The highlight of Blackbook Gallery‘s Deathstar Blues show that ran in Denver last month are these AT-ATs constructed completely of reclaimed skateboards by artist Derek Keenan. The show’s concept was led by artist Axel Greittman‘s vision of a Death Metal-inspired Star Wars universe, although the exhibit additionally served as a first-look appearance for Vans and Santa Cruz […]

High-end collectible toy manufacturer Hot Toys presents “The Bat”, a collectible set based, with eerie amounts of authentic likeness, on Batman’s stunning aerial vehicle from Dark Knight Rises. The set centers around a photographically on-point, 1/12-to-scale prototype aircraft with visual likeness right down to the weathered paint job. Figures of Batman, Selina Kyle and the fusion reactor are also […]

Artist Joe Ledbetter has been around these parts before, if you remember his Rainbow Burger Bunny or Fire-cat’s previous water bottle appearance done for Los Angeles toymaker The Loyal Subjects. But looks like Ledbetter ain’t such a loyal subject, for what is special about the his new “fire-cat” is that this it’s his first fully self-produced independent piece. Standing at about […]

With the onset of the 4th installment of the mega-blockbuster Transformers franchise opening this weekend, Medicom Toys brings us the 200% Be@rbrick version of all the big hitters: Optimus Prime, Megatron, Bumble Bee and Star Scream (above). Each Be@rbrick stands a bit under 6″ tall and fully transforms into robot form, something no other Be@rbrick can offer. Pick up each figure for […]

Hong Kong toy-artist Michael Lau has teamed up with manufacturer How2work to bring a new series of figures from Lau’s Gardenergala universe. World class toymaker Lau has been re-inventing the gardener universe since 1999, his first line being that which would inspire the vinyl-toy movement throughout the world. It would take some time before his toys could be […]

Peter Ware, UK freelance-designer and film buff, is the man behind the movie-inspired prints at 17th and Oak . If there’s a film out there with any sort of cinephile appeal, then there’s probably a poster put up on his Etsy store. Available in six different sizes, starting from  a pocket filling 4.1″ x 5.8″ to […]

In honor of yesterday’s high holiday of May 4th which any nerd worth his lightsaber recognizes as Star Wars Day, the Robert Vargas Gallery in downtown Los Angeles held a free art show which ran this past weekend only. The exhibit was one to literally knock any storm trooper off his head, considering that it was comprised […]

Brought to you by the license-happy folks at the Back to the Future brand, this flux capacitor really works — at phone charging, that is, but not so much at time travel. Well, not unless you count inching forward slowly in dead-stop traffic. The capacitor has two USB ports so you can charge any USB device, works […]