Valentine’s Day Shopping Help Part 1 FPNYC 2013 Bestsellers
Valen’s Day is coming up, and for those of you still stuck for a gift for the geek in your life (and for those of you interested in Forbidden Planet sales… stalkers) here’s a quick rundown of what’s hot and popular in the shop so far this year. The following are FPNYC’s best-selling items in [...]
New Comic Day January 9th 2013
Oh, dip! Star Wars #1 (written by FP fave Brian Wood) and Superior Spider-Man #1 drop today, along with a crap-ton more new comics and GNs. Come on by. We’re open ’til midnight tonight.
Star Wars The Ultimate Action Figure Guide At Least for Now
Star Wars collectors!!! The only truly indispensable archive of action figures from a galaxy far, far away is in stock NOW! World famous SW expert Stephen Sansweet (author of more than a few of my fave pictorial books on the subject) returns to exhaustive reference books with this gorgeous tome… Pretty sweeeeeeeeet. It’ll be outta [...]
Post-Turkey Day Weekend Recap
For the 5 of you who follow the adventure of Chris Troy and Fantasy Football, I wisely started the Patriots defense over the weekend. That was 25 points I needed. A shame it was up against the Jets who I actually like and are doing terrible this season…… HEY WHERE ARE YOU GOING, I’LL TALK [...]
Ch-ch-Alterations
Comic Books as we know them are now over. Too bad, really, there were some super sweet books coming out this week, such as The Goon #41, Wolverine and the X-Men #15, Before Watchmen: Minutemen #3, Avenging Spider-Man #11, The Detective Comics Annual #1, and Justice League #12, which sure seemed like it had a [...]
Kre-O Sentinel Prime Review
When I was a kid, I was really into LEGO, even more than I was into action figures. As the years went on, though, I noticed the sets were declining in quality, mostly due to the amount of effort they were funneling into the Star Wars sets. As a result, I got more and more [...]
Junk Food Dinner Movie Night
My buddy Mark Freado over at Junk Food Dinner is now hosting a movie night in Bed-Stuy, along with Kevin Merryman, who also runs a radical blog called Cultural Atrocities. March 1st is a red letter day for us here at JFD. It’s the first (of hopefully many) Junk Food Dinner nights at Project Parlor (742 Myrtle [...]
Three Ewok Shirt
For the ladies with a fine appreciation of the Three Wolf Moon shirt, the official Star Wars Shop is now offering this:
Mondo Print: Salacious Crumb
Dig this gorgeous print of mischievous little muppet Salacious Crumb by Rhys Cooper. 24″x 36″ screen print w/ metallic inks, it is was available from one of my favorite other purveyors of geeky goods, mondotees.com.
The Best Ben Affleck Film Ever Made
…by someone else. A rather large-necked filmmaker named George. Featuring lazers and Carrie Fisher. The Town.
“There’s a meteorite that hit the ground near here. I want to check it out. Won’t take long.” -Opportunity
Not much going on in the Geek Kingdom today (NOT! So totally NOT!) so let’s check in with Mars Rover Opportunity, who, unlike fellow trailblazer Spirit, currently has power and is about to investigate a recently fallen meteorite on the Red Planet. via NASA and JPL: Images that NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took at [...]
The Empire Strikes Back (1950)
I saw this with a news reel and 2 ‘toons for a nickel. They served real butter back then, not “butter topping.” Ah, those were the days…
Star Wars Games
Here on Earth we use games of both the card and video variety to distract ourselves from the misery of our daily existence. Logically, who wants to be an unemployed barber when you can be an attractive 60th level elf woman who rides a tiger? A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, however, life was different. Games in the Star Wars universe were utilized for a variety of purposes, such as degrading droids, stealing space ships or just shooting whining farmers with lasers from a robot piñata until they learn to chillax.
Comic Con Exclusives 2010
By Devin T. Quin Arg! T’is time again for the San Diego Comic Con, the biggest and most expensive trip most nerds will take outside of their parents basements this year. If you haven’t bought your tickets yet then take heart, because you can’t anymore. I’m sure the dang thing will be totally sold out [...]