
Over the years, we’ve seen a lot of cool genre favorites brought to life using Legos.
Lego has upped the game with the debut of a full-scale model of an X-Wing fighter from Star Wars.

Over the years, we’ve seen a lot of cool genre favorites brought to life using Legos.
Lego has upped the game with the debut of a full-scale model of an X-Wing fighter from Star Wars.

Last week, the White House kicked off “We the Geeks”, the first in a new series of Google+ Hangouts highlighting the future of science, technology, and innovation in the United States.
Topics of discussion during this series of hangouts with Administration officials and private sector contributors include commercial space exploration, science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education, and turning science fiction to science fact — a Slice of SciFi sweet spot!

For many of us, pretending to be your favorite super hero on the school playground was just part of growing up. That won’t be the case for a group of pre-schoolers at an undisclosed pre-school where playing as your favorite superhero has been banned.

Paying homage to an iconic franchise like Star Trek isn’t an easy thing to do but JJ Abrams and crew have certainly tried from obvious shout-outs to the Original Series to the more subtle nuances such as bringing certain figures known for their own attachment to the Trek-verse. The best way to do that is by cameo appearances by key personnel who have a direct link to the franchise or those who over the many years have been vocal about their love of the series in all its incarnations.

In the late 80’s there was a rumor going around that would see Star Trek adapted as Broadway musical. That project never saw the light of day but that doesn’t mean the idea of a musical Trek died.

Amazon thought the Zombieland series would be their golden ticket into the world of original online programming. However, viewers thought differently and Amazon listened.

A year after the Star Trek reboot, Pocket Books was set to publish a series of novels set in the rebooted Star Trek universe. Release dates and authors were posted on Amazon, but as the date grew closer those titles vanished and haven’t been heard from since.

Fans can get a glimpse of what the agents of Warehouse 13 are really thinking during their weekly adventures to snag, bag and tag the world’s charmed Artifacts, as the characters from the show where they can interact with fans, answer questions and share some personal commentary about the mission at hand.

It would appear that Disney is more than willing to work some kind of merchandising deal with Abrams while Paramount/CBS apparently has not been as eager to let go of their grip over control of the half-century blockbuster Trek universe when it comes to comic book futures, coffee mugs, ad infinitum.

It’s been four years since J.J. Abrams revitalized the Star Trek movie franchise and with each passing summer, expectations for the next voyage “where no man has gone before” have ratcheted up higher and higher. Add to it the extreme secrecy surrounding certain plot elements and character identities and you’ve got a movie that I entered with pretty much the same feeling as I did the first revitalized Trek a few years ago — equal parts anticipation and apprehension.

The Wachowskis siblings have given movie goers some of the most audacious movies of the past couple of years like The Matrix and Speed Racer. With their latest film (co-directed and co-written by Tom Tykwer) Cloud Atlas, the movie makers may have bitten off more than audiences were willing to chew at the theater. But now that the film is hitting Blu-Ray and DVD, I have a feeling that Cloud Atlas will find a new, passionate audience.

For Disney’s in-park celebration of all things Star Wars this year, visitors can get a one of a kind collectible — your own head on top of a stormtroooper body.

Our good friends at Cafe Press have joined forces with us to make one lucky fan a winner of some great Iron Man 3 collectibles.
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