**Update – Photos and footage from the event now live here***

I may be pre-empting things but this could well go down as one of the all-time great publicity stunts! This evening, Anthony Daniels who played C-3PO in all six Star Wars movies, will press the button at 8pm converting London’s iconic BT Tower into a giant lightsaber. The stunt is being carried out to celebrate the launch of the Star Wars Blu-ray box set which came out on Monday (order your copy here).

The image below comes from Pocket-Lint and is a photoshopped mock-up to show what it may look like. I hope it does look something like this as it will look spectacular and I also hope planes have been warned flying overhead!

Either way, massive congrats to Substance, PremierPR and to Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment for making this happen and massive respect to British Telecom for letting it happen! If you’re in London tonight, look to the skies! Full press-release below.

We’ve been going Star Wars crazy all this week to celebrate the Blu-ray box set launch. Click here to see our rather extensive coverage and features.