Best Geek/Pop Culture item you've ever seen?
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2short2care,
Posted on: 2011-03-04 15:58 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
I love Pizza so this tops my list.
2nd place goes to;
I once heard about a guy that made a working remote control J5 but was sued over the rights. Still this lego one is pretty sweet.
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These arent mine, but I love the first set
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The Star Trek apartment.
(http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/20...rek-apartment/)
For future reference, how do I include photos in forum posts? I'm not very good at technical stuff, and I just never had a reason to learn how until now. 
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That apartment is amazing. |
Originally Posted by Lucretia_MacEvil
The Star Trek apartment.
(http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/20...rek-apartment/) For future reference, how do I include photos in forum posts? I'm not very good at technical stuff, and I just never had a reason to learn how until now. |
And you can use the [img]<picture link here>[/img] tags.
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I know that flat.....it was awesome.....and he sold it |
Originally Posted by Beastyle
That apartment is amazing.
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Made a great profit on it though, which is good.
That pizza cutter is excellent, btw, but I love that Johnny 5!!
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That is awesome and I am not really a Star Trek fan.
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Originally Posted by Lucretia_MacEvil
The Star Trek apartment.
(http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/20...rek-apartment/) For future reference, how do I include photos in forum posts? I'm not very good at technical stuff, and I just never had a reason to learn how until now. |
Cancel the kitchen scraps for widows and lepers, no more merciful beheadings and call off christmas!
That is a cool T shirt!
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The Enterprise pizza cutter is pretty freakin cool.
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And about 5 others that change constantly...
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This is pretty amazing in scope, dedication, and craftsmanship.
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Farewell is like the end
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My personal favorite.
They are customs obviously and the one that was given to me for Christmas a few years ago has a few extra accessories.
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That's more than a little sad.
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Originally Posted by Lucretia_MacEvil
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@Joshua.
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Oh yes. So very sad that the guy made over $600,000 profit when he sold it. Poor poor man. If only I could take his suffering on my own shoulders I would bear this horrible burden for him.
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Originally Posted by Forefinger_
That's more than a little sad.
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Don't count your weasels before they pop dink!
The Blue Sun travel poster set. My favorite is the Bellerophon poster.
Goodbye, I guess.
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I saw this at my local comic book store - http://www.collectorsworldstore.com/...nov101640.html will be picking it next week.. now I just need a matching suit and feathered hat.
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The happy ending that he sold it was cool, but the assertation that the guy's wife left him due to his Star Trek fixation, and his ensuing "geek out" is a bit sad.
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Originally Posted by Mandu
Oh yes. So very sad that the guy made over $600,000 profit when he sold it. Poor poor man. If only I could take his suffering on my own shoulders I would bear this horrible burden for him.
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@Joshua.
A couple of my favorites:
The "Fargo" wood chipper scene snow globe
This item could only be obtained by purchasing the Deluxe Collector's Edition Letterboxed VHS (yes, VHS) of the movie. Note the red flakes that float around when the globe is shaken. Classic.
From the "Rocky" action figure toys, "The Meat":
That's right, not only are there "Rocky" action figures, one of them is an "action figure" of a side of beef that Rocky used for punching practice. Note the blood-stained butcher's coat included in the package. Nice extra touch, IMHO.
I actually saw one of these in Target a few years back, around X-mas time when I was looking for Ben 10 action figures for my son. I kick myself for not buying it.
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Yeah, and the snarky suppositions of an internet blog reporter is always accurate. |
Originally Posted by Forefinger_
The happy ending that he sold it was cool, but the assertation that the guy's wife left him due to his Star Trek fixation, and his ensuing "geek out" is a bit sad.
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I'd bet if the guy spent all the time/money to make his apartment into some kind of Ultimate Sports Den including part that looked like a football (American or otherwise) locker room, no one would comment negatively at all.
Sports geek = Cool and socially acceptable. Sci Fi geek = Sad nerd and social pariah.
Society sucks.
Allllmost bought this for my wife last christmas: The Magnetic Spinning Tardis
But she's got enough stuff crowding her desk at the moment. When the little zen fountain dies, I'll go for this.
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Yup, had the same sort of nonsense myself. When i pointed out to the girls at work, who will spend hours discussing the latest developments in Eastenders, Coronation Street, Hollyoaks...insert whichever soap opera is popular atm......but when I even mention something sci-fi based, I get looked at like Im the saddest man on Earth.|
Originally Posted by TheUnnamedOne
Yeah, and the snarky suppositions of an internet blog reporter is always accurate.
I'd bet if the guy spent all the time/money to make his apartment into some kind of Ultimate Sports Den including part that looked like a football (American or otherwise) locker room, no one would comment negatively at all. Sports geek = Cool and socially acceptable. Sci Fi geek = Sad nerd and social pariah. Society sucks. |
When I ask why, they complain that I'm talking about things that aren't real, people who aren't real.........cos obviously Dirty Den and Angie were the definition of realism.
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Actually I think it's sad that if you get obsessed with anything sci-fi, sports, soap opera, anything, that your wife leaves you it is really sad. But now he has all that money so maybe his exwife is kicking herself right now.
Cancel the kitchen scraps for widows and lepers, no more merciful beheadings and call off christmas!
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So true. Unfortunately, I fall in the "Sci Fi geek" category. When I first heard about that apartment, I thought "WAAAAAANT!!!!". Maybe some day in the distant future when I get my own house I'll do a room like that... in the back... where no one can see it....|
Originally Posted by TheUnnamedOne
I'd bet if the guy spent all the time/money to make his apartment into some kind of Ultimate Sports Den including part that looked like a football (American or otherwise) locker room, no one would comment negatively at all.
Sports geek = Cool and socially acceptable. Sci Fi geek = Sad nerd and social pariah. Society sucks. |
For now I'll have to be content with my Star Trek t-shirts and my bumper sticker that says "Starfleet Security: The few, the proud, the expendable". By the way, I refuse to use this bumper sticker because I'd have to get rid of it when I get a new car.
So, looking around the web for stuff I like, I see millions of things like t-shirts, action figures, posters, loads of stuff like that, but every now and then I stumble across completely awesome for sheer geekiness and pop culture love, and I wondered what your favourites are?
Mine has to be this....
Troy and Abed in the Mooooorning!
Seriously, I would kill for one of these, of course they aren't out anywhere in the UK I can find, so I'll end up paying over the odds for it, but that is just something that makes me grin like an idiot!
Anyone else got anything equally as geeky?
We built this city on Rock and Roll!