Zombie Iron Man showed up at the Paris Zombie Walk 2011 looking like a billion bucks. I’m surprised he wasn’t at Occupy Wall Street supporting the 1% by eating protestor’s brains! Wouldn’t it be hilarious if this caught on as a Halloween costume?

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Superhero Bust Banks – $15.95

Saving your pennies is hard work. Don’t trust your coins to just any piggy bank. You need a Superhero Bust Bank from the NeatoShop to protect your loose change. These banks mean business.

The Superhero Bust Bank is available in:

• Spider-Man (shown)
• Wolverine
• The Hulk
• Iron Man
• and Captain America

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Superhero items.

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Toy modder Jonathan Kuriscak made an intricately detailed steampunk Iron Man figure, along with Tony Stark. You can view several more pictures at the link.

Really, giving Stark a big handlebar mustache was a great decision and should probably be used in the next Iron Man movie, regardless of time period.

Link via Technabob

Previously by Jonathan Kuriscak: Star Wars Bounty Hunters from World War II

Matthew Connor of Cheshire, UK made two snowmen that look like Iron Man and Spider-Man:

Inspired by my 5 year old son’s love for the Marvel Alliance characters, I made them for him. We have Spider-Man and Iron Man costumes for him, the Marvel Ultimate Alliance game for Xbox we even have the bath characters, all twelve of them, which we fight with every bath time.

The snowmen were made December 1st and 2nd 2010, in our back garden at home, in some of the lowest temperatures seen in the UK for a long time, but worth every frozen finger. Unfortunately the snow has turned to ice otherwise there might have been a Silver Surfer to send you, that’s the next on the list if we have anymore snow…”

There are several more pictures at the link.

Link | Photo: Matthew Connor

This man won the Marvel comics cosplay competition at the New York Comic Con. Speaking of which, here‘s an interesting line: “Steampunk is when goths discover brown.” (via) Do you agree?

Link via DVICE | Photo: Judy Stephens

YouTube user MorRokko dressed her pet dwarf caiman in an Iron Man costume. She writes:

I wuv my caimen. He is probably the only crocodilian in the world that would let me do this.

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Well, this Alternate Opening scene should explain the reason why (and it ain’t pretty): Link
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Flickr user stitchFight makes cross stitches inspired by pop culture, including Tank Girl, The Hitchhiker’s Guide, and A Clockwork Orange. Pictured above is an Iron Man cross stitch that incorporated glow in the dark thread.

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The completely customized Falcon HDMI Xbox 360 Console took months to complete. The Iron Man Xbox 360 features bright white LEDs, a ring of light around the outside of the arc reactor, a matching red controller and the Stark Industries label on the hard drive. This one-of-a-kind Iron Man Xbox 360 with built-in arc reactor has now reached eBay and the current bid sits at US $2,050.

BornRich has more: Link | Zachariah’s web page

How can origami, the ancient Japanese art of paper folding be improved? Add a dash of geekery! Here’s a neat list of the geekiest origamis on the Web: Link

R2D2 appears to have been given a makeover by Tony Stark in this mix between Star Wars and Iron Man. The creator, Mike Verta, is an expert in visual effects and modeling, and has outdone himself in this computer rendering. I’d love to see a real one puttering around.

Image and story via Nerd Approved

A few of the items were immediately yoinked by the Neatoramanauts at the warehouse (not me!) and winners of the Spotlight giveaway were notified by email, but never fear! You can still win the rest (including the big prize):

TOYS! Lots of Iron Man 2 toys, courtesy of Hasbro.

Congratulations to SuperHeroDad and rwhgeek who got some cool Iron Man 2 swags, per the giveaway at the Neatorama Spotlight Iron Man 2 Mystery Box: What’s Inside? post.

There are 6 more chances to win, including this totally awesome Iron Man 2 Helmet:

Here’s how:

- To win via Facebook, post a status update on YOUR wall (not ours), simply saying why you want, nay … DESERVE, the Iron Man 2 prize. Get as many people to "like" your status update as possible – as we’ll pick one with the most likes and 2 winners at random.

Suggestion: "I’m writing this update because I need YOUR help to win something cool from Neatorama. Someone delivered a mysterious Iron Man 2 box to their HQs and I WANT one of the mystery prizes in the box. Please "like" this comment because the one with the most likes and/or comments get one of the prizes! Thanks all!"

Then email david at neatorama dot com a screen grab of your wall with your final tally of likes and/or comments on Friday. If you don’t know how to take a screen grab, here are the instructions for PC and Mac.

- To win via Twitter, please tweet the following on Friday: #ff: Follow @neatorama for the neatest stuff on the Web! #ironmancontest

And yes, you can enter both. Both contests end Friday 11:59 PM PST. Good luck!

She is the first female amputee to win an Ironman competition. She climbed the Great Wall of China and scaled a giant cliff in Vietnam during the 10th season of the CBS television show The Amazing Race. And when she’s not running or biking or swimming, she’s trying on artificial limbs to test the latest body armor for a company that makes prosthetics. She also rallies soldiers who have lost their limbs to war. She is a hometown hero talking to runners who have known her since she was an 11-year-old who climbed into a sneaker and began running for her life.

Read more of Reinertsen’s story for a real inspiration. Link -via Digg

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	The View From the Intl Space Station Window This short but fantastic video clip is of the view from the Space Shuttle Endeavour's left window looking at the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) of the International Space Shuttle. Link
	Ying-Yang Twins on Cribs - Translated Does anyone understand what rappers Kaine and D-Roc of the Ying-Yang Twins (shouldn't that be Yin Yang?) are talking about. So thankfully, the guys over at Tasty Booze blog stepped in to translate. While you laugh at their expense, keep this in mind: they probably make more in a week than we all do in a year. Sad, ain't it? Link While watching this, I had an epiphany about MTV Cribs - the jerky camera work is to distract you from how bad the show actually is! Either that or this is how the younger generation actually see the world, and if so God saves us all. If you liked that, then you'll love this: Freestyle Rap Battle Translated into Plain English
	Men in Black Bloopers I know that it's been a while since MIB hit the silver screen - but this blooper outtakes are just as funny as the film itself. What a neat blast from the past: Link
	A Ventriloquist and Her Monkey This one is NSFW (strong language), but it's very funny: here's British actress and comedian Nina Conti performing ventriloquism with her sarcastic and profane puppet monkey Monk. Link (Interestingly, YouTube removed a video "due to terms of use violation" from her own website - what's up with that?)
	Iron Man vs Bruce Lee Who will win? Iron man or the Little Dragon? Regardless of who wins, one thing is for sure: French Canadian filmmaker Patrick Boivin, the man behind this short clip, sure knows how to make an excellent stop motion animation! Link

For more the web's most interesting videos, check out: VideoSift.

If Tony Stark can make out out of scrap metal and other industrial junk in an isolated Afghan cave, then surely you can make your very own Arc Reactor in the comfort of your garage.

Instrucables user msraynsford will show you how. Here’s the step-by-step guide on how to make your very own Iron Man Arc Reactor out of LEDs and polymorph plastic.

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Jake.

Did you know that the movie Iron Man used a Creative Commons-licensed photo from Flickr? Here’s the story of how Jeremy Keith’s photo of his buddy Andy Budd in NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building in Cape Canaveral ended up in the movie:

“Wait a minute”, I said. “What is this for?”

“It’s for a movie that’s currently in production called Iron Man, starring Robert Downey Jnr.”

Holy crap! One of my photos was going to be in Iron Man? That certainly put a new spin on things.

“So I guess you want to use the picture because it’s inside NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building?” I asked.

“No. We just thought it was a picture of some warehouse or something.”

Read the whole story here: Link – via Flickr Blog

So he spent two months modding a store-bought costume to include:

* Repulsor Air – Blows air with CO2 air pump on hip and hose back to his hand.
* Repulsor Missile – Using CO2 air pump can also launch a paper missile.
* Repulsor Sensor/Light – A magnetic switch sensor lights his repulsor hand light and fades out and in his glowing eyes. Arduino handles this effect.
* Arc Reactor – A LED night light from Costco embedded in his chest. [...]

It rocks to have a geeky dad! Check out the video clip here: Link – via Gizmodo