The Daily Dose

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the Web:

Happy Star Wars Day: Watch the saga be retold in two-minutes, stop motion LEGO-style, and May the Forth Be With You.

[via The Daily What]

New awesome Iron Man 2 posters by Tyler Stout & Mike Saputo:

[via Super Punch]

X-Men in real life?: History is teaming up with Stan Lee for a series that searches for real life “mutants” – people with heightened abilities due to a condition or disability. Lee will co-host the show called Stan Lee’s Superhumans will debut sometime next year.

[via The Hollywood Reporter]

Wait. What?: This may be old news to some of you, but I made a pretty weird face when this flashed across my screen today: Syfy will air wrestling. Wrestling. Apparently, they’ll air Friday Night Smackdown and even kick ol’ Battlestar Galactica to Tuesday in order to do it. Huh?

[via MSNBC]

The Dark Crystal gets a sequel: It’s official. Peter and Michael Spierig are set to make Power of the Dark Crystal, set hundreds of years after Jim Henson’s 1982 original. And it’ll be in 3D.

[via Collider]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Get a peek at the first five pages of the new issue, due out tomorrow.

[via Dark Horse Comics]

Oops: Instead of the real promotional posters for Pirates of the Caribbean, it looks like a theme park in Xiamen, China used the promotional materials for the Pirates-themed porno. That must be one hell of a ride.

Your Daily Dinosaur:

Build Your Own Tiny Dinosaur

[via Maker's Market]

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