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Thai sculptor Yumi Modal builds life-sized (and less than life-sized) Transformers statues that look ready to spring to life. Appropriately, each statue is made from discarded car parts and other scraps of machinery and metal. More »
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Last week, Detroit's RoboCop statue reached its goal of $50,000 in fully crowd-sourced funding. More »
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Check out this amazing animated River Tam maquette, going up for sale tomorrow from Quantum Mechanix, makers of our favorite Firefly scwhag. Pile of Reaver corpses sold separately. More »
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What if Ron Moore's Battlestar Galactica had become an animated series? Well, for one thing, we probably wouldn't have been so freaked out by these cartoony maquettes of Starbuck and a Cylon Centurion, due for release later this year. More »
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Most speculative fiction surrounding the American Civil War imagines how the world would be different had the Confederacy won its independence. But roadside attraction creator Mark Cline has imagined an entirely different kind of Civil War science fiction. His fiberglass creations tell the tale of a group of Union soldiers who discover a lost valley of dinosaurs in Virginia and plot to use them as weapons against the South. More »
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