Every day the internet produces an astounding amount of goodies and gems. Most hilarious, some amusing, but all worth at least a few seconds of your time. We here at Nerd Bastards try to bring you the best bits of news and nerdery the webz has to offer, with a bit of snark thrown in. But sometimes not everything makes the cut. Monday through Friday we’ll be bringing you our inbox leftovers, our forgotten bookmarks, the nerdy bits that simply slipped through the cracks. You can submit items to Nerdy Bits by emailing us at nerdybits@nerdbastards.com

ABOVE: 5 nerds took 10 months of planning, purchasing, and research and two months of actual construction to make this multi person Voltron cosplay. Voltron, defender of virginity.  [Neatorama]

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Our New York Comic Con coverage isn’t nearly at an end — we’ve still got Jason Tabrys’ con diary, our exclusive interviews with Mad editor John Ficarra, Angel & Faith artist Rebekah Isaacs, our roundtable interviews with Kevin Smith, Walt Flanagan, and Stan Lee, our look at Epic Mickey 2, and more — but the con itself has come to a close. The Jacob Javitz Center in Manhattan catered to an estimated 115,000 cosplayers and fans, Nathan Fillion teleported from a conference call, Norman Reedus allegedly shouted at people from on top of an RV, and a grand time was had by all.

Right now, all of those fans are at home or on their way. Their spandex is hung in their closets, and our reporters are drinking copious amounts of vodka to stave off an attack of the con-flu. For you, though, we have the final round of pics from the floor of NYCC. Want more toys? How about most of the toys displayed at the Mattel booth? Want more cosplay? Fine! Here! As the con comes to an end, we hope you’ve enjoyed our coverage as much as we’ve enjoyed providing it and we hope you’re psyched about the rest of the cool stuff we’ll be delivering to you in the next couple of days.

Pics by: Shelly V.

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In what may be either a very smart or very suicidal business move, Dreamworks Animation has just dropped a $150 million bid to grab up Classic Media and all its artistic properties.  CM is currently owner of the rights to such well-known names as Casper the Friendly Ghost, Dick Tracy, He-Man, Archie, Voltron, Gumby, Felix the Cat, Veggie Tales, Lassie, Where’s Waldo and the Lone Ranger.

At first glance, this would seem a bonanza of tried-and-true characters that could make Dreamworks a pile of cash.  The purchase, however, is a little more complicated than that, being that none of the titles carry with them their television or film rights.

Classic Media currently makes hundreds-of-millions by licensing these properties.  Dreamworks may be looking at holding on to the rights for the express purpose of renting them out later to other companies that wish to turn the titles into movies or television shows (and the subsequent toys or other marketing deals that inevitably follow).  Or they could possibly have some other purchases lined up for the future.  Either way, the company is dropping some big cash.

At the very least, this puts a spotlight on some old classic media and gives rise to the question of whether we may be looking at a new He-Man flick or a Voltron adaptation in the near future.

Thanks to geektyrant for the heads-up.

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This time last year coming out of San Diego Comic Con there was some hype about progress moving forward on a live-action film version of the 80s robot lions-turned-giant robot samurai toy line, Voltron. Since then, there has been no new news, so perhaps its only fitting that since Comic Con has just come to a close we get a kind of update on the progress of the movie.

World Event Productions’ Creative Director Jeremy Corray and vice president Robert Kopla were both asked about the status of Voltron this past weekend, and this is the exchange they had with the WallStreetJournal.com

QUESTION: What’s the latest word on the Voltron feature film that you introduced at last year’s Comic-Con?

Kopla: It’s currently in development with Relativity Media. Josh Oppenheimer and Thomas Donnelly are working on the script and they have some cool ideas. It’s going to be a big action adventure flick and we’re really excited about it. We have some talented producers on it.

Voltron is about five space explorers who find five spacecrafts that look like robotic lions separately, but they also come together to form a giant robot man called Voltron. The live-action film is being produced by Atlas Entertainment, Kickstart Entertainment and World Events Productions. Thomas Dean Donnelly (Conan the Barbarian) and Joshua Oppenheimer (Sahara) are currently writing the screenplay.

More news as it develops.

Source: Comic Book Movie

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Every day the internet produces an astounding amount of goodies and gems. Most hilarious, some amusing, but all worth at least a few seconds of your time. We here at Nerd Bastards try to bring you the best bits of news and nerdery the webz has to offer, with a bit of snark thrown in. But sometimes not everything makes the cut. Monday through Friday we’ll be bringing you our inbox leftovers, our forgotten bookmarks, the nerdy bits that simply slipped through the cracks. You can submit items to Nerdy Bits by emailing us at nerdybits@nerdbastards.com.

ABOVE: That moment when you realize your cosplay is kind of lame. (Fashionably Geek)

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Every year hundreds of manufacturers, distributors, and sales agents from around the globe gather in one location to showcase their toy and entertainment products for the coming year.

You know what that means?

It’s time for the international New York Toy Fair. If there was one place where you could let your inner child go absolutely crazy it would be here. With over a thousand exhibitors, it’s hard not to.

There are all types of toys to choose from, classic toys from yesteryear, new movie tie-in toys, and toys for all ages, brought forth from the wacky minds of the toy masters at Mattel, Lego, Hasbro and many, many more. These are the products that will be hitting store shelves everywhere all year long that may flop, or become the hottest must have toy for Christmas.

Take a stroll through the New York Toy Fair courtesy of NerdBastards “Gallery of Toys” below and let your fellow NerdBastards know which are keepers and which will clutter store shelves until their thrown into the 50% off bin in the comments section below.

In the gallery below you will find images for:

-Marvel and DC ‘Super Hero’ LEGO sets. (via)
-Lord of the Rings LEGO Set (via)
-Playmates new line of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles line of action figures, vehicles and playsets (via)
-Bane and Catwoman Figures from Movie Masters (via)
-Mattel’s latest additions to their Ghostbusters line (via)
-Mattel’s DCU, Justice League, Young Justice and More (via)
-Mattel’s Voltron Line (via)
-Mattel’s newest addition to their massive Master of the Universe line (via)
-Batman Arkham City Figures from Square Enix (via)
-E.T., Rocky, Predator and other figures from NECA (via)
-HASBRO’s ‘Avengers’ Line(via)
-HASBRO’s reintroduction to Marvel Legends (via)

AND MORE!

For further details, including figure specs and release dates please hit up the respective via links

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Another Super Bowl has come and gone, and another batch of overly hyped but in the end, disappointing Super Bowl commercials have aired. I’m sure everyone feels this way but I swear the commericials when I was a kid were more memorable. Maybe now we’re all too old and jaded to see the fun in a million dollar advertising campaign.

But out of all the commercials aired this year only one seemed to pander to those of us craving some nerdy nostalgia. It was MetLife‘s commericial starring just about every cartoon idol from our childhood. All coming together to celebrate, uhh, insurance on some grassy hill.

I don’t really get it either. And bringing Voltron and Scooby-Doo into the picture doesn’t get me excited about life insurance.

What did you think of MetLife’s or any of the other Super Bowl commercials? Did you have a favorite?I think I liked the yogurt one with John Stamos getting head butted. I literally lol-ed.

Source: Topless Robot

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Finally it’s new Comics Wednesday and its time to dive into a whole new random pile of books and see what we come up with. To be honest, this week came with a few hints about what 2012 will look like, well for one company that is. Yes, we are on the cusp of hitting comic book crossover event season. “Hey, wait… Fear Itself and Flashpoint JUST wrapped up” you might say, but you know how it works. Big guys are warming us up for the next one.

DC looks like they might be going for smaller events at the moment. Crossing over a few books and letting the characters meet each other again for the first time in the DCnU. Don’t fool yourself, There is the mystery purple hoodie lady, there is something brewing. Who is she? How does she fit in? Is this a set up to how the new Multiverse set up since the reset? Personally, I really wish last weeks Tiny Titans was the true canonical answer to who the mystery lady is, but Dan DiDio would never let that happen, would he.

The other guys, Marvel that is, have an event they just dropped some details on, oh we’ve already covered it, but I just wanted to chime in here. Avengers Vs X-Men? Come on. This had better be bigger than that. Back a few weeks, Marvel Point One hinted more than just your typical and done to death hero vs hero slug fest.  Also, what is Wolverine going to do? He’s on both damn teams! Oh the drama. With any luck, when the Phoenix smacks her/itself into the Earth, maybe Marvel will get is own (imo) much needed reboot.

Ok, so what do we have this week? I bite into another one of those books. You know the one everyone is talking about, one that’s winning awards, one that I probably should have picked up long ago. Also, check in with one of DC’s New 52, one I dropped at issue one and never looked back, even though everyone was talking about great it was and probably going to win awards. Speaking of next years event for Marvel, I grab a book that is supposedly made up of the ‘connective tissue of the Marvel Universe’ so, we should have something to talk about beyond Captain America fighting Cyclops, again. The last one? I prove a point about Alex Ross and marketing ploys.

It’s all up after the jump in the fast and dirty reviews.

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In a parallel universe, there are awesome geeky movies that you’d kill, or at least maim, to watch. Sadly, we live in this universe where these films never got made. But if you somehow get your hands on these screenplays you’ll at least be able to get a sense of what we’re missing. Here in no particular order, are the top 10 must reads for any serious movie dork.

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YouTuber’s Awkward Spaceship takes a hard look at Voltron. These are the questions that I asked when watching this show. Finally someone answers the tough questions. What cartoon should Awkward Spaceship take on next?

Via: Geekgirldiva

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