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Did Chaucer inspire Fun.com’s brilliant product ideas?

April 1, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Once a year, companies like Fun.com get to show us inventive product ideas.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: April Fools' Day, dinosaurs, funcom, Ghostbusters, jurassic park, Millennium Falcon, star wars

Funko unveils Han Solo – Millennium Falcon Pop exclusively at Amazon

June 25, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The detail on the Millennium Falcon is incredible. In fact, it feels almost inappropriately detailed for the stylised Pop concept until the Han Solo model catches your eye and holds your attention.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: funko, han solo, Millennium Falcon, models, pop, spaceships, star wars

Nostalgia will whack you in the face thanks to this pixel perfect cartography

July 24, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s a trick computer games do to create a 3D effect. They take a 2D map and characters and rotate the image until a corner of the rectangle points at you. It’s a way to suggest a depth in perception that isn’t there and is sometimes called two-and-a-half-D or fake 3D. This is the trick […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: back to the future, cartography, Ghostbusters, Millennium Falcon

A collector’s dream: Millennium Falcon asteroid coffee table

September 13, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood 5 Comments

This is an impressive coffee table from Tom Spina Designs. We’ve the Millennium Falcon in it’s famous game of hide and seek among dangerous asteroids. You can even see a Tie-Fighter trying to get a look around the other side. I can’t imagine a better table to use during a session of a Star Wars […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: household, Millennium Falcon, models, star wars

How much of today’s money would it take to build the Millennium Falcon? [infographic]

March 5, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There have been campaigns to go out and build the Death Star and other Star Wars delights. What about the Millennium Falcon? Let’s skip questions like “Should we build it?” and “Could we build it?” and jump straight to the vital “How much would it cost to build the Falcon?” The long Star Wars infographic […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: infographics, Millennium Falcon, sci-fi, star wars

Revealed: The Batmobile on the Millennium Falcon

September 19, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Make of this what you will. This is the official YouTube account of Bad Robot. Bad Robot Productions is new Star Wars director J.J. Abrams’ company. What we see is the first reveal of the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars. It looks old, a little battered but otherwise robust and in good shape. We pan […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: batman, humour, J. J. Abrams, Millennium Falcon, star wars

Full-sized Millennium Falcon already built for Star Wars VII?

November 29, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

“A full-scale 1:1 Millennium Falcon has been built as well as the interiors of the ship for filming,” “The Falcon is done – inside and out. The sets were built off-site, ready to move when Lucasfilm/Bad Robot were ready to move into Pinewood.” This quote comes from a Yahoo report on a rumour that the […]

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: J. J. Abrams, Millennium Falcon, star wars

Origami pop-up adventure books

December 20, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

These pieces of impressive art come from Jodi Harvey-Brown. Her Facebook describes the talented artist as someone in their 20s and who lives in the middle of nowhere. Book crafting seems to be a side project for Jodi and goes under then name of Wet Canvas Art.

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: dragons, harry potter, Millennium Falcon, star wars

Gingerbread house? Nope! Gingerbread Millennium Falcon

December 3, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Created by Canoe Brewpub and found by Hazel Chua at That’s Nerdalicious is one impressive gingerbread Millennium Falcon. You don’t have to look too closely to see a Chewie, Han and Wampa either. Tasty.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: cake, food, Millennium Falcon, star wars

X-ray prints of popular spaceships as monsters

December 1, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

[Tardis print] This set of art is on sale at Josh Ln’s Society6 page. They show some of the most popular space ships as they might look if they were actually cretures and monsters – except only in the side and revealed by an x-ray. It reminds me a little of these monsters under the […]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: doctor who, firefly, Millennium Falcon, sci-fi, serenity, star trek, star wars, tardis

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