Category: Kit
Steampunk music synthesizer (SynTesla: rock me sideways).
Fans of Stephen Hunt‘s fun little sub-genre will be pleased to listen in to the SynTesla – a fabulous-looking steampunk music synthesizer built around a network of Tesla vacuum tubes by reader Pj Tardiveau. The core sound generator is constructed around a Waldorf Streichfett Expander-model piece of kit, though. Just the thing for the budding […]
Royal Mail says “Hulk: STAMP!” with new Marvel postage stamps.
Royal Mail are pleasing fans of the Marvel comic-books with a new 15-stamp set illustrating various capes from the comic books. The ten main stamps show Spider-Man; Hulk; Thor; Iron Man; Doctor Strange; Captain Marvel; Peggy Carter; Black Panther; Captain Britain and Union Jack. A further five stamps are part of an exclusive short comic […]
Build your own Terminator (for £1068.79).
From tomorrow (20th February 2019), Hachette Partworks is releasing a new weekly part-work collecting magazine into newsagents to build a model T-800 Endoskeleton (scale 1:2, 93cm height) as part of this year’s 35th Anniversary of the original film. The finished T-800 model will feature articulated limbs and LED eyes that light up and move from […]
Prop it up! Museum of Science Fiction needs your replicas in cash prize competition.
The Museum of Science Fiction is running a prop replica design competition. The competition is open to all students, designers, engineers, builders and artists. People from the United States and abroad may participate. “Props are an essential part of any production,” said Dan Curry, competition judge and a veteran of 100 feature films and television […]
Barbie Who? It’s a thing.
BBC Studios and Mattel have partnered to release the first ever Doctor Who Barbie doll. It has been created, of course, for the new series of Doctor Who starring Jodie Whittaker, which hit BBC One last Sunday 7th October. David Wilson Nunn, Creative Director, BBC Studios noted, “This year, we’re introducing an all-new look for […]
Live like an eco-Hobbit.
An energy-efficient eco-Hobbit home has been built by Lord of the Rings fan Jim Castigan deep in the woods of New York. It’s now for sale, too, if you’re interesting in riding out the encroach of the dark forces of Mordor.
Mean machine.
Designer and racer Taso Marques has built the rather science fictional-looking TMC Dumont using an old aircraft engine – what do you think? Resembles something that wouldn’t look out of place driving down the overways of MegaCity One, right?
Transformers-style robots: now as rideable amusement park rides!
You have to love SoftBank’s Asratec robotics arm, along with Japan’s Brave Robotics Company, they’ve teamed up with amusement park tech specialist J-deite Ride to develop a prototype of something I’d pay a Dollar to ride – a real Transformers-style robot you can actually sit inside and have some fun with. J-deite RIDE is a new 4-meter tall robot […]
Tie Fighter car … can you feel its extreme Force?
Here’s the incredible scratch-built Tie Fighter car courtesy of Star Wars fan Allan Carver. It’s fully electric, so he won’t be polluting the environment much while he’s blasting rebel scum off the highways of Canada. Good to know, Allan. Strong with the Dark Side, is he, we suspect.
VW Bus returns in 2022 … fully electric.
Volkswagen is launching its new VW shagg’n wagg’n – aka the I.D.Buzz – electric vehicle in 2022 in the USA, Europe and China. If you want to go surfing or drive your friends out for a picnic in the Californian sun, then no doubt this will be the hipster ride you are looking for. Probably […]
