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Guardians of the Galaxy finds its Drax the Destroyer, for real this time. Kevin Feige explains why Pepper Pot stanley mugs ts and a 10-year-old boy are both crucial to Iron Man 3. The Wachowskis ; Jupiter Ascending gets a release date. An Amazing Spider-Man 2 cast member is already done filming. Plus an Evil Dead clip, two Knights of Badassdom featurettes, and some G.I. Joe: Retaliation teasers! It spoilers all the way down! Top image from Guardians of the Galaxy Man of Steel Screenwriter David Goyer discusses the film approach to Superman power level, as well as Russell Crowe role as Jor-El: He a man, but he a Man of Steel. It very much the theme of the movie, so it embedded in the tit stanley cup le, which we settled on at the very beginning. He human but he not human 8230; We try to flesh out Krypton and its different political factions, its fauna, its science. [Crowe role is] not a cameo, he said of Russell Crowe Jor-El. I think people think he playing the Marlon Brando role, which isn ;t necessarily the case. Director Zack Snyder also suggests that part of the movie approach is to make Superman slightly less powerful that he was in previous films, making a not-so-subtle reference to Superman Returns: It amazing what [Superman] is capable of bu stanley cup t [Henry ] a slightly more down to Earth version of the character 8230; I don 82 Hjrj Watch a real-life 8220;Vatican approved 8221; exorcist expel demons from his flock
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This is Stijn Oom, a 14-year-old kid from the Netherlands. Stijn started to play with Lego right after he was potty trained literally . Just a shor stanley mug t time later, he a certifiable Lego genius. He builds the best Lego tanks I ;ve ever seen. The accuracy and precision is uncanny. His sense of design, the way he stanley water bottle captures the details, impressive. This is his story, and these are his creations. I ;m Stijn and i ;m 14 years old, I live in Holland. I am quite fond of WW2 and I love LEGO, he tells me in an email interview. He started out just like any other kid: I think most people still remember the first time they got a Lego or Duplo model. The first time for me, was when I did Doo-Dooon the toilet for the first time by myself. My parents bought me the yellow excavator, from the Bob the Builder sets. I loved it. From that point I started to collect Duplo. Almost every Christmas, Santa ; got me a Duplo set. When he turned five, he started to build with actual Lego. For that birthday, he got one of the old Creator sets. But鈥攎ore surprisingl stanley cup y鈥攁t that early age he also began making Lego Technic sets. These are made for 14 year old kids and older. Technic is quite complex. Too complex for a five-year-old. But not for Stijn. Clearly, he was born for this. Discovering a new world Still, his path wasn ;t different from most other kids back then, aside from expanding his repertoire; I got interested in Lego Star Wars, wh Fzqu Real-life fruit ninja slices watermelons by throwing playing cards
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I ;ll admit it, it been nearly a month since I covered the Kisai Optical Illusion watch and I still can ;t read the damn thing it a schooner, I ;m told . But Kisai latest user-submitted design is actually quite easy to interpret鈥攈int: it isn ;t Morse code. https://gizmodo/look-its-a-sailboat-wait...15-5879068 Dubbed the Stencil LCD Watch, it features a two-color LED display in ten color variations with either a black or white band. The stanley website watch offers the standard fare of time, date, alarm and stanley canada backlight functionality. Kisai has discounted it to $100 for th stanley cup e next 45 hours, then the price bumps up to $140. Just like the Optical Illusion, the Stencil LCD also started as a concept on the Tokyoflash Design Studio Blog. [Tokyoflash via OhGizmo] Optical IllusionWatches Oenx This dress turns see-thru when you re excited
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