YES! The Iron Giant is Finally Coming to Blu-Ray in a Beautiful Box Set!

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I don’t know about you, but if I’d have to rank my top 5 animated movie of all time, The Iron Giant would be among that list. If you’re a fan, you’ll be please to learn that the 1999 American animated science fiction comedy-drama is finally getting released on Blu-Ray (signature or collector’s edition!) The signature edition will offer only the movie, while the collector’s edition will include a bunch of awesome stuff along with the film. For those interested, both can be pre-ordered right now from Amazon.com.

– A letter from Director Brad Bird to the fans
– Five Mondo Art Cards
– Beautiful 32-Page Book
– Collectible Iron Giant Figurine
– Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD Combo Pack

Now let’s just hope someone makes a sequel to the movie. There is certainly room for one if we consider the ending of the original.

–The Iron Giant: Signature Edition (BD) [Blu-ray]

–Iron Giant, The: Signature Edition UCE (BD Combo) [Blu-ray]


HORRIFYING: Melting Styrofoam with Acetone [Video]

This is simply someone dissolving some styrofoam cups by soaking them in nail polish remover. Pretty cool, right?

Now if someone could sculpt a little terminator and sink it in the mixture like the scene where Arnold Swartznegger gets dissolved in molten metal at the end of Terminator 2, it would be just perfect!

[LET’S MELT THIS]

“Star Trek: TNG” Toy is Literally for the Next Generation

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Because it’s just never to early to encourage your child’s love of sci-fi, and especially of Star Trek! :) A wonderful Star Trek: TNG toy shared by author Linda Mooney.

Not sure where these are from, but a few artists on Etsy have similar peg toys for sale!

And if you are looking for officially licensed pin figures, Entertainment Earth has some right here!

[Source: Linda Mooney (Author) on Facebook]

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Sony’s 4K Movie Streams To Cost $30

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Sony is to charge $30 a movie to stream 4K titles directly to its smart TV sets. The service launches next week and is for outright purchases only.

The ULTRA service will initially offer around 40 to 50 movies at $30. There’ll also be some TV shows but pricing hasn’t been revealed yet.

It sounds like Sony is trying to justify the price, with several media outlets using the same comparison between the $30 for the 4K digital purchase and the cost of two people going to the movies (in a big city at least.) That could still be a tough sell considering purchases of recent releases in HD are going for around $15 to $20 on Amazon.

Of course, technically you could argue that the per-pixel price is half as much with Sony’s 4K option, but it’s unlikely most buyers will think that way.

There’s a few breaks on the price however. If you buy a new 4K Sony TV you’ll get four titles free. Any Sony titles in your Ultraviolet collection (the online digital copy that comes with some Blu-ray discs) will be automatically available on the TV set, with plans to extend that to other studios. And any movies you’ve already bought from Sony’s online store can be upgraded to 4K at a discounted price.

Most likely the pricing is partly an early adopter tax and partly an exploitation of the hardware issues. While 4K Blu-Ray discs are also going for around $30, and you’d normally expect at least a slight discount for a streaming edition, it’s still going to work out much cheaper overall for Sony 4K TV owners given they won’t need to buy a new disc player.

That said, at $30, people will want to be very confident that they’ll retain permanent access to the titles and they won’t be withdrawn later on for licensing or other issues.