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Doctor Who has become sort of like an icon among his many fans, with the show inspiring a whole range of products and mods, like the Doctor Who wall clock, Dalek planter, and TARDIS bunk bed.

A Kickstarter campaign inspired by the show was recently successfully funded, but it’s not for another Doctor Who-themed product. Instead, it’s a campaign that will be sending a real-life TARDIS into space – as cargo on a commercial satellite launch.

The 50th anniversary of Doctor Who is coming up (it’s on November 23rd) and what better way to commemorate the event than by sending the Doctor’s space and time machine into orbit?

The miniature TARDIS satellite has already been built and it’s equipped with a GoPro Hero 3 which will be recharged by solar panels (hidden in the police booth windows) that have been set up to provide it with power indefinitely. The team behind the launch hopes to get some nice photos of Earth from orbit, and they’re offering data space on the TARDIS as rewards for the backers of the campaign.

It’s about time someone made this happen! Now they just need to figure out how to get it to work as a time machine.

[via Dvice]

Ever wondered how much money in video games and science fiction movies would be worth in our world? Well, thanks to the Intergalactic Exchange Bureau, you can now convert between a number of fictitious currencies.

Developed as a promotional stunt by Money in Advance, the Intergalactic Exchange Bureau can convert currencies from Star Wars, Star Trek, Skyrim, Fallout: New Vegas, Harry Potter, A Song of Ice and Fire and a couple of others. Whether you’re paying in Gold dragons, Septims, Creds, or Galactic Credits, you’re covered. Though don’t try and pay in Rupees. They don’t take Rupees.

Of course, they didn’t have actual exchange rates to work from, and they came up with their own estimates based on their independent assessment of the value of objects in the various fictional universes. That said, real-world currency relationships were based on actual market values. Though what the price of frozen concentrated orange juice in New York has to do with the price of lightsabers in the Dagobah system, I don’t know.

What is blue, has eights arms and is bigger on the inside? This Doctor Who “statement” necklace, that’s what. Or as I like to call it, the “OctoTARDIS” or “Doctor Cthulu”.


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Last year we told you about an official Back to the Future LEGO set that was coming down the line. Well, it will arrive on July 18th, but if you are eager to take a look, here it is.

Brick News has scored a first look at the official LEGO set. You might remember the first version proposed through LEGO Cuusoo last year. Well, this official DeLorean has a lot more going on – though it looks quite a bit less like the one in the movie than the originally proposed design.

It will come with Marty McFly and Doc Brown minifigs, and with this set you can build all three versions of the DeLorean from the movies. Pricing for the set will be £35 (~$50 USD). So what do you think?

If you’d rather have a more accurate LEGO DeLorean, you can always head over to Ichiban Toys and order up one of their model kits.

[Nerd Approved via LEGO Gizmodo]

While they never came out and said it, I always imagined that Han Solo liked to look at himself in the mirror for hours every day. With all of that swagger, he had to be just a little self-absorbed. And what better mirror for him to check himself in but a Millennium Falcon?

This mirror based on the ship that did the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs was made by the guys from Funky Mirrors, and it is the perfect thing to round out any Star Wars themed room. It’s been lovingly hand-painted to replicate the details of the battle-worn spaceship, except for the part where the whole middle of the ship has been replaced with a mirror, of course.

The Millennium Falcon mirror measures 70cm (L) x 53cm (W) (~27.56″ x 20.87″) and is selling for $191 (USD) over on Etsy. I think if I had one of these, I’d rig it to display an image of Chewbacca every time you walked up to it.