Swag
Check in with Warner Brothers
Warner Brothers is setting Comic Con hotel guests up with custom room keys, featuring images from Chuck, Smallville, Fringe, Supernatural or the motion comic Superman: Red Son. But you don’t have to be staying in San Diego to get free episodes of these series from iTunes. Just visit the addresses listed on the cards:
Chuck: http://www.itunes.com/tv/chuck
Smallville: [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Exclusive Items at the NBC Universal Store
Action Figure Insider brings us news about a bunch of awesome stuff available at the NBC Universal Store. Check out this wall of text:
This year’s exclusive, limited-run products include a “Schrute Farms Beets Watch,” celebrating the #1 beet-related agro-tourism destination in Northeastern Pennsylvania (a precious 1,000 units); a “Heroes Double Helix Necklace” that will enable [...]
When You’ve Lived and Prospered Long Enough
You can make the final statement about how you never ever relented in your fandom by being buried in a Star Trek casket from Eternal Image. There’s also an urn, in case you die in a transporter accident.
For a small fee, I’d be happy to show up at your funeral to say:
[Via Topless Robot via [...]
Dr. McCoy’s Tricorder at Entertainment Earth
The medical tricorder was like Green Lantern’s ring to Bones (who happens to be my favorite Trek character). Entertainment Earth has the exclusive on the Star Trek medical tricorder featuring detailed lights, controls and seven classic phrases by the late great DeForrest Kelley.
