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PARMA, Ohio — A two-story, "Star Wars"-inspired Halloween backyard affectation in Ohio is adorable kids to get toy lightsabers and alluring hundreds of visitors from beyond the state.

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Elevator artisan Nick Meyer, 39, spent about $1,500 and 10 hours a weekend for bisected a year to body a replica of the four-legged All Terrain Armored Transport, or AT-AT walker. He congenital it with his carpenter acquaintance Anthony Paroda, and it's been such a success that assemblage are altruistic money for them to body addition affectation abutting year.

At 19 feet, the replica is about as alpine as Meyer's home in Parma, a Cleveland suburb. The cockpit of the AT-AT ambler is outfitted with lights that afterglow red at night, and a mannequin ancient to resemble a "Star Wars" Stormtrooper soldier stands bouncer in front.

Meyer said he congenital it with plywood, adamantine cream and artificial barrels and based the architecture off a toy he bought online.

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"We're both appealing crafty, but it's not rocket science," Meyer said. "You aloof gotta be accommodating to do it."

Local media absorption catapulted the affectation into fame, cartoon droves of visitors from aurora to dusk. At atomic three dozen assemblage collection by to bore and booty selfies one Wednesday afternoon. Among them was Nicole Drake, 26, who was on her way home from assignment back the replica bent her eye.

"I aloof had to stop by," Drake said. "I was amazed. It's absolutely the admeasurement of their house."

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Meyer said he has congenital attention-grabbing Halloween displays for six years running, from an Addams Ancestors catacomb to the ascetic of a charlatan address bulging out from his advanced porch. He tears them bottomward in November and drinks beers with a acquaintance back absent up the abutting year's display.

Meyer and his wife, Becky, say Halloween is their admired holiday.

"The creepiness, the decorating, actuality able to dress up and pretend to be a kid still — it keeps me young," Nick Meyer said.

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"We like to do it up big if we can," his wife said. "I aloof so happened to acquisition a bedmate that loves it too."

The Meyers affirmed over a alternate adulation of abhorrence movies, and their Halloween back-bite is their better ancestors acquisition of the year. Even during Christmas, they accept an all-black timberline busy with bats and jack-o'-lanterns instead of a acceptable tinsel-topped tree.

The Meyers say they're bigger admirers of Halloween than "Star Wars." Still, they'll be bathrobe the allotment this year: Nick Meyer will dress as Princess Leia, while Becky Meyer will don a Darth Vader costume. It's aggressive their next-door acquaintance Brianna Johnson, 8, to alpha accepted her toy lightsaber abreast the AT-AT ambler replica afterwards school.

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