Yesterday was the final deadline for the FBTBForums’ LEGO Steam Wars contest. Behold the entries!
Above, an impressive latecomer: General Greeves’ Amazing Wheel Bike by “Big Daddy” Nelson.
Who are your picks for the winners?
Guillermo del Toro in for Hobbit?
According to The Guardian, his official involvement with The Hobbit adaption was announced at the French premiere of The Orphanage.
Indy’s got a gun
Brand new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull photo debuts (on print) Friday in the latest issue of Empire. You can check it out without all the extraneous junk over at StarWars.com, which also has behind-the-scenes video from Annie Leibovitz’s Vanity Fair photo shoot and the movie novelization cover.
ETA: And another!
Video du jour: 1-31-07 Never Forget
I LOL’d. (via Boing Boing, who also report that Boston artists are memorializing the event with political LEDs.)
Fan Art: Ackbar goes Steampunk
The man who started the whole Steampunk Star Wars craze, Eric Poulton, is back with his take on Admiral Ackbar.
A scientific genius with a troubled mind, Captain Ackbar spent much of his life roaming the stars in a ship of his own design. After witnessing his homeworld captured and his people enslaved by the Empire, he gathered a loyal crew and fled into deep space, planning to escape civilization entirely.
The fandom purity test
How much has fandom corrupted you? I am 56.0% fandom pure, but only because there were no questions about blogging. (via)
Force Unleashed toy spoilers!
TFN discovered a Hasbro Evolutions 3-pack that reveals the ‘Secret Apprentice’ (if we don’t get a real name soon I’m just going to settle for Crashdown) in the guises of a Sith Lord and a Jedi. Rebelscum has more pics of what looks to be a large chunk of the TFU line.
Though really, seeing how many secret apprentices Anakin/Vader had, they could probably stand to diversify the field a bit. You know that someone somewhere is chomping at the bit for a Hethrir figure.
I’m not sure I can take this entirely seriously
Listverse has the top twenty geek movies of all time. The Original Trilogy comes in at #9, and Spaceballs is #3. Uh, yeah. Okay then!
Dr. Phil disses Star Wars widow
It’s a problem many mixed marriages have to deal with: how does a mundane deal with the geek’s fascination with all things Star Wars?
Well, the issue was raised to national prominence when the wife took her issue to Dr. Phil. The celeb-doc chastised our intrepid fan on the air, but then leaned over after the taping to show a bit of sympathy towards him.
Valentine’s Day is approaching, my fellow geeks. If you have a mundane as a spouse, now is the time to start thinking of something non-fandom to give them!
Don’t these people watch Stargate?!
Researchers are Carnegie-Mellon University are working on “electromagnetic microscopic bots that cling together and can assume virtually any shape.”
Replicators! Geez, people. Have you learned nothing from the Asgard?