Crummy Gummy, an artist in Orlando, is most well-known for his sculptures made out of gummy bears, such as a Spartan helmet and an Alien chestburster. His most recent creation is this colorful 1:1 scale model of Darth Vader’s helmet. It required over 1,000 gummies and a lot of patience to make the Sith lord this tasty.
-via Geek Tyrant
There have been three Jurassic Park movies so far, and a fourth, Jurassic World, is on the way. If you are like me and only saw the first one, the series TL;DW is here to catch you up on the entire trilogy. Or at least the parts you need to know about. What I gleaned from this recap is that I probably didn’t miss anything. I’m still open to seeing Jurassic World (because: dinosaurs), confident that it will not depend on the previous movies for plot continuity. Or something like that. -via Gamma Squad
If the original Star Wars trilogy were made in the 21st century, the trailer would most likely look like this, a typical modern trailer modeled after the preview for Avengers: Age of Ultron. The clips are good, and would certainly make me want to see the movie. However, it doesn’t tell you anything about the plot. All we know from this is that the young fellow is the good guy, and the guy with the black mask is the bad guy, and they fight. There’s no indication of which side the other characters are on. Contrast that with the original 1977 Star Wars trailer, in which the narrator makes those alliances very clear, yet still makes you want to see the movie.
The one constant in blockbuster movie trailers is that both will show off the state-of-the-art special effects. I doubt that will ever change. -via Tastefully Offensive
Finding a pair of Hulk hands would make any Marvelite’s day, and the discoverer would probably take the hands home and set them on a shelf like a good little collector, but Hulk hands aren’t made for sitting- they’re made for SMASHING!
Now imagine if that smashing power was discovered by a wimpy nerd who was always getting picked on by a pack of jocks and you’ve imagined the premise of a short film called "The Incredible Hulk Hands" by Ari Fararooy.
"The Incredible Hulk Hands" kinda looks like an anti-bullying film made by Wes Anderson in collaboration with comedy troupe The State. It's genuinely funny, quirky in all the right ways, and even manages to add a touch of heart to the tale of nerdy David versus a jock triumvirate version of Goliath.
-Via GeekTyrant
For some Black Metal is the sound of happiness, but most hear dark and dismal band names, guttural singing and appropriately metal guitar sounds howling and screaming in their ears.
That Black Metal sound is made from sinister sounding scales, such as the harmonic minor, and as YouTuber Steve Terreberry proves if you simply change the scales Black Metal can have a happy sound.
At first glance Stevie T might not look like he knows anything about Black Metal, but Stevie T does know that the sound relies on (as he puts it) those evil sounding scales, and his minor change to major scales infuses happy sounds into that bleak sounding nightmare.
So whaddya think musicians? Is Stevie T on to something, or is he oversimplifying the essence of the Black Metal sound?
-Via Metal Injection
Avid Star Wars fans Tony Giordano and his wife Stefaney are expecting a baby soon. They got artist Nick Wolfe to paint Stefaney’s expanding belly with R2D2’s dome! They surprised the obstetrician with the artwork, then visited fellow fan Daniel Deutsch (previously at Neatorama) and his personal office droid.
It was a great opportunity for photographs! You can see there’s a distinct likeness between the two. -Thanks, Daniel!
(Images credit: Daniel Deutsch)
Scooby Doo and the Mystery Machine gang scrambled into our toon lovin’ lives back in 1969, and though they’ve long since retired from the ghoul chasing game they’re still the most popular meddling kids ever.
It has been forty six years since the Scooby Doo, Where Are You! show hit the airwaves, and although the characters on the screen never seem to age the *cough* real life cast have grown grayer and longer of tooth.
Thanks to artist Dan Meth we're able to see how those cartoon crime solvers look nowadays, and it appears time hasn't been kind to Shaggy's mind...or Fred's hair.
But what about that strange talking dog star of the show Scooby Doo? Alas, even he couldn't outrun death, and his gravestone has become a popular tourist destination for stoners and fans of Scooby Snax brand snack food. Rest In Reace, Rooby!
Todd McFarlane’s iconic Hellspawn anti-hero started out as the little indie comic that could, turning the reputation Todd garnered working at Marvel into sales of over one million copies of the first issue, which helped launch Image Comics.
Spawn has gone to Hell and back again many times in the last 24 years, so in celebration of the 250th issue of the core series Todd shared an illustrated chart depicting the evolution of Spawn.
This illustrated chart shows how much Al's demonic getup has changed over the years, and how different artists like Angel Medina, Greg Capullo and (soon) JonBoy Meyers handle his iconic spikes and chains style.
McFarlane is such a generous guy that he made this illustrated chart available to download in poster sized hi-res format, so the truly devoted can print it out and pin that hellish hero up in their lair. You've come a long way, Spawny!
When two sci-fi geeks wed, they have a common interest that will give them plenty to talk about for the rest of their lives. And they might want to show their love with a Doctor Who-themed wedding ring set! Not only is this set beautiful, it bears the inscription “Together forever through space and time.” Get more details on the rings at Fashionably Geek. -via the Neatorama Facebook page.
It’s unclear what metahumans like the Flash and Aquaman do when they need to expel solid waste from their bodies, but when Batman needs to go number two he sits down on a toilet just like everybody else.
Batsy’s bathroom time may not seem like a moment you’d want to commemorate with a trading card, but back in 1966 that Batman bathroom card became a reality thanks to some bored employees at Topps.
According to eBay seller clubhouse this crazy card was created as an inside joke and was never released to the public, a fact which they figure warrants an opening bid of $3500:
The holy grail of all BATMAN CARDS. A 1966 TOPPS Batman black cape BATMAN ON BAT THRONE. A family member use to work at the Topps printing plant in CT during the 1960′s. That is where this card originated from. It appears some Topps employees were bored one day and made a card of Batman sitting on the toilet. This card was never released.
If this card had been sold along with the rest of the set it might have changed an entire generation's mind about the Caped Crusader, resulting in Aquaman becoming bigger than the Bat!
-Via Comics Alliance
(Image: CBS)
Patrick Stewart played Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation. He was an early pick for casting directors, but they took some time to develop the character. Although the character is a Frenchman, the English actor played the role with a more neutral accent.
While a guest on the CBS talk show The Talk, Stewart says that at the beginning of the show's development, the directors wanted him to speak with a French accent. Skip to the 0:58 mark to hear Stewart present the opening narration of the show with a delightfully overwrought French accent.
Then continue watching to learn about Stewart's experiences getting a urinary catheter.
-via Blastr
There are a lot of twists on Mario cosplay characters, but I totally love this great punk take on Princess Peach. She was one of a whole group of punk Super Mario characters cosplaying at Ichibancon. This lovely cosplayer is Amanda Finley and the photo is by Double Stomp Productions.
If this look seems a little familiar to you, it's probably not because you've seen a similar cosplay before, but because Nevermind the Blocks is a popular NeatoShop tee that we've featured on the main blog before.
Via Fashionably Geek
(Photo: Storming Australia)
If you’re not wearing stormtrooper armor right now, you must have a death wish. Scott Loxley was on Wednesday and that’s why he’s still alive.
Loxley is currently walking across Australia in stormtrooper armor to raise money for a children’s charity. Last week, he had just departed the town of Yalboroo, Queensland when a King Brown snake tried to bite him. This deadly predator has the largest venom output of any known snake. Only one thing saved Loxley from its fangs: his armor. ABC News reports:
"He's lunged at me and bit me but the good news is the armour, he bit me in the shin, the armour actually protected me and stopped the bite," Mr Loxley said.
Thankfully, the force of the bite was not enough to penetrate the armour.
"I could feel the teeth on the plastic scraping but the armour actually stopped something," he said.
"So all those people who rag on the old stormtroopers, 'you know, the armour doesn't do this, it doesn't do that' … it stopped the snake bite and probably saved my life today."
-via Dave Barry
Star Trek fans know that suspension of disbelief is crucial to their enjoyment of the space opera, especially the 1966 version. After all, the Enterprise was built by TV producers, not engineers. And those shows have been seen so many times that real fans have gotten a really good look at how unsuitable the Enterprise is for its mission. Some of the design flaws are pretty technical, while others are quite evident to everyone, like
9. No Seatbelts
We get it. It's fun to watch a dozen or so people get tossed around a bridge during a battle sequence — definitely more fun than just seeing a camera shake up and down while all the crew members remain safely strapped into their seats. But seriously, you'd think that after enough concussions caused by people falling out of their chairs, the Enterprise designers would just add some damn restraints. Class action lawsuit, anyone?
In most cases, drama trumps common sense, because a flawlessly-designed ship wouldn’t lend itself well to a crisis every week. Read about the most egregious design flaws on the USS Enterprise at io9. -via Metafilter
It's easy to love comic books, even if you're only a casual fan of the movies that are made based on the characters. It's a bit harder to love the big comic book publishing companies though -and the more you learn about them, the more you have a hard time defending their actions.
This great Top Tenz article provides ten great examples of comic book companies screwing over the creators that developed all the characters we've come to love. While you probably already heard a bit about the whole Jack Kirby issue, you might not know some of the stories, like how Marvel countersued Gary Friedrich after he lost his case against them regarding royalties for the Ghostrider movie -claiming he had no right to sell merchandise based on the character he created.
