Archive for July, 2009
CapCom at Comic Con – Oh Yes, They Will Bring It
CapCom, makers of some of the most played games on the planet, has been updating their blog this week with a bevy of swag that they’ll be giving away and selling at their Comic Con booth.
First, you may have already seen the zombie transformation t-shirt, being given away to support CapCom’s Comic Con reveal of [...]
Conan on the Darth Vader Toaster
More Star Wars swag info, which is natural, since Comic Con is only a week away. This time, Conan O’Brien takes a stab at the Darth Vader Toaster.
Like the previously shown Battlestar Galactica Toaster, the Vader Toaster burns an image of the Dark Lord into your bread. Although these are neat novelty items, I gotta [...]
Star Wars Shop: Online Comic-Con Store is Now Open
StarWarsShop.com sends word that their Comic-Con Store is now open. My favorite item is the Secret of Monkey Island Statue ($89.99, ships September 10) shown above, but I might be biased because a good friend of mine from high school worked on Tales of Monkey Island, just released from TellTale.
There are also a number of [...]
Star Wars Trash Compactor Bookends
What’s the most memorable scene in Star Wars? To me, it will always be this one. han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and Chewbacca have only just met and are immediately placed in a hopeless situation as mistrust and snark run rampant.
Entertainment Earth is taking pre-orders for these bookends that recreate the classic trash compactor [...]
Stargate Coasters at ThinkGeek
ThinkGeek.com had a big day full of releases yesterday. One of the items that stands out are these Stargate coasters.
The SG-1 program, however, ran out of money in season 10 – er, I mean – 2007, and Cheyenne Mountain had to liquidate its assets. Therefore, we took this miniscule Stargates, placed rippled surfaces inside the [...]
Modern Warfare 2: Prestige Edition Revealed
Infinity Ward has released details on the various editions of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and there’s some sweet swag waiting for you inside.
Standard Edition ($59.99 at Amazon):
Game and Instruction Manual
Hardened Edition ($79.99 at Amazon):
Game and instruction manual
Premium, special-edition Steelbook case with custom artwork by Infinity Ward
Hardbound art book “Behind the Lines”, deigned by [...]
Cantina Exclusives at StarWarsShop.com
Is your home a wretched hive of scum and villainy? If not, you can transform your own cantina with these shotglasses, featuring cantina patrons Greedo, Momaw Nadon, Kardue’sai’Malloc, Dr. Evazan, Ponda Baba and Elis Helrot, available for pre-order at StarWarsShop.com. ($29.99, ships July 2009)
If you’d rather simply go for the tourist experience, you can buy [...]
How to Get Your Own Tribble at San Diego Comic Con
Check out Sci Fi Wire for a video starring “Trouble with Tribbles” screenwriter David Gerrold, who explains how you can get your own tribble at this year’s San Diego Comic Con. He also invites you to take a photo of you and your tribble in the most “unusual situation” you can think of and send [...]
Fashion Geek: Wire Your Clothes with LEDs
If you want to take geek fashion to the truly epic level, Project Runway alum Diana Eng will show you how to create fashions, sewing LEDs into your clothes using conductive thread.
This Never Happens at the Malibu Beach House
We usually envy the life of Barbie, traveling the world with Ken and Skipper, engaging in fascinating careers as stewardess, lifeguard, super hero and just about everything else. But this time, Barbie is tormented in this adpation from Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds doll, now available from Entertainment Earth.
