Okay, I was a little slow on the uptake for this one: Transformers: The Movie. Live action. For real. Opening July 4th of this year. I remember hearing the rumor about this way back when, thought, “Hey, that would be cool,” without thinking it would actually happen—you know, the usual Hollywood stuff, rumors are always… Continue reading Transformers. Live action movie. OMG.
Category: Toys
Bend, Oregon Monopoly
The title refers to the board game, not a business monopoly. Sorry to anyone coming here looking for juicy Bend business gossip. 🙂 According to CNNMoney, Monopoly is updating its look with modern places and landmarks and further, letting users vote on their board placement. That’s pretty cool, and it brings to mind the panoply… Continue reading Bend, Oregon Monopoly
Globe
Today at work my friend Kerry and I were talking about geography and globes, which was prompted by the Yahooligans Where in the World is? game (where you see if you know your world geography), and came up with what I think would be the perfect globe: an interactive one whose outer surface is a… Continue reading Globe
Paper Transformers
Via Boing Boing tonight comes a link to the PaperFormers, where you can print out the PDF files of cut-and-fold Transformer designs, and actually build working Transformers out of paper. This takes me back; when I was young—probably around 12 or so—I used to create paper Transformers pretty much like these, though not nearly as… Continue reading Paper Transformers
Mazda Autobot
Something cool this morning: a Flash animation from Mazda showing one of their cars transorming into an Autobot. The only thing missing, though, is the Transformer sound effects. Found via Boing Boing.
One more reason to love toys…
So I may be behind the times on this, but check out this link: Eric Harshbarger’s LEGO® website. This guy is my new hero. He actually builds LEGO sculptures for a living. No, really. He makes a living building LEGO sculptures. Professionally. What the hell am I doing wrong?
More than Meets the Eye
To my great delight, Amazon.com has the entire first season of the Transformers on DVD. This was the perfect television show that embodied the 1980s: a wildly popular cartoon whose sole purpose was to support an insanely popular line of toys, and yet there was such a seamless integration between the two that at times… Continue reading More than Meets the Eye