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Matt and I walk through giving an audio tour of Wichita Kansas’ Exploration Place’s, Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination exhibit. Along the tour we meet up with Exploration Place’s President Jan Luth for a quick interview and you get a brief sampling of the Millennium Falcon experience. The transitions are a little rough, but we make it through the asteroid field. If you have not been to the exhibit yet make your plans because the exhibit only runs through September 3.
For libraries with gaming collections this is one you will want to put on your radar, Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed. SegaAmerica started streaming the following trailer on their YouTube channel. The video game will be available on multi platfroms: Xbox 360; PlayStation 3; PlayStation Vita; and Nintendo 3DS. It’s release date is November 16, for Europe, and November 20 for the North American markets. Check out the trailer below:
This looks like just a fun, feel good movie. Take a chance and check out The Odd Life of Timothy Green. Thanks to YahooMovies for the following trailer:
The staff here at ComicPop Library send out our heart felt condolences to the Kubert family. Coimc Book Legend, Joe Kubert passed away at the age of 85 this past weekend.
ICv2 has posted an article about the decline of magazine sales (Cosmopolitan is down 15.5%, Vogue is down 16.5% and People is down 18.6%). Digital sales have doubled, but the digital sales is only accounting for 2% of sales. So this year we will probably see more magazines move to an on-line platform or cease to exist. Follow the link to the full article.
This might be one Trading Card Game libraries will be interested in that have gaming collections and tournaments. Upper Deck is working on a Marvel Universe deck building game. It is being designed by Devin Low, formerly of Magic: The Gathering. This game is fairly familiar in that players will battle each other, but it has one twist, the game itself has built in villains that attack the players trying to destroy them. No release date is scheduled yet and the working title is Legendary.
Over on Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s site, Becca Hoekstra has an article were she talked with Camilla d’Errico about censorship of Women Artists and the woman body. D’Errico recounts that earlier in her carrier as an artist she enjoyed creating works with nude women in them, but after several conventions where people came up to her and told her that it was improper to display this artwork she stopped. Today being a few years older she is beginning to take a different approach. One of her highest selling prints at the San Diego Comic Convention was a nude print. To read the complete article follow the link below:
http://cbldf.org/homepage/camilla-derrico-talks-about-the-censorship-of-womens-bodies-in-art/
Sega has streamed two different items for the Hatsune Miku character. The first is a music video commercial for the upcoming Miku-Project DIVA-f. The commercial features, voice actress, Saki Fujita and 150 other individuals dancing to Htsune Miku’s “Weekender Girl”. The second item is a commercial for the Miku Flick/02, which is available for the iPhone in Apple’s App Store for $10.99. Thanks to AnimeNews Network, Sega and YouTube for the following videos:
Part 2 of The Thing review and discussion. Join us this episode as we look at 1982’s John Carpenter’s The Thing, starring Kurt Russell and directed by John Carpenter, and 2011’s The Thing, starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and directed by Matthiji van Heijiningen Jr. We also have E-mails! One from Charlene, about the Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination Exhibit and then a really cool one from Jeffrey Eddy, President of SofaWolf Press, Inc.