Setting up a Christmas tree can be quite the chore, but one father and son duo found the perfect helpers to make the process more fun.
In anticipation for the new "Star Wars" movie, Phil Shearrer and his son Kyle took a bunch of Stormtrooper toys and cleverly posed them to make it appear as if they set up their holiday tree.
The over two dozen photos have been shared over 150,000 times and have received over 10,000 comments since they were uploaded to Facebook November 29.
Kyle Shearrer, from Columbia, Missouri, tells Tech Insider he and his father are excited for the new movie so they decided to take a bunch of his dad's 12-inch Hasbro figures from the '80s and '90s and pose them while setting up the tree.
"We've always kind of played with them whenever we get bored, so it was a pretty natural progression to just start taking pictures of them," said Shearrer.
As the photos progress, there are a lot of fun little gags in the background. Luke Skywalker gets caught sleeping on the job and gets taken away. Another Stormtrooper gets electrocuted after trying to put a fork into a wall outlet. (He thought someone told him to use the fork, not the force.)
Kyle says he came up with a lot of those on the fly.
"We wanted to always have stuff going on in the background, we bounced ideas back and forth and I ran around finding little props like the fork and cigarette and pieces of paper," says Shearrer. "That was my favorite part of this project — the little details everyone caught on to."
In total, Kyle predicts it took a total of two hours to set up the tree and do the photoshoot.
"It usually takes us about an hour to set up the tree, we probably spent another one posing the guys and taking pictures," says Shearrer.
Even the family dog Max, a Morkie (a Maltese/Yorkshire terrier mix), got in on the fun.
Shearrer says he's been surprised by the amount of people who have seen their photos. "It's crazy! We just love how everyone has embraced them. Dad said it was like sharing a Christmas card with a million people!"
And since the family regularly poses their toys, this may not be the last we see of them.
"There may be something in the works, we will see," Shearrer hints.
Fans probably wouldn't mind seeing more. Head here to see all of Kyle and Phil Shearrer's Stormtrooper photos.
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