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This summer's animated robot superstar Wall-E threatens to squash us under his mammoth treads and obliterate us with his laser blast. In these new screens from the upcoming game to coincide with the film, the cuddly bot has whipped out some sort of a beam weapon and he's using it to destroy something just offscreen while a terrified Other-Bot cowers in the rafters above. Does cute little Wall-E have a vicious streak that we weren't aware of previously? Click through for more game screens, which showcase some key moments from the film and give more clues to Wall-E's unsuspected abilities.
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Wall-E Goes Terminator on Your Ass
This summer's animated robot superstar Wall-E threatens to squash us under his mammoth treads and obliterate us with his laser blast. In these new screens from the upcoming game to coincide with the film, the cuddly bot has whipped out some sort of a beam weapon and he's using it to destroy something just offscreen while a terrified Other-Bot cowers in the rafters above. Does cute little Wall-E have a vicious streak that we weren't aware of previously? Click through for more game screens, which showcase some key moments from the film and give more clues to Wall-E's unsuspected abilities.
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Wall-E, Warlord Of Mars?
Pixar Animation Studios may be preparing its first live-action movie: John Carter of Mars. And Wall-E director Andrew Stanton may direct, sources are claiming. Click through to find out how the Chronicles of Narnia may give way to the might of Edgar Rice Burroughs' greatest non-Tarzan hero. More »
Wall-E, Social Critic
The most controversial movie of the summer... Wall-E? That's what one writer is claiming. The G-rated animated movie presents a dire image of a morbidly obese human race, crammed into giant spaceships and exhorted to ever greater depths of over-consumption by signs saying "DO YOUR PART, FILL YOUR CART." (Remember those shopping carts in the trailer?) Meanwhile, the reason Wall-E has been left as the only custodian of Earth is because the human race has rendered it uninhabitable with pollution and heedless consumer culture. Somehow, I doubt the inevitable toy tie-in ads will mention these aspects of the film. [Jim Hill Media]
The most controversial movie of the summer... Wall-E? That's what one writer is claiming. The G-rated animated movie presents a dire image of a morbidly obese human race, crammed into giant spaceships and exhorted to ever greater depths of over-consumption by signs saying "DO YOUR PART, FILL YOUR CART." (Remember those shopping carts in the trailer?) Meanwhile, the reason Wall-E has been left as the only custodian of Earth is because the human race has rendered it uninhabitable with pollution and heedless consumer culture. Somehow, I doubt the inevitable toy tie-in ads will mention these aspects of the film. [Jim Hill Media]
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Wall-E Versus The Shopping-Cart Army
You may know all about Wall-E the cute robot's aeons of tedium on an abandoned Earth, and you may even have glimpsed his torrid love affair... but do you know about his valiant battle with a platoon of shopping carts? The full trailer for Disney/Pixar's robo-classic in the making just went online, and it shows just how textured and detailed the outer-space worldbuilding in Wall-E will be. You also get a glimpse of the humans, swollen and atrophied from years in space. More »
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Get Ready To Go Back To Witch Mountain, Again
Disney is readying another Witch Mountain movie, although they're calling it a "re-imagining" and not a remake. Probably since they already went down the remake route 10 years ago. The new movie will be called Race To Witch Mountain, and may feature Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as someone determined to squash all of your childhood memories. It's even being directed by Andy Fickman, who gave you The Rock in The Game Plan. Hollywood, please let us know when you decide to stop pillaging the past and start making some cool new original stuff, like the first Witch Mountain movies, which are the subject of today's triviagasm. Everything you wanted to know about these great movies featuring alien kids in the 1970s below. More »
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If steam trains had ever looked like this, you can be assured that a) bandits would never mess with them without seriously upgrading their own armaments, and b) people would probably still be using trains for their preferred mass transit vehicle of choice.
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The Slipstream Train From a Mysterious Theme Park Planet
If steam trains had ever looked like this, you can be assured that a) bandits would never mess with them without seriously upgrading their own armaments, and b) people would probably still be using trains for their preferred mass transit vehicle of choice.
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The "Castle Thunder" Noise that Rocked a Thousand Movies
On Friday we told you about the pervasive use of the Wilhelm Scream through movies, tv shows, and video games, but today we bring you something even closer to the hearts of science fiction history: Castle Thunder. It's been used to bring assembled body parts back to life, to send people back to the future, and to herald the ominous approach of spooky evil mad scientists who want to shrink you and your friends down to miniature size. Find out all about this multi-purpose noise below. More »
Wall-E Was Inspired By the Sexual Frustrations of Pixar Nerds
Wall-E director Andrew Stanton told us that he didn't think about the robot Johnny 5 from Short Circuit when his team was designing the look and feel of Wall-E, which seems hard to believe. Instead, he says his inspirations came the from Luxo Jr. lamp in the Pixar logo, a pair of binoculars, R2D2, and the wacky little robot who talks to you when you're waiting in the queue for Disney's Star Tours ride. Also, sexual frustration. Stanton admitted that Wall-E is "the story of a simple, boxy tractor that falls in love with a Porsche. It's how all the nerdy guys of Pixar feel around these women who are far too smart for them." We're not quite sure what that says about the cold and calculating probe droid EVE. Or the guys at Pixar.
Wall-E director Andrew Stanton told us that he didn't think about the robot Johnny 5 from Short Circuit when his team was designing the look and feel of Wall-E, which seems hard to believe. Instead, he says his inspirations came the from Luxo Jr. lamp in the Pixar logo, a pair of binoculars, R2D2, and the wacky little robot who talks to you when you're waiting in the queue for Disney's Star Tours ride. Also, sexual frustration. Stanton admitted that Wall-E is "the story of a simple, boxy tractor that falls in love with a Porsche. It's how all the nerdy guys of Pixar feel around these women who are far too smart for them." We're not quite sure what that says about the cold and calculating probe droid EVE. Or the guys at Pixar.
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Andrew Stanton Pimps Out Wall-E, Doesn't Remember Short Circuit
Pixar uber-guru Andrew Stanton was on hand at WonderCon to talk about his robot love story, Wall-E (which stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter, Earth class), which was inspired by what he calls "the golden age of science fiction," and it's a story he'd been obsessed with ever since he wondered what would happen if we left the planet and "someone forgot to turn off the last robot." He showed off four new clips from the film, and you can read our descriptions of those down below.( We fired up our stealthycam for some video goodness, but the decidedly non-wonderful WonderCon security gave us the clampdown.) More »
2:48 PM on Sat Feb 23 2008
By Kevin Kelly
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Latest by Gaiiden: I was the one who asked Andrew the question about Wall•E looking like Johnny Five at Wondercon - gotta admit I was nervous in front of that huge audience but when people were like "whoohoo! Short Circuit!" I felt more »
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This piece from the 1930s shows scientists trying to come up with antigravity — now it's more than 50 years later and we're still waiting on hoverpads and floating grav-lifts. This poster is part of a series of eight that all showcase futures we should have had by now, like fish bowl swimming pools, flapwing flycars, and mining on the moon. In fact, the only two futuristic things depicted here that we actually got are the electronic home library, and robot warehouses where the bots fetch your orders. Sometimes futurism is more hopeful than predictive.
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Get Ready For Antigravity! And Other Pieces of Sadly Incorrect Futurism
This piece from the 1930s shows scientists trying to come up with antigravity — now it's more than 50 years later and we're still waiting on hoverpads and floating grav-lifts. This poster is part of a series of eight that all showcase futures we should have had by now, like fish bowl swimming pools, flapwing flycars, and mining on the moon. In fact, the only two futuristic things depicted here that we actually got are the electronic home library, and robot warehouses where the bots fetch your orders. Sometimes futurism is more hopeful than predictive.
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Disney's Future, Now Even More Corporate
Want to know what it'd be like living in the future? Forty-one years after they last gave you the chance, Disney is opening a new version of its "House of The Future" in Disneyland's Tomorrowland. Disneyland's original version of the house opened in 1957, as part of Walt Disney's desire to make his entertainment resort a showcase for the science of tomorrow. This new version, created in partnership with corporations like Hewlett Packard and Microsoft, has much more modest goals: It's there to make you want to buy things. More »
Brad Bird's Scifi Fantasia That You'll Never See
Brad Bird (who wrote and directed Ratatouille) has an awesomely bizarre idea. He wants to do a a multipart, billion-dollar saga called Filmtasia, with all genres rolled into one: "The studios could market the various parts as sequels. The first Filmtasia would be a historical drama, the next part a musical, the next sci-fi, part four a Western — you get the idea." Actually, we don't. But that won't stop us from wondering like hell what the scifi "sequel" would look like. [Variety]
Brad Bird (who wrote and directed Ratatouille) has an awesomely bizarre idea. He wants to do a a multipart, billion-dollar saga called Filmtasia, with all genres rolled into one: "The studios could market the various parts as sequels. The first Filmtasia would be a historical drama, the next part a musical, the next sci-fi, part four a Western — you get the idea." Actually, we don't. But that won't stop us from wondering like hell what the scifi "sequel" would look like. [Variety]
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Disney's Wall-E wasn't above making an appearance at the Superbowl, although he didn't show off any new footage from his upcoming feature film like Iron Man did. Instead this commercial offered a meta-Pixar reference as Buzz Lightyear and Woody from Toy Story chow down on some popcorn and talk about Disney's cuddly robot. Meanwhile, Wall-E apparently finds out just how pleasing a vacuum cleaner's sucking power can be. Check out the video below, and see if you still have the hose attachments for your own Hoover.
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Wall-E Gets Friendly With A Vacuum Cleaner
Disney's Wall-E wasn't above making an appearance at the Superbowl, although he didn't show off any new footage from his upcoming feature film like Iron Man did. Instead this commercial offered a meta-Pixar reference as Buzz Lightyear and Woody from Toy Story chow down on some popcorn and talk about Disney's cuddly robot. Meanwhile, Wall-E apparently finds out just how pleasing a vacuum cleaner's sucking power can be. Check out the video below, and see if you still have the hose attachments for your own Hoover.
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You can visit the desolate world of Wall-E, this summer's animated movie about a trash-compacting robot, in an upcoming xBox game. Judging from these early screen shots, it looks like the Wall-E game may do too good a job of capturing the robot's loneliness and the toll of time on his robotic circuits. You'll be able to explore 10 other worlds in the game, but if they all look like this we'd probably have to commit robo-suicide to stave off the inevitable boredom and insanity. Minor movie spoilers after the jump
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Become A 700-Year-Old Trash Robot
You can visit the desolate world of Wall-E, this summer's animated movie about a trash-compacting robot, in an upcoming xBox game. Judging from these early screen shots, it looks like the Wall-E game may do too good a job of capturing the robot's loneliness and the toll of time on his robotic circuits. You'll be able to explore 10 other worlds in the game, but if they all look like this we'd probably have to commit robo-suicide to stave off the inevitable boredom and insanity. Minor movie spoilers after the jump
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Comic book artist extraordinaire Eric Tan created these 1950s style postcards as promotional materials for Wall-E, Disney/Pixar's new wacky robot adventure. I love how they perfectly illustrate a conflict that promises to be key in this flick: the ultra-leisure society of the humans versus the junkyard-dwelling garbage robots who do nothing but scut work.
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Retro-Futurist Postcards for Wall-E
Comic book artist extraordinaire Eric Tan created these 1950s style postcards as promotional materials for Wall-E, Disney/Pixar's new wacky robot adventure. I love how they perfectly illustrate a conflict that promises to be key in this flick: the ultra-leisure society of the humans versus the junkyard-dwelling garbage robots who do nothing but scut work.
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Tomorrowland Sucks
Disneyland promises visitors through its gates four separate worlds that are supposed to thrill and delight you: Fantasyland, Adventureland, Frontierland, and Tomorrowland. While the other lands deliver on that promise, Tomorrowland seems like it got stuck in Yesterdayland. Once a portal to the future, the amusement park has now been surpassed in coolness by several new museums. What went wrong? More »
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