The main daydream I had: that there were a vast number of people out there, somewhere, who were just fascinated with my life, who were obsessed with everything I was doing, who needed constant updates on my love life, my grades at school, my stats on the baseball team. This is probably not unusual, or at least I hope not: For a kid in a small town who was neither tall nor short, fast nor slow, cute nor ugly, the most fantastical notion my 12-year-old brain could concoct was that someone in the world might care that I existed. I imagined these people as breathless fans who cheered my successes and mourned my failures. Rather than write a diary, I put together something called "The Will Street Journal," which actually posited my day-to-day existence in newspaper form. Sample headlines included "Nikki From Biology Passed Note To Will Thursday" and "Church Camp Is Next Month: Will Will Find a Girl?" (I balanced out the hard-hitting metro section with a sports page in which I merely copied the current standings from the Mattoon Journal-Gazette.) I'd even give myself little quotes, like, "I'm hopeful camp will work out this year. Last year was a bust, but I'm still looking forward to it." After all, with fans beckoning, you had to release a statement; you had to say something. I actually did this. I don't think anyone ever read it, though if my parents did, they were kind enough to have never told me.5. io9 has a frame by frame breakdown of the Prometheus trailer.
Sideshow Collectibles and Hot Toys are proud to present the first entry in Hot Toys' Artist Collection, the Samurai Predator Collectible figure. A collaboration project with artists Mr. Takayuki Takeya and Mr. Yuji Oniki from Japan, the Samurai Predator features a newly sculpted head and body, detailed accessories, weaponry, and a diorama base with a defeated Alien body.
The Samurai Predator Sixth Scale Figure features:
Original Samurai Warrior design
Realistic sixth scale measuring approximately 14 inches (35 cm) tall
Over 22 points of articulation
Newly sculpted head and body
Interchangeable open and closed mandibles
Movable jaw
Fabric net on left chest
Fabric skirt
Two (2) pieces of interchangeable palms including:
One (1) pair of open palms
One (1) pair of holding palms
One (1) articulated left shoulder canon
One (1) broken sword with Alien cells
One (1) sword with sheath
Four (4) attached swords at the back
One (1) helmet
One (1) additional mouth mask
One (1) neck armor
One (1) set of shoulder armor
One (1) left chest armor
One (1) pair of forearm gauntlets with movable hooks on right side
Waist and thigh armor
One (1) set of leg armor
Extendable Alien tongue trophies on waist
One (1) dead Alien head accessory
One (1) diorama base featuring defeated Alien body and broken sword piece
It was about a B-17 bomber returning from a mission to Tokyo. Halfway over the Pacific, with no way of landing, the plane is attacked by these creatures, gremlins, that get in via the tail-gun. The weren't funny--they were nasty. The crew had to fight them off and hopefully reach home.Everything you see above for $20 at Amazon. Below are a few images from the book, including some of the rejected poster concepts:
