Archive for the ‘Toys’ Category
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CREEPY ZOMBIE TEDDY BEARS
You should have been nicer to your toys! Teddy Scares are a line of zombie teddy bears that have returned after being neglected and disposed of. These fabric freaks are available as plush dolls, comics, clothing and loads of other creepy goodness. Applehead Factory’s Teddy Scares creations are stitched with frightening, agorable fun. The screams continue with Teddy Scares® Series 2. These stuffed carcasses stand 12” ...
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THE DISNEY ‘COPY-PASTE’ CONSPIRACY
So, apparently, it takes 12 drawings per SECOND of movement in animated films, which means that creating animated films by hand is a lot of work! Back when Disney was the main animated film producer, they decided to cut some corners by literally copy and pasting the exact same movements (and in many cases, the same jokes too) into different films over the years. It appears ...
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BATMAN’S GOLF CART
Ray Griggs is a writer, director, and producer who is a huge Batman and Superman fan. His love of the Dark Knight lead him to work with designer Marc Irvin of Marc’s Creature Company on a dream golf cart that keeps the Warner Brothers lot free of villains and other nefarious evil doers. Griggs is currently hard at work in pre-production on the adaptation of the ...
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WORLD’S STEEPEST ROLLER COASTER
The world’s steepest roller coaster is now in full operation in Japan (where else?!) at the Fuji-Q Highland amusement park. The Takabisha coaster accelerates to 100km/hour and has a 43m drop at a 121 degree freefall. Yikes. The Takabisha beat out the former record holder for the steepest coaster, the Le Timber Drop, from France that measures a “measly” 113.1 degrees. The Fuji-Q Highland park invested ...
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NINTENDO CONTROLLER COFFEE TABLE
Kyle Downes over at Ultra Awesome has built one of the coolest coffee tables ever seen– a functioning NES controller coffee table. In a stroke of old school genius, Kyle devised this giant NES controller from a scan of an original, crafting this one out of wood and basic electronics. And yes, it works if you plug it into a classic NES console. It may feel ...
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RETRO iPAD ARCADE CABINET
The brainiacs over at ThinkGeek have officially released the iCADE – an Arcade Cabinet with functioning joysticks for the iPad. Simply drop your iPad into the desktop-sized arcade cabinet and the blue tooth capability will connect to the iPad software effortlessness. ThinkGeek partnered with ION and ATARI in order to bring you a huge suite of classic arcade titles including Asteroids, Battlezone and Tempest. A friendly ...
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2,000 POUND TRANSFORMER CAKE
To promote the third Transformers movie, Cake Boss uh, boss Buddy Valastro crafted his own homage to the legendary Autobot—and as befitting of the star of a cable reality show, it’s not your average day-old Safeway bakery department birthday creation. More sculpture than cake, the creation features Bumblebee halfway through transforming from a Camaro into an Autobot, looking like he’s sitting on a Camaro’s front end. ...
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$9200.00 CAMERA LENS CHESS BOARD
“Getting ready to move a business is just like any other move: you spend a lot of time waiting for workmen to show up: painters, electricians, plumbers, you name it. It seems Roger and Aaron got a little bored over at the new building. There wasn’t much to play with: lots of empty space, some lenses we’d started moving over, and some floor tiles they found. ...
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THIS BICYCLE COSTS $40,000
Describing their products as “perfectly handcrafted and strictly limited objects of art,” Germany’s Vandeyk Contemporary Cycles this fall will release the Nightstream, a retro-inspired mountain bike with a whopping €16,500 price-tag. The bike brand, comprised of “a handpicked brigade of experts in fields as diverse as design, bicycle frame building, photography, and writing,” seeks to produce revolutionary, highly-sophisticated designs with each hand-constructed bike. Constructed with only ...
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BARBIE FOOSBALL
French designer Chloe Ruchon created a table soccer game with Barbie figurines instead of the usual male figurines wearing soccer uniforms called ‘Barbiefoot’. The product was created in partnership with mattel brands consumer products and babyfoot bonzini. www.furnicraft.info
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SKATEBOARD PARK AND HOUSE LOVECHILD
Pierre-André Senizergues and designer, Gil Le Bon Delapointe in collaboration with shoe company Etnies recently debuted the Pas House project part of the Public Domaine Exhibition held at La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris. Pas House is A full-scale, 753.5-square foot living space where everything is skateable. The interior is outfitted with Le Bon Delapointe’s custom furniture creations including chairs, tables and room dividers made from ...
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BAND PLAYS ENTIRE SONG USING iPHONES
Atomic Tom is a rock band from Brooklyn, New York. In January 2010 the band signed to Universal Republic Records. The band gained popularity after they performed their single “Take Me Out” on four iPhones on the New York City subway B train. The fictional premise of the video is that the band’s instruments have been stolen and that they improvised using their iPhones. The ...
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GANGSTA HAIR COMB
Gun and knife shaped hair combs make staying groomed feel so ‘bad’. Want to see more hair-related posts? Check out the Hair Chair from THIS POST.
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DICE BOW TIE
The latest and greatest in bow tie design for those who love to gamble and look positively dapper while doing so? The Andre 3000 (created in honor of the artist’s birthday) Bow Tie individually is assembled by hand, so that each customer will have his or her own unique piece. If you like these bow ties made from dice, check out more accessories made from Lego ...
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XBOX CAR INTERIOR
Suzuki, which has clearly used one of its concept vehicles to achieve this PR stunt, outfitted a vehicle in all things Xbox 360 for an Ohio State video game tourney. The controller in the steering wheel with the yet to be removed ‘power on’ instruction sticker is a nice touch. www.gadgetreview.com If you like video games, check out the Nintendo Coffee Table from THIS POST that ...
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SNOT SOAP DISPENSER
A shower soap dispenser that only children could love. Press on the “nostril” portion of this wall mounted dispenser to obtain a squirt of gross looking green nose gel. Want to see another strange home design item? Check out the Fried Egg Carpet from THIS POST.
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CRAZY PLAYGROUND
As we continue to wonder why so much more time, energy and attention is lavished on adults’ play and entertainment spaces than on kids’ play and entertainment spaces, we sometimes find a cool spot worth mentioning. The “sculptural playground” Schulberg located in a formerly neglected area overlooking the historic centre of the city of Wiesbaden in Germany, is one of such great kid-friendly environments. It is ...
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CRAZY SKATEBOARD
The Flowlab board is trying to take the classic skateboard to the next level. Where a classic skateboard will allow you to carve at 25 degrees the Flowlab board allows up to 45 degree carves, using 14 wheels rather then the traditional 4. Developed in 1999 by a couple of San Francisco design students looking for a way to skate down the city’s steep hillsides. Unlike ...
