Nerdy Nuggets of News: November 2006 Archives

USA Today has an article about the Fantasticar that will appear in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Even though the first film had its flaws, at least director Tim Story knows enough to keep the Fantasticar design to the basic roots. Conceptual designer Tim Flattery said: "He wanted something that looked less like a predator and more friendly. That's always been the Fantastic Four theme." According to the article, the Fantasticar keeps my favorite Kirby gimmick: "the Fantasticar is powered by a proton accelerator, can hover, fly at 500 mph and break into separate flying machines." Yay, now let's just hope that Ben Grimm still calls it a flying bathtub.

The Fantasticar looks great in this pic, but Jessica Alba looks pretty damn good, too. Almost makes me forget The Actress Who Should Have Been Sue Storm. Nuff said.

Technorati : Fantastic Four, Fantasticar, Jessica Alba

Gamespot has an online video show called Button Mashing. It's basically a game show where they get players to compete against each other on a series of videogames. This particular episode had players squaring off on NES RC Pro Am Racing (loved that game to death), The Warriors, and Marvel Ultimate Alliance. The winner, Homer from Pleasanton, CA, got a big surprise at the end: he got to fly to LA and challenge Jack Black! Black is funny to me no matter what he does. He goes down in flames on Fight Night but redeems himself on Project Gotham Racing 3. Black actually conquered PGR3 on the Platinum level, spending months on the achievement. Then he took a picture of himself, giving the finger to Bizarre Creations: "I was so mad because it was too hard...I hate you designer!!!" The Black section of the video starts at 14:30 minutes if you want to skip to that point. Nuff said.

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Button Mashing at GameSpot