Star+Wars&amp;id=EN-407186506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Star Wars<\/a><\/i><\/strong> creation to fly through the air. Olivier took the Millennium Falcon to Hoth with a quadcopter mounted within a custom Falcon body. Check them out in the videos below!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not the only one amazed by quadcopters, but that wonderment reaches a new level with Oliver&#8217;s <i>Star Wars<\/i> vehicle quadcopters. He creates a light shell in the shape of classic vehicles, like the the TIE Interceptor and Millenium Falcon, which are then placed on custom-built quadcopters.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s currently working on the triangular-shaped Imperial Star Destroyer, and I personally can&#8217;t wait to see the result! Maybe he&#8217;ll take all three vehicles out and create an epic battle!<\/p>\n<p>These custom vehicles are a great way for <i>Star Wars<\/i> fans to create their own drones, because Olivier shares his schematics in a step-by-step guide on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcgroups.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=2331840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RCGroups.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, these <i>Star Wars<\/i> drones have apt timing. <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/2014\/11\/28\/star-wars-the-force-awakens-trailer-breakdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/a><\/i> hits theatres on December 18, 2015.<\/p>\n<h4>RC Tie Interceptor &#8211; The Empire Strikes Back<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qTB2-0tDloM?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>RC Millennium Falcon &#8211; Falcon Down<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RpvIU8i0khs?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hobbyist Olivier C. brings a galaxy far, far away so much closer to home with this do-it-yourself RC Tie Interceptor! If I saw these flying through the air, I&#8217;d run down to the Cantina in search of a scruffy-looking nerfherder with a ship of their own. The custom TIE Interceptor isn&#8217;t the first Star Wars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1043,172,390],"tags":[2227,112,2323,1097,419,2322,2321],"yst_prominent_words":[11415,6830,18985,8590,9953,10330,18982,11274,7930,18983,18986,18984,18980,18978,5780,5779,18981,18979,6733,5781],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16639"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68746,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16639\/revisions\/68746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16639"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}