Space:1999 (Thermos 1975)

Battlestar Galactica (Aladdin 1978)

Battle of the Planets (Thermos 1979)

The Muppet Show Presents: Pigs in Space (Thermos 1979)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Thermos 1977)

For the entire collection go here! From the amazing collection of edowney9.

Shown above is the animated film Kings of Power 4 Billion% by Paul Robertson. It's hard to see all of the detail in the YouTube video (I'd suggest downloading a torrent) but Robertson's animation technique is drawn pixel by pixel like an old school video game. In addition to video games he also draws quite a bit from anime and pop cultural references. Here's part two:

In August of this year Buck Rogers will be 80 years old! The franchise which takes place in the year 2419 first started life as a short story in the pulp magazine Amazing Stories has has spawned comic books, novels, toys, serialized movies and two TV series (first in 1950 on ABC and then the disco version in 1979). Now it looks like Nu Image/Millennium Films has acquired film rights to the property and will create a live action film:

Nu Image gets 'Buck Rogers' rights

"Nu Image/Millennium's Avi Lerner got the rights from the Dille Trust, which is run by the surviving family of series originator Frank Dille. Those rights had once been with Disney, but the Dille family was attracted to moving them to a small movie and gaining more control over the direction of the film. Despite web reports that Frank Miller had boarded the project, sources at Millennium disputed than any creatives had yet aligned to the project."

Here's a clip from the 1939 twelve part film serial which starred Buster Crabbe:

And for you children of the 80s here's a related Mego toy commercial:

Vintage ray gun toy image found via Kiel Bryant.

This is amazing because they're thinking is that Mars isn't a dead planet after all, but in fact has a more active climate than Earth:

Glaciers Reveal Martian Climate Has Been Recently Active

"The prevailing thinking is that Mars is a planet whose active climate has been confined to the distant past. About 3.5 billion years ago, the Red Planet had extensive flowing water and then fell quiet - deadly quiet. It didn't seem the climate had changed much since.

Now scientists think Mars' climate has been much more dynamic than previously believed. After examining stunning high-resolution images taken last year by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the researchers have documented for the first time that ice packs at least 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) thick and perhaps 2.5 kilometers (1.6 miles) thick existed along Mars' mid-latitude belt as recently as 100 million years ago.

In addition, the team believes other images tell them that glaciers flowed in localized areas in the last 10 to 100 million years - akin to the day before yesterday in Mars' geological timeline. This evidence of recent activity means the Martian climate may change again and could bolster speculation about whether the Red Planet can, or did, support life."

Found via dailygalaxy.com.

I dare you to knock this battery off my shoulder! This Canadian fanboy took a bear suit and modified it for futuristic combat situations ala Halo. I have no idea if this invention would work, but man would he clean up with the cosplay awards at any convention!

Found via Yeah, It’s Pretty Cool

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I've always hated the fact that I had to turn off comments due to spam (due to the limits of using an older version of Movable Type) so this should open up the conversation a little bit...

Yes I know that there were quite a few talented folks who made Star Trek great, and I'll grant you that he has a huge ego — but I feel like William Shatner is being treated like crap by not including him in this upcoming Star Trek film. Don't tell me that they can bring back Nimoy for a leading role but they can't work a 5 minute future flashback into the damn script?

Adding insult to injury is the Star Trek Ultimate Captain Kirk 1:4 Scale Figure which looks like a bad cartoon sculpture of Shatner. Of course I'll grant you that Paramount has never had the same approach to quality merchandise that say Lucasfilm has had with Star Wars, but I think that they could do a little bit better on the small and big things that count to us fanboys.

These photos look great! Harrison Ford looks like he's in top form:

Found via slashfilm.com.

I'll always root for Pixar over Dreamworks, but this film may not be half bad...

I have to admit that I had my doubts about Disney-Pixar's upcoming movie WALL-E, although slowly my mind is being changed on the subject. For starters a friend who saw a few clips at the recent New York Comic Con told me that he was blown away with the quality of the work that he viewed. And today I could sense the buzz building up as I spotted a poster for the film on a bus shelter here in NYC.

Shown above is the Ultimate WALL-E which will sell for $190 this summer. This interactive robot comes with a remote controller and sensors that'll allow him to respond to his environment in numerous ways, including obstacle, sound, and touch detection. This fanboy thinks that this looks like a fun toy and makes me look forward to finding out more about the film.

Found via gearlog.

Meow! Japanese horror punk rock band Balzac has adopted Hello Kitty into their act. Shown above is the result of this collaboration which includes a line of t-shirts to show off your claws of cuteness.

Found via Hello Kitty Hell.

Countless science fiction films from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Alien (my favorite was Planet of the Apes) have used the idea of suspended animation as a technique to allow for prolonged missions in outer space. Well now it looks like that concept may become reality:

Rotten egg gas may save Mars mission

"Dr Warren Zapol and colleagues report in the latest issue of the journal Anesthesiology how hydrogen sulfide slows mouse metabolism without cutting blood flow to the brain. There are many questions and years of research before healthy people like astronauts would be put into hibernated states. But the procedure could find an earlier application in cases of traumatic injury when life itself is at risk. Zapol plans additional experiments on larger mammals, probably sheep. "Before you use it on astronauts, you want to make sure it's very, very safe," he says."

The photos shown above are of various Japanese toys:
• Lunch Time photo by katsuboy
• Baby and Box photo by gwennan
• Shokupankun Arrives! photo by rilakkumaworld

Check out these cool official Indiana Jones desktop icons designed by Anthony Piraino.

I've starting to hear quite a bit about Sleep Dealer which is a low budget science fiction film from Mexico which sounds interesting:

Cool Indie Sci-Fi Film Sleep Dealer Gets A Distributor!

"I personally saw the film at last month's screening here in NYC at NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS and loved the film! I think the movie is hot and consider the hybrid movie to be a "Mexican Matrix." Hybrid in the sense that it is both in English and in Spanish, something the trades forgot to mention. The futuristic film creates an environment where Mexican immigrant labor is outsourced from Tijuana via cyber network, with remote-controlled robots working in the United States."

...here are some video clips from the film: