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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007“Ages 10-14,” my ass.
Thankfully, my friends know that a 1,045-piece Lego set–namely the Batmobile Ultimate Collector’s Edition–is a perfectly appropriate birthday gift for a 31-year-old man.
A 31-year-old man who apparently has nothing better to do than spend seven hours in front of the TV building a Lego set.
Yikes.
I hate those moments when I realize just [...]
Fox Puts Stop to Buffy Sing-a-Long Fun. What’s Next to Go?
Monday, October 15th, 2007Twentieth Century Fox hates them some Joss Whedon something mighty. (Enough so to make me talk like an excitable, illiterate Southerner… which is about half-an-adjective away from having me pegged.)
First, Fox mucked up the original broadcasting of Firefly. The network execs stuck it in the Friday night “death slot”, showed the episodes out [...]
The Best Big Toys for Spoiled Geek Kids
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007At some point, it wasn’t enough any more to have the greenest lawn in the neighborhood. Instead, the best way to burnish your suburban reputation was to throw a truly obnoxious birthday party for your kid in the backyard.
Around the time my younger brother was still young enough to have birthday parties in the [...]
Five Lessons from the Xbox 360 for Keeping Customers Loyal to a Broken Product
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007Isn’t it so cute when mainstream news outlets run analysis on esoteric, geeky topics?
The New York Times thinks it has a handle on why gamers stay loyal to Microsoft’s Xbox 360 in spite of its atrocious failure rates. Since I know you get uncomfortable with all the big words that they tend to use [...]
The Top Five Toy Collectors Gone Wild
Monday, August 13th, 2007J. Alberto Christ knows that if I had ridiculous amounts of money, I’d buy up every model of Transformer and G.I. Joe ever made, and then hire the guy who made Wallace and Gromit to create a stop-motion Transformers vs. G.I. Joe: Battle for Earth animated movie.
(Actor Chris Tucker would provide the voice of Wheelie. [...]
The Top Five Geek Icons Who Deserve Action Figures In Their Likenesses
Thursday, August 9th, 2007In just two weeks, Herobuilders.com can create a personalized 12-inch action figure in your likeness… for only $425. Or, if you think of it in another way… for the cost of an original, G1 Optimus Prime, still in its package. In other words, perfectly reasonable. Especially when you consider the finished product, [...]
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