Link roundup

1. Lots of reduced prices at the Big Bad Toy Store.

2. Erwin Madrid posted a lot of Megamind art.

3. The Pride and Prejudice and Zombies apothecary kit I posted earlier this week is a product of 160/90.

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Megamind art

Chin Ko posted a bunch of Megamind art.



Andy Bialk posted several images also.



And so did Goro Fujita.

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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.

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Ogre propaganda

Pro-ogre propaganda by Struck Axiom for Shrek. The illustrators are Tosh Brown and Valerie Jar. Via.

*Buy propaganda posters at Amazon.

Link roundup

1. How to Train your dragon sketches from when Hiccup was younger and Toothless was more lizard than dragon.

2. Tattooed cat paper toy.

3. "Early this month, a Wisconsin woman stuck her hand down a black bear's throat to save the bear from choking."

*Buy How to Train Your Dragon toys at eBay.

Monsters vs. Aliens concept art

Samuel Michlap posted a bunch of concept art from Monsters vs. Aliens.

*Previously: Monsters vs. Aliens 2 teaser.

*Buy Monsters vs. Aliens toys at Amazon.

Toothless (link roundup)

Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon by Zach Bellissimo.

And a few more links:

1. There's an XBox game called Hieronymus Bash.

2. Videogum on the latest episode of True Blood:

Bill is still being held captive by the King of Mississippi who wants him to change his allegiance. Honestly, I do not understand anything that is going on in this entire aspect of the show, and I do not care. If I wanted to understand the intricacies of VAMPIRE POLITICS, I would have STUDIED IT IN SCHOOL.

3. Nora Ephron mocks The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo:

But where in Sweden were they? There was no way to know, especially if you’d never been to Sweden. A few chapters ago, for example, an unscrupulous agent from Swedish Intelligence had tailed Blomkvist by taking Stora Essingen and Gröndal into Södermalm, and then driving down Hornsgatan and across Bellmansgatan via Brännkyrkagatan, with a final left onto Tavastgatan. Who cared, but there it was, in black-and-white, taking up space. And now Blomkvist was standing in her doorway. Someone might still be following him—but who? There was no real way to be sure even when you found out, because people’s names were so confusingly similar—Gullberg, Sandberg, and Holmberg; Nieminen and Niedermann; and, worst of all, Jonasson, Mårtensson, Torkelsson, Fredriksson, Svensson, Johansson, Svantesson, Fransson, and Paulsson.

Via.

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The Art of How To Train Your Dragon

Gallery Nucleus posted several pages from The Art of How To Train Your Dragon.

*Previously: How to Train Your Dragon paper toys.

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How to Train Your Dragon paper toys

Curiosity Group designed three papercraft dragons that can be downloaded at the How to Train Your Dragon official site (in the Activities section).

*Previously: Monsters vs. Aliens paper toys.

*Buy How to Train Your Dragon toys at eBay.

How to Train Your Dragon (link roundup)

Concept art by Pierre-Olivier Vincent for Chris Sanders' upcoming Dreamworks movie How to Train Your Dragon. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Big gallery of photos of what the Microsoft retail stores will apparently look like. Not surprisingly, it looks like they're going to overdo it and be more like the oppressive Sony stores, rather than the welcoming Apple stores.

2. Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick have decided to live in separate homes. Via.

3. Don't miss out on your chance to win Watchmen on Blu-Ray.

*Previously: A dragon in a wagon.

*Buy Watchmen posters at eBay.

Monsters vs. Aliens papercraft

Curiosity Group created some swell Monsters vs. Aliens paper toys including a day-glo tank, probe, and Insectosaurus.

*Previously: Adorable papercraft tank.

*Buy Monsters vs. Aliens toys at eBay.

G-Force/G-Force mashup (link roundup)

Apparently the makers of Disney's upcoming G-Force are tired of people mistaking their movie for a Battle of the Planets remake.

And a few more links:

1. Video review of the Art of Monsters vs. Aliens book.

2. Things are so bad Blockbuster is only open for one hour a day now. Photo link.

3. Two different websites that will teach you how to pronounce names. Via.

4. Kris Alexander took a look at the barren hills of North Korea and concluded there was zero chance of war.

*Previously: G-Force Simpsonized.

*Buy Gatchaman toys at eBay.

Giant B.O.B. from Monsters vs. Aliens

A giant B.O.B. from Monsters vs. Aliens visited the Dreamworks campus. More photos here.

*Previously: Monsters vs. Aliens Happy Meal toys.

*Buy Monsters vs. Aliens toys at eBay.

Here's the Monsters vs. Aliens Happy Meal toys

The Monsters vs. Aliens Happy Meal toys look about as good as the ones I've seen in stores.

*Previously: Alternate Reality Game site for Monsters vs. Aliens.

*Find Happy Meal and cereal toys at eBay.

Video of a professional pool player being served during a match (link roundup)

Mark Selby was in the middle of a televised snooker match, when he was served with legal papers.

And a few more links:

1. Animated gif of a fat boy thinking "haters gonna hate."

2. Possibly the worst ad for a carbonated beverage, ever.

3. A little late for Valentine's Day, but, "You can ride my turtle anytime."

4. Kung Fu Panda steals Wall-E's lunch.

*Previously: Wall-E and Eve cosplay.

*Buy Kung Fu Panda toys at eBay.

Gloomy Bear on the attack (link roundup)

Gloomy Bear illustrations by Mori Chack.

1. Warning Sign: Path of the Dead ahead.

2. Cake-vomiting dog and present-vomiting cat.

3. Two very high-res images of Ginormica/Susan from Monsters vs. Aliens. Via.

4. Obese cat.

*Previously: Video of a fat girl being photoshopped to thin.

*Buy plush Gloomy Bears at eBay.

Magical video of a master making noodles by hand

After reading today that Kung Fu Panda won 15 "Annies" at the 36th Annie Awards, and that WALL-E won none, I finally got around to watching it. As I suspected, I hated it, just as I've hated every other Dreamworks movie I've seen. (Aside from Shrek, which had its moments.) My 4-year-old and 2-year-old also had no interest.

However, the extras include a video of Danny Yip, executive pasta chef at Mr. Chow in Beverly Hills making noddles by hand. I've never seen that done before, and it is magical:



*Previously: Video of a cat being cast from glass.

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Trailer for Indiana Jones and The Staff of Kings (link roundup)

Clever transitions take Indy on a tour of classic environments:



Indiana Jones and The Staff of Kings, apparently coming out for the Wii later this year.

And a few more links:

1. Funny line (about Digg's money trouble): "There's No I in TEAM, But There is in FAIL."

2. Skeleton bicycle by Jud Turner. Via.

3. Man I hate how Dreamworks cartoons look.

4. Media Molecule highlights another batch of custom Little Big Planet levels.

*Previously: Indiana Jones-themed desktop icons.

*Buy Indiana Jones toys at eBay.

Shrek Papercraft

Download the templates here.

*Buy Shrek toys at eBay.