Having taken over the Internet, The Guild is coming to comics! And you can preorder yours for 20% off from TFAW.com. Chronicling the hilarious on- and offline lives of a group of Internet role-playing gamers, the Knights of Good, The Guild has become a cult hit and is the winner of numerous awards from SXSW, [...]
Read MoreAn Alliance uniform cap, maybe
New, at the Prop Store of London: an Alliance uniform cap. But the description puzzles me: A purple cap with a triangular patch on the front made for the sci-fi action film Serenity. The cap is similar to the version worn by the Alliance soldiers onboard the Operatives ship when it is attacked by the [...]
Read MoreInara's shuttle model (not the cheap one)
The Inara Shuttle ornament from Dark Horse is seriously cool and great for your desk, shelf or Christmas tree, but if you really want an authentic model there's only one place to go (besides Joss' house): The Prop Store of London. This is a model of Inara's (Morena Baccarin) shuttle from the 2005 science fiction [...]
Read MoreDress like the Operative. Again.
New at the Prop Store of London, the Operative's outfit. A costume worn by The Operative in the sci-fi adventure Serenity. This excellent costume was worn by The Operative (Chiwetel Ejiofor) in scenes near the end of the film on Mr Universe’s planet where he tries to stop Mal broadcasting the message. It consists of [...]
Read MoreBuy the thing that Serenity crashed into
Remember in Serenity when it spiralled down through the massive air battle, whoosh! and dodged all the other ships, zing bwow! and then got hit with the EMT thingies zap! and Wash barely managed to control it well enough to slide it into a big hanger where it got all bashed up, smash crunch!? This [...]
Read MoreNew Trek stuff: Fire phasers, open bottles with the Enterprise, and smell like a doomed crewmember
ThinkGeek has gotten in some new Star Trek items, and they're getting a little weird… First up, a replica hand phaser kit.Not a snap-together, mind you, but all the same sort of parts used to create the original: …the Star Trek Hero Prop Type-I Phaser Kit was created by Star Trek prop expert and special [...]
Read MoreHuge prop auction includes stuff from Firefly, Buffy, more
The massive props store 20th Century Props is going out of business and holding an auction for its final pieces, and there's quite a bit of familiar stuff in there. Wooden chairs, furniture and assorted background props from Firefly (such as the neon Chinese character sign to the right), what looks like the pool table [...]
Read MoreOriginal Operative sword from Serenity up for sale, again
Remember the Operative sword The Prop Store of London offered, way back when? Possibly their very first Serenity prop? The owner, faced with hard times, is selling it on eBay. SERENITY / FIREFLY FANS! This is the item you've been waiting for! Unfortunately, for some (me) these fun (crap) economic times have lead to some [...]
Read MoreNow you can dress like Tank Girl
OK, I really need to stop browsing the Prop Store of London, because I keep finding things I have no chance of affording but desperately need nonetheless even though I didn't know it was possible to buy them seconds previously. Like this. Freakin' Tank Girl's costume. This is Tank Girl's Costume from the 1995 movie [...]
Read MoreMummified teenager from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
And, while I was tootling around the Prop Store of London, I found another cool little item for the foyer. Remember the Buffy episode where they went to see the Incan mummy princess only the Incan mummy princess grabbed this kid and mummified the dude so that people saw him later and said, whoa, this [...]
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