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Gentle Giant’s R2D2 Statue Comes With Actual Removable Tools, Can Double As Robotic Toolkit
I’m not sure how functional its tools are, but Gentle Giant’s Star Wars R2-D2 Statue comes with eight of them. That’s right, the beloved helper robot gets a 1:6 replica that can actually repair stuff (if a magical genie suddenly decides to breathe life into it, that is).
While carrying eight thingamajigs probably doesn’t cover Artoo’s versatile mechanical-fixing talents, it’s better than having an inanimate robot that just stands there doing nothing. Yeah, I’m talking about that R2D2 statue you have sitting on your shelf. It sucks.
Gentle Giant’s version of the helpful, three-legged droid features an accurate polystone rendition of the popular robot, including precise physical details and a hand-painted body. It comes with removable arms, along with exposed chest and dome panels where you can stick the bundled tools in. Equipment you can put in the holes include a mechanical gripper, a periscope scanner and a utility saw, among others. [...]
The First Rule Of Fight Club Soap: Always Take A Bath Because You Stink
Human fat in a bar. If you saw Fight Club, you know exactly what that is – luxury soap that Tyler Durden manufactures from human fat stolen out of liposuction dumps. If you ever fancied organizing your own little club of grown men beating each other senseless for shits and giggles, we recommend cleaning the blood off your faces with the Fight Club Soap, which looks exactly like the prop they used on the iconic movie poster.
The bubbling body cleanser is created by Dirty Ass Soaps, who sell their vegan-friendly fare over at Etsy. You heard the vegan part right – there’s no human fat siphoned out of rich fat people from the local plastic surgery clinic here. As such, you need not worry about the gross idea of slathering some 400-lb woman’s abdominal excess (and possibly thighs and ass, too – ugh) all over your body.
It’s made from custom [...]
Star Trek Tricorder Media Player Out-Nerds Your Favorite PMPs
As an often-seen handheld gadget for scanning areas and recording information in the Star Trek universe, the Tricorder is naturally fodder for plenty of DIY modders and niche gizmo manufacturers. The Tricorder-style personal media players (PMPs) from Ameralis Grafx look about the best we’ve ever seen, mimicking the futuristic movie prop without rendering itself as a useless brick.
While it can’t really analyze metal samples or diagnose diseases, it does a bang-up job of pretending to, complete with an attractive display of blinking lights and plenty of electronic sounds. Even better, you can do it while grooving to your favorite songs from the Star Trek soundtrack (you’ll have to download those separately, though), so you can feel like you’re really in a different universe.
Based off Tricorder designs from Star Trek: The Next Generation, the music players come in six different models, namely X-Style, Medical, Borg, Marine, Workbee and Troi. As such, [...]
Hero Pulse Rifle Will Scare Aliens, Horrify Wallets
When you see a real alien landing in your backyard, what will be your first instinct? Me, I’d probably pull out a gun and blast it to smithereens. If that doesn’t work, I’d cock this thing in the extra-terrestrial’s face and hope it saw the movie. Are you scared yet, inter-planetary visitor?
The M14A Pulse Rifle was the weapon of choice for the US Colonial Marines in James Cameron’s Aliens, splattering otherworldly guts like it was nobody’s business. Unfortunately, this replica is only for show and doesn’t actually pack any firepower. Still, if those “visitors” picked up the movie from somewhere in space, you might have a shot at actually scaring them a little.
Painstakingly fashioned after an original prop used in the film, the officially-licensed Hero Pulse Rifle replica is as accurate a recreation as you can get. Sporting the exact same dimensions as the weapon in the silver screen classic, [...]
