Shaun of the Dead Lego Set Could be Real

I absolutely loved Shaun of the Dead. In fact, I generally enjoy everything that Nick Frost and Simon Pegg are in together. So as a massive Lego nut, I was quite amused to find this odd couple being immortalized in Lego in a scene from that very film!

Sadly this was only a big fan’s creative effort to make a Shaun of the Dead Lego set, but now Simon Pegg has decided to tug on the heartstrings of the cult followers of his film letting people know that if 10,000 people show interest in this project, Lego promises to put the model forward as an official set.

By “put forward” I mean the decision making process where Lego’s marketing and distribution team will look at the costs of licensing, production, and distribution of a special themed set. I can’t imagine soemthing like this costing less than $100 on piece count alone – let alone licensing for the use of the name and character likenesses.

If it DOES make it through this first step, it may yet be available for sale officially through Lego. It would be pretty cool if it was.

You can show your interest in this potential Lego kit by going to the LEGO Shaun of the Dead page and click on Support! There are currently 7164 supporters of this Lego Wish project.

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The Playstation 4 may be Called The Orbis

I don’t know who this Truss Ted Source is but this guy has it going on. He just knows EVERYTHING about everything that isn’t out yet.

Well Ted, as he likes to be called, has spilled the news on the next generation Playstation 4 console, and it appears that Sony will be ditching their longstanding love of numerical nomenclature by calling this new platform the Orbis, which may or may not be pictured below. Probably not.

While we have no clue what the console looks like, The Playstation Orbis (or just Orbis) is reported to have some incredible next gen features.

In addition to its obvious Blu ray player, the Orbis is said to support the new 4k HD standard of 4096×2160 and will offer 3D gaming in 1080p

However the new system will allegedly continue with Sony’s abandonment of reverse compatibility, meaning no PS3 titles will be supported. I always loved that my PS2 played my first gen games. And few remember the first version of the PS3 that could play them all. This feature was defenestrated in updated versions after that, and is sorely missed.

And you know what else you can’t (apparently) play? Previously used games! In an effort they are describing as a feature to combat piracy, games developed for the Orbis will be bound to a PSN UserID, making them unplayable on another Orbis console.

This concerns me. While I am sympathetic to their reasoning, the second hand gaming market offers a revenue stream that keeps the doors open on the shops selling the publisher’s games to begin with. Feels like biting the hand that pays you lots of money.

These retailers get a fringe benefit for all the risk and financial burden of selling your copy of The Princess Diaries: The Video Game in their stores. When it doesn’t sell, they suck it up and make an intentionally ironic coaster out of it, or throw it in a bin with a price tag well below what they paid for it. This is gleefully offset by all that money they make selling that used copy of Halo: Reach for the third time.

Rumor has it that a “resell pass” may be available for these titles for a fee, therefore unlocking the game, but adding to the cost of the used title.

I think much of this report is based on shreds of truth that will be revealed in time, but I doubt this is the final version of what the Playstation 4 will turn out to be.

How much of this do you think is accurate?

How It Should Have Ended: Assassin’s Creed [Video]

Yep, that’s one of the many things I’ve always thought to be really stupid about Assassin’s Creed, even though the last game of the series was super fun.

[Machinima]



Amazon founder finds Apollo 11 engines

The founder of Amazon has discovered the five engines that were used to launch the first manned mission to the Moon. Jeff Bezos says he now intends to raise at least one of the engines from the depths of the Atlantic.

We’ve previously covered Bezos’ project to build a 10,000 year clock in a cave a day’s hike from the nearest Texan town. It turns out that it isn’t the only way he has used estimated $18 billion fortune to fund his curiosity.

Bezos says that around a year ago he decided to start hunting for the F-1 engines that helped the Apollo 11 craft leave Earth and allow Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to step on to the Moon. The craft took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and, just a few moments later, shed the engines somewhere over the Atlantic.

He has now announced that: “using state-of-the-art deep sea sonar, the team has found the Apollo 11 engines lying 14,000 feet below the surface, and we’re making plans to attempt to raise one or more of them from the ocean floor.”

According to Bezos there’s no way to tell yet what condition the engines will be in, noting both the velocity of their plummet into the ocean and the effects of 40 years’ exposure to salt water won’t have helped.

Although the mission to recover an engine will be entirely self-funded, Bezos is clear that it would remain the property of NASA. He says that if he can recover an engine, it would likely wind up in the Smithsonian Institution’s Air and Space Museum, which already houses more than 100 artifacts from Apollo 11, ranging from the command module to the equipment used to collect and transfer the crew’s waste material.

Bezos says that if he’s able to bring up multiple engines, he will request that one is put on display at the Museum of Flight in his home city of Seattle.

8-Bit Pale Ale Video Game [Video]

http://youtu.be/scmKAS_DRJg

Tallgrass Brewing Company brings you the first video game made from puppets. Will our hero collect the hops and get them back in time to make the next batch of 8-Bit Pale Ale? Watch and see…

[By Tall Grass Brewing via Obvious Winner]