Posts Tagged ‘Lego’
Check Out This Dad’s LEGO Chess Set Kickstarter
Roger Sinasohn is a writer (we both wrote for AOL ParentDish before it became part HuffPo) and a dad and he had a great idea for a Kickstarter project — a LEGO Chess Set. I’ll let him explain.
I backed it. (I like t-shirts, and I like helping people with stuff like this when I can.) If you’d like to contribute, hit the link below.
LEGO My Chess Set by Roger Sinasohn — Kickstarter.
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This Guardians Of The Galaxy Pic Is Awesome
Captain America: The Winter Soldier hits theaters on April 4, 2014 (and apparently the toys and soundtrack listing reveal something major about the plot — I’m not looking, my hands are over my ears, meow meow meow meow, don’t spoil it for me, I’m a massive nerd, etc.), but the next big-ass Marvel superhero movie is Guardians of the Galaxy. This pic is awesome.
Courtesy of @WizardWorld.
Check out this awesome new still from #guardiansofthegalaxy!! #starlord #drax #groot #gamora… http://t.co/GqSv7HBxso
— Wizard World (@WizardWorld) February 17, 2014
Now, who are these funky fresh folks?
Left to right: Gamora (played by Zoe Saldana), Rocket Raccoon (voiced by Bradley Cooper; Rocket’s catchphrase in some comics is “Ha! Murdered you!”), Peter Quill, aka Star-Lord (Chris Pratt, who was also in The Lego Movie), Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel; Groot is a big walking tree who occasionally has to get into a flower pot and re-grow — not sure if they’re going to go there in this film), and Drax the Destroyer (played by Dave Bautista, who used to wrestle in the WWE , is 6′ 6″ tall, and is 45 years old).
Guardians of the Galaxy is scheduled to open on August 1, 2014. The trailer is supposedly coming out this week. That’s good because… well, because I’m a big nerd and I want to see the trailer. Based on the little bit of footage at the end of Thor: The Dark World, this movie looks like it has the potential to be supremely weird in best possible way.
Not to diss Captain America. I’m psyched to see it. (Geek Gold Card, folks. I mean, duh.) But Guardians goes much deeper into the Marvel Comics Universe. Two of the main characters are a talking raccoon and a walking tree, for Stan’s sake. Remember that the conventional wisdom was that Iron Man wasn’t a first-tier character in terms of name recognition among the general public (those without Geek Gold Cards), at least before the movie came out and was a huge hit. Then The Avengers movie made over a billion damn dollars worldwide. This proved (to me at least) that audiences are hungry for good movies featuring superheroes. If Guardians of the Galaxy is good, it will do well. If it’s only so-so, it will likely still do well enough because there are plenty of people like this out there:
That is a photo of a woman dressed up as The Valkyrie. Valkyrie is one of The Defenders, she’s sort of a female Thor, although that’s not entirely fair because she is very much her own character without any relation to the God of Thunder. I’m sorry, did you fall asleep? That’s cool. My point here is that there are enough ticket buyers out there like the cosplayer pictured above to keep Marvel making more movies. As I’ve said before: in the words of Martha Stewart, this is a good thing.
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Kids Prefer iOS, Grown-ups Android, Says Lego
Tidbit from a CES Day 2 roundup on Wired.com:
Lego has found most kids have iOS devices, while the majority of older users are Android owners.
via CES Day 2: Streaming Cubes, Robotic Snakes and Even More Activity Monitors | Gadget Lab | Wired.com.
DaddyTips Thursday Link Roundup [Show and Tell]
Damn you Interwebs. There is too much of you to digest in one sitting. Here are links to just a sampling of what we’ve perused recently at DaddyTips Mansion. Read more »
District 9 Gun Made From Legos
Even if you haven’t seen the movie District 9, you should be impressed that someone managed to make a gun from the film out of Legos.
Lego Rock Band Burning Up The Charts
The Twitterati is/are very stoked about Lego Rock Band.
(51+) “Lego Rock Band” – Twitter Search
