LEGO Builds Largest Scale Model in History

Lego has been teasing a reveal in Times Square that will go down today. We knew it was to promote the new Lego Star Wars cartoon The Yoda Chronicles which premiers on Cartoon Network on Wednesday, May 29th at 8pm. But what could they be hiding?

Times Square box hiding Lego’s secret

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Friday Round Up: Star Wars, Robotech, Alien, and Bravestarr!

Movie Stuff

Patton Oswalt: Patton Oswalt went on an unscripted rant about what the next Star Wars film should be on Parks and Rec and the internet lost it’s shit. It was amusing to some extent, but I feel like there was huge over reaction on this one. It’s like I’m the [...]

Homemade Star Wars Stuff (Sorta Sponsored Post)

Coolest pillowcase ever.

My girlfriend is a professional costume designer, so occasionally she surprises me with some cool homemade item that’s geek related. I’ve got three to show off today. The above image is of a pillowcase she made for me out of some fabric you can currently find at your favorite big box [...]

Donald F. Glut and The First Ever Spider-Man Film From 1969

Fun fact: The first Spider-Man film is from 1969 and it’s a fan film! I thought fan films were a more recent type thing, but you can see the first fan made Spider-Man flick here. It’s surprisingly not as terrible as you’d imagine, perhaps it’s even better than the really bad 1970s [...]

League of Extraordinary Bloggers: Auction House Shopping Spree!

There’s this group called the “League of Extraordinary Bloggers” where each week they tackle various topics. Since I’m not a joiner (mostly because I can’t be held to a regular thing) I haven’t joined in… until now!

The challenge this week was to go over to the Hakes America website and pick out anything [...]

Massive Star Wars Dioramas Built out of Lego

Today, I have a companion piece to the earlier post about a Hoth diorama. Building dioramas out of toys is time-consuming if you want to do it right. Now imagine building it all from a smaller unit. The previous article focused on the battle on the snow, but this one focuses a bit more on [...]

Man Builds Battle of Hoth in His Living Room

The images here pretty much speak for themselves, but in case your brain can’t process all that awesome at once I’ll step you through it. This dude decided to recreate the Battle of Hoth in his living room (140 sq. ft.) and boy… did he pull it off.

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Robot’s PJs’ New York Toy Fair 2013 Picks

For those of you not into toys, the New York Toy Fair happened last week. That’s where some of the biggest news in the toy world happens, since toy makers are trying to convince retailers to pick up their products. Us nerds can revel in all the toy news of what is coming out. As [...]

Top 5 Companies at Toy Fair 2013

This is Chris with my take on what looks cool for toys coming up in 2013. I’m sure Vincent will have much different opinions. This is only my take and a light look at some of what’s ahead for the year in toys.

#5 MEZCO

Mezco’s offerings were small but they had one killer item [...]

Friday Round Up: Star Wars and Junk

Media Stuff

Star Wars: Stand alone Star Wars films. Well, we’ve heard rumors of such things on and off for years, so who knows what will happen there. I guess the thinking would be is if you can have an Iron Man franchise running at the same time you have an Avenger’s franchise, why [...]