Link roundup

1. Step by step tutorial for making a plush creature.

2. It's just "sink or float," but this Sesame Street science project interactive Youtube video is really well done. I hope they do a lot more. (I can't help but think that if Apple had its way, content like this would only be available as a $5 app.) Via.

3. Matt Hawkins created a Scooby-Doo paper toys for Arby's kid's meals.

*Buy Scooby Doo toys at eBay.

Green Hornet kid's meal toys

Green Hornet kid's meal toys at Carl's Jr. Via.

*Buy Green Hornet toys at eBay.

Link roundup

1. McDonald's has Megamind Happy Meal toys.

2. This guy seems pretty embarrassed about his career reselling used books, but he's a heck of a writer. Here's a good paragraph:

The old-fashionedness of my PDA echoes the marginality of the work I do. I rely on a technological castoff to search through other people's castoff merchandise. Thrift stores and even library book sales often present books jumbled in boxes on the floor. I root through these. If there's another guy scanning near me—a competitor—I go faster. (And it's almost always a guy, notwithstanding the pair of redheaded, cheerleader-type twins I see at book sales around Chicago.)

Can't you picture it?

3. Annie Leibovitz is still having money trouble:

It's not entirely that collectors find Leibovitz's portfolio too commercial or focused on shallow celebrity, Gapper writes. It's also that Leibovitz has consistently failed, throughout her career, to sufficiently kiss the asses of the sort of people who would spend $3.5 million on a bunch of photographic prints. "She had very little interest in the art world for most of her career," a gallery owner who used to rep Leibovitz told Gapper. "She suffered from not caring about it, not paying enough attention."

4. Monstrous house.

*Buy Happy Meal toys at eBay.

Link roundup

1. How to turn Altoids tins and Altoids Sours tins into barbecues.

2. "Powder found in Wyoming traffic stop not drugs, but grandma's ashes (in a plastic bag)." Via.

3. The next McDonald's Happy Meal toy is miniature Star Wars skate boards.

*Buy Happy Meal toys at eBay.

Batman Brave and the Bold Happy Meal toys

Next up at McDonald's, Batman Brave and the Bold Happy Meal toys.

*Buy Happy Meal toys at eBay.

Link roundup

1. Marvel Heroes Happy Meal toys.

2. Winnie the Pooh Hulks out.

3. Frank Espinosa has posted lots of new Rocketo art at his site. John Carter of Mars, too.

*Buy Rocketo at Amazon.

Stussy Ren & Stimpy t-shirt (link roundup)

Stussy Ren & Stimpy t-shirt. Via.

And a few more links:

1. The Last Airbender Happy Meal toys.

2. X-Rays of toys. Via these sites.

3. Ketchup and mustard, in love.

*Buy Ren and Stimpy toys at eBay.

Attack of the 50 Foot Slave Leia; New Star Wars Happy Meal toys

Attack of the 50 Foot Slave Leia - - art by Cat Staggs for Celebrity Showdown Olivia Munn One Shot #1 coming soon from Antarctic Press.



New Star Wars Happy Meal toys coming to McDonald's on February 26. Via.

*Previously: Slave Leia Coppertone ad.

*Buy Slave Leia toys at eBay.

Astro Boy Happy Meal toys

Starting this week (I think), McDonald's has Astro Boy Happy Meal toys.

*Previously: Ad for an Astro Boy food tie-in and toy.

*Buy Astro Boy toys at eBay.

Dangerous toys at Burger King

Kids meals at Burger King come with toys based on the Dangerous Book for Boys and Daring Book for Girls.

*Previously: Ten dangerous activities photographed at Flickr.

*Buy The Pocket Dangerous Book for Boys at Amazon.

Video of Charles Barkley hitting a bystander with a golf ball (link roundup)

Video of Charles Barkley hitting a bystander with a golf ball. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Team Fortress 2 fan art.

2. Night at the Museum 2 Happy Meal toys.

3. Which of our own closely held beliefs will our own children and grandchildren by appalled by? Reddit thread. Via.

4. Alan Moore paper toys. Via.

*Previously: Team Fortress 2 paper toys.

*Buy NBA bobbleheads at eBay.

Dr. Seuss logo at Google (link roundup)

Google's logo honors Dr. Seuss's birthday (March 2). I highly recommend Dr. Seuss Goes to War, the collection of Geisel's WW2-era political cartoons. $20 at Amazon.

And a few more links:

1. Move over dramatic chipmunk, here's dramatic dog.

2. I'm not sure how this encourages people to buy food at Arby's, but this website let's you deface websites. (Thanks to the tipster.)

3. You know you're in trouble when the signs say "one way" and "dead end."

4. McDonald's has animated-style Spider-Man Happy Meal toys right now.

*Previously: Clearly, I read the Lorax one too many times.

*Buy Dr. Seuss toys at eBay.

Nintendo Wii Burger King toys

Burger King currently has Nintendo Wii-themed toys. No Samus figurine, which seems criminal. If my local store is any indication, they currently have the Yoshi and Donkey Kong toys.

*Previously: Stylish Burger King t-shirts; King Hippo vinyl toy.

*Find Happy Meal and cereal toys at eBay.

Steampunk Return of the Jedi action figures by Sillof

I've previously posted Sillof's Steampunk versions of characters from The Empire Strikes Back, and now he's back with Steampunk versions of The Return of the Jedi. Below you can see Steammpunk versions of Jabba the Hutt, Slave Leia, Bib Fortuna, and Salacious Crumb, plus Wedge Antilles




You can see high res photos of these and more figures at Sillof's site, which teases that The Phantom Menace figures are on the way.

*Previously: Doktor A's Steampunk vinyl toys.

*Find Clone Wars action figures at eBay.

Lego Batman Happy Meal toys at McDonald's

Well these Lego Batman toys are certainly an improvement over those ludicrously stupid Star Wars Happy Meal Toys.

*Previously: Man who robbed McDonald's to win McDonald's jingle contest?

*Find Happy Meal and cereal toys at eBay.

Speed Racer Happy Meal Toys

Because who doesn't need some Chim Chim bling? Coming May 9. See photos of the whole lineup here.