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Motor Trend’s latest episode of Ignition looks at American-tuned Subaru BRZ. The BRZ is tuned by Crawford Performance that packs in a turbo-charger pumping up 490-500 horses. I think its safe to say, it can do some amazing drifting with 550lb/ft of torque.
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It’s Wolverine … well, maybe it’s two Batman facing off.
Source: Imgur – Wolverine – Batman.
Kidrobot’s biggest product release of the year is their Dunny series and for 2013 select artist from around the world helped in creating this collectible toy vinyl set.
This one wicked looking Miata! This custom turbo-charged 1994 Mazda Roadster by Chris Love has mix of USDM and JDM looks.
Toys’R’Us Hong Kong releases some funny and LEGO busting Kreon mini-figs in stop-motion action.
The Transformers soccer match features the Autobots crying foul when the Constructicons form Devastator.
Hunky international action star Byung-hun Lee drops by Hot Toys Tokyo to take a look at his own Storm Shadow figure. Byung-hun has played Cobra villian Storm Shadow for the past two films and also look for him in Red 2.
A look at classic car tuning culture in Japan on tuning, restoration and restomodding from 5 of Japan’s legendary retro tuners.
Hasbro has really cool exclusive toys for this year’s San Diego ComicCon 2013. So you might want to bring a sleeping bag and get in line early at the Hasbro booth.
Like Apple-addicts, if you can’t get enough of the Linux-based Android OS platform, show your support by buying these cute little Android Mini-figures by DYZ Plastic. This Rainbow Set features a collectible display box and 10 different colored Android figures. The heads are removable too, so that you can store things.
It can get very expensive collecting LEGO Star Wars toys, but this LEGO Star Wars Ewok Village playset looks like fun to build and best of it comes with 16 LEGO minifigs which include Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca, C-3PO, R2-D2, 2 Rebel Soldiers, 5 Ewoks (Wicket, Teebo, Chief Chirpa & Logray), 2 Scout Troopers and 2 Stormtroopers. Look for this LEGO Ewok Village in September 2013. Check out this video by LEGO designer Marcos Bessa:
Continue to check back with RETRENDERS for upcoming segments from Big Wow ComicFest and FanimeCon!
Since the beginning of comics, superheroes have dominated the comic book pages, but the creative team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby didn’t just do superheroes, they also put science fiction genre onto the comic book format. Titan Books has collected various science fiction stories by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s featuring the likes of “Solar Legion” and “Blue Bolt” in The Simon & Kirby Library – Science Fiction.
Ramen and a Half was video recorded before a live convention audience for their podcast as they talked about what FanimeCon is all about and discussed a serious topic on how some Cosplayers can be uncomfortably handled by costume admirers and sometimes get perverse images taken of them without one’s consent – then get posted on the internet.
The Ong-brothers from the Philippines are well-known as Rotobox Vinyl Anatomica where they customize Munnies, like Gundam robots and superheroes. Here’s their latest creation – the Valkyrie VF-1J MegaMunny.
It was hard for me to decide which convention to go to when Bitcoin the future of currency and Big Wow! Comicfest 2013 happened at the same time at the San Jose Convention Center. The nerd in me wanted to find out more about this new form of cryptocurrency called Bitcoin (BTC) created by Satoshi Nakamoto. But anyways, I’m probably boring people now, let’s get on with another episode of Ramen from Big Wow! Comicfest:
Everybody knows what a comic book artists does – they draw and are treated like rockstars, but what about inkers? Our Ramen team chit chats with Batman & Robin inker Mick Gray about the process of inking comic books @ The Big Wow! Comicfest 2013.
Where is the Retrenders team going to be at this Memorial Day Weekend? We’ll be at FanimeCon from May 24-27 taking place at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, CA.
For more info, go to: fanime.com.
The Ramen crew interviews Spiderman artist Humberto Ramos @ Big Wow! Comicfest 2013. He talks about his passion and love for drawing comics.
This past weekend @ the Big Wow! Comicfest in San Jose, star comic book artist Frank Cho takes time to talk to the Ramen and a Half crew.
Our Retrenders crew may be tired and sleep deprived from the Big Wow! Comcifest in San Jose this past weekend, but we hope to bring you exclusive interviews from various comic book artists, cosplayers and other cool happenings from the event, so come back to our site for video updates.
Hey, were is our team going to be at this weekend? We’ll be at the Big Wow! Comicfest kicking off this weekend at the San Jose Convention Center. We’ll also be hanging at the Comic & Figure Addicts (CFA) booth #209, so catch us there and say HI!
For more details go to: Big Wow! Comicfest.com
You might be tired of writing office notes on the same old 3M yellow sticky notes. Why not try these Floppy Disk Sticky Notes?
Now you get to play ninja in your kitchen with these magnetic ninja stars. The package comes with 2 shuriken black plastic magnets to keep your notes, pictures and whatnot in place on your fridge door.
Eddie and Ramon hit up Kidrobot SF for artist Frank Kozik signing and his latest Skeloton Labbit releases.
This coloring book – Gangsta Rap Coloring Book is definitely not for the kids, but for fans of gangsta rap. The art book features 45 rap artist from KRS One, Tupac and Biggie. Now I get dust off my box of Crayola crayons from the attic and start coloring.
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