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Members of the 501st Legion with George Lucas at the 2007 Tournament of Roses Parade. The 501st Legion is an international fan-based organization dedicated to the construction and wearing of screen-accurate replicas of Imperial stormtrooper armor, Sith Lords, clone troopers, bounty hunters, and other villains from the Star Wars universe.
In 2004, Shepperton Design Studios claimed to have discovered in their possession one of the moulds used to create the original helmets, and began production of new replicas from them. In 2006, Lucasfilm sued Shepperton Design Studios for infringing copyright and making false claims regarding the original status of the moulds they used.
Stormtroopers are fictional soldiers in the Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas.The term originates from Germany's First World War Sturmtruppen.Introduced in the original Star Wars film, the stormtroopers are the shock troops/space marines of the autocratic Galactic Empire, under the leadership of Emperor Palpatine and his enforcers, most notably Darth Vader and Grand Moff Tarkin ...
Ever since the introduction of breechloaders, there had been a growing realization that the days of close-order infantry assault were coming to an end. For a time, up to the turn of the 19th century, armies tried to circumvent the problem by moving into range in dispersed formations and charging only the last metres, as the French did in the Second Italian War of Independence (1859), the ...
Brian Ian Muir (born 15 April 1952) is a British sculptor who most famously created Darth Vader's helmet and armour using Ralph McQuarrie's design. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was also responsible for sculpting the stormtrooper armour in Star Wars (the helmet was sculpted by Liz Moore ) and the heads for the Death Star Droid, CZ3, and some finishing work on ...
Arditi (from the Italian verb ardire, 'to dare', and translates as "The Daring [Ones]") was the name adopted by a Royal Italian Army elite special force of World War I.They and the opposing German Stormtroopers were the first modern shock troops, and they have been called "the most feared corps by opposing armies".
SOURCE: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, Western Kentucky University (2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010).Read our methodology here.. HuffPost and The Chronicle examined 201 public D-I schools from 2010-2014.
Rex's later helmet design (right) is a hybrid of his original helmet (left) and the regular Episode III clone trooper helmet (center). Rex is distinguished by close-shaved blond hair (where most other clones have dark hair) and stylized hawk eyes adorning his helmets; like all members of the 501st, his armor bears blue markings. [17]