Fans who love to dress up as their favorite film, TV, comic book and video game characters don’t just reside in the United States. Our Eastern European friends reminded us of this at Starcon in St. Petersburg, Russia, where cosplayers donned their DIY costumes and strutted their stuff. In two videos, Starcon Старкон 2016 Russian …
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Funko has a talent for transforming favorite pop culture characters into cute collectibles. With the buzz about sci-fi/horror Netflix series “Stranger Things” at an all-time high, it was only a matter of time before the toy company put out feelers to gauge the response to potential Pop Vinyl figures of the show’s most popular characters. Related stories This Eleven figure …
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We’ve all had fantasies of a future where robot chefs live in our homes and make us any meal we desire at any time of day. Sadly, robots aren’t quite sophisticated enough for that sort of home use as of yet. But that didn’t stop Simone Giertz, a YouTube vlogger known for putting together hilariously crappy robots, from making her …
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Some people like to live on the edge, but daredevil Flaviu Cernescu prefers to unicycle on the edge. On Wednesday, Cernescu posted a YouTube video of himself and a friend having fun on top of a very tall abandoned factory chimney measuring 840 feet high (256 meters) at CET Targu Jiu in Romania. Related stories Courageous couple scales crane perched …
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One character that would make trailers for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” so much better is Jar Jar Binks, said absolutely no one ever. But that didn’t stop fan Michael Murdock from making “Rogue Binks: A Star Wars Story” with Jar Jar standing in for Jyn Erso. Related stories New international ‘Rogue One’ trailer reveals more Star Wars secrets …
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Crafty YouTuber Peter Brown loves covering everyday things like cookies, bubble wrap and crayon wrappers in resin, and then transforming them into usable tools, jewelry or even birdhouses. In one his new videos, Brown shows step-by-step how he made a mold of a wooden ax handle so he could fill it with 5 pounds (2.3 kilograms) of gummy bears and …
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For the last few weeks, actors Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston have been posting candid behind-the-scenes photos from the set of “Thor: Ragnarok,” giving eager fans a sneak peek of what’s to come from their Marvel characters Thor and Loki. On Tuesday, the actors decided to put their spare time away from the movie set to good use by visiting …
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Admit it. At least once, you might have been tempted to paint your fingernails with Wite-out or Liquid Paper just to see how they might look. After all, fingernails are a great canvas for geeky experiments like transforming hands into RFID chip commuter cards or smartphone detectors. Some crafty folks have even turned their fingernails into an elaborate Candy Crush …
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It’s hard not to be impressed by Disney’s CGI makeover of Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book.” Leave it to Honest Trailers, a YouTube series from Screen Junkies that features a classic movie-trailer voiceover but with a narrator who makes fun of films, to lay down blunt opinions about the 2016 film. Related stories ‘Watchmen’ hilariously lambasted in Honest Trailers parody …
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When you spend your teens on the USS Enterprise, you’re bound to have some interesting memories to share. While Wil Wheaton started as an ’80s child actor in such films “The Secret of NIMH,” “The Last Starfighter” and “Stand by Me,” he’s best-known to many for his role as teen genius Ensign Wesley Crusher on “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” …
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