--- 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: 2026-08-19T07:44:43.121Z 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 > Sponsored content. 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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. 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