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News of the availability for purchase of the complete set of Star Wars action figures from the original trilogy registered a 8.5 of the Nerd Richter Scale today. It's all yours for $3500 here and a monthly payment plan IS available.
Although if the owner had watched "40-Year-Old Virgin" he would have known that this collection would be worth a whole heck of a lot more if he had left the figures in their original plastic packaging. DUH.
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First introduced at the 1939 New York World’s Fair and an immediate hit, the view-master, a ubiquitous red toy that entertained with its magical 3-Dness, is coming to an end. Except for a few titles, such as Shrek and Dora the Explorer, Fisher Price has discontinued production of the accompanying scenic discs. It leaves behind quite a varied legacy.
During the second world war the armed forces produced training reels for identifying enemy and friendly aircraft and ships. After the war View-Masters became household items, as common as frozen food. Thousands of businesses promoted themselves using custom-made View-Master reels. Recently the University of Missouri football programme promoted its candidate for the Heisman trophy by giving away viewers moulded in the college colours and a reel of highlights from the season. Medical students used View-Master to study a 3D atlas of human anatomy. In all, more than 1.5 billion reels have been produced, every one of them to the same size and format, and usable in every model of viewer ever made.
In related news: If you haven't seen Coraline in 3D, GO SEE IT!
Play with this online Etch-a-Sketch created by Digital Spoke. Use your keyboard arrow keys. [Via]
Packaged in the familiar Nike orange boxes, there's more than meets the eye with these running shoes.
Appropriate for males ages 5 through 90. I want one.
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When the zombies come, you will find me holding it down at Fort Target in Brooklyn armed with this zombie killing weapon:
And here's a video of this in action.
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This is pretty cool.
Hammacher Shlemmer is selling a custom 400-piece jigsaw puzzle of any New York Times cover you choose from 1888 to the present. It should go without saying, but I'd like to get an OBAMA edition jigsaw puzzle. Kate, what do you think?
Buy yours here for $49.95.
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