What happens when you take some of the most amazing, most recognizable voice talent around and put it all in the same room? You get possibly the most fantastic reading of the Star Wars Trilogy that has ever or will ever be recorded. This all happened at Emerald City Comicon when Billy West, Tara Strong, Maurice LaMarche, John DiMaggio, Kevin Conroy, Jess Harnell and Rob Paulsen spent over an hour reading the trilogy as some of their most well-known characters. Bubbles from the Powerpuff Girls is Darth Vader. Enough said.
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The legendary four-issue series of The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller, Klaus Janson and Lynn Varley with it’s darker, grittier Batman has never been adapted for film or television, but that’s about to change. DC Comics Premiere Movies is currently creating a two-part animated adaptation of the series and they’ve chose Peter Weller of RoboCop fame as the voice of Batman. We can look forward to part one this fall and part two sometime next year. I really hope we get to hear Batman say, “Excuse me, I have to go. Somewhere there is a crime happening.”
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You’ll have to wait a few more months for The Dark Knight Rises to hit theaters on July 20th, but here’s a little something to whet your appetite in the meantime. Six new posters featuring Batman, Catwoman and Bane have been released by Warner Brothers to help promote the film. If the posters are any indication, this final chapter in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy is going to be amazing!
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Indoor rock climbing usually involves getting to the top of a wall via boring hand holds. They may be green or yellow or red, but they’re not terribly interesting. The folks at Hangfast Adventure Structures are changing that with their Star Wars themed hand holds. You can dangle from the Death Star, hold on to R2-D2 or take hold of the Millennium Falcon on your way to the top. I wonder how Vader would feel about saving people instead of letting them plummet to their doom?
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This marketing campaign for Prometheus will have you wanting to plan a trip to Paris just to take a ride on the subway. A giant blue head now greets subway riders on Metro line 9 at the Saint-Martin station which has been abandoned since 1939. They’ve even added in a Prometheus stop on the subway map. With the release just weeks away on June 8th you’ll have just enough time to book your trip.
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This T-800 bust would be cool enough if it was just a statue for display. It’s so much more though. It has glowing eyes, it moves, and it looks way too realistic. To be honest, it creeps me right out. I wouldn’t want a toy that looks like it will go full on Terminator and slaughter me in my sleep. That said, I can’t deny the craftsmanship Animatronics Works Japan put into this model.
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For the last 13 years, Adam Savage has been nursing an obsession with the Zorg ZF-1 super gun from The Fifth Element, which led him to start creating a replica in 1999. After several bumps in the road and an encounter with the actual prop, his project is finally on the right path.
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If you think Star Trek’s USS Enterprise is just science fiction, think again. BTE Dan of the Build the Enterprise website has proposed a full-sized, ion powered version with 1G of gravity and he says we can build it over the next 20 years with existing technology. The “Gen1″ Enterprise could travel to the moon in 3 days or all the way to Mars in 90 days. He has worked out all the details, including full schematics and funding. Of course, the biggest challenging building it may be getting NASA to include it in their budget, but he’s even figured out how to do that as painlessly as possible. If it happens, he plans to build a new ship every 33 years, each more impressive than the last.
Think it can’t be done? In response to the naysayers he says, “If someone can convince me that it is not technically possible (ignoring political and funding issues), then I will state on the BuildTheEnterprise site that I have been found to be wrong. In that case, building the first Enterprise will have to wait for, say, another half century. But I don’t think that anyone will be able to convince me it can’t be done. My position is that we can – and should – immediately start working on it.” I agree. Engage!
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If you’ve been having a hard time keeping track of what happened when in the Marvel movie universe, then this is the handy dandy chart you need to print up and pin on your wall. The chart, found in The Art of Marvel’s The Avengers book, starts with Odin defeating the Jotuns and details events as they happen in each moving right up to The Avengers. It uses Iron Man as the point of origin so years are either BIM (Before Iron Man) or AIM (After Iron Man). Can we please start using that in the real world, too?
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John P. Glynn brings The Avengers inside Edward Hopper’s famous Nighthawks painting. I guess it’s the only diner in town that serves shawarma late at night.
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