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Our Top Batman Gadgets We'd Love to Own
As lovers of everything Batman, one thing that always makes us fall just that little bit extra in love with the caped crusader is his impressive arsenal of gadgets!
Whether he's getting himself out of trouble or taking down the latest villains, Batman always surprises us with his latest top-of-the-range cutting edge gadget that are the perfect tools for the job of protecting Gotham City.
As a bit of fun and to help remind ourselves and you guys of the impressive collection, we thought we would rustle up a little shortlist of some of our personal favourites that we would love to own for every day (maybe not everyday then) life. Take a look....
Grapple Gun
Originally debuted on the silver screen in 1989's Batman, the grapple gun has certainly taken Batman out of some sticky situations as well as keeping him on the tails of those pesky baddies. Essentially a spring loaded hook attached to some special ultra thin, ultra strong wire to keep everything nice and compact, it can be launched anywhere and will pull you up and away out of danger.
Why do we want this? Well, imagine this...walking down the street and spot someone you'd rather not speak to...fire and away you go until the coast it clear. Social bliss! Plus it beast walking up flights of stairs huh.
Star Wars: Episode VII to Feature Original Cast Members!
Holy-Wan Kenobi! Can it be real?
Some amazing news has been flying around the Truffle Towers recently. During an interview with Business Week Star Wars creator, George Lucas, revealed some exciting news that the original trilogyâs main cast have all signed up for Episode VII!
The legendary cast we all know and love, including Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher, are set to take part in the upcoming new adventure in the series which was brought back to life after a recent Disney purchase. Disney announced in January that Lost co-creator JJ Abrams would direct the new film, due out in 2015, but the film-maker reportedly shunned the initial offer before later changing his mind. Phew!
Ford originally starred as Han Solo, Fisher as Princess Leia and Hamill as Luke Skywalker in the first three Star Wars films, beginning with 1977's Star Wars and going until Return of the Jedi in 1983. Known widely as the most successful and loved films of the series, can they recreate the same magic after all these years?
Lucas had already began developing the new trilogy before the Disney deal in order to increase its overall value. These discussions with the old cast worked as part of that strategy. It seems now that even with the Disney buy out, it's going to be business as usual for the most epic space series ever!
What do you think? Great to see the old cast back or was it time to move on...again?
What do Chunk Clothing eat for Breakfast?
The new tee collection of Chunk T-Shirts has landed at TruffleShuffle. With their humorous take on iconic retro characters and movies, it does make us wonder what the designers there eat for breakfast!! With that in mind, here's some questions only Chunk Clothing would ask themselves:
- What would the cast of Star Wars look like in their 1977 School Yearbook?
- If you double parked your AT-AT would a parking attendant still clamp it?
- Does Darth Vader do a little DJing 'on-the-side'?
- What would Mr.T be like if he were a dog?!?!
Retro Artwork with a Classical Twist
As big fans of all things retro, we just instantly fell in love with these amazing pictures.
Featuring some of the most iconic retro characters from the 80s such as Batman, Skeletor and Spiderman, and few few rocognisable faces from Star Wars of course, these fab pictures offer an amazing twist on some classical style artworks.
Take a peek!
The Weekly Retro Movie Rundown 43
Cor Blimey O'Rielly it's only the weekend again!
As if travelling through deep dark space light-years beyond our galaxy let us be your intrepid interstellar explorer aboard a gigantic shining space craft as we search the stars for interplanetary movie greatness, intellectual alien retro cinematic awesomeness and penetrate the unknown depths for intergalactic celluloid wonder.
SATURDAY 9th MARCH
Stand By Me (1986)5* 4:30pm-6:20pm (1 hour 50 minutes)
Four 12-year-old best friends embark on a life-changing adventure in the Oregon wilderness in search of a missing teenager's body, unaware of the trials and triumphs that await them. Rob Reiner's 1950s-set coming-of-age drama, based on a novella by Stephen King, starring River Phoenix, Wil Wheaton, Jerry O'Connell, Corey Feldman, Kiefer Sutherland and Richard Dreyfuss.
Godzilla (1998)5* 6:20pm-9:00pm (2 hours 40 minutes)
Awesome Retro Movie Mash-Ups!
As you're probably more than aware of by now, we LOVE retro 80's movies!! It's no secret, simpler times where amazing stories and...well...some special effects at least gripped our imaginations and took us to far distant lands where anything and everything was possible. It's really not hard to see why there are soooo many retro flicks that have gained legendary status even today and why movie t-shirts are still as popular as ever!
Recently, we were lucky enough to stumble over something we just couldn't keep to ourselves. Some cleaver people of the Internet have been busy creating some fantastic clips that have mixed some of the biggest and best films around to create short movie trailers. For example, they have used scenes from one film like Ghostbusters to depict the story of another like Top Gun...you get the picture.
Take a look at some of these short clips and see for yourself!
'Walt Disney's SIN CITY' Revisited
Toy Story Requiem
The Avengers/Breakfast Club Trailer Mashup
Reservoir Turtles - Trailer Mash-Up Re-Cut