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01.28.08 by Widge @ 10:57 pm Mark Evanier posted this a while back, and I have to wonder as well: is this real? Did this ever happen? I mean...a game where the whole game consists of playing whipped cream roulette with a safety plastic visor on? Really? Was this originally designed for kids who were allergic to whipped cream and yet wanted to be smacked in the face with a pie...? Direct link for the feedreaders. Categorized as: Toys
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01.26.08 by Widge @ 6:46 pm  This is unbelievably cool. And like most things truly geekgasmic, it's beyond the expense account of most of us. So I highly recommend going to the B9 Creations website and drooling to your heart's content: but the gist is this. For the low, low price of $24.5K, you too can own your own Lost in Space robot. Look at the army of them. Now, blah blah blah, I know, whoopee, it looks like the robot. But no. The list of features is impressive. It's got a sound system. It's got vocal samples recorded by Richard Tufeld, who voiced the original. It's animated. It's motorized. And if that wasn't enough, you can make you friends crap their pants with this: A 5 button key chain remote control allow you to discretely activate the Robot. Functions include turning the Robot's torso left/right, directing the Robot's voice to respond "Affirmative/Negative", activating the Robot's soil sampling sequence. "I'll just hang my coat on this robot in your foyer and--GAHHHH!!!! WTF??!???" You know you'd buy it just to do that to one of your friends. And, more to the point, you've already picked out the most likely target among your crew. I know how you maniacs work. Because I'm one of you. Categorized as: Toys
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01.24.08 by ScottC @ 5:12 pm  So you or someone you know has spawned. Now you have this blank slate absorbing every bit of information it can take in. You could help to make sure that the baby grows up to be a nice normal citizen. But that's so fucking boring! You can teach the rug rat bad words or get him that important first porn movie but those are givens. You want more from this child. Now my friends Ed and Sharon have taught their toddler Joseph a pretty good evil genius laugh. Unlike a regular politician, you can't be a criminal mastermind on style alone. Young Joseph will need a good foundation in Science! How else is he going to build those death-ray cannons and weather control machines? And what better way for a young mind to graph the basics of nuclear physics than with plush subatomic particles? The Particle Zoo has a whole range of happy little quanta from the light bringing Photon to the so-called 'God particle', the Higg's Boson. Not only does each particle come with a description tag, they have different fillings according to the particle's theoretical weight. So Joseph will know the difference between a Muon and a Tau particle for when he constructs his Atomic Robot Army of Doom! Categorized as: Toys
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01.24.08 by Widge @ 4:54 pm  English Russia has posted an array of toys from the Soviet Union. Here's what they have to say: During the Soviet times all the toys were manufactured only on a dozen of state owned factories. All toy designs were certified with Communist Party of Soviet Union and they were lazy to certify a lot so there were not a big freedom of choice for Russian kids at that time. Now rather than go for the obvious joke of "In Soviet Russia..." I'll instead ask a very serious question... Is that the moon buggy from Moon Patrol or have I lost my mind? Categorized as: Toys
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01.20.08 by Widge @ 9:17 pm  I'm always impressed by people who take toys of all kinds and then do customized jobs on them. But Lego apparently has an entire movement of DIYers that do all kinds of crazy, funny, cool shit with them. Me, I'm lucky to be able to fit two of the little bricks together. So. Anyway, one of the most recent bits to catch my eye is Armothe, who created a bunch of Holy Grail minifigs, including King Arthur (pictured). You can check out his Flickr photostream here. There's no "But I'm not dead!" deluxe playset yet, but I'm sure it's coming. And yes, this is quite a bit more customized than the last Holy Grail Lego bit we posted. But with less narrative. Categorized as: Toys
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