Flagrant Fans.

This is fan dedication at its best. The guy who made this is a belgian Star Wars fan and a member of the 501st Legion, an international community of Star Wars fans who are connected by the internet, they do charity functions and other events to help out where they can if you ask them and in my opinion I think that they are a bunch of nerds, but nerds that I absolutely respect. They are the people who go to a Star Wars movies wearing a stormtroopers outfit, and people hurl abuse at them for being nerds, but they just wash it off and keep doing the same thing because it's what they love and who are we to criticise them.

Damn.....I just went on a bit of a rant there, well, sorry, but its so needless when people find it ok to make others feel like shit just because they dont like or understand the other persons hobby.

I will not lie to you, I have been visiting the 501st website for months, ive read about the events that they help out in and how members meet up with everyone in their region whatever country they are in.

Well i got totally side tracked there, I was just supposed to talk about the hot air baloon. The idea of making a vader's helmet into a hot air balloon was just a passing thought by region leader Nicolas Lelong TK-2054 (oh yeh, they have numbers), but Benoît Lambert delighted at the idea, and wanted to display his creativity and knowledge of hot air balloons.

This is incredibly impressive, he designed and funded the creation of the balloon by himself and then sent it to Cameron, the worlds largest manufacturer it out of his own pocket, he even asked for permission from LucasArts (like it mattered). Anyway, theres no video footage of the Vader balloon, maybe some other time.