It’s safe to say that Brits, in this instance Londoners, have lots of love for LEGO building bricks, so much love that there's an entire bus stop built out of LEGO bricks in London.

The LEGO bus stop was built to celebrate 200 years of London buses- it's situated at the Conduit Street stop on Regent Street and features a very appropriate ad for nearby Hamley’s Toy Store.

Every bit of this brick-tastic bus stop is made out of LEGO bricks, from the benches to the signage to the clear bricks used to replace the glass in the side panels.

#LEGOBusStop is only going to be around for a limited time, so if you’re a LEGO fanatic with lots of frequent flyer miles you'd better head for the airport!

-Via Nerd Approved

Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine was a treasure trove of video game related news, fun ads and awesome level maps that made gamers eagerly await its arrival every month, and unlike Nintendo Power or Playstation Magazine EGM featured news about games being released on all platforms.

The features were fun to read, adding an extra story dimension to the games, and EGM was so fun to read that subscription renewal was a given for gamers (like myself) who couldn't get enough!

Now, thanks to the efforts of game designer Cameron Kunzelman and his Tumblr site Reading EGM you can relive the glory days of video game magazine, without a subscription.

Cameron's Tumblr has only begun to deliver the goods, but you can already see that his site is shaping up to be a great place to get a dose of video game nostalgia.

-Via Kotaku

Life is great...except for all those people and realities you have to deal with. That's why we love this new "Forever Alone" pod that allows you a quiet, shut off space to enjoy your movies, video games, internet and other anti-social activities.

On Homes and Hues, we mention that the Cozy Room, as it is officially called, is actually a great place for working or studying at home while being able to shut off any distractions, but let's face it -for a lot of people getting away from other people is recreational in itself.

Read more about the new device at Homes and Hues: Need a Quiet Place to Study or Work? Try the Cozy Room

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League of Legends is a hugely popular multiplayer online combat game. Many people do not just play, but play so well that they win tournaments for that game. League of Legends has become so intensely competitive that Robert Morris University-Illinois, a college in Chicago, thinks that it can be called a sport. That's why that college is designating its League of Legends team a varsity sport and is offering team members athletic scholarships. Inside Higher Ed reports:

Starting in September, League of Legends players will join hockey goalies, quarterbacks and point guards as varsity athletes at the Chicago campus. The university is a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics.

The university plans to offer between 45 and 50 athletic scholarships to incoming gamers, said Kurt Melcher, the university’s associate athletic director. The scholarships will pay for 50 percent of tuition and 50 percent of room and board for members of the League of Legends team.

The gamers will be treated like other varsity athletes, Melcher said. They’ll have uniforms, regular practice sessions and postgame meals. Students who need it will also receive tutoring support from RMU’s athletic department.

The League of Legends team will compete in the Collegiate Star League, an eSports league that includes teams from institutions like Harvard, MIT, and the University of California at Berkeley, the athletics official said.

-via Christine Ramsey

Good news guys, it's contest time again! This time it's to celebrate the NeatoShop Facebook page getting 2000 fans in only a matter of months. We're offering up eight special Transformer toys from our most recent mystery box and a NeatoShop tee shirt. Each entry method in this contest qualifies you for a tee and toy. The contest ends on Friday, June 27 at 11:59 PM PST. 

Wanna play? Here's how you can qualify to win:

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In 1989, June 23rd to be exact, the world was introduced to a Batman that was not Adam West. Tim Burton’s Batman paved the way for the wave of comic book movies that came after: Spider-Man, X-Men, The Avengers, The Dark Knight, and their many sequels. That was a long time ago, so there are probably a lot of things on this trivia list that you never knew, or may have forgotten. For example,

4. Robin Williams had his feelings hurt. Tim Burton and Warner Brothers had always wanted Jack Nicholson as their top choice, but when he hesitated to take the part they began seriously talking to Robin Williams about the Joker role. When Nicholson caught word of this he accepted the part and Williams was left by the curb. Williams was so offended that he refused to play the role of the Riddler in Batman Forever or even do a Warner Brothers production until the studio apologized.

9. Fanboys weren’t happy about Michael Keaton. Dark Knight fanboys hating on Ben Affleck is nothing new for the Batman movie franchise. Michael Keaton’s casting of the caped crusader wasn’t met with positivity at first either. Batman fans were worried that the actor would come off as too comical and Warner Brothers received nearly 50,000 letters from angry fans. The controversy was eventually picked up by national news outlets including the Wall Street Journal.

We know how that turned out, as the movie was a blockbuster and Keaton was cast in the sequel. You’ll learn a lot more in this trivia list at Gamma Squad, with plenty of video clips to enhance the experience.

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You may have already drawn a correlation between Star Wars and Robotech, you may have pulled out this geeky trump card while in a heated discussion with a fellow fan over which franchise is better, and you may feel like all SW is missing is an animated treatment in Macross era anime style.

If this sounds like you then this animated short by otaking77077 will be right up your alley, even though it’s missing transforming TIE fighters and a brash young pilot like Rick Hunter, but to those who have never compared the two series you'll flip at how well these two sci-fi flavors go together!

EDIT: Neatoramanaut Frau has an update:

The music was not added by otaking77077. It was added by Youtube user JPL4185 and published to Youtube in 2012.
It was originally a private project WIP that Otaking would post in bits to 4chan's Mecha board.
Because it was a WIP - Otaking pulled it.
But as most often is the situation - someone sees something so awesome they have to share, so they copy it before it disappears.   -Thanks Frau!

-Via Geeks Are Sexy

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What makes the Guardians of the Galaxy trailer so appealing? Is it the quick out-of-sequence cuts that give no context, but make you want to see more? Is it the comedy plopped into the middle of the action? Is it the goofy selection of '70s music? Maybe it’s all the above, instead of the movie itself, because YouTube member The Unusual Suspect recut scenes from Star Wars using the Guardians trailer style. The result makes me want to go back to 1977 all over again! -via Uproxx

The hulking mass of a man they call Hodor (even though his real name is Walder) is considered mentally inept by every character he meets in the fantasy world George R. R. Martin built because he can only say one word, but what’s really going on in that giant, meaty head of his?

According to neuroscientist Indre Viskontas he may actually be suffering from expressive aphasia- “a neurological condition usually caused by a localized stroke in the front of the brain”, which leaves him with relatively normal comprehension but reduces his power of speech to just one word.

It’s a fascinating theory, but I’ll stick to my own theory that he’s looking for his missing dog Hodor and won’t stop saying his name until he’s found!

This clever digital image by artist Jerome Caillere shows every incarnation of the character Laura Croft in the Tomb Raider games spanning 17 years. You can view a much larger version here. He made it to celebrate the 2015 release of Rise of the Tomb Raider, which is the next game in the franchise.

Sometimes a killer cosplay creation requires lots of sculpting, fabrication and an amazing paintjob, and sometimes all it takes is a simply smashing costume and a whole lotta attitude.

DeviantArtist and cosplayer Keruuu decided to go with simple yet elegant when he created this gender swapped costume of Elsa from Frozen, and boy did he make the right call!

He calls his character King Elisar, and he made everything for this photo series happen with his own two hands, from his wonderfully detailed costume to the great makeup application to the shiny post processing effects, and cosplayers who think they can do better should probably Let It Go!

-Via Nerd Approved

Last week we announced our new superhero tattoo contest where you guys could submit your superhero tattoo photos for the chance to win a two NeatoShop tees of your choice. We finished collecting submissions, so now it's your chance to vote for your favorite. Voting ends on Tuesday night at 11:59 PM PST, so hurry up and vote!

Entry #1: The Silver Surfer

Entry #2: Batman

Entry #3: Wolverine

Entry #4: Ryu from Street Fighter

(He's from a game, but he technically has superpowers)

Entry #5: The Joker

Entry #6: Keenan

Keenan is this entrant's son

Entry #7: Superman

Entry #8: Spider-Man (Black Costume)

Entry #9: Spider-Man

Entry #10: Flight

This entrant's favorite superpower

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There are few creative filmmakers with a more distinctive style than Tim Burton, and even though his “original” style can be traced back to illustrators like Edward Gorey he has made this dark yet cartoony style his own with movies like Edward Scissorhands, Frankenweenie and, of course, The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Well before he made his big screen debut with these iconic features he was applying his dark formula to the classic fairy tale Hansel and Gretel which aired on the Disney Channel in 1983.

For his unique envisioning of the classic tale Tim cast a man (Michael Yama) as the Wicked Witch, Japanese actors as the children, and shot the whole thing on 16mm film for just over $100,000, opting as always for stop motion and practical effects when creating this crazy cool short film.

It aired only once on the Disney Channel, alongside Burton’s other classic short Vincent, but thanks to the diligent efforts of a fan it has been discovered and placed on YouTube for your viewing pleasure!

-Via Dangerous Minds

Perhaps the most famous scene from the 2002 movie Spider-Man shows our hero hanging upside down and kissing a rain-soaked Mary Jane Watson. It's embedded below. If you're limber enough and have the right equipment, you can try to re-enact it. Pete the dog decided to do it in a shower. In the above video, he puts on a wig and smooches a Spider-Man doll.

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-via Nerd Approved

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Casting decisions for Batman movies sometimes surprise people. But that’s always been so. Those who scratched their heads over the casting of Ben Affleck for the next film are those too young to recall the uproar over comedic actor Michael Keaton as Batman before the 1989 Tim Burton film was produced. And now Keaton will always be “the” Batman to me. Who knows if future casting decisions will work out as well.

Animation Domination High-Def (ADHD) drew a few names out of a hat and imagines them as future Batmen in movies spanning the next thirteen years. Which would you like to see in the role of Batman? -via Geeks Are Sexy