HOWTO make a CAT-AT Star Wars cat-condo

Redditor BillyAppletini surprised a friend with an "Imperial CAT-AT (All-Terrain Armored-Transport)" -- a cat-condo/AT-AT walker. His Imgur gallery , which documents the build, has some rudimentary plans as well.

I wouldn't consider myself a great woodworker or an artist - but I will take credit for being committed to a joke. I wrecked my house for a month building this, which was about 27 days longer than I wish it would have taken. The trickiest part was keeping any of my friends from coming inside my place for that whole time - I knew they wouldn't be able to keep it a secret!
The inside of the CAT-AT has a fully furnished luxury cat condo.
I was originally going to forge an Amazon receipt and make it look like my buddy's cat ordered it on his Amazon account and have it delivered while he was at work, but enough was enough - when it was complete, I had to get it out of my loft and clean up.

My buddy loves Star Wars, and has two cats. So I built him this, and put it in his apartment.

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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Love it. But you know some fur baby is eventually gonna puke in the cockpit access tube.
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Watch out for the neighbor cats running around the legs with a long piece of yarn
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Yipes, this takes up quite a bit of room. I’d hate to see the Death Star cat condo.
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  It blocks the entire view of the TV from the couch. It’s huge! If it’s going to be that big, maybe it should have been made even bigger so you could see between the legs.
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The cat condo alone looks great! It’s very 70s-chic, reminded me of Ralph Bakshi’s ‘Fritz the Cat’, especially the painting!
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CAT-AT-AT would have sounded so much better…
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step one: confirm your bachelor status. this build will make it permanent.
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I love the hunter’s trophies of cat toys!
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THIS… IS… BOING BOING!
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ACTIVATE HARPOON!

>Squeak<
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Love it, but my cat can’t jump, so I’d have to build one depicting one that has been destroyed after being felled by the harpoon and tow cable. One that just slumped forward, with the head exploded, so it would act as a ramp.
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Unrelated, but since we’re talkin’ AT-AT’s:

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