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“Do you know how I got these scars?” Heath Ledger’s Joker asks in the now legendary film The Dark Knight, ready to tell one version of his story, but keeping the real truth just out of reach. For years, the Joker was a maddening villian for this reason. His origin shifted from exaggerated or changed […]
If you’ve played Super Mario Bros., you know how good it feels to find those green mushrooms, gobble them up and add an extra life to your count. What if we could somehow replicate that in real life? While gobbling random fungi might not work so great, the folks at Extra Life are working hard […]
“From worst to best”. When you start seeing these kinds of articles about a series, you know its had some staying power. Final Fantasy, ironically conceived as a last-ditch effort by a soon-to-be out of business gaming studio in Japan, took off wildly, lasting 30 years and well over a dozen titles, becoming one of […]
According to Jonathan Byers, the “Weirdo on Maple Street” turned-hero from season 1 of Netflix’s Stranger Things, “You shouldn’t like things because people tell you you’re supposed to,” and while that may be sage advice in many ways, with Stranger Things, it isn’t. This retro-inspired sleeper hit in many ways found its success through retro-inspired […]
Live long and Prosper. The famous Vulcan salute, peppered throughout the series Star Trek, has arguably come to define it. Despite early uncertainty, Star Trek has grown to become a legendary franchise in the world of science fiction, with it’s hopeful, exploratory story providing not just a new and unique form of space-fairing entertainment, but […]
With their dedication to producing the most faithful recreations of our favorites, we’re happy to announce Sideshow’s place as Toy Brand of the Year. […]
