This airplane is guaranteed to crash within a half hour or less, or your money back. Here’s the story. Darren Lewis and Phil Reilly built this awesome and surprisingly functional remote-controlled airplane out of an old Dominos Pizza box.
Well, a pizza box, an RC controller and $35 worth of parts. It even has an actuated rudder and ailerons. Pay attention Dominos. This is how I want my pizza delivered next time. It flies surprisingly well. It is actually a thing of beauty. But maybe that’s because I’m really hungry right now.
It proves that pizza box technology should be applied to aviation right away. Maybe it could shoot some breadstick missiles.
It’s that time of the year again – a very long time before Thanksgiving – so we’re all getting ready to celebrate Christmas! This Nightmare Before Christmas Minecraft rollercoaster is the perfect way for me to kick off my celebratory events. I can only imagine how long this project took, as the rollercoaster has an incredible amount of detail and lasts for more than five minutes! Update: I stopped imagining and checked the YouTube description – several builders took two and a half months in order to complete this project! That’s three and six tenths of the time that it takes for a woman to go through pregnancy!
The kids sit ’round the fireplace, and you gather them near – yelling and snapping and flicking their ears. Watch a movie, you say, with the utmost delight – what the children believe, is a Christmas fright. – “Tim” Edgar Allen Amy Poehler
All of the design in this coaster is professionally done, and the characters are really brought to life. Not only that, but all of this is done on an incredible scale. The builders, of course, have stereotypical Minecraft-guy YouTube usernames: Rivergrl21, Nuro, WayHighMinecraftGuy, Vinny8Ball666, AnOldBum, Nycwatcherable, and DrWrebagzhoe. My bet: DrWrebagzhoe is nothing more than a dentist, if that. He can probably write prescriptions about as legally as these guys can build an X-Ray gun. Hint: you aren’t allowed to build lethal X-Ray guns. Anymore.
This Minecraft rollercoaster is an amazing creation in itself, and will be that much more special to fans of The Nightmare Before Christmas. And, now… the moment you’ve all been waiting for… I will attempt to hang 30 binder clips from my armpit hair the rollercoaster ride-in video is below!
Even if you did little more than get seasick and spit up during that video, you have to appreciate all of the work that was put into this creation. Think of how many blocks were placed! Think of how many dubstep versions of Halloween they had to sift through!
If you’re still hungry for more interwebz chow, check out the Minecraft version of Man of Steel! If you’re not into unrealistic superheros with bad rock allergies, then cuddle up with the life-size Creeper cushion, which (supposedly) will not explode. (It’s a marketing tactic – no one would buy it if they said straight out that it explodes.)
We all want our own personal interdimensional portal, but you can’t find real ones just anywhere. And even if you do, you might get trapped in another dimension. So this one is much safer. This infinity mirror has a series of Arduino controlled LEDs that can change their color. It looks pretty amazing. I bet real-world portals don’t look this cool. They probably don’t look like anything. I would ask someone who has seen one, but they are all gone. Never to be seen again. They should have just made one of these. So shiny and pretty.
If you want to learn how to make one for yourself, check out the instructables page by the mirror’s creator, Ben Finio.
I can hear the theme music playing in my head now. Just look at this awesome replica of K.I.T.T. from Knight Rider. To say that this version is impressive would be a massive understatement. Chris Palmer built his replica out of a 1991 Pontiac Trans Am, while the original KITT was a 1982, in case you weren’t aware. Sadly, Chris’s K.I.T.T. doesn’t actually talk yet, but that can be forgiven because all of the other details are simply amazing. It took him about three years to complete the project.
I don’t know about you, but I am really jealous. This brings back all kinds of memories of my childhood back in the 80s. And a time when David Hasselhoff hadn’t lost his mind yet.
On one hand, many of the fans of the original Doom games are too old to be playing with plushies. On the other hand, some kids might be find these toys too freaky. So really, these are for teenagers who may or may not have played Doom.
Then again, the monsters in Where the Wild Things Are are far scarier than the Cacodemon plush. Heck, Suezo from Monster Rancher is faaaar scarier than these two.
Fight your way to Bethesda’s online store to order the Cacodemon and the Pain Elemental plushies. Each toy costs $15 (USD) and is about 7″ tall. What would really make everyone’s Halloween is if Atlus released plushies of the Shin Megami Tensei demons.
Anyone who grew up with cassette tapes is going to love these LED mixtape lamps from Etsy seller Break The Record. They look amazing, even if they don’t play any music. It’s not a totally original idea, but Break The Record offers all kinds of versions of these cassette tape lamps, in all kinds of colors, in sets of ten, a hundred… You name it. I love how they glow, shining through the cassettes, it looks so retro. They would definitely make a statement in your home. Probably in your man cave. They are great for parties too.
The lamps range from about $49(USD) to $240 each depending on the number of tapes and LEDs its made of. The small ones run on AA batteries, so that will cost you a few more bucks, but it also makes them portable.
They look great in almost any color. Though they are among the most expensive cassette box sets ever.
This Iron Man balloon armor is perfect. As long as you don’t run into any pin-wielding bad guys or bad guys with flamethrowers. Or if the air pressure around you doesn’t pop your suit. Okay, maybe it’s not that practical, but it is still awesome. This armor was lung-blown and hand-assembled by balloon artist Jeff Wright. It is made of balloons and nothing but balloons. It took him only about 10 minutes to assemble (though I’m sure it took much longer to plan out.) It’s made from 364 skinny party balloons in all and it can be worn into battle, though I wouldn’t recommend it.
I love how the arc reactor looks too. But why the sad face? Maybe he knows how fragile his armor really is.
This isn’t the first time that we’ve seen the Berlin Boombox. The device turned up on Kickstarter about a year ago when it was seeking funding for production. We lost track of the device after the Kickstarter campaign and it has now turned up again, and this time you can buy it outright.
The DIY Berlin Boombox is a cardboard papercraft kit that requires you to fold and stuff tabs into slots. Other than the cardboard shell for the boombox, it also comes with speakers and other hardware required to make the audio work.
The Berlin Boombox has a pair of small speakers that slot into the little cardboard slots inside the cardboard shell, a volume knob, and a battery pack that holds three AA batteries. Once built, you simply connect your audio device to the speakers using the 3.5 mm plug. This would probably be the perfect ghetto blaster to go with your 80s music collection and giant sheet of cardboard for breakdancing.
The Berlin Boombox is available from Bitemyapple.com for $79.99(USD).
Wookiees are real. You could be forgiven if you believe that after seeing this epic Wookiee costume by Julian Checkley (aka Darth Serberus). This costume looks really amazing and authentic – and huge! This guy will rip your arm out of its socket for sure.
This 8′ 2″ Tarfful wookiee is no joke. This is some serious cosplay, so its maker has to put on stilts and harnesses, and even get help from friends to stand up.
You can watch the process in the video below and be amazed as a man becomes a larger than life Wookiee, and check out more on the build process over on The RPF.
I would be tired just from the weight and heat of all that fur. But it looks damn good and he knows how to move like a Wookiee too.
Like Star Trek? How about fan art? Then you’d better head on over to our brother-from-another-mother website MightyMega and enter to win one of three books of cool Star Trek art created by illustrator Juan Ortiz.
Star Trek: The Art of Juan Ortiz is a 112-page hardcover book which features imaginative poster designs for each of the original 80 episodes of Star Trek. It’s as if each episode was a movie, the way Juan looks at it. The book is chockful of awesome images, and has recently hit store shelves.
Head on over to MightyMega now for your chance to win. The contest ends on 9/11/2013 at 11:59 CDT, and there are lots of ways to earn entries.
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