Posts Tagged toys that won’t let you down
This is Halloween: Lego Victorian Houses, Creepified
Posted by mistergroonk in Art, Holiday, Just Freaking Neat on October 5, 2011
Flickr user !snap! has a sizable series of spooky Lego Victorian houses. There’s even a Lego Halloween Group pool
The third installment of this abandoned house series continues its textural exploration of decay with a Victorian home engulfed in mud. The mud travels through the first floor, tears down a front wall and oozes over the porch side, taking with it household contents of convenience. This detail opens the piece up, allowing the eye to travel the surface of the house and then back through the porch, into a room and back out to survey the piles of garbage. The play on depth here is something I enjoy as one has a glimpse of the activity behind this architectural scrim.
via Laughing Squid
Thank You, Internet: Iron NASA is Just the Real Life Power Armor(Toy) We Were Looking For
Posted by mistergroonk in Intertube Madness, Photography on April 22, 2011
Here’s a thing found randomly on the Internet. It poses the question, ‘what if Iron Man were made from NASA parts. This, in turn, begs us to ask the deeper question, WHY HASN’T NASA DONE THIS YET?!
The watermark points to a site called TOYSREVIL but we weren’t able to find the post where this Iron Man toy was featured.
German Man Builds Working Pulse Laser Pistol, Sells It on Internet. PEW PEW PEW!
Posted by mistergroonk in Intertube Madness, Just Freaking Neat, Technology on March 11, 2011
Laser guns!
Second only to jetpacks when people lament the future the 1950s promised the world. German hacker AnselmoFanZero has sought to fulfill this lost promise. The hand-held pulse laser gun seen above was created for a friend and sold before fabrication was finished.
The Pulse Laser Gun Mk II is capable of 50 shots on one charge and is hell on balloons and plastics. It’s also a serious eye casualty waiting to happen. If you decide that you must own this thing of awesome you can email AnselmoFanZero for the particulars. It’s already miles ahead of the Star Trek phaser hack covered on January 2010. All it lacks is the proper sound hacking upon firing.
We are already counting the thousand ways this invention can wreck havoc at your local geek convention center. We’re also counting how much of our savings we’re willing to spend to get this marvelous toy.
Afternoon, Wage Zombies. Dance Break!
Posted by mistergroonk in LOL, Photography on January 21, 2011
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Today in Star Wars Bonus: HOTHLanta Edition
Posted by mistergroonk in LOL, Video on January 10, 2011
A rare double day in Star Wars. Blame it on the outrageous amount of snow the southeast has gotten. Posting this tomorrow would be a crime against timeliness.
The following comes thanks to Dragon*Con TV.
Holiday Star Wars: To: Jabba, From: Boba
Posted by mistergroonk in Art, Just Freaking Neat on December 23, 2010
Mid-Afternoon Theater Presents: Monster Factory. It’s Totally ‘Kunk!’
Posted by mistergroonk in Intertube Madness, Just Freaking Neat on October 20, 2010
What is it? Monster Factory is a “character toy brand” based in Canada. The toy store appears to have been around since 2003 but the web serials(above) look to be something new.
What We Learned: Monster Factory was found by Harry Myland through the ads on his webcomic Nomad Tofu. Like Harry’s comic, Monster Factory is a wonderful thing. This newly minted web series(5 episodes and rising) looks to be a promotional effort. Gotta get the kids, young and old, to the store to spend that hard earned cash on some cute plush monster action. We’ve watched the series from beginning to end. They’ve worked their magic on us.
In the video above we’ve included the trailer and the five episodes. If you like quirky comedy where muppet monsters and people exist in the same reality, you’ll definitely like what they’ve got cooking here.
Rating: E for everyone. A rare occurrence for this site no doubt. However that doesn’t make it any less entertaining.
When to Watch: Next episode(as of this posting) is November 1st.
Official sites:
http://www.facebook.com/monsterfactorystudio
https://twitter.com/#!/_monsterfactory
http://monsterfactory.net/
Today in Star Wars: Lego Chessmaster Sets
Posted by mistergroonk in Flickrlicious, Games on September 16, 2010
Good Morning, Mini-Heroes. You Look Customized, Lego-tastic
Posted by mistergroonk in Comics, Intertube Madness on September 9, 2010
Thanks to the Great White Snark, we’re looking at our pathetically small Lego collection and frowning.
Lego minifig customizer and photographer Julian Fong–a.k.a., the grown-up equivalent of the kid I would have made friends with in grade school just so I could play with his awesome toys–has created an impeccable custom Lego minifig for just about every* superhero of note from the DC Universe.
Check out Levork’s Flickr set.
Collect them all.
Today in Star Wars: George Lucas Honors Jon Stewart, Makes Him a Stormtrooper. Bearded and Unbearded.
Posted by mistergroonk in Interviews, Just Freaking Neat, Video on August 16, 2010
At this weekend’s Star Wars Celebration V festivities, George Lucas presented The Daily Show host Jon Stewart with a gift that will be the envy of nerds everywhere: a one-of-a-kind stormtrooper action figure modeled after the comedian, complete with two interchangeable heads. One head features Stewart’s recently-departed goatee, “Beardyâ€.
Yup. That happened. Below the jump watch video of Lucas immortalizing Stewart in Stormtrooper form and an image of Stewart in his original packaging.
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