Design Something Everyday 20/365: Star Wars Kids

When I was grow­ing up I loved watch­ing car­toons, I still do, but their power seemed much more inti­mate when I was younger. I watched all sorts, but I began to notice that an entire sub-genre of car­toons became all the rage when I was grow­ing up. It would take  a pop­u­lar series and re-imagine the char­ac­ters as either babies or chil­dren. I remem­ber think­ing that this was rather odd. Per­haps it was my first burst of crit­i­cal think­ing about pop culture.

One exam­ple of this sub-genre that I always found par­tic­u­larly weird was the show The Mup­pet Babies. Imag­ine the infan­tiliz­ing of Jim Henson’s bril­liant Mup­pets as dia­per clad t0ddlers. Many of my friends enjoyed it,  find­ing it irrev­er­ent, but I always found it rather creepy.

In this vein, I imag­ined what “Star Wars Kids” would’ve been like. It’s Luke Sky­walker embell­ished with a Wiki Com­mons image of the home world of the iras­ci­ble Sky­walker clan, Tatooine.

In case you’re won­der­ing here’s the Mup­pet Babies, in all their glory (please note the Star Wars ref­er­ence  at the :16 mark, talk about synergy!):

Tatooine Image Link

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