In Return of the Jedi, the gangster Jabba the Hutt captured Princess Leia Organa and enslaved her. He dressed her in a luxurious and revealing metal bikini. It appeared on screen only briefly, but has ever since been an icon of geek fashion, imitated and altered many times.
Now you can own the original worn by Carrie Fisher. The auction house Profiles in History is offering it among 50 other Star Wars props for sale on October 1. Experts anticipate that it will sell for between $80,000 and $120,000.
As days go by and the premiere of Episode VII: The Force Awakens draws ever closer, Star Wars fans are getting more and more excited while the rest of the world goes “meh”.
It's not unusual for fans to be singled out by their geeky passions, and the Star Wars mania that's currently rising in the world of pop culture is bringing out the lovers and the haters.
Arcade games were a big part of many a gamer's childhood, but the cabinets on which we played our favorite games had to be small enough that it could share the arcade floor with all the other games.
But those of us who became fascinated with arcade games at a very early age remember arcade cabinets as giant noisy and colorful, with lots of fun sounds and flashing lights emanating from the machine.
We had to stand on a chair to see the screen, a feeling adults couldn't effectively recreate until arcade enthusiast Jason Camberis built the world's largest arcade machine.
Hollywood has always been the hub of the entertainment industry, because it's where the whole biz of show began and where most movies and TV shows are filmed to this day.
But there's one place in North America that has earned the nickname “Hollywood North”- Vancouver, British Columbia.
Vancouver is seen as an ultimate outdoor shooting location for TV and film because it can be made to look like nearly any major city in the world with a little digital compositing and some visual elements to show us we're in an American city.
The image above shows how easy it is to turn Vancouver into Seattle by adding the Space Needle in the background and a Pike St. sign over the road.
Tony Zhou of Every Frame A Painting created this video homage to "Hollywood North", revealing how strange it is that Vancouver is the third largest filmmaking city in North America and yet Vancouver Never Plays Itself. (Video contains NSFW language)
Superman is a big fan of Taylor Swift, which drives Batman up the wall when they're carpooling to work together, and that's where the bad blood between them originated.
Now the two most super of superheroes are about to square off on the big screen in Batman V Superman, but before that flick hits theaters they're going to war in an animated spoof of the music video for Taylor Swift's “Bad Blood”.
Bat Blood was created by the How It Should Have Ended team to celebrate their 10th year on the interwebs, and what better way to celebrate ten years of star studded animated parodies than a super sized crossover parody of epic proportions?!
Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website or at Facebook.
Adam West is the television icon of icons. After almost a decade of being a "that face is familiar" working, journeyman actor, in 1965, at the age of 37, he was cast as the title character in a new campy comic series on ABC called Batman.
Batman premiered as a mid-season replacement in January of 1966 and Adam almost instantly went from semi-anonymity to becoming the hottest actor in show business.
But the colossal success of Batman was a double-edged sword. Like a streaking comet, the show's huge success quickly fizzled out. After a brief two-and-a-half year run and 120 episodes, Batman was cancelled. Adam West quickly went from being red-hot to being a has-been, hopelessly typecast as the Caped Crusader. (He did nothing but personal appearances for two years.)
But time has a funny way of sometimes healing things, and now, over four decades after the demise of Batman, Adam West is a very successful actor and voice-over artist who earns small fortunes at signing shows in the U.S. and overseas. Adam's recurring guest role as “Mayor West" on the ultra-popular animated series Family Guy has gained him a whole new generation of avid fans.
Okay, let's take a look at a few things you may not have known about Adam West.
* Born William West Anderson, he changed his name to Adam early in his career (1959) because he liked the way it sounded with “West,” his mother's maiden name. Close friends still call him Bill.
* An avid comic book collector since he was ten, he was a huge fan of Batman comics as a young boy and always loved the character.
Okay, it’s not a Pop Tart -it’s Pop Art! Falcon Toys offered Han Solo frozen in sugary icing on a toaster pastry made of resin for a short time until they were sold out. Maybe they'll make more! Recommended for serious adult collectors with a sense of humor, who grew up eating Pop Tarts for breakfast and carrying their lunch to school in a Star Wars lunchbox.
You can see why it’s not recommended for children. And why didn’t someone think of this long, long ago? Well, someone didthink of it, but never made it out of food or anything else. -via Geeks Are Sexy
When you hate someone so much you consider them an enemy you begin to consider sending them something awful, something that shows just how much you dislike that person.
But when boxes full of feces and strongly worded memos aren't enough you need something that cuts straight to the bone, like these hand painted postcards for your enemies by Killien Huynh of KAA Studio.
Killien's happily hateful postcards feature watercolor paintings of cute little critters delivering dark messages to your enemies, warming the heart of the hated before stabbing it with a snappy slogan.
It's common for actors to obsess over a role, wearing the persona like a disguise while filming so they really sell the character on the screen.
But actors who really commit to a role are willing to put their physical health on the line to embody a character, gaining or losing an unhealthy amount of weight to help them get into the role.
Christian Bale has both lost and gained to properly fit into his roles-he lost over 50 lbs. for his role in The Machinist and gained 43 lbs to play Irving in American Hustle, a gain that resulted in two herniated discs.
Kevin James is known for being a “big guy”, and he weighed in at 285 lbs. before training for his role in Here Comes The Boom, where he played a high school teacher turned MMA fighter.
After training intensely for the role he'd slimmed down to 218 lbs. and was clearly in peak physical condition in the film.
Many movies have two or more possible endings before one is selected for the final edit. The chosen ending is often a result of test audiences’ preference, a better idea that occurred to writers along the way, or the decision to open the door for possible sequels.
Screen Rant lets us in on the endings that weren’t used in five movies. Therefore, this video contains spoilers for First Blood, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, I Am Legend, Terminator 2, and 28 Days Later. I think if you were ever planning to see those movies, you would have by now. -via Geeks Are Sexy
There's no rule saying a film must contain a bunch of shots that look just as beautiful as still images as they do on the big screen, but sending viewers home with a head full of memorable shots ain't such a bad thing either.
These iconic, photographic shots are part of what made Stanley Kubrick one of the greatest directors in motion picture history, and when the shots came alive with dialog and camera motion audiences were entranced by Kubrick's singular vision.
Filmmaker and fan somersetVII created this homage to the director appropriately entitled "Kubrick" using shots and clips from his many iconic films to demonstrate Kubrick's knack for conveying emotion and mood through imagery and dialog.
Watching someone paint or sculpt can be rather tedious or boring in real time, unless it's accompanied by the soothing sound of Bob Ross's voice that is, but watching someone draw can be quite magical.
Masters of illustration make the creation of an amazing drawing look easy, their chosen instrument dancing and skating across the page laying down line and tone until eye pleasing forms appear.
San Francisco-based illustrator Karla Ortiz is bewitching to watch while she's working, and this time lapse video allows us to take a look over her shoulder as she creates a classically inspired piece for her show "Omens", taking place at Thinkspace Gallery in Culver City, California from September 12th to October 3rd.
The Wild West Era lasted about 60 years, but it seems like a million stories have been told about the rough riding cowboys, slick shooting gunslingers and tenacious trailblazers who settled the West.
But this grim and gritty era in American history left us with far more questions than answers, and even those who spend their lives studying the era have a hard time agreeing on things like- Did Butch Cassidy ever return to the U.S.? Did Sheriff Pat Garrett actually kill Billy The Kid? and What happened to Pancho Villa's head?
mental_floss's Craig S. Baker interviewed Old West historian and treasure hunter W.C. Jameson about a year ago to get his take on some of the most enduring unsolved mysteries from the Wild West.
Jameson's theories challenge "traditionalist historian" views by proposing that Billy The Kid survived the Garrett encounter and actually returned to Texas in 1950 confessing his crimes.
He also says Butch Cassidy wasn't killed by the Bolivian military after all, a fact which is supported by Butch's friends and family members who claim to have been visited by him after he'd supposedly died.
But what about poor Pancho Villa's head? Nobody knows the answer to that one, not even an old cowboy like W.C. Jameson.
There are some twist endings that you avoid talking about because you don't want to ruin them for other people, but then there are those that are so well-known they have become cliches. For example, even without seeing Soylent Green, you probably already know that "Soylent Green is people."
It's hard to deny that castles look freaking awesome. Unfortunately, buying a home built in medieval times is not only expensive, it also requires living in a drafty, uncomfortable home that was, well, built in the middle ages. But you can have the best of both old world architecture and new world comforts if you happen to seek out new castles built in the last century.
In the most recent Homes and Hues articles, we rounded up some of these amazing modern palaces for all the wannabe knights and ladies out there who still dream about living in a fantasy castle.
So don't miss the full list of amazing fantasy residences over at Homes and Hues: 8 Amazing Modern Castles
