NostalgiaBlitz

Another of my favorite childhood toys/cartoons is coming to the big screen. This time, on the heels of the shitefest that was Transformers, it’s another group of transforming robots, Voltron. No word yet on whether it’s going to be the spaceship version or the far superior lion version, but Voltron: Defender of the Universe is due out sometime in 2008.

Hopefully they’ll keep the “Let’s fight this bad guy as separate robots! Uh oh, we’re getting our ass kicked, better form Voltron. Now let’s chop the bad guy in half with a giant laser sword. Yay!” story line. This is going to be awesome! Unless they hire Michael Bay…

More details at The Game Gods

The undoubtedly craptacular Michael Bay helmed Transformers movie comes out this week. If you’re looking to retain your childhood memories instead of having Hollywood soil them, check this out instead. These people-with-too-much-time-on-their-hands made Transformers costumes that actually transform. Looks like they’re based on actual Transformers too. So sit back and relax and pretend it’s 1985 all over again…

Wanna feel old? Here’s the baby from the cover of Nirvana’s classic album Nevermind:

Yep, the album came out 16 years ago. Ugh.

Television science teacher Don Herbert, more commonly known by the name Mr. Wizard, died this morning at the age of 89. I remember watching his show Mr Wizard’s World in middle school science class and being amazed that he never actually blew up a little kid. Mr. Wizard taught me about topics such as Newton’s Laws of Motion, how RADAR works, and the one-sided wonder that is a Möbius strip. Looking back I think my actual science teachers were just too lazy to teach me themselves. I remain indebted to Mr. Wizard however for sparking my lifelong fascination with science. So thanks Don!

Mr. Wizard’s obituary at LATimes.com

And here’s an old-school Nickelodeon commercial for Mr. Wizard’s World.

Suck on this Michael Bay. This homemade stop-action movie was made using actual Transformers toys. There’s not much in the way of plot, but something tells me there won’t be much in Bay’s upcoming summer blockbuster either. And the effects in this one look like Transformers, not some sort of strange-overdone-too-complicated-ridiculous-robot thing. Strike another blow for the little guy!

According to Variety the ad geniuses in Hollywood are working on a movie adaptation of the classic 80s cartoon Thundercats. Warner Brothers has purchased the rights to a script by Paul Sopocy, and plan on having him direct a CGI animated feature. This will be his first feature film. Oh goody.

Does this seem like a shameless attempt to cash in on my generations epic sense of nostalgia? Or is it just me…

This is a hysterical satire of an anti-pornography film from the 1960s. It artfully presents the absurdity of the uptight puritanical factions of the US.

What’s that you say? This isn’t satire? It’s serious? Oh. Well then. Then it’s basically just offensive. Throughout the film the narrator alleges that viewing pornographic images will turn the viewers into “perverts”. What the hell does that mean? And I’d love to know where they got the figure that 75-90% of pornography ends up in the hands of children. The only thing this video convinced me is that I hope that the sort of people who made it give up fucking and their backward-ass attitudes towards sex disappear.

This 70′s news promo is trippy, to say the least. Make me mellow.

Charles Nelson Reilly, actor and gameshow guest extraordinaire, died Sunday in Los Angeles of complications from pneumonia. Reilly was a Tony-award-winning stage actor, did a lot of voice-over work, and appeared on film and television for five decades. But I know him from his outlandish appearances on the greatest of game shows, Match Game.

Here’s a clip of CNR taking over for host Gene Rayburn:

Thanks for the memories Charles. You’ll be missed.

Best. Toy. Ever.