In what may well be the dorkiest thing I’ve ever posted here on UM (yet!), I present to you some dood’s sweet steampunk versions of Star Wars action figures.

I don’t care where you’re from, R2D2 looks bad ass.

If you’re not familiar with the whole ’steampunk’ concept, a quick wiki overview:

Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction which came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date.

see them all here at Sillof.com

via UM reader Marc J’s blog