The Star Wars Christmas thread

A lot of people here have poked fun at how Star Wars has now turned into a a part of Christmas with the release of a new film every December in the coming years, so I figured I’d make a thread where you can post any SW and Christmas-related items that you’ve purchased or (in my case) made recently. Or anything else SW and Christmas related that you want to share for that matter.

I have a feeling that these two things are going to be combined in all kinds of “creative” ways in the next few years (and of course there’s plenty of weird stuff from the past to pick from too.)

I’m personally not the kind of person who must have Christmas decorations and that sort of thing, but since my family usually makes gingerbread houses, figures, etc. each year, I felt it would be fun to try to add some SW into the mix this year. (I haven’t had time to decorate them yet, though.)

(I made the templates for the starfighters on the top row myself, but the bottom ones are made of cookie-cutters that I bought on eBay.)

Star Wars has always been a Christmas thing

Well, sure, there’s always been Christmas-related SW merchandise (I guess any franchise that relies on selling toys must have at least a decent amount of Christmas marketing), but it’s never been quite as blatantly a Christmas thing as it is now and will be in the coming years. All the other movies were released in either May or June, so the movies themselves was never tied to Christmas in the same way.

(Also I got an excuse to post a picture of my SW gingerbread starfighters. Which btw was far more complicated to make than you’d imagine.)

Tobar said:

I feel I can’t allow this thread to continue until it’s been pointed out that The Star Wars Holiday Special originally aired around Thanksgiving.

Thank you for your time. This thread may now continue as scheduled.

Huh, really? I always assumed it was a Christmas TV special. People generally treat it as one anyway.

I want to see those gingerbread ships used in a fan film now. 😉

ZkinandBonez said:

Tobar said:

I feel I can’t allow this thread to continue until it’s been pointed out that The Star Wars Holiday Special originally aired around Thanksgiving.

Thank you for your time. This thread may now continue as scheduled.

Huh, really? I always assumed it was a Christmas TV special. People generally treat it as one anyway.

You see, once upon a time, Thanksgiving was treated as an actual holiday by the American mass media. Now it’s just “that time between Halloween and Christmas.”

That’s awesome are those edible or is it some kind of salt dough?

Jackson55 said:

That’s awesome are those edible or is it some kind of salt dough?

They’re all perfectly edible.
Just regular gingerbread held together by a very basic form of knäck. Though the latter would be somewhat hard to bite through. (But the cookies will definetely be eaten at some point.)

They’re all perfectly edible.
Just regular gingerbread held together by a very basic form of knäck. Though the latter would be somewhat hard to bite through. (But the cookies will definetely be eaten at some point.)

OK, that’s cool.

I’m from Denmark where gingerbread translate(Google) to Honningkage(Dark, soft cake), and the pictures looked more like Brunkage(Hard, dark, spicy cookie), thinking this is more appropriate for recreating your designs.

The Death Star would be made of fruitcake of course? 😉

I have to say the gingerbread fighters are pretty awesome.

As is Anchorhead’s new avatar!

Rum soaked fruitcake is even worse.

Jackson55 said:

They’re all perfectly edible.
Just regular gingerbread held together by a very basic form of knäck. Though the latter would be somewhat hard to bite through. (But the cookies will definetely be eaten at some point.)

OK, that’s cool.

I’m from Denmark where gingerbread translate(Google) to Honningkage(Dark, soft cake), and the pictures looked more like Brunkage(Hard, dark, spicy cookie), thinking this is more appropriate for recreating your designs.

(EDIT: I realize now that by “brunkage” you were referring to pepperkake/ginger-nut. So never mind the first few sentences that I wrote. My advice on knäck still counts though if you haven’t already used it before.)

Hmm, I googled gingebread and I might have had it translated wrong. I’m from Norway and I used pepperkake which apparently translates to ginger nut. This might work for the cookies, but not the starfighters. However, on a side note, the knäck I linked to earlier is a little bit different from what I used. I simply melted sugar in a pan and used it as a glue to put the pieces together. It stiffens really fast and sticks things together really well. I also would not recommend anyone using knäck on their own. It can burn you really* bad if you get it on your hands. I had help while assembling mine.
(You can also use melted caramels, but the trade-off for making them easier to eat is that any assembled parts that stick out will slowly start to droop down in room temperature, like f. ex. the wings on the X-Wing.)

If you want to know anything else about how I made them, just ask.
(Do you have a plan for how to build/design them? I’m curious, because although the Tie was pretty easy to make, the Y-Wing was quite complex. I needed more pieces for it than the Tie and the X-Wing combined.)

When you’ve made yours I’d love to see some pictures.

Star Wars & Christmas? Well, there is one obvious thing 😉

http://vaderloveschristmas.ytmnd.com/