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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Poster Parodies are photoshopped variations of the official poster for the upcoming science fiction adventure film Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Origin

On October 18th, 2015, Disney released the official film poster for Star Wars: The Force Awakens (shown below, left).^[1] That day, artist Olly Gibbs^[2] published a digitally edited version of the poster featuring several superimposed illustrations of the controversial Star Wars character Jar Jar Binks (shown below, right). In the next 72 hours, the post gathered upwards of 320 notes.

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That day, Redditor stelaingyourpixels submitted a photoshopped poster featuring actor Mark Hamill's face superimposed into the upper right corner in a post titled "I added Luke Skywalker into the new Force Awakens post" (shown below). In the first 72 hours, the post gained over 5,500 votes (91% upvoted) and 300 comments on the /r/StarWars^[3] subreddit.

The following day, the LEGO art site Macro LEGO Universe^[6] released a photoshopped version of the poster featuring various LEGO characters (shown below, left). On October 22nd, Redditor jpcollier90 posted a Seinfeld-themed edit of the poster to the /r/Seinfeld^[5] subreddit (shown below, right). In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the poster parodies, including.The Verge,^[4] BGR^[7] and Slash Gear,^[8]

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