Infringe-a-licious Tokyo tee: best Star Wars shirt ever?

Writer and comics creator Brian Michael Bendis (Twitter) is in Tokyo, and tweeted a series of infringment-spotting snapshots today. The Stormtrooper/Star Wars shirt he found and photographed, above, makes me weep with desire.

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http://twitter.com/KEdwardK Keith Edwards

That’s a…. something special.
http://twitter.com/ProfessorBlind Matt Blind

I think we have a touchstone here, a starwars fandom schism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schism

Soon, the 501st will not be the only cosplay stormtrooper corps, another unit will form around the sentiment expressed above.
EggyToast

This is basically the best thing ever.
http://twitter.com/Noddy93 Noddy Ninetythree

proof that i’m either old or that not everything is for everybody. perhaps both.
- Finnagain
  
  Go with old.
gwailo_joe

I can only voice my best ‘ootineee!’ or perhaps a Sand Person ‘Ooahggh hurrrkkkhuuurrrkk!’ as a gesture of support for this…
http://blog.insightvr.com John Harrison

I find your lack of chest texture disturbing…
- Brainspore
  
  That’s cause YO MAMMA LOVERS SMOOTH-CHESTED MEN
http://www.geekforce.com Hugh Johnson

Can I have 2, in XXL? I will pay money.
- http://twitter.com/TriggerTX TonyF
  
  I’m assuming it’s the same shop in Harajuku. I wish they’d had that size. The biggest they had was XL which is closer to an American M/L. If they’d had a size to fit me I’d have bought them out and made a killing in the US. I had to buy a XXXL in Tsukiji to fit my XL size person.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1344056833 Rick Gray

double infringement! The storm trooper is from an image of a cosplalyer posing like that in his apartment. I know because I swiped the image to make a spray paint stencil. if there is interest, I can upload a copy of my AI file, or make a PDF for upload
- http://instantaneousinstances.com/ Spieguh
  
  Holy smokies, yes please!
- Finnagain
  
  You had to ask after interest?!
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1344056833 Rick Gray
  
  type55.com/personal/stormtrooper.pdf.zip for the pdf of the stencil
fatty

shut up and take my money
woodbot

http://www.spreadshirt.com/smooth-trooper-C3376A5603816
- http://twitter.com/VeryOddManOut Mike
  
  Eh… it’s the “Lovers” that makes the shirt EXTRA special
Daemonworks

Reminds me of Danny Choo’s tokyo trooper
Keith Tyler

Sure is a lot of infringe in here.

http://goergen.deviantart.com/art/smooth-trooper-62695688
Keith Tyler

And then…
http://www.wallpaperhi.com/Space/Stars/star_wars_stormtroopers_nes_game_console_smooth_trooper_1680x1050_wallpaper_32089/download_1680x1050
Hubris Sonic

you should see the shop it comes from… some truly cosmic stuff.
Jake0748

Yo Mammas FlapJacks!
http://twitter.com/teve_himself Andrei Iancu

What about this great mashup
http://www.redbubble.com/people/apasun/works/4016027-star-fiction
http://twitter.com/TriggerTX TonyF

My son bought this exact shirt design when we were in Harajuku in October. He gets many comments on it when he wears it in public. I wished they’d had a size to fit me. Sadly Japan doesn’t seem to have much in the way of fashion to fit a 6’2″ man.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  I’m 6′-2″. I wear small or medium.
  - http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby
    
    He meant circumference.
duncan

http://www.flickr.com/photos/creamaster/365416013/

I grabbed the original photo from the web one year to make this shirt. it was for my nephew and I never tried to sell it. And I did botch the hand a little.
TJ Lambert

Wow, I finally stopped convulsing from laughter, still wiping the tears from my eyes though.
I still don’t know where my oxygen canula went – laughed it right out of my nose!
ill lich

I swear I can hear Meco’s disco “Star Wars / Cantina Theme” playing in the background.
Ito Kagehisa

Do you have to have a twitter account to see these? Not having any luck.

…and I agree with Mike, above – the “lovers” is an essential part of the charm.