I can’t believe that Screen Junkies hadn’t already done an Honest Trailer for Toy Story already, but it’s true. They rectified that oversight today, with a close look at the 1995 Pixar film, featuring comedian Will Sasso as Randy Newman. They figured it was time for a Pixar video, as their new film Inside Out opens this week.
Better late than never, and this may give you an entirely new look at a movie you barely understood as a child. -via Tastefully Offensive
(Image credit: LEGO Will)
LEGO Will built this awesome LEGO version of the “morale machine” wagon that carried drummers and the Doof Warrior in the movie Mad Max: Fury Road.
Have you seen that big drum truck with the air ducts and dozens of speakers from the Mad Max: Fury Road trailers or posters? It's the weirdest looking thing! And it's silly! But I totally get it! If you saw and/or heard this thing coming at you, you'd be terrified!
This build is highly detailed -the speakers really work! Let's see it from all angles.
Every wagon has a driver. (Flickr link) 
The view from the front. (Flickr link) 
Drummers in the back. (Flickr link)
Jake the Dog loves to dig in to a giant pile of pancakes, in between adventures of course, but how does the voice of Jake feel about those savory sweet stacks of deliciousness?
An interviewer asked John DiMaggio, the voice over actor who gives Jake the Dog his signature grumble, how he feels about bacon pancakes, and his response was emotionally charged and utterly delightful.
It’s clear that John has a lot more self control than the character he voices for the small screen, but this interview might have unleashed a bacon pancake loving beast inside him!
-Via Laughing Squid
When Bethesda Softworks announced the release of a new entry in the Fallout game franchise this November gamers started to drool like Fiends who have taken too much Jet.
Then they whipped us all into a post-apocalyptic frenzy by releasing this gorgeous trailer.
Now Bethesda has taken our Vault fever up a few hundred notches by announcing that the special edition of Fallout 4 will come with a Pip-Boy to cover up your naked arm.
The Pip-Boy features a gloriously lo-rez green screen (just like in the game!), and works with most smartphones to deliver an IRL experience that literally brings the Fallout experience home.
Sadly, these special editions have already sold out on Amazon, so if you want one of your own you should look for a Mysterious Stranger to give you a hand...
-Via The Verge
Animators have to apply some real world knowledge of anatomy to their character designs, or else viewers will be bothered by the totally unnatural way which the characters move.
Characters like Mickey Mouse and Goofy might look more humanistic, but they still retain elements of their animalistic anatomy, such as elongated skulls and metatarsals.
Korean artist Hyungkoo Lee revealed what lies beneath all that cartoon skin and muscle in his series of sculptures entitled “Animatus”, and dem bones look pretty good before they're broken into a million pieces by a falling anvil!
-Via IFL Science!
Contra is the classic side scrolling console game where you and Player 2 assume the role of a Rambo look-alike and destroy alien forces, and their bases, wherever you find them.
It seems like every kid who had a NES system had a copy of Contra, and were thereby introduced to the concept of entering a cheat code to help them beat the game.
But even with 99 lives Contra is one tough game to beat, so when YouTubers REACT gave teens three lives and three continues to cooperatively beat Contra they eagerly stepped up to the challenge...and don't do very well at all.
Don't fret teens, I can't get past the second level of Contra without the cheat code!
-Via GeekTyrant
Video game weapons are generally over-the-top caricatures of real weapons, and therefore wouldn’t really work in real life because even the strongest knight can't effective wield a sword this massive:
But thanks to prop builders with a serious love of gaming we can now see what video game weapons would look like in real life, which can generally be described with two words- ridiculously awesome.
Imagine what your neighbors would think if they saw you pulling this shark faced Jinx’s Fishbones from League Of Legends out of your trunk:
And when the neighborhood kids start acting up simply stroll out and get your mail while wielding the Sword Of Crota from Destiny. They’ll never doorbell ditch your house ever again!
See 25 Video Game Weapons That Look Even Cooler In Real Life here
Video editors have one of the most misunderstood and underappreciated jobs in the entertainment industry, and the fact that most people are unaware of how important their work is to the look of a feature film leaves editors feeling like faceless nobodies.
So let’s change all that by revealing what a video editor actually does with an eye pleasing animated video by Dave Penn for Inside The Edit.
It’s likely to appeal more to abstract thinkers, but it still gives some good insight into how an editor’s mind works, and why their job is so important to the look and feel of a finished film.
Sometimes the best way to get a screen worthy reaction from an actor is to actually put them through an ordeal, physical or otherwise, so those screams and cries of pain come from a very real place.
Want a child actor to have the perfect emotional reaction to the fictional death of his character's beloved bird? Tell the kid his avian co-star died just before filming:
Cracked compiled 5 Amazing Performances By Actors Who Weren't Acting a while back, which is the third in a series, which is full of fun moments when actors really earned that on-screen credit. (Contains NSFW language)
My personal fav- the trials endured by Arnold Schwarzenegger while filming Conan The Barbarian, which was one "cut!" away from becoming a snuff flick:
Imagine the Rebel Alliance from Star Wars as the Rat Pack. Or even George Clooney and the gang from the remake of Ocean’s Eleven, which is the audio used here. That’s the premise of this mashup, in which Admiral Ackbar leads an effort to pull of a caper that will yield massive riches to fund the rebel efforts -if they can pull it off.
The editing works surprisingly well. -via Geeks Are Sexy
Recently we asked, Which is More Technologically Advanced — Star Wars or Star Trek? College Humor has a more relevant question: which series is nerdier?
I’ve heard it explained that Star Wars was written for children while Star Trek was written for adults. That makes sense, but the fandoms for both are pretty nerdy. I say that as a fan. By the way, keep an eye on the stuff that goes on in the background. -via Tastefully Offensive
Artist Kelsey Wailes (previously at Neatorama) modded some My Little Ponies into characters from the movie Mad Max: Fury Road! The limited edition ponies presumable sold out at AwesomeCon last weekend, because they are not available at her Etsy Shop. However, you can get a closer look at My Little Nux, My Little Mad Max, My Little Furiosa, and My Little Immortan Joe at Wailes' DeviantART gallery, and see them all together at her blog Borderline Artistic. -via Buzzfeed
Comic book artist Tyler Kirkham is a big fan of the game Elder Scrolls. He was inspired to recreate that world in the basement of his home in Salt Lake City. Over time, he’s spent $50,000 to make it perfect.
Despite wife Jill’s dreams of a swimming pool in the garden, Tyler Kirkham, 32, couldn’t be swayed from his vision based on The Elder Scrolls series of fantasy games, which features a $15,000 bathroom with its own waterfall and a secret door resembling a bookcase, activated by pulling one of the books. Alongside suits of armour, a crossbow and an alchemy lab full of medieval potions, the space features a $15,000 bathroom with its own waterfall and ivy-covered rock-face. He also fitted a $250 Italian crossbow, $8,000-worth of stone and masonry, stained flooring costing $3,000, suits of armour, an alchemy lab full of medieval potions, a medieval helmet worth $100 and a $20,000 home cinema for playing the games on a large screen.
I can see the future news stories now: “Neither Tyler nor his brother were ever seen again.” But can you blame them for wanting to stay down there? -via Geeks Are Sexy
In case you want to refresh yourself on the original before you go see Jurassic World this weekend, but you don’t have a couple of hours to sit through the movie, we’ve got the short version for you.
From Cinefix, here is the Jurassic Park entry in the 8-bit Cinema series, with all the bells and whistles of a retro video game. -Thanks, Daniel!
The World Video Game Hall of Fame is a new hall of fame that will be part of the Strong Museum in Rochester, New York, which also houses the National Toy Hall Of Fame. The first round of classic video games were inducted last Thursday, selected down from a field of fifteen.
Joining "Pong," launched in 1972, "Doom," from 1993, and 1985's "Super Mario Bros." are arcade draw "Pac-Man" (1980); Russian import "Tetris" (1984); and "World of Warcraft" (2004), which has swallowed millions of players into its online virtual universe.
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The inaugural hall of fame class was recommended by a panel of judges made up of journalists, scholars and other experts on the history and impact of video games. They chose from among 15 finalists that also included: "Angry Birds," "FIFA," "The Legend of Zelda," "Minecraft," "The Oregon Trail," "Pokemon," "The Sims," "Sonic the Hedgehog" and "Space Invaders."
The Hall of Fame is accepting nominations for the class of 2016 until next March. -via the A.V. Club, where you’ll find delightfully eccentric descriptions of each Hall of Fame game.
