Did I say “You’ll never guess where The Hobbit was filmed”? – if that’s true the marketing agency for Air New Zealand is weeping. Last year we had Peter Jackson and the WETA Workshop crew give an unexpected briefing for for the airline. It’s a year later and we’ve got a sequel to the viral […]
Disney Princesses as Doctor Who
Princesses mashup posts are, for some reason, very popular on Geek Native. Step forward Amy Mebberson who has taken the core idea of the Disney Princess and gone one step forward by picking Doctor Who for the mashup. Jasmine as Sylvester McCoy’s Seventh Doctor is pretty cool – expect a surge in Seventh Doctor interest […]
Which Doctor Who actors have the lowest Bacon number?
You know the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon? In it you can work out that you’re related to the actor Kevin Bacon through no more than six assocations. Google has the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game baked into its search results. To access it search for [bacon number] followed by an actor’s name. […]
The Hobbit video diary – the last of the filming & Comic-Con
I don’t know if you’ve been following Peter Jackson’s video diaries from The Hobbit but this one is worth watching. This won’t be the last video diary but it is the last one from filming. Didn’t Comic-Con look scary? All those die hard fans. You can tell that Peter Jackson isn’t really looking forward to […]
Rumour control: David Tennant to play Legolas’ father
Will Doctor Who’s David Tennant play Sindarin Elf King Thranduil? Thranduil is, of course, arch-archer Legolas‘s father. The Hobbit casting rumour mill is in full force as the echo chamber mulls this over. MovieWeb think so but admit it’s not been confirmed. It’s been widely known-or-speculated that Tennant tried out for the role of Bilbo […]
Sylvester McCoy, the 7th Doctor, to play Radagast the Brown
Sylvester McCoy, the British actor who played the 7th Doctor in Doctor Who, has told fans he has a role in The Hobbit movie. At the Armagddeon Expo in New Zealand McCoy told fans he has been cast as Radagast the Brown although no contracts have been signed and filming is currently on hold due […]
LARPer interviews Sylvester McCoy, talks Doctor Who
This is cute video. For a start we’ve a program that doens’t take the piss out of LARPing. Kudos to Playstation Game Runners on VBS.TV. Kudos also to Niahm who, I think, does really well as the ad hoc presenter. I don’t know for sure if this is Niahm’s group but Heroes and Heroines meets […]
Signed Doctor Who stamps
I found these over at Play.com. They range from about £5 to £15 so I doubt they’re rare – and yet; I hadn’t even thought to look for them. Could they be little presents for those Doctor Who fans who have the tendency to buy everything Who-related for themselves? I have to wonder just how […]
