This Star Tours playset is so cool. It’s a limited edition release for this year’s D23 Disney fan event. I’m impressed how accurately it reproduces the ride vehicle. It actually has all the rows of seats inside with seatbelts, opening doors, a detailed cockpit area with Rex the pilot, and the screen plays actual video clips from the ride. It has lights on the outside and retractable landing gear. The $300 set is limited to 3000.
The Zonai device capsules from Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom are now available in real life as gachapon (capsule toys) at Nintendo stores in Japan. Just like the game, the real-life toys come from dispensers in plastic capsules that look identical to the ones in the game. There are 6 zonai devices: flame emitter, portable…
This site has a huge collection of backgrounds and levels from classic video games. It’s really cool seeing scrolling levels composited into linear horizontal/vertical images, and then you realize how long (or short) these levels really were. Some of these also work great as desktop backgrounds, like the classic Street Fighter II Guile level below.
The Academy Museum in LA has a new cyberpunk cinema exhibit, examining the impact of cyberpunk classics like Blade Runner, Tron, and Ghost in the Shell. I went to the museum a few months ago and the exhibits they had were very well done, so I’m sure this one will be cool too.