This Early Lunar Rover Prototype Was Almost Forgotten

I excavated this photo of an interesting US moon rover concept from a 1962 Hungarian science journal. I have not seen this prototype before, and sadly there is only a little info about it.

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"Heroes of Science" action figures are light on "action," heavy on the…

Yesterday we told you about the world's greatest Agent Coulson action figure. At the time, we called it the world's greatest action figure. But AF-Coulson would do well to watch his back; over on deviantART, graphic artist datazoid has put together a series of digitally painted "Heroes of Science" action figures (based,…

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An entire New York theme park crammed into a single skyscraper


To reduce the sprawl and auto emissions created by conventional amusement parks, New York architect Ju-Hyun Kim's envisioned a playland condensed inside one skyscraper. A roller coaster's way more thrilling when you're almost plummeting into the office building next door.

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Check out some gorgeous Sucker Punch art, and learn why Zack Snyder's…

The Sucker Punch trailer heaped fantasy upon fantasy. But what does it all mean? We asked director Zack Snyder to explain his mecha attack bunny dream world to us. Plus check out these gorgeous exclusive pieces of Sucker Punch artwork.

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Devastating Concept Art Constructs Villain

If Revenge of The Fallen's Devastator looks more like CGI trickery than a convincing combination of construction vehicles, perhaps this piece of concept art showing what goes where will explain the thinking behind the even-more-giant Transformer. [Seibertron.com]

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Ancient Cylon Warrior Almost Looked Like Darth Vader

Battlestar Galactica's effects genius Gary Hutzel and model-maker Pierre Drolet had to create some ancient Cylon remains for the Galactica crew to dig up. So they reached into Japanese Samurai designs... and his first efforts looked quite like Darth Vader.

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The Sunglasses-Wearing, Phallus-Headed Alien

necronom_iv.jpg Aliens Vs. Predator 2: Requiem will be unwrapped in theaters on Christmas Day, unleashing strange alien design and horror everywhere, but that shiny-headed killing machine is more than 30 years old now. It wasn't created from scratch for the original Alien in 1979, but was based on two paintings created by H.R. Giger…

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