Rubik’s Cube MP3 player has puzzling design
January 25, 2007
You love your MP3 player, but you love the ’80s even more. This doesn’t have to be a competition — not if you had an MP3 player shaped like a Rubik’s Cube. Good thing this is just a concept, then, since it seems there is still a few bugs to work out.
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Ladies & Gentlemen…Starcade!
January 25, 2007
Tribute site to the early ’80s gameshow that brought the arcade into your living room. Features full episodes and Alex Trebek!
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Papercraft Optimus Prime
January 24, 2007
Optimus Prime made from paper with articulation points that allow him to pose and transform. Includes a pdf that can be printed and cut out to make your own.
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New ‘Transformers’ Photos
January 24, 2007
DreamWorks Pictures has provided ComingSoon.net with new photos from the anticipated Transformers, directed by Michael Bay and executive produced by Steven Spielberg. Check them out here…
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Transformers Classics are here!
January 23, 2007
Transformers are awesome, and you know you want to get addicted (or re-addicted) to the plastic crack that is transforming robots. They never stopped making ‘em since 1984, so take a look at what you’ve been missing since you were a little kid and watched the cartoon.
Until all are one!
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Transformers Optimus Prime iPod dock and Soundwave mp3 player!
January 23, 2007
Soon to be released out of Japan is a set of Blue and White Soundwave mp3 players actually transform and accept memory cards. TakaraTomy will also release an Apple-licensed iPod dock formed by Optimus Prime’s trailer! Check out the piccie goodness…
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Ghostbusters may slime 360s
January 23, 2007
A weekend of leaked Internet videos leads developer to confirm prototype of Xbox 360 game based on 1980s sci-fi comedy; development currently at standstill.
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Crowded House set to regroup
January 23, 2007
Crowded House, the Australian-New Zealand band that generated a series of hits in the late 1980s before they split up in 1996, looks set to regroup and go on a world tour this year, a newspaper said on Tuesday.
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1984 online comic
January 22, 2007
Freddy is creating a free online comic adaptation of my favorite dystopian novel, George Orwell’s 1984. Two chapters are up so far and it’s excellent work.
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Best Action Hero of the 80s?
January 22, 2007
I’ve always been a fan of action movies. Given my part-time vocation as a professor of English Literature, this is, admittedly, something of a guilty pleasure. I’ve been thinking about who best defines the action genre for me, and have come up with this list. Here are my nominations, in no particular order:…
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