The lifesize replicas of Galactica's villainous mechanoids - available in both Glen A. Larson Original and Ron D. Moore Updated flavors - are the latest creations of Fred Barton, who describes himself as "America's Robotman". Barton's company, Fred Barton Productions, produces "museum quality, famous movie and television robot replicas, sought internationally by private collectors and museums," and now they're turning their attention to... well, this:

The Cylon Centurion replicas were both molded and hand-sculpted to perfection in Barton's Los Angeles studios using an original costume from the 1970s and a computer generated, automated foam-cut Cylon, which was scaled to the imposing height of seven feet. The body is made of 100% fiberglass. The classic Cylon Centurion boasts a "reflective showroom finish," while the Cylon from the current series bears a "distressed multi-tone finish." Both incorporate synchronized stereo sound and lighting effects, advanced electronics and red LED light effects.

Yes, that's right — Those long-incomplete "Original Starbuck meets new Starbuck in a Cylon concentration camp and they can only keep warm by taking off their clothes and making sweet sweet love under the watchful gaze of their robot captors" cosplay nights can now be more complete than you ever imagined, and only for the admittedly substantial price of $7900. Pricey, yes, but somewhere out there, someone just read that last sentence and thought to themselves "Finally, my dreams can come true."

Let's Sell Some Cylons! [THR Live Feed]

Admittedly, Final Orbit sounds curiously familiar to anyone who saw last year's Doctor Who Christmas Special:

[The plot] tells the story of a lottery that gives thrill-seekers a chance to vacation aboard a newly completed International Space Station. But the trips turns nightmarish after the station is damaged, trapping tourists in a crippled module with no trained astronauts to help them.

With a script written by the writer of Spike Lee thriller Inside Man, the adaptation of an as-yet-unpublished graphic novel from Platinum Studios (the people who brought you such past classics as I Was Kidnapped By Lesbian Pirates From Outer Space), will be brought to the screen by Gail Anne Hurd's Valhalla Motion Pictures, previously responsible for both Hulk and The Incredible Hulk, meaning that if this movie fails at the box office, we can expect to see a remake within a few years.

Duo to launch 'Final Orbit' [Variety]

During the conference, Brady says two companies will be testing out their reality mining fu: Path Intelligence will be tracking people in sponsor sessions with their phones, and BlueBall will be tracking people with bluetooth. (OK how cool is it that there's something called BlueBall?) There will also be sessions on crowd simulation, virtual worlds, Eye-Fi (gadgets that know where you are), Earthscape's augmented reality display (with helicopter demo!), plus cool new world-mapping announcements from Google, Microsoft, Earthmine and Everyscape.

Can't make it down today? Stop by the Where Fair tonight. Lots of demos and friendly fun.

Where 2.0 [conference schedule]

Yes, the reward for saving the universe from five women who convert into a super-giant woman is to have your girlfriend's breasts gigantify. Jennifer Garner's career had noplace to go but up.

I have followed some of the commentary and it was a bit daunting at the beginning that there were some disappointed viewers out there. We went into that first episode's premiere with very high feelings for the show. We had really enjoyed the cuts and the dailies that were coming to the office, so we went into August with the feeling like, "This is great. We are on the coolest show. We're so happy to be here. It's gonna be so fun to watch this thing grow."

Then we got some pretty hard online reviews from people who were disappointed and we were like, "What happened there?" When I look back at it now with brilliant hindsight which is always 20/20, I can see that part of what happened was that there were stories that we knew were developing over time, therefore we could see the germs of them in those early episodes. People viewing couldn't see where it was going.

Gillian Horvath - Behind the Scenes on Flash Gordon [Pink Raygun.com]

Of course, for such a scientifically-selected list, there has to be some ground rules, and thankfully Wizard is only too happy to share their lengthy criteria.

The weapon must be wieldable (that means the Death Star didn't make the cut) and it can't be something you can just run out and buy.

There are some interesting choices in the list - a handgun charged by the bad karma of Hitler, for example - but the real eye-openers will probably be where your favorites end up placing. Of course Green Lantern's ring places first. But I mean, come on, who really thinks that there are 26 cooler weapons that something called the Ultimate Nullifier? It even has the word "ultimate" in its name!

Ultimate Weapons [Wizard Magazine]