{"id":1044,"date":"2008-09-16T07:24:31","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T11:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2008-09-10T13:08:05","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T17:08:05","slug":"what-geeks-do-when-theyre-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1044","title":{"rendered":"What Geeks Do When They&#8217;re Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/landspeeder-150x90.jpg\" alt=\"Landspeeder\" title=\"Landspeeder\" width=\"150\" height=\"90\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>They build their own landspeeders.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We built this fiberglass replica landspeeder from the ground up on a custom aluminum chassis. The electric drive system is capable of a top speed around 25 mph. The speeder is the same size as the original, and can travel several miles on a single battery charge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From some of the photos on the site, it looks like this guy might be a Disney Imagineer.  I&#8217;m impressed with his dedication and envious of his resources.  I love the idea of driving around town in this thing.<\/p>\n<p>(Although not mentioned on the site, there&#8217;s a Delorean in the photo, too.  Hope he&#8217;s built a Flux Capacitor.)<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/web.mac.com\/danieldeutsch\/landspeeder\/Landspeeder.html\">Original Site<\/A><br \/>\n<A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2008\/08\/28\/star-wars-landspeeder-by-daniel-deutsch\/\">Additional commentary and pictures<\/A><\/p>\n<p><I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/\">Cynical-C<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They build their own landspeeders. We built this fiberglass replica landspeeder from the ground up on a custom aluminum chassis. The electric drive system is capable of a top speed around 25 mph. The speeder is the same size as the original, and can travel several miles on a single battery charge. From some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}