Apparently our Ramen host “the Eddie” is correct. “The Last of Us” is not just a video game but a film too, well, a fan film made by fans.
Fan Film: The Last of Us
July 31, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Frankie’s Garage: Wekfest SF San Jose 2013
July 31, 2013 by Leave a Comment
This past weekend, the aftermarket auto and lifestyle event Wekfest rolled into San Jose, CA. Wekfest celebrates 5 years here in the Bay, which started in the Japantown Garage in San Francisco. The Ramen crew hits up Wekfest for the tuned cars and hot import models.
AX 2013: Adventure Time & X-Men Cosplayers Collide
July 25, 2013 by 1 Comment
Our Ramen crew Ame and RJ interview more cosplayers from Anime Expo 2013. They interview a couple of groups – The Adventure Time group: Fiona, Marceline, IceQueen and IceKing; and the X-Men: Mystique, Jean Grey, Jubilee, Storm, Pixie, Bishop and Deadpool drops by with Starbucks coffee and Cyclops chit chats with fans. Plus RJ sprinkles a few random interviews with anime swimmer Haruka and Darius from League of Legends. Now that’s a jam pack Ramen episode!
AX 2013: Captain Falcon & Crew!
July 24, 2013 by 1 Comment
From Anime Expo 2013 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, we interview 3 cosplayers – Captain Falcon, Zero Suit Samus and Fox McCloud. We also hit-up downtown LA for the Anime Expo after-party at the Exchange. The drinks were on and the bass was pumping.
Justice League x Kia Sorento
July 22, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Batman may drive a technological advance Batmobile, but what about his Justice League teammates?
Calvin and Hobbes Documentary
July 17, 2013 by 2 Comments
As a kid I couldn’t wait for Sunday paper to be delivered in the morning. Besides the Sports section, my other favorite section was the Sunday comics – the whole section devoted to comics! I laughed and cried reading Calvin and Hobbes. I just loved Calvin’s interaction with his parents, pet tiger Hobbes and friend Susie Derkins. When the 11 books of collected adventures of the Calvin and Hobbes strips came out, my sister and me made sure we bought all of these at the bookstores. And we still have these collected books to this day!
MissyMToyz Custom Toys @ San Diego Comic Con
July 16, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Archangels
Comic Con is hitting San Diego this week and MissyMToyz, a designer toy artist we met recently at KidRobot SF, is heading down there with her line of custom toys. She sent us some info and pics of what she’s featuring at her very first SDCC so let’s take a look. She’s making available Archangels that are hand beaded 3” custom munnys with angel wings on their back and they come in black, silver, and rose gold. Only four of each color will be available during the show and they go for $38 for one or $100 for all three. Plus, she will be taking custom color orders of these at the con.
Lil Buddha
Lil Buddha is a 6” poly resin piece with a limited run of 500 and each Buddha is hand-signed with its own hand-numbered box. She also mentioned that Lil Buddha’s hands represent “no fear”, the large ears represent wisdom, and the long earlobes represent longevity. Lil Buddha will have a special $138 SDCC price (the original price is $168).
Sock Monkey
Sock Monkey is a 3” dunny turned into a sock monkey which has had an ear bit off by a dog. Sock Monkey was originally made for a dog charity event, Dunny for Dogs, which will be held at KidRobot SF. Each piece is hand painted with real button eyes, yarn hair, and the bit-off-ear is made from stuffing a dog toy. Only six will be available at SDCC for purchase at a price of $50.
Happy Meal Minions
July 11, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The hot summer toys – the Happy Meal Despicable Me 2 toys. There are 8 action figures to collect in the series, featuring Phil Jelly Whistle, Tim Giggling, Dave Banana Babbler, Stuart Blaster, Jerry Whizzer Whistle, Tom Babbler, Purple Minion Giggling and Purple Minion Noisemaker.
The Guild – The Official Companion
July 10, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The year 2006 seems like ages ago, before social media outlets like Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram and video streaming were popular, and the giant video site YouTube was only starting out, and Felicia Day had an idea of bringing her MMORPG experiences onto video as a TV series. The World of Warcraft gamer created an internet sensation as the series spawned 6 seasons worth of episodes and over 250 million plus views.
AX 2013 – Alodia! Porno Graffitti! CARAT!
July 10, 2013 by Leave a Comment
This past weekend one of the biggest anime conventions here in the States – Anime Expo took place in SoCal, the LA Convention Center. Our team was ushered in and out of press conferences asking questions and taking pictures with Anime Expo’s special guests – world famous cosplayer Alodia Gosiengfiao, Jrock band Porno Graffitti and Jpop girl group CARAT.
Pebble Watch Review
July 5, 2013 by 1 Comment
[Pebble Watch]
My Pebble watch finally arrived! For those who don’t know, this watch is an e-ink display watch which communicates via bluetooth with a smart phone. It rose in popularity due to its interesting design blowing past it’s Kickstarter goal by BIZZZZZILIONS of dollars.
Not being a watch person for many years, I was intrigued by the project and succumbed to its siren’s calling. I backed the watch in May 2012 and waited. And waited. And waited until it arrived. It’s finally in my hands and here’s some quick thoughts!
Package:
The box was made out of cardboard and had an easy to remove pull-string. Inside was the watch and USB charge cable. That’s it – nice and simple. Reminded me of Apple’s minimalistic packaging.
[Packaging]
Watch:
If I had to describe the watch, I would categorize it as a sporty looking watch. The e-paper display looks good in the daylight and the night time. It has four buttons, up / down / select / back, and a section for the magnetic charge port.
[Menu System]
Viral Video Friday: Final Fantasy Dance Tribute
July 5, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dance choregraphers Mike Song and Tony Tran really like Final Fantasy and here’s there dance tribute. Lock and pop!
Despicable Me 2 Talking Minions
July 3, 2013 by 1 Comment
I really enjoyed watching the first Despicable Me animated film and now Despicable Me 2 is out. Thinkway Toys has produced some cute and cool talking Minion toys with each of the 3 Minions – Stuart, Dave and Tim (8″ – 10″ tall) featuring unique features like over 25-50 plus lines and SFX from the movie, arm articulation, and facial movements.
SciFi Currency Converter
July 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Ever wonder how Creds are from Dredd, Federation Credits from Star Trek, Galatic Credit from Star Wars, Bottle Caps from Fallout: New Vegas in terms of real-world currency like the Dollar ($), Pound (£) or Euro (€)? Well, now you use this cool SciFi Currency Converter.
Kidrobot Dunny 2013 Release with Julie West and Scott Tolleson
June 28, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Our Ramen team kicked it all day at the Kidrobot SF store in Haight-Ashbury as Kidrobot released their new 2013 Dunny series. The day was long and the lines were super long as Dunny fans eagerly await to buy blind boxes and cases hoping to chase their favorite artist created Dunny and the “black” limited Andrew Bell Dunny.
Frankie’s Garage: Jaguar C-X75 Prototype
June 28, 2013 by 1 Comment
Everybody now is producing some sort of hybrid sports car and this is Jaguar’s C-X75 Prototype. For a hybrid, I really like the sound of the engine roaring by.
Brickworld Chicago 2013 – Complete Tour
June 27, 2013 by Leave a Comment
A LEGO spectacular show – Brickworld Chicago 2013. BrickPodcast.com hosts Joshua Hanlon and Matthew Kay takes on a cool complete tour of the event.
Man of Steel novel by Greg Cox
June 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Growing up I love the original Superman I, II and III (we’ll just say IV – The Quest for Peace never took place, like X-Men 3: The Last Stand – let us erase the memory of bad superhero flicks) with Christopher Reeves. Warner Bros. put out some amazing trailers for the Man of Steel and I couldn’t wait for the anticipated spectacular in 3D IMAX. It should be good since it’s produced by Christopher Nolan who brought us 3 terrific Dark Knight films, Zach Snyder of 300 & Watchmen fame and screenplay from David S. Goyer (Blade films & The Dark Knight trilogy). I’ll say this is good film that was inspiring to be great, let’s just say it’s better than Superman Returns and as friend mentioned it was like watching a Dragon Ball Z movie. I’ve watched the movie, now I read the book “Man of Steel” by New York Times bestselling author Greg Cox, who should be familiar to DC fans as he wrote the novelizations of Infinite Crisis, 52, Countdown and Final Crisis.
[Spoilers Ahead!!!]
The Fastest Comic Illustrator in the Country quick-draws the Green Lantern!
June 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Bordin (Mark) Marsinkul, also known as Hyperbooster, astonishingly produces up to 50 commission drawings in a day at a comic or anime convention.
His hybrid technique of calligraphy and Japanese style manga brush strokes creates his uniquely textured drawings with anything he can get his hands on from paint, pencil to marker! He works intensely fast and he’s amazing if you get a chance to watch him. His drawings begin with abstract scribbles, marks and accents, but then it begins to reveal itself before your eyes with every scribble, mark and accent of intention. The image becomes animated, three dimensional and before you know it – it magically appears! Watch the video and you’ll experience what I’m talking about as he quickly draws a fantastic image of the Green Lantern!
For more information about Bordin (Mark) Marsinkul and where to catch him at his next convention visit www.facebook.com/hyperbooster
The Complete Flash Gordon Library: The Fall of Ming Vol. 3
June 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment
“There’s a charm to the dials and knobs of yesteryear’s imagination, the vacuum tubes and arcing electricity of the past’s futurism.” Foreword by Dave Gibbons
Kids today read everything on their tablets and smartphones, and sadly don’t remember the printed newspapers. I couldn’t wait for the Sunday paper, because they always had a section devoted to Sunday comic strips, like Prince Valiant and Calvin & Hobbes. Now Titan Books has just released the 3rd collected volume of the iconic sci-fi hero Flash Gordon.
Space Mountain Behind The Scenes
June 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment
There are many rides at Disneyland and one of the most iconic roller coaster rides is Space Mountain. Disneyland fan blog – ImagineeringDisney.com was able to dig up some behind-the-scenes construction of the Space Mountain ride in 1974.
The FLASH – Hardcover bounded comics from Herring and Robinson Bookbinders!
June 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment
As the Ramen crew weaved their way through Big Wow’s ComicFest, we found something that FLASH fan, Sheldon Cooper, from the popular television hit series The Big Bang Theory would wonderfully appreciate. And that’s having your collected comic books bounded into a single volume for that utmost presentation. I would also like to mention that the longevity of a professionally bound hardcover will also help preserve and protect your favorite comics for future readings and sharing. However, if you can’t bare the fact of having your comics punctured and sewn together, they also have other wonderful alternatives!
For information about Herring and Robinson Bookbinders, and how to get your comics bound, go to their website:
SPAM Carry Bag
June 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Are you looking for a fashionably cool bag to carry all your nifty tech gadgets like tablets, headphones, USB cables and stuff? If you’re in Asia, you can pick up this neat organizer bag – the SPAM from The Coop Idea LTD.
The Youngest Spider-man Comic Artist – Ethan Castillo!
June 17, 2013 by 2 Comments
The Ramen crew may have not been the first to stumble upon the fascinating eight year old Spidey-artist, but we still stumbled!
This kid was amazing and we felt this is one of the things that Big Wow Comicfest’s opens up to, and that’s passion and talent from everywhere under the umbrella of comics. On the floor at Big Wow Comicfest, you can’t help but feel inspired by all the people that are there introducing new stories, new artists, new genres, new characters, and it becomes an absolute gift when you run into someone as young as Ethan Castillo drawing Spider-man or Marvel Comic characters because he loves to! You actually start to feel the kid in yourself while watching him draw! “It’s just fun!” – He says.
We also recognized the extent of love and support that Ethan’s parents give him and we can’t help but strongly say, great talent can come from self-ambition, but it also comes from parents that nurture and encourage it!
Oreo Dunny Series by Shawn Wigs
June 17, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Attack of the Oreo Cookies!
Artist Shawn Wigs has a cool custom Dunny series – the Oreo 3″ Dunnies. You don’t have to love eating Oreos to appreciate this. It’s super cute and fun to collect and have. A case of the blind boxes will run about $65.00USD and there are 4 in the collection – Original Dunny (15/20), Vanilla Oreo Dunny (2/20), Mint Oreo Dunny (2/20) and Bitten Oreo Dunny (1/20).
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