Rising Food, Gas Prices, Force Stormtroopers To Carpool

By Ben Popken May 7, 2008

Paxton Holley submitted the above Storm-Troopers-go-shopping awesomeness to The Consumerist Flickr pool. They also bought Colt 45, and Amstel Light.

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  1. apotheosis says:
    May 7, 2008 at 2:05 pm

    Awesome.

  2. GreatCaesarsGhost says:
    May 7, 2008 at 2:10 pm

    Seems like a ploy to avoid showing ID. :)

  3. Angryrider says:
    May 7, 2008 at 2:11 pm

    Ha ha… Could this be that sequel to the Star Wars fanboy movie?

  4. rmz says:
    May 7, 2008 at 2:18 pm

    [www.flickr.com]

    That is an amazing picture.

  5. Anonymous says:
    May 7, 2008 at 2:34 pm

    Note the shoulder pauldrons. Those are Sandtroopers, not Stormtroopers. Those boys need to dirty up their armor a bit though.

  6. ohiomensch says:
    May 7, 2008 at 2:45 pm

    I wish I had a picture/video from the night the Phantom Menace opened. We were in Walmart. At the service desk, a guy in complete Darth Maul makeup and costume was trying to return a dual lightsaber because “it does’t make the whirring noise. Its supposed to make a whirring noise.”

  7. ElizabethD says:
    May 7, 2008 at 2:47 pm

    @Coven:

    Geek alert!

    That being said: total love for SW.

  8. valarmorghulis says:
    May 7, 2008 at 2:54 pm

    @Coven: The pauldrons weren’t used taht way. It was issued with equipment such as the T-21 Repeating blaster. Orange was simply the color for the troops stationed on Tatooine.

    @ElizabethD: Oh god what have I become? Noooooooo……

  9. snoop-blog says:
    May 7, 2008 at 2:55 pm

    That picture reminds me of a joke about a muslim who is told he has 40 virgins waiting for him after his suicide bombing. Ironically they weren’t the kind of virgins he was hoping for.

  10. courtarro says:
    May 7, 2008 at 3:05 pm

    @valarmorghulis: well done, friend!

  11. paxholley says:
    May 7, 2008 at 3:33 pm

    Hey, glad you guys liked the pics.

    Thanks for the shoutout, Ben. Love the site, I read it everyday.

  12. DeafChick says:
    May 7, 2008 at 3:38 pm

    They brought Colt 45?

    umm Lando Calrissian!

  13. Anonymous says:
    May 7, 2008 at 3:51 pm

    @ElizabethD:
    What was your first clue?

    @valarmorghulis:
    I guess I was wrong. I thought 501st standards were that pauldron = TD, since we don’t see a pauldron anywhere other than Tatooine.

  14. Megatenist says:
    May 7, 2008 at 5:10 pm

    Wow…doesn’t the Empire pay their troops better?

    I use my Mace Windu Xpress card.Never leave Alderaan without it:)