--- title: A Polish Statue Was Transformed Into Darth Vader by Snow description: During a recent blizzard in in Wejherowo, Poland, a statue in the town square was blanketed in snow. canonical: https://time.com/4196319/polish-statue-snow-transformed-darth-vader/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-27T20:38:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:29:21.971Z og:title: A Polish Statue Was Transformed Into Darth Vader by Snow og:description: Turned to the Dark Side, he has og:url: https://time.com/4196319/polish-statue-snow-transformed-darth-vader/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: A Polish Statue Was Transformed Into Darth Vader by Snow twitter:description: Turned to the Dark Side, he has twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # A Polish Statue Was Transformed Into Darth Vader by Snow  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 27, 2016 8:38 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 27, 2016 8:38 PM UTC During a recent [blizzard](http://time.com/4192409/satellite-photo-blizzard-by-moonlight/) in Wejherowo, Poland, a statue in the town square was blanketed in snow. While at first this doesn’t sound like anything to write home about, the storm happened to transform the sculpture of Jakub Wejher, a [17th century nobleman and military leader](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/polish-statue-looks-like-darth-vader-snow%5Fus%5F56a8e541e4b0947efb6615f1), into an eerie likeness of a popular movie villain: [Darth Vader](http://time.com/4170141/little-girls-reaction-finding-out-darth-vader-lukes-father/). **Read More:** [Ukrainian Lenin Statue Turned Into Darth Vader](http://time.com/4086228/ukraine-lenin-darth-vader/) A local newspaper, [Wejherowo.pl](https://www.facebook.com/MiastoWejherowo/?fref=nf), shared a photo of the stone [Sith Lord](http://time.com/4101573/watch-this-adorably-tiny-darth-vader-play-the-imperial-march-on-a-cello/) on Facebook on Jan. 23, where it has received over 2,000 likes and nearly 1,000 shares. And while the flurry-covered statue is giving the town a pretty ominous vibe right now, it’s been dressed up to look like cheerier icons in the past, such as Santa. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4196319/polish-statue-snow-transformed-darth-vader/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4196319/polish-statue-snow-transformed-darth-vader/"},"headline":"A Polish Statue Was Transformed Into Darth Vader by Snow","datePublished":"2016-01-27T20:38:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:29:21.971Z","description":"Turned to the Dark Side, he has","url":"https://time.com/4196319/polish-statue-snow-transformed-darth-vader/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","viral","Star Wars topic","Weird News","darth vader"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4196319/polish-statue-snow-transformed-darth-vader/","name":"A Polish Statue Was Transformed Into Darth Vader by Snow"}}]}] ```