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What did they not mess up? The most popular sci-fi and fantasy book-to-film adaptations

July 21, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Superproof combined IMDB and Goodreads data to work out which sci-fi and fantasy books are popular, which have movie adaptations of which of those adaptations people actually liked!

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: 2001: A Space Odyssey, blade runner, dune, harry potter, stats, the lord of the rings

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #80

December 25, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news for the Christmas week. Just what has the industry been up too?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Accessible Games, altered carbon, blades in the dark, Bully Pulpit Games, burn bryte, Chaosium, Dragonlance, en publishing, hunters entertainment, kult: divinty lost, Modiphius Entertainment, rogue trooper, routinely itemised, star trek adventures, wicked ones, wizards of the coast

Half a million (and counting) raised to build a take-home HAL 9000

August 4, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

File this under; what could go wrong? The Master Replica Group want to build you a HAL 9000 that can communicate with your wifi and refuse to open the pod bay doors. They only needed US$80,000 to make this happen with a month left on an Indieigogo campaign they’ve raised more than $400,000 and are […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: 2001: A Space Odyssey, kickstarters, replica

Epic sci-fi mashup: Reach for the Stars with Interstellar

November 14, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This video from MovieClips puts together footage from 20 different sci-fi films; including 8 Star Trek movies, Interstellar, 2001: A Space Odyssey and, erh, Nutty Professor 2. Interstellar fan? See if this Interstellar bundle competition is still open.

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Interstellar, star trek, trailers

The drone orchestra performs for you

May 1, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Is the future here? This orchestra of drones play a cracking cover of the Space Odyssey theme. I know nothing about music so forgive me when I say “the drones even manage to do the slidy bits” perfectly. With one success under their wings these squad of dronecopters then move on to master some other […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech, Music Tagged With: 2001: A Space Odyssey, drones

2001: A Space Odyssey Monolith Action Figure

October 22, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sometimes you want a simple action figure. You want something that has sci-fi cool but has zero points of articulation. When that happens you need to put your sci-fi thinking cap on. What’s famous and has zero pointsof articulation? There you have it! The Monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Perfect!

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: 2001: A Space Odyssey, models

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