Category: Marvel

Moon Knight who??

(2 of 2 for today)

From all the YouTubers I follow & from friends keep telling me, if you like Batman I got to read Moon Knight!!  So after months & thanks to the guys at Acme Comics I got all of them so I read book 1 today & I got to say it is good so far!!!

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Lego Millennium Falcon

Fan spends a year building 7,500-piece Millennium Falcon from the Force Awakens

I half joked in my post about improving Rey’s speeder that my next project would be to mod my 5,000-piece UCS Millennium Falcon set into the version seen in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. marshal banana planned a bit more ahead of me, and has spent the last year planning, designing, gathering the LEGO parts, and building his own Millennium Falcon from Episode VII.

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At 7,500 pieces, Marshal’s Millennium Falcon uses fully 50% more parts than the 5,195-piece official 10179 UCS Millennium Falcon (the second-largest LEGO set ever sold by part count, and arguably physically the largest set ever). This LEGO Millennium Falcon measures 82 x 54 x 18 cm, or nearly three feet long.

While the internal structure required to make the model light enough at 10 kg (22 pounds) but sturdy enough to pose at an angle like this doesn’t allow it to have a full interior, it does have light-up engines and gun wells.

Millennium Falcon (Starwars VII)

One of the most noticeable differences from the official LEGO set is the change to the sensor panel, as reflected in the minifig-scale Millennium Falcon I reviewed recently. And here’s another shot of the light-up quad cannon emplacement.

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It’s clear from this top-down photo that the builder has spent some significant time with various reference materials — the plan view shows just how closely his model lines up to the shape and details published in books like The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels. Unlike the fairly bare belly of the official LEGO set, Marshal Banana’s version has a fully detailed underside.

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Similarly, I’m deeply impressed with Marshal Banana’s greebling, which is particularly evident along the sides of the Falcon — it’s hard to look intentional without looking totally random.

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Running in Heaven!!

I know I’ll be running everywhere in Heaven after I die, but I think my ashes can be in The Dark Side!!

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In the buildup to the release of The Force Awakens, we’ve seen an avalanche of unusual Star Wars merchandise — mostly licensed, but some not — ranging from custom pianos and a diamond-encrusted BB-8 to a Han Solo blaster flask and unintentionally creepy shower heads. However, these Star Wars urns may claim the title of strangest tie-ins, all while causing us to dwell on our own mortality. Or at least Darth Vader’s.

Franchise fans who’ve been struck down probably won’t become more powerful than we can possibly imagine (sorry). However, they can still embrace the Dark Side by making a Darth Vader or Death Star urn their final resting place. Just don’t mistake the former for a Darth Vader cooler.

Although U.K.-based Urns for Ashes introduced the items well before the latest wave of Star Wars mania swept across the globe, CNET reports the company has seen inquiries rocket by 300 percent ahead of The Force Awakens. (Both urns are temporarily out of stock.)

Priced at about $223, the urns are produced using 3D printing, which means the color can be customized. Of course, you can also choose your own inscription, in case you want to remind family and friends that your Force ghost is always within earshot.

A sad day in Marvel Comics!!

After I posted about Charles Xavier being a great character to me, a friend got me this great comic for CHRISTmas!! 

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Even though Charles Xavier dies in this one, he went out doing what his passion was, wanting to help his FRIEND!!