Posted by: bbcentral | October 21, 2008

Master Replicas Announces Ghostbusters Props!

Ghostbusters Logo

Ghostbusters Logo

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“This is big, Peter, this is very big. There is definitely something here.”

Master Replicas is pleased to announce its forthcoming line of prop replicas based on Columbia Pictures’ hugely popular film franchise, Ghostbusters.

“We are extremely excited to be able to enter the Ghostbusters paranormal world”, explains CEO Michael Cookson “If you’ve always dreamed owning an officially licensed “unlicensed nuclear accelerator” or are just looking for innovative collectibles that will remind you of the legendary antics of Ray, Egon, Peter and Winston, the Master Replicas range will offer a wealth of choices.”

Working closely with Sony Pictures Consumer Products, Master Replicas will work its magic to ensure authenticity and accuracy. Master Replicas initial Ghostbusters product range will include authentic limited edition prop replicas as well as a few “surprises” just in time for the 25th anniversary of this pop-culture property.

The “keymaster” and “gatekeeper” are conspiring to release the first wave of products in May 2009. For a complete listing of products and a few “sneak peek” images, please visit us at http://www.masterreplicas.com/ on Halloween (October 31st) 2008.

Visit http://www.masterreplicas.com/ or http://www.5552368.com/ for further information and updates.

Posted by: bbcentral | October 20, 2008

The Headhunters - Watermelon Man (Live in Adelaide) Part 2

The Headhunters performing Watermelon Man, live at the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel in Adelaide, Australia on October 19, 2008. Part 2

Posted by: bbcentral | October 20, 2008

The Headhunters - Watermelon Man (Live in Adelaide)

The Headhunters performing Watermelon Man, live at the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel in Adelaide, Australia on October 19, 2008.

The guys at Proptopia have created a unique movie accurate Proton Pack specially for buster Ernie Hudson. He came down to their workshop to pick it up. He hung out, had some lunch and told stories of his time as a Ghostbuster.

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Posted by: bbcentral | April 20, 2008

Original Ghostbusters Ectomobile Restored!

The Ectomobile (ECTO-1) from the movie Ghostbusters was falling apart. Years of damage, rain, rust and tourists had taken it’s toll on the car. This is how it looked a few years back at the Sony Backlot:

Ecto-1 at the Sony Backlot

More photos - http://www.gbfans.com/equipment/reference/18/

Last year both the ECTO-1 and ECTO-1A were sent to an auto-restoration company, pulled apart and restored from the ground up:

Ectomobile Restoration Project

More photos - http://www.gbfans.com/equipment/reference/30/

The restoration is now complete! The car looks even better than it did back in the 1980’s:

Restoration Complete!

See more photos of the finished car here - http://www.gbfans.com/equipment/reference/31/

And finally here is a video of the car in action:

More videos here - http://www.gbfans.com/fans/aj-quick/videos/

Source: GBFans

UPDATE: Digg this story!

Posted by: bbcentral | April 13, 2008

Luke Skywalker endorses Barack Obama


Mark Hamill, of Star Wars fame, spoke to a crowd about Barack Obama at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, PA

Posted by: bbcentral | April 13, 2008

Hilarious explanation of the US Electoral System! [VIDEO]

A video to help non-Americans understand how the USA will elect it’s next president. It’s so simple!

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Posted by: bbcentral | January 1, 2008

Happy Birthday TCP/IP!

1st January, 1983

A full switchover to TCP/IP was performed on the ARPANET

Google celebrates this milestone with a new logo today!

Happy Birthday TCP/IP

One of the more interesting challenges was the transition of the ARPANET host protocol from NCP to TCP/IP as of January 1, 1983. This was a “flag-day” style transition, requiring all hosts to convert simultaneously or be left having to communicate via rather ad-hoc mechanisms. This transition was carefully planned within the community over several years before it actually took place and went surprisingly smoothly (but resulted in a distribution of buttons saying “I survived the TCP/IP transition”).

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Posted by: bbcentral | December 25, 2007

Gmail hits 6GB

Popular free Email provider Gmail (Google Mail) has now hit 6GB of storage space for their users.

How this compares to other providers

Google GMail 6GB
Windows Live Hotmail 5GB
Lycos Mail 3GB
Yahoo Mail Unlimited
AIM Mail Unlimited
Posted by: bbcentral | November 27, 2007

Latest Additions to CD/DVD Collection

Well, I’ve been ordering a few things from Amazon lately, and surprising myself at the entertainment value I’m getting from everything!

Firstly I ordered Stargate SG-1, the complete series. Yes, that’s all 10 seasons with 4 bonus discs.

stargate.jpg

It’s FANTASTIC! The box even has a 3D stargate on the side. The discs themselves are identical to the previous boxed sets, but this one has the extra discs of special features. I’ve been slowly working through series 1,2 and 3, I’d almost forgotten how brilliant the show is. It makes much more sense when you watch it all in a short amount of time, instead of spreading 10 seasons out over 10 years. The bonus features are basically the documentaries that were cut out of previous discs, or only aired on TV (ie Behind the scenes of the 200th episode).

My next DVD will be Futurama - Bender’s Big Score, which I am very excited about!

I also managed to get George Clinton - The Mothership Connection on DVD. Although the video quality is fairly poor, the audio sounds great for something that old. It really captures how brilliant Parliament/Funkadelic were, and how lavish their stage shows were.

As far as CD’s, I have an album “Outta Here” by a band called “Lettuce”. Amazon has been recommending that I buy this for about 3 years, because it matches my interests. I can see that Amazon was right, it’s the funkiest thing I’ve heard in months! I also have “Live in Tokyo”, also by Lettuce. This one has very unusual packaging, it’s apparently biodegradable. It was also one of the easiest CD’s to open I’ve ever bought, it’s basically in this plastic bag thing sealed by 2 stickers. The plastic is biodegradable too!

Also got “David Benoit - Right Here, Right Now” and “Euge Groove - Just Feels Right”, so plenty of smooth jazz to keep me going while I’m working at night.

This weekend is the highlight of my year, Royal Crown Revue are playing in Adelaide! Saw them 2 years ago, and they were unbelievably good, so I’m very excited about Saturday night. They have a new album apparently too.

Anyway, almost time to catch the buses to work, starting at 12:15pm, finish at 8:30. I might go around to Hindley afterwards and listen to some jazz at the Worldsend, I have tomorrow off so it won’t matter if I stay out late tonight.

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