A new trailer for Steven Spielberg’s Super 8 was unveiled last night during the MTV Music Awards, and it shows quite a bit more about what is actually happening in the movie than previous trailers. Check it out: [FirstShowing]
Sometimes cakes like this–that is, the sculptural, looks-like-something-other-than-cake kind of cake–doesn’t come out that well. But this of Yoda is pretty great. I approve. [Redditor TomTom_on_a_Tauntaun]
Just a cute little commercial featuring Darth Vader at Disneyland I stumbled upon this morning. Enjoy! [Youtube]
Anime Doctor Who from Otaking (Paul Johnson), two years in the making. From Johnson: 13 minutes of the completed fake Doctor Who 80s-style anime. Drawn, animated and partially voiced by myself. Some bits are good, some bits are poor, but on the whole it turned out okay, I think. Enjoy! This is old school Who, […]
This week saw the start of the fourth series of British radio series The Infinite Monkey Cage, which aims to present “a witty irreverent look at the world according to science.” (The show has proven so successful it even produced a national live event tour, which I reviewed recently.) British readers who missed the show […]
This video couldn’t be more awesome for sci-fi geeks. “Space Girl” by The Imagined Village is set to clips from The Outer Limits, Attack Of The 50-ft Woman, Contact, Star Trek and more. This is going to be stuck in my head all day. I’m okay with that. [via Charmax67]
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” – Carl Sagan This is the quote designer and director Chris Abbas recalls when discussing CASSINI MISSION, the film he created using stills from the NASA image archives. Abbas’s love for space is evident in his treatment of the footage (isn’t the soundtrack perfect?), but his statement on […]
This seriously impressive mini-fig scale Star Wars Sandcrawler was built by MarshallBanana and took over 9 months to finish. With three interior decks plus a detailed cockpit, forward and reverse movement, remote steering, a working ramp and crane, and interior lighting, the Sandcrawler is about as faithful a model as LEGO can build. [source] [image]
Starting this fall, visitors to Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World Resort will be able to purchase exclusive Muppet toys in Star Wars costume. The articulated figures will be sold in two-packs, with Beaker as C-3PO and Dr. Bunsen Honeydew as R2-D2, Link Hogthrob as Han Solo with Fozzy the Bear as Chewbacca, and Sam the Eagle as Obi-Wan Kenobi […]
A pretty awesome stormtrooper helmet made entirely out of balloons by twitter user @Ballusionist! [Via @panther_modern – Twitpic]