+1 to Nerdery: the Super Mario Bros SUV

Credit: Nerd Approved.

It's nice, but I think the TurtleVan has it beat.

Credit: PopHate.

I agree with Wil Wheaton on this

Wil Wheaton was on The Nerdist Christmas Special last week and had this to say about the Kardashians.



My thoughts after the jump.

I agree 100% with him. World's Worst Asshole that he is, at least Hitler did something to earn his infamy. What did Kim Kardashian do? She took a dick up her cooter on tape. The Kardashians epitomize everything that is wrong with American popular culture and culture in general. It's disgusting that people like her, her family, Paris Hilton and others make millions of dollars for doing nothing, while there are writers, musicians, artists who actually contribute to our society and culture and who will never be monetarily enriched by it.

What a fucking waste of space.

Childhood toys: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Blimp

Courtesy: MutantOoze.org.

Back when I was a kid I played with a lot of toys, ranging from G.I. Joes (mostly hand-me-downs), Transformers, even Darkwing Ducks and He-Mans. Then there were my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I loved the cartoon and by extension, the action figures. Of all the toys I had, the Turtle Blimp had to be the oddest one. Essentially, an inflatable balloon with a hard plastic undercarriage attached, it stuck out amongst the Joes, Autobots, and Masters of Universes. The blimp appeared in the fifth episode of the first season of the cartoon, Shredder & Splintered.

Courtesy: PopHate.

What made it odd was the balloon. I largely forgot about the blimp until a few days ago and that's what kept popping out at me. I have no idea why they made the balloon inflatable instead of a hollow plastic shell. Needless to say, all it would take was just one small hole and your day was ruined. I was careful. However, according to the TMNTPedia, the air plug was ineffective and so the thing had a tendancy to deflate anyways. I can't really remember mine doing that, but then again, it was literally decades ago, so it might have.

Fortunately, the undercarriage had a handle built right into it, along with a trigger to release the bombs. That was the other thing about the blimp, it came equipped with a dual bomb racks to fuck the bad guys' day up! Of course, being the product of a children cartoon, the bombs were clearly labeled with harmless and humorous things like 'sneezing powder' and 'itching powder'.

All in all, the Turtle Blimp was an interesting and certainly unique toy amongst others.

When fandoms collide: Doctor Who meets Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Crossing fandoms is like crossing proton streams - it can be risky. Aside from a few bumps, I think this was pretty good. One gripe though: The Doctor using lightsabers. He could just whip out his sonic screwdriver (an elegant device for a more civilized age) and short the lightsabers out.



(via Topless Robot)

Tattooed Wonder Woman looks awesome

I was sure I had posted this picture before, but apparently not on this blog. A gross oversight on my part that will corrected right now.

Credit: RNZZZ

Love it.

So this is what a Miranda-class from Star Trek was supposed to look like during The Original Series era

The USS Cortez from Star Trek: The Early Voyages issues #5-6.

The Early Voyages was a series published by Marvel Comics back in the late 90s, which chronicled the adventures of the USS Enterprise under Captain Christopher Pike's command. It was meant to fill-in the gap between the original Star Trek pilot, The Cage, and James Kirk's tenure as Captain. The Cortez's design is supposed to be a pre-refit Miranda-class, the same class that the Reliant from The Wrath of Khan belongs to. The two-parter featuring the Cortez is even a clever reference to that movie. In the comics, the Cortez is captured by a splinter society of Vulcans who never embraced logic like the others and when the Enterprise shows up to find out what happened to the ship, the latter is attacked and almost destroyed by her.

I think there was a lot of speculation in the Trek community after The Wrath of Khan about whether the Miranda-class was in service during The Original Series and if so, what did it look like? Unfortunately, the comics - like everything else except the TV shows and movies - aren't canon, so it's a moot point. That's probably the one thing I don't like about the Trek franchise, Paramount's canon policy..

(Picture via Memory Beta, the non-canon Star Trek Wiki)

For those who think Aquman has a useless superpower

From Marvel vs. DC #2. Yes, this really happened.

(Picture via ANSEM3)

Oh hai Jedi Knight Princess Leia!

That is not fan art, in Star Wars' Expanded Universe (novels, comics, games, other things considered canon) Leia eventually decides to become a Jedi. Now if only women would start cosplaying as this instead of Slave Leia. I think the latter is overdone and imagine how awesome it would be to see Jedi Knight Leias walking around Comic-Con instead of a legion of ten thousand women in the same gold bikinis that you see everywhere.

(Picture via Wookieepedia)

A picture of David Tennant is a picture worth a thousand words

Unfortunately, the thousand words are David Tennant, Doctor Who, Tenth Doctor, OMG, and 996 largely incomprehensible words.

(Picture via The Nerdist)

And I thought the Lego Star Destroyer was awesome

And it was, until I saw Sascha Mehlhase's replica of the Large Hadron Collider made out of Legos.

More pictures after the cut.
It took 9500 pieces and 33 hours to complete and that was just the build time. Mehlhase spent 48 hours before that on the 3D computer model. The project cost 2000 Euros, which is about 2609 American dollars. According to Mehlhase, the cost was paid for by the Niels Bohr Institute. You can see more pictures at his website. The obvious question of course is "can it find Higgs Boson?"

A close up. Nice details.

Let's hope nobody fires this up and leaves this guy with a blue glowing dong.

Legos! Legos everywhere!

(h/t Nerd Approved)