The Pop-Culture E-Zine
We’ve featured the LEGO Ideas Futurama ship on here before, so of course we got excited when we saw the another LEGO Ideas based on Futurama!
This time though, we have the Futurama Headquarters, the crew and the Planet Express spaceship featured in one awesome LEGO Ideas playset!
You better hurry though, you have almost 2 years left to vote! 😉
source: LEGO Ideas
We are hooked at trawling the LEGO Ideas site and finding wonderful creations, just like this Banjo-Kazooie action figure and the Planet Express delivery ship from Futurama.
We have voted and now have our fingers and toes crossed.
image source: LEGO Ideas
After the Australian 2015 Timezone Supanova Pinball Championship Victorian State Final and Cramer’s Pinball Tournament, we have gone a bit pinball mad! Although we love the traditional tables, we are in awe of these amazing custom machines.
They call this table ‘The Goonies’
Mike Johnson from Orlando, FL has built a beautiful custom The Goonies pinball table for the film’s 30th anniversary (yes, 30th anniversary!). It’s really hard to believe no one has made one before.
Video source: Cinereelists on YouTube
Source: Kotaku UK
Order that pinball table a red cap and a speedo
Wes Anderson has designed a new cafe in Milan, called Bar Luce and it’s gorgeous (no surprise!). Most beautiful of all are the custom pinball machines based on The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and short film Castello Cavalcanti.
Image source: sissirossi on Instagram
The pinball machine that really ties the room together, or ‘f**k it, let’s play pinball’
The Big Lebowski custom pinball table is not only fantastic (it will feature original movie clips and movie quotes in the game), but is soon to be available to buy from manufacturer Dutch Pinball!
Backbox Translite artwork
Image source: The Big Lebowski Pinball
Video source: Dutch Pinball on YouTube
Wow, so pinball, such flippers
See our previous post about how an old Baby Doll table was saved from the scrap heap and converted into Internet Meme Ball.
Image source: Liberty Games
Bite my shiny metal balls
This one-off Futurama: Space 3000 table was made in a mere 6 months by Evan K. from Seattle using the shell of an old Superman machine and a Futurama Space Pilot movie poster – wow! Check out how he did it.
Image source: Special When Lit
Don’t cross the flippers!
Brian Stahl, or ‘Betelgeuse’ as he’s known on forums, built this amazing custom Ghostbusters table in 14 months from a worn out Flash Gordon machine. The soundboard contains over 40 quotes and music from the movie. Why has this not been made before?!
Video source: superiorcrown on YouTube
Source: Gameroom Junkies Poscast
Everything about this pinball table is awesome!
An awesome life-size LEGO pinball machine with a fully automatic reloading system made by ElectryDragonite.
Video source: ElectryDragonite
By now you should be thoroughly inspired, our dream table would be Pulp Fiction (just imagine the quotes and music alone!) – what would yours be? Let us know on Twitter using #dreampinball.
Image source: Miramax
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Ms. ausretrogamer
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There was a microprocessor arms race in the early seventies. Both Intel and Motorola lead the way, but that all changed in 1975. MOS Technology (MOS) introduced us to the 6502 microprocessor – the world’s first affordable 8-bit microprocessor. An interesting fact about the 6502 is that the designers were ex-Motorola employees.
The trusty 6502 became the brains of seminal computer systems like the Apple II, the Commodore PET, the BBC Micro, and the Commodore VIC-20. It was also the precursor to the Commodore 64’s 6510 microprocessor!
The 6502 microprocessor also went on to power a very famous fictional machine: Bender Bending Rodriguez, or simply just, Bender – the belligerent robot from the sci-fi animated comedy Futurama.
Long live the 6502!
Image source: Futurama TM and © 2009 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation