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    The Greatest Nerdware We'd Steal From Our Favorite Fans
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    Image of ImeldaEbonifly ImeldaEbonifly
    08/13/09

    In reply to The Greatest Nerdware We'd Steal From Our Favorite Fans
    In Kent Ohio there is a restaurant at the corner of SR 59 and SR 261 that has an X-wing in the parking lot. Covet, Covet, Covet.
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    Image of Jeb_Hoge Jeb_Hoge
    08/13/09

    @ImeldaEbonifly: I can do one better. I grew up in a small town in TN that just happened to have an aerospace industry there that supported Arnold Engineering & Development Center (AEDC), an Air Force facility. One of the civilian businesses that was located in town, MicroCraft Inc., built wind-tunnel models and other test rigs. One year, the owner commissioned his crew to build his son an X-wing fighter in about 3/4 scale. It's big enough for an elementary-school kid to live out some major fantasies; had some working lights (laser cannon tips included) and was on a wheeled rig so they could pull it in the town parades. Many, many years later, the same company built the fastest air-breathing (Mach 9.8) aircraft ever flown, the X-43A.
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    Image of bookling bookling
    08/13/09

    In reply to The Greatest Nerdware We'd Steal From Our Favorite Fans
    What about the many, many instances of nerdware from The Big Bang Theory? Leonard Nimoy's napkin? The actual time machine from the movie The Time Machine? Leonard's original Battlestar Galactica flight suit?
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    Image of dirtybacon dirtybacon
    08/13/09

    In reply to The Greatest Nerdware We'd Steal From Our Favorite Fans
    I remember there was a kick-ass van in my neighborhood (a small commuinity) that had a van with an xwing flying around the death star painted on it. I eventually got to know the family that owned it, but after that sweet van disappeared. I wish I knew what it looked like on the inside. somehow, I doubt it met my fantasies.
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    Image of matthewabel matthewabel
    08/13/09

    In reply to The Greatest Nerdware We'd Steal From Our Favorite Fans
    Anyone who owns a DeLorean. If given the chance, we'd all buy one. I've dreamt of getting one and somehow converting it to a hybrid - it would be nerd on so many levels.
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    Image of BlueBeard BlueBeard
    08/13/09

    @Matthew Abel: If by "hybrid" you mean part internal combustion/part nuclear fission, then I am 100% on board with you.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    08/13/09

    @Matthew Abel: Reading about DeLorean is very depressing. About what it's supposed to be, what a big failure it is, and what it did to John deLorean's life. He used to be a respected GM engineer. The DeLorean turned him into a failed drug trafficker.
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    Image of juustuunder juustuunder
    08/13/09

    In reply to The Greatest Nerdware We'd Steal From Our Favorite Fans
    I didn't know Joss worked on Roseanne! Handing in my fangirl credentials... now.
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    08/13/09

    @juustuunder: Me neither! I'm going to have to keep an eye out for those Sandman posters next time I watch the show. Better yet, where can I get some Sandman posters?
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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    08/12/09

    In reply to The Greatest Nerdware We'd Steal From Our Favorite Fans
    Did you just reference my favorite late 1990's, B-Teen movie on io9? I bow to you ma'am.
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    Image of jenndavo jenndavo
    08/13/09

    @Alexis Brown: It's airing on MTV these days, for some reason or another. I think it's due to Seth Green's adorability.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga
    08/12/09

    In reply to The Greatest Nerdware We'd Steal From Our Favorite Fans
    Ahhh, Mallrats. Such a great movie. I think if anything, I would want the framed break up letter.
    Tell Em SteveDave!
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    Image of John Hazard John Hazard
    08/13/09

    @GitEmSteveDave's$10SamsungTV: Kevin Smith himself would tell you, Mallrats is by no means a great movie, but a better bit of geekery in it is Silent Bob's Batman grappling hook and helmet.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga
    08/13/09

    @John Hazard: Fly Fatass, fly!
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    Image of Kenro199x Kenro199x
    08/12/09

    In reply to The Greatest Nerdware We'd Steal From Our Favorite Fans
    No Flux Capacitor?
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    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    08/12/09

    @Kenro199x: what fanboy owns one?
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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    08/12/09

    In reply to The Greatest Nerdware We'd Steal From Our Favorite Fans
    Good Lord... I'll never watch 17 Again, but I am geeking out about that bed pretty hard right now.
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