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Photo credits: York Maze/Jonathan Pow

MAZE STUNNER maze a fun puzzle without sacrifi cing
the concept, which can only be seen
in full from the sky. “The maze needs
to look fantastic from the air, but it
Get lost in the Death Star’s canyons—and C-3PO’s face! has to be a playable challenge for our
visitors,” Pearcy said. “If it’s too hard,
armer Tom Pearcy may not recreate Luke’s attack on the Death families become frustrated. If it’s too
have grown up fl ying around Star using my drone. Flying it down easy, it can appear to lack value.” It
FBeggar’s Canyon, but with his the canyons was huge fun!” usually takes an hour to get lost and
drone, he was ready for a trench run Since 2002 Pearcy has been found again among the crops.
on the Death Star this summer. basing his York Maze around The Death Star’s design was ideal
The flyover was the last step in concepts as varied as Big Ben and for reimagining as a labyrinth, but the

the process of turning a 15-acre fi eld James Bond. But with the 40th the faces weren’t as easy to recreate.
in North Yorkshire, U.K., into this Anniversary of Star Wars, he knew “It’s hard to get a likeness using a
incredible Star Wars maze. what the 2017 maze had to be. limited number of lines,” he admitted.
Pearcy and his crew hacked away Pearcy plants the field in the rows, Pearcy did his best impression

at their corn field to create the and then removes the stalks he of a scruffy-looking nerfherder,

images of Darth Vader, C-3PO, Han doesn’t want to create the paths. running headfirst toward a pack of
Solo, and Chewbacca as well as a With the help of computer-assisted stormtroopers alongside some
massive Death Star. design software, he turns images into cosplayers from Sentinel Squad
Pearcy said, “One of the most line drawings, plotting just the right U.K., as they made their daring
fun things this year was trying to amount of walkways to keep the escape from the maize maze.

TOY STORY

Lucy Ripper stumbles across an
exhibition of classic Star Wars merch
T
orquay Museum in Devon, England, recently
held an exhibition of Star Wars merchandise
called May The Toys Be With You.
I visited with my mum and dad in August this
year. We were greeted by a full-size Darth Vader
and a great Boba Fett bust. There were loads of

action figures on display, many in their original
packaging. We spent a shameful amount of time
during our visit trying to work out who one little
green guy was—none of us has seen the trash
compactor monster toy before! Photo credits: Martin Ripper and Carolyn Ripper
The highlight was a huge Battle of Hoth
diorama, complete with AT-AT and AT-ST walkers,
rebel snowspeeders and tauntauns! The exhibition
ran from June to September 2017.

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