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10.26.07 by Widge @ 9:50 pm  Don Rosa and Dan Shane sketched out blueprints for Uncle Scrooge McDuck's ginormous money vault. Mats Gullikstad in Norway used those blueprints and built a full-on model of the vault. A slew of photos are available now on Flickr. Pretty cool. Found at Disney Blog by ScottC. Categorized as: Toys
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09.30.07 by Widge @ 12:50 pm  So at DragonCon this year, the big costume thing was Marvel Zombies. And whoever you guys were running around as Marvel Zombies: guys, bravo. Every single one I ran across was pretty damn badass. (I hereby remind everybody that I want to see Harry Potter Zombies next year. I'm fucking serious. Get on it right now.) And apparently zombies are it (and of course) because now we've got custom made Marvel Zombies action figures. And they are pretty damn badass too. I mean these things look nasty. Check out Zombie Thor there. Just badass. Make sure you go look at all of them. Okay, here's another free idea. And you can take this to both big companies, because I think this should be the next big company crossover: Marvel Zombies vs. the DCU. Or, you know, some alternate version of the DCU--whatever, they confuse the shit out of me these days. But think of the glorious chaos. There's your Final Crisis right there, jokers. Get on that too, would you? Categorized as: Toys
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09.23.07 by Widge @ 6:42 am  Shane Larson has put together a Sandman Season of Mists Lego minifig set. Just as Dream would appear in a human version for humans and a cat version for cats and a Martian version for J'onn J'onzz, it only makes sense that he would manifest as a Lego minifig in the dreams of other Lego minifigs... Categorized as: Toys
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09.12.07 by Widge @ 3:05 am
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08.12.07 by Widge @ 6:48 am  A little known fact is that long after child labor laws were passed to keep kids from toiling down at mill week in, week out, for tuppence every six months, children were still used in the construction industry. And yes, it's common knowledge that using them en masse as foundations or structural support beams was outlawed in 1940, but they were still being used to operate heavy machinery up until 1949. Here, in this bit from Popular Mechanics in 1950, we see how construction companies did an end-run on those laws by creating a "Child-size bulldozer" which "looks and works like the real thing." Oh, it sure did. For twelve hours a day until the loophole was finally closed in 1955. Of course, even today the iron hand of government keeps a close eye on Tonka trucks just to make sure that they don't get too functional. Still, it took a while for these new federal laws to become enforced properly, so even as late as 1957 you'd see ten-year-old kids wolf whistling at girls as they walked past. This has been another edition of TRUE FACTS...THAT ARE TRUE! Categorized as: Toys
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