Long as I got my plastic hulavader, wobblin' on the dashboard of my car

Posted by Cory Doctorow, March 29, 2009 8:31 AM | permalink

Flickr user Monkeyjen has uploaded a short video of a surprisingly entertaining and simple gag: stick a Darth Vader action-figure top on a dashboard hula-girl bottom, and voila, mesmerizing video gold!

Watch Darth Vader Hula (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

Update: Here's a tutorial for making your own Hulavader!

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#1 posted by Trilby , March 29, 2009 8:46 AM

Many bothans died to bring us this video.

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#2 posted by Anonymous , March 29, 2009 8:50 AM

I don't care, now or later, as long as I've got my dashboard Vader, sitting on the dashboard of my car!

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#3 posted by ill lich , March 29, 2009 9:01 AM

Looks more like he just put a grass skirt on pre-existing Vader dashboard sculpture (note the distinctly non-Hawaiian base and boots), which implies somebody actually MAKES a Darth Vader dashboard wobbly!"

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#4 posted by TroofSeeker , March 29, 2009 9:22 AM

I hope I don't come off sounding like a staunchy old poop (I do find the Hula Vader amusing), but people, please don't put crap on you dashboard, or hanging from your mirror. The child or pet you crush, obscured by said object, may be your own.
The rear window is the perfect place. When you sit at a red light, the folks behind you have little else to look at, so they get a good look, and every time you look in your mirror, there's Vader. He's got yer back.
I have a life-like squirrel in the back of my convertible. Maybe I'm a little squirrely, but I'm neither staunchy nor old. I've just been young for a long, long time. d8^)

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#5 posted by nanuq , March 29, 2009 9:35 AM

Does George Lucas know about this?

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#6 posted by Dpwhite , March 29, 2009 9:45 AM

be funny if Vader accidentally set his skirt on fire with his swatrz

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#7 posted by jayen , March 29, 2009 9:52 AM

LOL! OMG the comments are killing me!

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#8 posted by Senna1 , March 29, 2009 9:53 AM

slow news day?

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#9 posted by youdiejoe , March 29, 2009 10:01 AM

I have sent a suggestion to the original poster to use this piece of music.

http://www.vimeo.com/1098903

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#10 posted by Takuan , March 29, 2009 10:39 AM

very nice:
"The music is "The Imperial March" from "Star Wars" composed by John Williams and performed on ukulele, ocarina and tuba by Ukulele Force on the CD "Star Wars Best Covers"

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#11 posted by InsertFingerHere , March 29, 2009 10:58 AM

#3:

Darth Kahuna is going to poke out someone's eye.

I like it when people have CD's hanging from the mirror. Nothing like a huge glittering disc right in your face like that.

People need to stop treating their vehicles like living rooms on wheels.

I'm been insisting for years at work that we get proper storage in our vehicles for our cameras and tripods, but TPTB don't listen. Co-workers are all to happy to just place these things in the back of the minivans and away they go. Last month, there was a serious T-bone accident, a tripod went sailing forward between the two front seats and out the windshield. The camera bag slammed into the back of the driver seat. No one was hurt from the flying gear, but it was damn close. I use steel cable and small U-locks to secure my kit (for theft & accidents).

Company is under investigation from Workplace Safety & Health, and they are now installing proper cages with sliding trays for the gear.

The cages will cost less than the fine that's coming for sitting on all the recommendations that I've been pleading for all these years.

Of course management is shitting all over me like I'm the bad guy in all this. Sigh.

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#12 posted by nach0s , March 29, 2009 11:07 AM

I think this is funny. I think it'd be even funnier if Vader were facing front, staring down oncoming traffic in way only he can.

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#13 posted by Takuan , March 29, 2009 11:15 AM

every jurisdiction that has roads also has laws that cover dashboard clutter. Even if they are catch-all clauses about "safe operation". They are selectively enforced to cover radar detectors and people of the wrong color, but they are already on the books. Fact is, if you get in an accident and there was crap all over your dash, expect the other lawyer to dine on it.

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#14 posted by Teufelaffe , March 29, 2009 12:01 PM

Unfortunately, this does not appear to be a product that one can purchase.

Fortunately, the folks that made it provide a few pics on how it was done (making it pretty easy to duplicate):

http://community.livejournal.com/starwarscrafts/63882.html

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#15 posted by vetlemakt , March 29, 2009 12:03 PM

Blasphemy! Blasphemy I say! Praise the Lord!

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#16 posted by Steve Schnier , March 29, 2009 12:42 PM

Best thing dangling from the review mirror - EVER:

I saw a kid with an engine piston and rod, tied to the rear view. It actually looked pretty cool - until the kid stopped suddenly and the piston swung forward and right through the windshield of Daddy's car.

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#17 posted by MichaelRN , March 29, 2009 1:07 PM

The HowTo is right there in the photoset.

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#18 posted by chrisb , March 29, 2009 2:24 PM

@YouDieJoe: Ask and ye shall receive!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyI3Hjs165E

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#19 posted by youdiejoe , March 29, 2009 2:47 PM

haha! Thanks!

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#20 posted by consideredopinion , March 29, 2009 3:18 PM