Monthly Archives: August 2010

Star Wars Meets Indiana Jones In Weird, Yet Fun Live Mashup Performance

by James Johnson
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Star Wars Meets Indiana Jones In Weird, Yet Fun Live Mashup Performance

How do you make Indiana Jones fans and Star Wars fans sit down together to watch their favorite movies simultaneously? You create a live action show that mashes the two together based off fan fiction. The show happened at Disneylands “Star Tours” attraction and follows a fan made collaboration of both Indiana and the Star Wars cast. Here’s the official Synopsis from YouTube: This is the Full Show Best Version utilizing three different cameras. A special Last Tour to Endor event was held at Disney’s Hollywood Studios during Star Wars Celebration V. In “Raiders of the Lost Jedi Temple of Doom – A Fan Film of Epic Proportions”, a writer Read more »

Inception Fans Express Their Love

by Robin Parrish
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Inception Fans Express Their Love

My love for Inception is well documented, as is my proclivity for all things LEGO. Not that I needed an excuse to post another article about both, but this fan-made LEGO construction is too good not to share. Most impressive is the way the builder scaled his work to create a sense of size and depth. A lot of thought went into this piece, and it shows. (And if you’re among those not impressed by the movie — or this LEGO piece — let’s see you do better.) LEGO fans aren’t the only ones inspired by Inception‘s most eye-popping set piece. Click through for three mind-blowing, genuine works of art Read more »

Get Inside Yoda's (Edible) Head

by Noemi Twigg
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Get Inside Yoda's (Edible) Head

Some people have all the time (and creativity) in the world!  I remember posting an entry about Steve Jobs’ head – not the real one, but one made of cheese – earlier this year.  While the ingenuity of Ken has to be admired, I still do not think that the Cheesehead looked appetizing.  It didn’t occur to me that I would see something slightly less appetizing than that. (Not because it’s ugly, but simply because it looks as if it shouldn’t be eaten.) Yes, that image up there is Yoda, and while he must be the most adorable character in Star Wars (I acknowledge that that statement is wide open Read more »

GSC's Nadeko Sengoku Figure

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GSC's Nadeko Sengoku Figure

Bakemonogatari fans will be happy to know that the 1/8 scale figure of Nadeko Sengoku by Good Smile Company (GSC) is now available for preorder at most figure stores. This is no doubt one of the most anticipated figures of the series if not the most. Nadeko is one of the more popular girls in Bakemonogatari so when GSC decided to make a figure of her, they knew it had to be outstanding. From the promo shots, it doesn’t look like they are going to disappoint. For the design of the figure, GSC based it on the artwork found on the cover of volume 4 of the Bakemonogatari blu-ray. What’s Read more »

19 Weird But True Monopoly Games

by Robin Parrish
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19 Weird But True Monopoly Games

Here are nineteen of the weirdest, craziest, and all-time most bizarre variants of Monopoly ever made. These are the real deal — not “fan creations.” And every single one begs the question… “Why?” Heinz Ketchup Monopoly The whole “ketchup board game” is kooky enough, but how can Heinz possibly fill an entire Monopoly board with spaces based on ketchup? A better question, though, is… Who on earth would buy this? QVC Monopoly The properties are products. The houses and hotels are “Greenrooms” and “Studios.” Instead of “Community Chest” and “Chance” cards, they have “Quality” and “Value” cards that say things like, “You receive an invite from Kathy to buy something Read more »

Ridiculous Super Mario Brothers Level, Mario Keeps Getting Better [Video]

by James Johnson
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Ridiculous Super Mario Brothers Level, Mario Keeps Getting Better [Video]

It’s one thing to create a super hard level for Super Mario Brothers (not the hardest I’ve seen, but still pretty hard), it’s another thing all together to create a level full of glitches and then to figure out how to defeat that level from one point to the next, but that’s exactly what we have in this fan created level for the popular Nintendo game. I should mention, this level was probably defeated with TAS (Tool-Assisted Speedrun) technology, however even if the game is essentially playing itself, the creator still had to design the hacked level and then show the computer how to run through to the end which Read more »

Nostalgia: Saturday Morning Cartoons

by Darice de Cuba
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Nostalgia: Saturday Morning Cartoons

I think that in most western countries that Saturday mornings was and is for cartoons. As a child of the 80′s a part of the nostalgia for me is remembering the cartoons I used to watch on TV. We had only two channels back then and it was in Spanish, but cartoons are cartoons. Today I still check TV scheduling to see if Boomerang is showing cartoons from the 80′s, I love watching them again especially when feeling nostalgic or having nothing to do. I can’t appreciate modern cartoons nor the modernizations of older cartoons with newer technique and drawings so I never watch them. Here follows an infographic with Read more »

The Brightest Day seems a little dismal.

by Darren Burr
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The Brightest Day seems a little dismal.

As much as I an enjoying the actual series itself, the continued appearance of nonsensical ‘White Lantern’ mysteries are rather annoying me. Case in point, the recent JLA/JSA crossover, with the Star Heart driving all magic mad.  Really, what was the point in the White Lantern intervention? Now I can understand why Max Lord appears in Power Girl, and it’s nice to see that Max is scheduled to prevent the events of The Kingdom by sorting Magog. But don’t all these plot threads belong in the pages of Brightest Day? On the note of the JLA/JSA crossover, too much too soon? This team is barely established, yet has done nothing Read more »

SuperAvatar – An Avatar Alternative

by Noemi Twigg
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SuperAvatar – An Avatar Alternative

Remember my post on David Lanham’s avatar creation service conducted via FaceTime?  Yesterday, I saw a comment from another group providing a similar service.  Dubbed SuperAvatar, the group offers hand-drawn digital caricatures. They offer several different styles.  Take a look to see if their work will catch your interest. This one’s the Portrait Style. Read more »

Rock Band of the Future

by Robin Parrish
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Rock Band of the Future

This is how they would have played Rock Band in Back to the Future Part II. You know, if Rock Band had existed back in the 80s when the Back to the Future movies were filmed, so they could have predicted how Rock Band might look in the future. Only the future to them was 2015, which is just five years away from us in the here and now, and their late 80s predictions of our near-future are turning out to be so thirty years away. Anyhoo. Check out this brilliantly-made video that shows what everybody’s favorite video game music simulator might look like in the future. Something like this Read more »