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Over at Fantasy magazine, Genevieve Valentine has a great essay looking at the major dragon archetypes, and what they represent to the human heroes who deal with them. Valentine begins by describing the "dragon as force" archetype: More »
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You might run into this 12-meter-long dragon and have to do that cartwheel-legged, Scooby Doo run off the premises. This sculpture was constructed by Valve, a Finnish LARPing group who built (and left) it there last month. Between this and the Wizard Quest in Wisconsin, we have a good case for building more dragons in random geographical locales. More »
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Now this is a movie-inspired kids stage show we'd pay money to see. Check out the first ever footage form the Melbourne stage production of How To Train Your Dragon. More »
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If I had to choose between facing her sword and facing her dragon, I would drop to one knee and offer fealty. This incredible image is just one of many incredible fantasy illustrations by Jason Engle. Here are some of our favorites. More »
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Could it be that we finally have proof that dragons once roamed through Asia? More »
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Artist Christopher Burdett just posted pictures of three dragons he designed for the Game of Thrones card game, giving us something to tide us over until A Dance With Dragons. More »
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Massive theme park Efteling has unveiled their latest fantasy creation: the medieval town of Ravelijn and its giant steampunk dragon beast. It's like a Game Of Thrones theme park, only without the orgies. We've got a gallery. More »
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There are friendly dragons who help small children, but they're not badass. Then there are tame dragons who fight for humans, but very few of them are badass either. Luckily, we've got some truly hardcore dragons here to eat your face off. More »
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HBO's fantasy epic Game of Thrones starts this weekend, and we're seeing dragons everywhere. Dragons perched over cities! Dragons on electric guitars! People and their pets dressed as dragons! Dragons are the universal signifier of awesomeness. More »
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How much do you think Smaug, the magnificent dragon from The Hobbit, is really worth? Forbes writer Michael Noer says it's not that difficult to calculate: $8.6 billion. Want to know how he figured that out? More »
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While you're waiting for A Dance With Dragons, why not distract yourself by taking a ride with some griffins? K.J. Taylor's The Dark Griffin is the best high fantasy novel we've read in ages. More »
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Beach blanket tentacle play! We're celebrating spring break the traditional way, with squid-faced beach beauties and murder! This week on Cult Movie Worship, bow down to The Corrupted, pet a dragon, and watch (what people are calling) "the stop-motion Matrix." More »
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Could Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch be about a troop of burlesque dancers doing meth and samurai sword fighting, while stuck in the muddy trenches during WWI? This new trailer seems to think so, and we love it. More »
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When the survey team returned, their great striped beasts flying low over the shore, we knew school would be starting soon. The scholars opened their doors to the surveyors, filling summer's stuffy rooms with new air. Late into the night, we'd hear the murmur of their conversations and the rustle of samples unpacked from paper, the hum of old drives spinning up, disgorging data about all the places beyond the horizons we glimpsed from our island. More »
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The New Yorker has published a long and amazingly in-depth article about the modern-day godfather of monsters, Guillermo del Toro. Here are the 10 coolest bits, including a look at the new Frankenstein, and what GDT's Smaug could have been! More »
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If you bring your ship in just as the sun is rising in spring, you'll sometimes find yourself flying with a flock of dragons. Well, we call them dragons - but they're just local fauna here on Zarmina. More »
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In this work from Dragonblood and Gamma World illustrator Federico Piatti, we see what happens when human and dragon DNA mix. Emo hipster angels. More »
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Presumably in response to their Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song, the filmmakers from How To Train Your Dragon have cut together a gorgeous dragon-heavy video for Sigur Ros frontman Jónsi's movie track "Sticks and Stones." It's delightful. More »
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The visuals in Zack Snyder's hyper-stylized Sucker Punch certainly have our attention (what with robots, dragons, and Jon Hamm). But what about the story? This featurette attempts to explain the surreal, girls-behind-bars film, with new footage. More »
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Sometimes going to work on Monday morning makes you feel like an office bot on a rampage. This one went from mild-mannered database server to corporate destroyer. Concept artist Andrée Wallin has more rampages in store for you. More »
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Here's something for the annals of entertaining (albeit dubiously safe) street art. A group of Hamburg artists were unimpressed with a tower in the city's Hafencity neighborhood, so they turned it into a flame-belching dragon. Don't try this at home. More »
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The good people at Orbit Books have analyzed which dragon colors were most popular on the covers of fantasy books. More »
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Modern biomimesis makes solar cells grow like plants, molecules walk like people, and art run like centipedes. But it's a very old science. Take a look at ancient engineers who made lifelike machines fight, sing, flirt, and yes, poop. More »
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We're really banking on Jerry Bruckheimer's The Sorcerer's Apprentice to be this summer's family blockbuster. It's got charm, Jay Baruchel, Nic Cage's creep-fest wig and dragons. How can this movie not win? Check out this new dragon RING clip. More »
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Bandai's new Mojibakeru toys transform from kanji characters to actual animals (i.e. the kanji for "dragon" becomes a dragon). It's like the Autobots tabled their quarrel with the Decepticons to teach literacy in Japan! More »
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For those of you who didn't endure last night's Reign of Fire tweetathon, here's the cream of the dreadfully boring dragony crop. More »
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At 9:00 pm EST, we're picking a gem from the Netflix Watch Instantly library and tweeting the shit out of it. This week, we're fighting dragons with Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey's Reign of Fire. More »
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James A. Owen's The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica posits a world in which the fantasy authors knew each other as young men and explored imaginary worlds. About time it's gonna be a movie. More »
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Giant monsters will rampage across movie screens in Clash Of The Titans tonight, but they're already having an orgy on the Internet. Dinosaurs, Godzilla and other creatures are having improbably naughty sex with young maidens. It's highly NSFW! More »
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We cornered Nic Cage's wizard in training, Jay Baruchel, to find out just how magical Jerry Bruckheimer's Sorcerer's Apprentice is going to be. Find out how the movie opens, and who would win a Gandalf Vs. Cage sorcery throw-down. More »
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We love Hugo Award-winning artist Bob Eggleton's art in general, but his kaiju and dragon images — at least one of which appeared in a Tokyo gallery show — melt our brains with their atomic breath of awesomeness. More »
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If you're a fan of dragons and retro computer art, then you won't want to miss this tee - it combines the best of D&D with the best of ASCII art. More »
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You are a dragon. A magnificent, iridescent dragon - but how disdainful are you? Would you prefer to eat the princess or just kidnap her? Welcome to "Choice of the Dragon," a funny, addictive fantasy game for iPhone and Android. More »
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We always suspected the lush, surreal covers of Germany's 1919 fantasy magazine Der Orchideengarten would drive people to madness... and now it has come to pass. A Journey Round My Skull posted more Orchideengarten images, and sponsored a bookplate contest. More »
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Anybody vaguely familiar with Anne McCaffrey's beloved Pern series knows her books are packed with psychic dragon sex. But Pern isn't the only alien planet with sexy dragons. Why is there so much dragon-related sexuality in science fiction and fantasy? More »
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Sean Connery is the last dragon on Earth, and Dennis Quaid is a soon-to-be-unemployed dragon-hunter, in Dragonheart. So they cook up a great scam: Quaid pretends to kill Connery's dragon over and over, and gets paid every time. More »
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This terrifying, glorious creature is an Earthquake Dragon, whose body is connected to the fabric of the earth that he destroys. And he's just one of dozens in this collection of concept designs created on the theme of Earthquake Dragons. More »
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The first fantasy/horror magazine wasn't Weird Tales — it was Austrian magazine Der Orchideengarten (The Garden Of Orchids), launched in 1919. Featuring H.G. Wells and Karel Capek, the magazine was also known for its lush, surreal art. Gallery below. More »
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Oh, it is on. This exclusive Outlander clip showcases a battle between Vikings and a space dragon, on fire! And Princess Freya has a monster duel of her own. Update: more cities added, see below. More »
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