Dazzler and Lila Cheney Star in Music Videos
Greasy Pig Studios has made some original music videos and decided that Lila Cheney should take center stage at a bar with the New Mutants in attendance. The song is ok. I didn’t hate it, but the cameo appearances of Longshot and bouncer Guido/Strong Guy were a lot of fun. Having them leave Stevie’s dance studio in the beginning was a nice touch. Seeing them tease their powers was cool, but hayseed mutant Canonball seemed...
Check out Metroid: The Sky Calls
Nerdist Host, Jessica Chobot has joined her powers of geekery with Rainfall films to create this short film in which she plays Samus Aran. Chobot is pretty striking with the blonde hair and blue eyes – a contrast from her chestnut features we are used to seeing her in. The film itself is interesting and looks like something that would be a great setup for a new game. What do you think of the short...
Westjet Introduces a Frozen Plane
Westjet has a brand new plane and it has a wonderful “get out of the cold and into the warm” theme to it with the characters from Disney’s Frozen. Fun facts about the #DisneyFrozenThemedPlane: The aircraft was painted in Fort Worth, Texas. The paint team included team members from Canada, the United States and Germany. They watched Frozen to get them into the spirit before work began. The job took 21 days of 12-hour...
Wasteland Festival brings Mad Max to Life
There’s a new post apocalyptic middle of the desert festival like Buring Man, but this one is far cooler. The Wasteland Festival in California set up a recreation of the Mad Max world and this fan creation is worthy of the studios own attractions. Check it...
Eat at the Great Hall at Hogwarts
For all those Harry Potter fans wishing you could go to Hogwarts and are STILL waiting for their letter of acceptance to arrive by Owl, you can now dine in the Great Hall in which all the students had their daily meals during the school year. Time reports: At the event, which will take place on Dec. 3, guests will be served at tables of 10. Your ticket includes a wand (yes!) and two courses of a Christmas dinner “with all the...
Electro Woman and Dyna Girl – Then, When and Now!
The super stoner Krofft Brothers, Sid and Marty may have given you nightmares with their whimsical but super creepy H.R.Puffinstuff, but most of you won’t remember Electro Woman and Dyna Girl. The show was meant to be a send up spoof of the 1966 Batman series, but didn’t last past its 16 episode “season”. It appeared as segments of the Krofft Supershow that also brought you Schlepp the Wonder Bug (a spoof of...
Epic Rap Battles Stan Lee vs Jim Henson
Epic Rap battles always expose some deep dark dirty truth then gloss it over. Just what you think is dirt being slung at Lee and Henson, the truth comes out and hits hard. Three little circles that rule the world.
Rowdy Roddy Piper dies at 61
Rowdy Roddy Piper was always my favourite. Mostly because my family called me Roddy until I was in highschool, which is when I formally switched to Rodney. He was considered a villain – a heel. He was supposed to be a badguy. But everyone loved him. He was “the most gifted entertainer in the history of professional wrestling”. No one ever got the crowds riled up as much as he did. Just last month he was dropped from...
Robert Downey Jr Delivers Bionic Arm
Technology is a beautiful thing, but not nearly as beautiful as the joy and wonderment it could bring to a child who doesn’t have an arm! See, Alex was born with one underdeveloped arm, and instead of having to rewatch Finding Nemo a dozen times to see that he is special even with one tiny fin, a tech company decided to help him out. Then comes Albert Manero. He is a student that builds 3d Printed robotics and he developed a low...
50 Shades of Wayne Mashup Trailer is Creepy
With the Twilightesque blind popularity of 50 Shades of Rape Grey, it was only a matter of time before it was spoofed. But when this particular spoof artist decided to mashup another famous fictional millionaire into the trailer, we saw an even darker side of the man who would be the Dark Knight. Bruce Wayne. I wonder if this works so well because of the scenes in which Bruce was trying to be the irresponsible millionaire playboy jerk...
First Look at Lego Jurassic World Toys
The all new Jurassic World is getting the Lego treatment and through that we get a little insight into the film itself. Many of the toys feature details we have already seen in the trailers such as the gerbil ball people movers and hints that they have engineered a brand new dino that will prove to be a bad idea. Guessing by the name of the above set, “Indominus Rex” will be a white carnivore not to be messed with....
Bay King preserves Classic Jeep in its Foundation
The car dealership where I bought my Jeep – Bay King Motors – recently relocated to a brand new building. During its construction they decided to take a unique fixture into the foundation of the building. Check it out! This classic era 1943 Willys Jeep will be preserved in this location for the foreseeable future. I wish I had known it was there when I got my last oil change. I will be keeping my eye out for this wonder...
Shia LeBeouf – The Song!
If you haven’t seen this already, you really need to sit through it and watch every last second of the insanely beautiful and thought provoking song about Shia LaBeouf This is brilliantly crafted and certainly worth the three and a half minutes of your life that this will forever burn in your mind. LaBeouf has a reputation for the very strange, but this kind of gives me a little more respect for the guy (outside of getting to...
Dietary Advice for Astronauts
This very clever ad shows what potentially would have happened if the moon landing discovered life on the surface. And some dietary advice for astronauts. As much as this made me laugh (because I am really a 13 year old boy inside), I do sometimes wonder if they had contingency plans if they did encounter life up there. I mean it was the 60s! What did they know. It’s a miracle that they got there to begin with (no I am not...
The True Master of the Bow
Archery is an interest of my own and I am dumbfounded how someone would get this good releasing an arrow. I have seen many archery tricks and impressed by them all but this leaves them all behind in ways I could not even begin to measure. Everything you ever thought was possible with a bow is proven wrong. Oh, just watch! Watching him split a moving arrow looks like something out of a movie. The kind of thing you just say “like...
Meet the Lego Tardis!
Shelly Timson took two great tastes that taste great together. No, not Resse’s Peanut Butter Cups, but the impressive combination of of Doctor Who’s Tardis and Legos! This 1/3 scale Tardis is made up of over 4000 pieces (and rumoured to have more on the inside). After reaching out to Inside the Brick to gather up as many dark blue bricks as possible the Tardis came to life in Lego style over three weeks of snappy...
Hoverboards are Real – Nope.
The elaborate and brief hoax had every geek busting at the seams with glee as it appeared a company named Huvr had actually accomplished the impossible and invented the hovering skateboard we have been waiting for since 1989. Great Scott! The Hoverboard is REAL!! Only it isn’t. The above video is a very clever and well done promo with celebrity endorsements like Back to the Future star Christopher Lloyd, Mobi and Skater legend...
Was ET a Jedi?
This has been popping up on social media lately and I had to take a closer look. It seems that the Easter Egg tradeoffs between ET The Extra Terestrial and Star Wars was more than just a little nod to the bromance of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. Check it out: It is also revealed thanks to Wookieepedia, that ET’s race is called Grebleips from the planet Brodo Asogi. Of course this Easter Egg does present a bigger picture if...
Google Streetview Into the Tardis
Google Maps – especially StreetView has a lot of great hidden Easter Eggs but some are just for the Geeky types. This one is for you Doctor Who enthusiasts – or Whovians! If you visit the link (attached to the picture below), you will get to see a common British Police Box which of course is the form chosen by the Tardis, The Doctor’s personal time travel vessel. Now if you navigate down the road, you will just see...