Somewhere in upstate New York, James Earl Jones is laughing maniacally.

Remember that post from last week about the 21-foot working X-Wing replica? Well, the aircraft's creators took it out for a test drive in the desert of Plaster City, CA, this week, and let's just say that perhaps the force wasn't quite so strong with them as initially suspected. I don't want to point any fingers here, but I'd like to point out that Lucasfilm's copyright lawyers have been suspiciously silent thus far. But who knows, a little bit of CGI in post and the ship will be as good as new.

Gizmodo has video of the strangely beautiful spectacle, like a voice crying out and being suddenly silenced.

But no worries, guys, if the empire taught us one thing, nothing that a couple of nails and a few thousand obedient clone solders can't fix.

On second though, that didn't really turn out too well the second time around either.