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Turkish Star Wars action figures are gloriously awful

These aren’t action figures depicting characters from the Turkish Star Wars (a.k.a. Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam or The Man Who Saved The World), but they’re almost as great. Hailing from Turkey, these are Uzay action figures, an unabashed rip-off of Kenner’s Star Wars line from the 1980s. https://gizmodo.com/head-splitting-karate-chop-makes-tie-fighters-explode-356105 In a comical attempt to skirt copyright, the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

This Week’s TV: Leonard Nimoy plays Spock again! Plus Game of Thrones returns!

It’s finally here: Game of Thrones season two. You watch, or you die. (Or rather, you’re dead to us.) But also, a brand new Spider-Man cartoon launches, featuring Clark Gregg as Agent Coulson and J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson! Not only that, but Leonard Nimoy is returning to the role of Spock in the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

This is not a caterpillar

It’s shaped like a caterpillar. It’s colored like a caterpillar. It even has what appear to be spines running along its back, a feature common in many species of caterpillars. But this is no caterpillar. By now you’ve undoubtedly realized that this caterpillar is, in fact, nine very friendly birds —European Bee-eaters, to be exact…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The human cost of the Fukushima meltdowns, one year later

In March 2011, a tumult of natural disasters spurred the meltdown of three nuclear reactors at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant located near the small rural towns of Okuma and Futaba. In the coming weeks, hundreds of thousands evacuated their homes, likely never to return. The trident of disasters last March destroyed 90% percent…

io9 Keith Veronese

There are few things creepier than an abandoned Japanese sex museum (NSFW)

Like any reasonable human being, you’ve thought to yourself, “Man, I wish there was a building where I could wander around in total darkness and decrepitude, surrounded by giant stone genitalia at every turn.” Well rejoice, because there’s a place in Japan where your fantasy is a reality. Welcome to the Mansion of Hidden Treasure.…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Check out art from the Lucasfilm Willow cartoon that never was

Despite boasting memorable scenes of Val Kilmer going barbarian and the most phallic dragon in movie monster history, Ron Howard and George Lucas’ 1988 fantasy film Willow didn’t tear up the box office. That probably explains why this Willow animated series never got off the ground. Here’s a rich sampling of rare sketches and character…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

James Cameron’s X-Men movie could’ve starred Bob Hoskins as Wolverine

We know that James Cameron tried to get his hooks into a Spider-Man movie in the early 1990s. But he also gave the X-Men a brief whirl with a studio pitch written by his then-wife (and future Hurt Locker director) Kathryn Bigelow. In a talk at Columbia University last Saturday, pioneering X-Men scribe Chris Claremont…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Which members of The Avengers will be back in Iron Man 3?

We know Tony Stark survives The Avengers — but who else can we be reasonably sure survives the Joss Whedon Death Touch? A list of major characters in Iron Man 3 gives us a major hint. Plus Chris Hemsworth discusses the dress sense of the Avengers, and Thor’s journey. Director Jonathan Liebesman explains more about…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

The Doctor Who Season 7 trailer is here!

Sure, we saw a version this weekend that was filmed with a maraca, but here’s the real deal. Watch as the Doctor gets his Back To The Future: Part III moment. Actually, it looks a twinge more Westworld, what with the angry cyborg gunslinger. Also, Amy learns firearm safety. Here’s the official BBC synopsis for…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

In the new Twilight trailer, Bella kills everyone in Forks

Step right up, it’s the grand finale of the grand finale of the Twilight saga! Watch the first teaser trailer for Breaking Dawn: Part 2. Bella has become a newborn vampire, which means she now wears red contacts and lipstick. Can Bella handle her mad thirst for blood? Or will her new vampire powers cause…

io9 Meredith Woerner

io9 Roundup: March 25, 2012

VICTORY IN THE ARENA (AND AT THE BOX OFFICE) | The Hunger Games had a huge opening weekend, breaking box office records like a tribute’s delicate bones. Katniss and Peeta art by Mike Maihack of the webcomic Cleopatra in Spaaace!! [via The Uniblog] Secret door inside this wardrobe leads to a Narnia-themed playroom https://gizmodo.com/secret-door-inside-this-wardrobe-leads-to-a-narnia-them-5896087 Some…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Astoundingly gorgeous animation for My Family And The Wolf actually feels like summer

Never before have we seen a creation that so effortlessly bottles up that unfettered feeling of a child’s summer vacation. This short teaser for My Family And The Wolf is absolutely intoxicating; you can almost smell the summer breeze it’s channeling. This is an undertaking not to be missed. My Family And The Wolf Created…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Eerily realistic monster sculptures wish you sweet and screaming dreams

You wouldn’t want to encounter Thomas Kuebler’s silicone sculptures in a dark museum hallway. His monsters and madmen, with their stretched skin and rotting teeth, look just a breath away from lurching to horrific life. A former toy and animatronics designer, Kuebler has turned to his personal passion: creating creeptacular characters, each with its own…

io9 Lauren Davis

Evidence is piling up for water flowing on the surface Mars

Last August, NASA’s HiRISE orbiter spotted strange streaks on the Martian surface that most likely were the result of flowing water on the planet’s surface. Now, eight months later, scientists still haven’t come up with any better explanations. https://gizmodo.com/scientists-find-evidence-of-liquid-water-on-the-surface-5827462 That’s important because of the old scientific maxim that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” The existence…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Why cats can survive falls that would kill any other animal

Cats can famously fall from skyscrapers and only suffer the most minor of bruises, including the recent story of a cat surviving a 19-story fall in Boston with only a bruised chest. What’s the secret of this feline survival? There’s a great rundown of just how cats survive these falls over at BBC News, but…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

One little black hole really wouldn’t hurt Earth that much

Primordial black holes are theoretical mini black holes that were formed in the Big Bang. If they are around, they could pass right through our planet at tremendous speeds…and, as it turns out, that wouldn’t be that big a deal. These black holes would only be about the size of an atomic nucleus, but their…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Fashion designers sketch their own versions of Katniss’ fiery couture

For the citizens of the Capitol, the media love affair with Katniss Everdeen begins when she rolls in on that ceremonial chariot, a cape of fire blazing behind her. A crew of non-Panem fashion designers offers their interpretations on that crucial fashion choice. InStyle magazine asked a group of designers to come up with sketches…

io9 Lauren Davis

The last mammoths died out just 3600 years ago…but they should have survived

We usually think of woolly mammoths as purely Ice Age creatures. But while most did indeed die out 10,000 years ago, one tiny population endured on isolated Wrangel Island until 1650 BCE. So why did they finally go extinct? Wrangel Island is an uninhabited scrap of land off the northern coast of far eastern Siberia.…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Batman and Bane will punch literacy into preschoolers’ brains

Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies have offered grim and mature take on the Dark Knight. But at least one set of The Dark Knight Rises tie-ins aren’t aimed at the older, violence-consuming crowd. Instead, they’re aimed at children who are just learning to read. A full month and a half before Nolan’s final bat-film hits the…

io9 Lauren Davis

The size of your brain can predict how many friends you have

We recently learned a bigger brain doesn’t necessarily mean a better brain, but here’s a potentially major exception. Your ability to make and maintain friendships appears to be linked to the size of one particular region of the brain. https://gizmodo.com/the-4-biggest-myths-about-the-human-brain-5890414 It’s sometimes said that you can know a person by looking in their eyes, but…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Turkish Star Wars action figures are gloriously awful

This Week’s TV: Leonard Nimoy plays Spock again! Plus Game of Thrones returns!

This is not a caterpillar

The human cost of the Fukushima meltdowns, one year later

There are few things creepier than an abandoned Japanese sex museum (NSFW)

Check out art from the Lucasfilm Willow cartoon that never was

James Cameron’s X-Men movie could’ve starred Bob Hoskins as Wolverine

Which members of The Avengers will be back in Iron Man 3?

The Doctor Who Season 7 trailer is here!

In the new Twilight trailer, Bella kills everyone in Forks

io9 Roundup: March 25, 2012

Astoundingly gorgeous animation for My Family And The Wolf actually feels like summer

Eerily realistic monster sculptures wish you sweet and screaming dreams

Evidence is piling up for water flowing on the surface Mars

Why cats can survive falls that would kill any other animal

One little black hole really wouldn’t hurt Earth that much

Fashion designers sketch their own versions of Katniss’ fiery couture

The last mammoths died out just 3600 years ago…but they should have survived

Batman and Bane will punch literacy into preschoolers’ brains

The size of your brain can predict how many friends you have

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