Rewind Awesome

This image by Shane McDermott just made it official that I’ll be keeping my eyes peeled for more Masters of the Universe content. Here he depicts Skeletor as a biker. To be more specific, he wanted to do up a Ghost Rider sketch but also wanted to do a Skeletor one. In the end he just amalgamated them! You can see his process and thoughts on the matter over on his blog The Flying Bloghouse.

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Roger Andrews works as a character design artist for Hasbro. He has a DeviantArt account. On said, DeviantArt account I dug up the following fun-time sketches he did of Lion-O in the Galactic Heroes style (or Marvel Heroes or DC Heroes or whatever else is out there style)! If this set of toys ever came out I’d knock over a few 6-year-old children to get them first. No lie.

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Honestly, if this feature EVER came out for the iPhone, I would be first in line. Unfortunately, this “iSword” is a photoshop contest entry for Cracked.com’s “features you’d like to see on an iPhone” done by Agent Spiff on DeviantArt. I’d set it up to have the Thundercat’s Call as the ringer and I’d answer the call with “HOOOOOOO!”… man that would be sweet.

… so sweet…

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I can’t be any happier after finding art like this… Thundercats as LEGO figures? Seriously, LEGO make it happen! Darin Michau on DeviantArt has already done the concept and design work for you guys! Seriously though, these are great looking designs and if the 2D version of this is all I’ll ever see, I can be happy thinking in an alternate world these may actually exist.

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Space Invaders seems to be everywhere I turn nowadays. Here’s a piece that comes from the Geekology blog originally designed by Logan Walters. These little guys are disguised space invader “crabs” turned into deformed smiley faces. Who’d think this shape would support such simple versatility? Batman… Homer… Rambo. Hopefully this will start a disgustingly successful web trend and swarm the internet with space invader clones.

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I was a huge fan of Scooby-Doo back when I was a kid. When artist Travis Pitts designed a post-Apocalyptic illustration featuring Velma and a badass Scooby chewing on a zombie limb, with the Mystery Machine decked out for monster slaying, I was in awe.

The heart on the Mystery Machine depicts a not that’s easily missed on first glance: R.I.P. S-F-D. Looks like the rest of the gang have already met their match against monstrous villainy. Shaggy, Fred and Daphney will be missed. But this image is still kick ass without them.

From Travis Pitts:

Sticking with my favorite theme of heroic girls (see: Robot Derby Girl, Diodes are a Girl’s Best Friend) and injecting realism or plausibility to silly pop culture icons (ex: Madness of Mission 6 = PAC-MAN), I knew I wanted to make a certain teen detective her canine companion into the sole survivors of a Monsterpocalypse for the threadless loves Horror contest.

Everyone knows that it’s always the timid, quiet, second-string female character that gets the dramatic arc and has the wits and skill to survive most horror movies. I struggled for days trying to come up with a semi-realistic interpretation of this toughened, nerdy survivor-type gal- until I remembered I was actually dating one, and asked her to model for it. She agreed -took a series of pics herself and held an umbrella in place of the shotgun. She wasn’t sure about any of them but as soon as I saw the 3rd or 4th one I knew I had my pose.

Seems like within a few days of seeing this online the rest of the internet also caught wind and were just as amused. The awesome tshirt community, Threadless, are running a limited run. After only a handful of days, the 2XL and 3XXL shirts have sold out. Nothing against the purchasers of these sizes, but I’m hoping they sold out earlier because Threadless produced fewer of them…

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I came across a mailbox conversion that makes me want to do something with mine now! Nim over at Geekcrafting and Uberdorkng has had her mail box invaded by none other than our 8-bit friends from Space Invaders! I can’t express how much I loved this game and every clone since.

She even got her house number lasered into a custom wood panel. Stop giving me ideas!

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