This is a 1977 television commercial for the original Star Wars film focusing on the romance between Luke and Leia. In hindsight it seems super creepy, but Luke and Leia being siblings was never part of George Lucas’s plan when the movie was made. Or even when The Empire Strikes

Because The Dude abides, this is the 1/6 scale Jeffrey ‘The Dude’ Lebowski figure created and sold by Sideshow Collectibles. The Dude stands 12-inches tall on a base featuring his coveted rug’s pattern, and includes a white v-neck t-shirt, sweater, pants (they should have gone with his patterned pajama bottoms),

This is a small five gallon fish tank set up for ember tetras by aquarist Carly Thompson that features an abandoned AT-AT toy at the bottom that given to her by her brother for Christmas. Some more details while I remember seeing a poison dart frog vivarium recently that had

Created by visual comparer of things MetaBallStudio (previously), this is a video animation comparing the size of various dragons, starting with the diminutive ~60cm Azymondias and Mushu from The Dragon Prince and Mulan, and ending with the larger-than-galaxies Super Shenron from Dragon Ball Super. That is quite a range. So

Because all my money was clearly meant to be spent frivolously instead of saved, these are a bunch of shots of Reebok’s new line of Jurassic Park sneakers, four of which are inspired by the characters from the first book/movie. Available beginning July 30th at the Reebok website, prices range

This is a March 2nd, 1979 clip from The Late Night Starring Johnny Carson with guest Carl Sagan discussing the original Star Wars movie, it’s scientific inaccuracies, human chauvinism, and incredible whiteness of all the human characters, particularly the ones in charge. Some of the exchange: Sagan: Star Wars starts

This is a video of Merry and Pippin actors Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd testing Lord Of The Rings superfan Stephen Colbert’s knowledge on the subject, with special guest Peter Jackson even making an appearance to ask a question. There’s no denying Stephen’s fandom, and he wins a special prize

Because bad ideas sometimes sound enough like good ideas to carry you too far to look back and reconsider, this is a video of motorcycle enthusiasts Zack Courts and Ari Henning recreating the mini bike roadtrip scene from Dumb & Dumber in real life, traveling 382 numbing miles in costume