Author Archives: Niall Murphy

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Parker Brothers Choppers in Florida has built 10 street-legal Tron:Legacy Light Cycles.

Each steel-framed, fiberglass bodied bike has a V-twin engine from a Suzuki TLR1000, weighs 474 pounds and measures 100 inches long and 23 inches wide. The shop is selling them for $55,000 a pop and – despite the fact that the actual tyres could have been a bit fatter – six have already been sold.

The film opens on the 17th of this month.

Wired

Angus MacLane is an animator with Pixar.

He also happens to be the Michelangelo of Lego.

Among the many Danish-construction-toy-based wonders on his Flickr page are 313 examples of what MacLane calls ‘Cube Dudes’: caricatures of pop-culture icons that use this colourful but clunky medium to fairly astonishing effect.

Above (from top): Conan O’Brien, Marvin Nash from Reservoir Dogs, Captain Picard, Woody, Napoleon Dynamite and Mythbusters‘ Jamie Hyneman.

But you knew that.

Buzzfeed

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La Roberts in the new Lavazza Coffee ad. Nice work if you can get it:

She held the crown of Hollywood’s highest paid actress for most of the last decade, only recently being toppled by the likes of Sandra Bullock, Reese Witherspoon and Cameron Diaz.

But perhaps America’s Sweetheart Julia Roberts is attempting to claw back to the top spot, after agreeing to appear in a 45-second advertisement for Italian coffee house Lavazza – for the hefty fee of 1.2 million euros (£1.14 million).

Wake up and smell the money! (Mail Online)