Gizmodo: cylon

The iMac Cylon Mask Is Both Trick and Treat

Jesus Diaz — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:40:00 EDT

Giz reader Gary Katz has definitely fixed his iMac-o'-lantern error with this wonderful and even dorkierer iMac Cylon Mask. It uses an old lamp iMac base and Larson Scan Kit, like the one used in the Cylon Pumpkin. [Thanks Gary]

Galactica Easter Egg: Ancient Cylon Could Actually Be Luke's Father

Jesus Diaz — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:40:00 EDT

If you haven't watched the season finale of Galactica, don't read this. But if you have, it's time for a definitive revelation hidden in one of the latest episodes of the series: Luke's father was really a Cylon.

During the episode in which the humans and the Cylons discover a devastated Earth, they come across the remains of its civilization. One of the things they found partially covered in the radioactive soil was a "2000-year-old, ancient Cylon." That was the exact phrase in the script, which was used by VFX supervisor Gary Hutzel and chief model maker Pierre Drolet to create the Cylon head you see above.

Like Ralph McQuarrie did for Darth Vader, the pair took inspiration on classic samurai armor designs.
The result clearly came way too close to the Sir Dark Lord Van Vader Von Ham of Shin's helmet. So close that they took a couple of layers out of the helmet, to make it look like the skull on the right, which is the model that finally ended up in the actual shot:

Beautiful design either way, although I liked the full helmet better. I don't care it looked like Vader's, specially when McQuarrie also did art for Battlestar Galactica (some of it is under these lines.) [Darth Mojo—Thanks Alice]

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Lego Galactica Clusterfrak So Big It Can Probably Crush a Real Cylon Baseship

Jesus Diaz — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:36:43 EST

I'm fraking being blown away by the last episodes of Galactica, so when I saw this huge Lego clusterfrak of Colonial Vipers and Raptors, complete with a 13-foot BSG hangar, I had to post them.

Some of them are truly great, specially pink Viper and the Raptor with all the Colonial Marines, ready to kick Cylon minifig ass.

This Lego Galactica fest was made with the people below, members ChiefLUG. [Brothers Brick]

LEGO Battlestar Galactica Cylon Minifig Beats Star Wars Minifig Any Day

Jason Chen — Sat, 31 May 2008 12:29:17 EDT

Sorry Jesus. The Star Wars Minifig may be nice, but it's got nothing on this Battlestar Galactica Cylon LEGO minifig. Its eyes light up (just like yours) but has that glowing red dot flash back and forth like in the show. Yes, the light moves. We have it on video. THIS is the best use of light-emitting diodes sir. Good day!

[Dvice via Techeblog]

Cylon Baseships Run Windows XP?

Jesus Diaz — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:56:00 EDT

Sorry to spoil the ending of Battlestar Galactica people, but we have found definitive proof that the Cylons are going to be obliterated: as you can see in this video clip, Cylon baseships run Windows. You can check it yourself fast-forwarding to minute 9:26 in episode 7, Guess What's Coming to Dinner. Bill Gates, that's fracking what. And he wants a large clone burger with fries. [Thanks José Miguel Costa]

Buy Your Own Life-Sized Cylon Companion

Jason Chen — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:45:56 EST

When we first heard that Fred Barton the robot maker could make our own life-sized Cylon, we started lathering Crisco all over our chest in anticipation of some Six action. But alas, that's not to be! Barton specializes in creating metallic robots, which results in both the original metal Toaster cylons from the '70s as well as the Knight Rider-eyed metal baddies from the current series. Ok, how about a compromise? We'll settle for Boomer or even the Lucy Lawless one. [Fred Barton via Retro Thing]