Comments Off on Wil Wheaton & Felicia Day Unveil New YouTube Series: Tabletop0LikeLike 2,138
Don’t worry Wil Wheaton fans, Tabletop is not a cooking show or guide to Wheaton’s favorite restaurants or restaurant apps. Tabletop is about board games.
Wheaton said on his personal typepad site that when his,good friend and hit Web series producer, Felicia Day asked him if he wanted to do a show on her premium YouTube channel,Geek & Sundry he said of course he did. That’s when his wheels started turning to come up with a cool idea.
Wheaton writes on his typepad site:
“Oh my god,” I said, “What if we did something that was like Celebrity Poker meets Dinner for Five, where we got interesting people we know together for tabletop games?!”
Comments Off on Sneak Peak – Greatest Toy in the Universe Needs A Name!0LikeLike 1,361
What would you call this toy if you had a chance to choose? It’s not everyday that we come across a toy that is so cool and awesome that we would still play with it no matter how old we get. This remote-controlled super spider battle bot thingy is just what I wish I had as a kid. Sure there were several fun and exciting toys that we had when we were kids to play with, but none of them come close to how epic this toy is. With all the unique ammo you can fire with it and the customizable battle armor and even that epic exploding armor/body shielding it has for multiplayer battle action, its bound to offer some great times for kids of all ages.
Watch the video and be ready to be WOWed with this Sneak Peak Greatest Toy in the Universe!
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Now that you’ve seen the awesome remote-controlled super spider thingy, What should it be called? Do you have any great ideas you think should be added to the feature list that you want to contribute? Be sure to leave your suggestions in the comments on the YouTube page for Jaimie to see. Who knows, maybe your name or idea will be chosen and added to the feature list.
UPDATED: I was lucky enough to get Jaimie Mantzel’s attention and have him answer a few questions.
1. What is your favorite feature about the 6-legged robot right now?
“My favourite feature about the robot is that it can change direction without having to turn around. It makes maneuvering tight corners very easy.”
2. If time and money weren’t issues, what feature(s) would you add to the 6-legged robot?
“If time and money weren’t an issue, I’d make the robot 10 stories tall, and turn it into a walking fortress science school. …a fortress of happiness, though. It would only squirt water. Nothing that actually hurts anyone. It would run on solar, and wind power too.”
3. How long have you been working on this robot?
“I built the first one of these 6 legged robots 12 years ago. I called it a “spider tank”. It was made of coat hangers, duct tape, and junk that way lying around. It didn’t walk very well, and the construction was very sloppy, but it proved the basic mechanism works. Since then, I’ve made several more, and each has improvements over the previous. The current toy version is the Spider Tank Mark 6. …being the 6th significant version. I didn’t count the ones that didn’t have any major improvements.”
4. What other projects are you involved with?
“Other projects I’m involved with:
With Wow! Stuff, I’m building a realistic tarantula, and stag beetle. They also really walk. No wheels included. :-)
I’m also working on a 15ft wide “spider tank”. Its called the “Giant Robot Project”, and I’ve been documenting it on YouTube. The Giant Robot took its first steps a little over a year ago. I still have some work to do on it, but I’ve been too busy in the last year to do much.
I also started the “Adventure Builders Club” which is based around a set of 8 positive virtues. They are the principles I use in my everyday life to achieve goals, and maintain happiness. Its full of all kinds of cheesy sayings, and ideas, but I’ve found that quite often, the most cheesy and embarrassingly silly ideas are the best ones.
I could list about 10 other things I’m working on, like saving money to buy and island, making plans to start a science school. I’m always working on things to make my world, and the world in general better. I imagine that if every human had the intention of making the world better, it would be quite an amazing place, ad we could trade in most of our problems for awesomeness. :-)”
Thank you Jaimie Mantzel for taking the time for my questions.
Comments Off on Dr. Who Movie In The Works, Harry Potter Director In The Drivers Seat0LikeLike 1,369
David Yates, the acclaimed Harry Potter director (Phoenix and Deathly Hallows) has been charged with the daunting task of bringing the sci-fi favorite, Dr. Who to the silver screen. Yates has committed to the Dr. Who project but first they need to find a writer.
“We’re going to spend two to three years to get it right,” Yates told Variety about the Doctor Who movie project. “It needs quite a radical transformation to take it into the bigger arena. The notion of the time-traveling Time Lord is such a strong one, because you can express story and drama in any dimension or time.”
Doctor who originally ran from 1963 to 1989 and has been restarted quite a few times. In 2005 writer Russell T. Davies relaunched the program and than Steven Moffat, took over with his series “The Adventures of Tin Tin”. The latest version stars Matt Smith and is the 11th incarnation of Dr. Who.
Yates has said that the Dr. Who movie won’t be expanding on the TV series;
“Russell T. Davies and then Steven Moffat have done their own transformations, which were fantastic, but we have to put that aside and start from scratch,” Yates said in his interview with Variety.
Yates is working with BBC Executive Jane Tranter who oversaw the revival of Dr. Who on the BBC starting in 2005. Yates worked with Tranter at the BBC prior to doing “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” and both parts of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”
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