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If you’re going to the New York Comic Con with a kid, stay away from Booth 208. Otherwise you’ll have to explain why there’s a small batch of gold-domed R2-D2 action figures each rocking a purple hat, a cape and a cane. Because this isn’t a Count Dracula costume.

This robotic uh, solicitor is the work of Jason Chalker aka Manly Art. He also made a poster featuring his scandalous creation:

You can get the poster from Jason’s online shop (his other artworks are NSFW) for $20 (USD). As I said the action figure will only be sold at the New York Comic Con and will go for $50 each.

[via Geekologie]

The Dark Lord of the Sith is one of the more imposing villains in movies, and the folks over at Zen Studios have decided to pay tribute to this all round ass kicker thanks to a special Darth Vader tribute pinball table which is set to roll out sometime next week on the PlayStation Store both the for PS3 and PS Vita (cross buy) in the new Star Wars Pinball: Balance of the Force pack. You could, of course, perform a download of the tables in Zen Pinball 2, or to opt for it in the standalone Star Wars game for $9.99 a pop.

This is the time to somewhat get into Lord Vader’s “brain”, so to speak, as you get to find yourself immersed in some of the most notable moments in his life. Of course, what is the whole point of a Star Wars game if there were no creative usage of the many lines that we love to hear over and over again? In here, you get to enjoy some of Vader’s most memorable quotes and scenes from the Star Wars films, where it delivers an authentic Darth Vader experience, with the whole table being a highly stylized Darth Vader atmosphere that will boast of iconic lines from the films and Darth Vader’s Meditation pod.

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Ground meat. It’s what’s for dinner. It’s not only tasty, but also highly sculptable. Is that a word? Well, it is now. Just look at that MEAT2-D2, there;s a Death Star and a TIE Fighter too. I hope it’s low in fat. Not because of any diet that I’m on, but because I want to cook this stuff and not have it shrink to like 2-inches-tall.

These amusing meat sculptures come from Epic Grinds who creates movie and video game sculptures out of meat. Yes, that’s a thing. So…meet this meat. Do you like each other? Good. Now eat!

Be sure to check out Epic Grinds’ other meat sculptures. There are Metroid and Pokémon meats among others. I choose to eat you, Pikachu!

[via Kotaku via Laughing Squid]

It does seem to me as though there are some franchises that simply cannot exhaust its revenue stream, simply because it is way too big to fail, and there is a new fan that is “born” every single minute. Star Wars is definitely one of them, and who thought that all the way back in 1977 when the movie was first released, it would have made such an impact in many cultures and the world of sci-fi movies? Well, still going strong after all this while thanks to a savvy marketing plan, ThinkGeek has come up with the $19.99 Star Wars Darth Vader ViewMaster which will certainly offer a blast from the past so that today’s kids will be able to enjoy what used to entertain you before for countless hours on end, before the advent of the likes of the Game Boy.

The Star Wars Darth Vader ViewMaster comes with a viewer and 3 reels, and best of all is, just in case someone starts to rib you about purchasing bootleg products, you can proudly tell them off that this is an officially licensed Star Wars merchandise. Despite arriving with just three reels, it will be good enough to convey a story from 21 different images, and to make things all the more foreboding, it comes with a Vader-themed case to stash those reels away. In addition, those reels from the past are also compatible with all View-Master viewers, so assuming you can track them down with a tracker droid, you would be able to show off to the younger generation proudly of your View-Master adventures when you were a wee lad.
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