Always trying to up the ante of content here at TWiG we present to your our new TWiG Reviews Mini Show Episode 001!

For those who are new, TWiG Reviews is where we get something new, something cool, and something geeky in the TWiG Studios and we have to review it so you know if it/'s Trash or Treasure.

This Episode we change our regular Review Format and combine our reviews into 15 to 20 minute episodes.

Today we talk about Heroes Season 1 DVD, Grindhouses/'s Planet Terror, D.O.A. Dead or Alive, and Highlander: Search For Vengence

So download and enjoy!

Reviewers:/n
Steve /"Snowball/" Saylor/n
Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd/n
Pierce /"The Punk/" Derks/n
David /"Double D/" Denis/n
Stefan /"The Skunk/" Peltier

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Thats right we are back! Season 2.0 of This Week in Geek started on October 5th and we want to thank everyone for sticking with us over this past year. So as we usher in the new season of TWiG we hope you enjoy the ride.

Today we talk about the latest TV Pilots to hit this Fall from Chuck, to Journeyman, Bionic Woman, Pushing Daisies, and Reaper. Mild Spoilers if you haven/'t seen those pilots.

Now before you ask whatever happened to Episode 12 and 13 well 12 was our Season 1.5 Event Party and Episode 13 was our /"Lost/" episode on Talkshoe. So check those out. LOL

Download and enjoy Season 2.0!

For our shownotes of this episode, head to http://del.icio.us/thisweekingeek/twig014

Geeks:/n
Steve /"Snowball/" Saylor/n
Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd

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Ever play a game so horrible it hurts? Well hopefully you haven/'t played Vampire Rain. And if you are thinking about it, listen to this review to find why you shouldn/'t.

Also listen for a special TWiG Announcement!!!!

Download and enjoy!

Reviewers:/n
Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd/n
Pierce /"The Punk/" Derks/n
Ashlee /"Geek Accessory/" Kivell

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What do you get when you cross Spinal Tap and Horror Movies? You get Anchor Bay Entertainments Behind the Mask: The Rise and Fall of Leslie Vernon.

Enjoy as we review this funny DVD

Reviewers:/n
Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd

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Going back to Transformers for a bit (because you know Mike can/'t get enough Transformers), we interview the other half of the Transformers 1986 Movie Composer list, and that is Vince Dicola. Amazingly enough if you never watched the original Transformers movie, which if you/'re a fan of TWiG you probably already have, you have heard Vinces/' music somewhere, and you just didn/'t realize it! So sit back and enjoy in one of the Composer Interview Series with This Week in Geek.

Check out more about Vince by going to: http://vincedicola.com/vince.html

Enjoy!

Interviewers:/n
Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd

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If you think about it, Forensic Investigators are now cooler than before thanks to a gigantic show called CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Now we are not going with the /"Blast from the Past/" type reviews, this time we are reviewing the new release of CSI Season 3, The Bilingual version.

Now we know what you/'re thinking, wasn/'t Season 3 already released? Well yes, however with DVD quality always evolving, Alliance Films have redone the audio and the video to make it sound better and look cooler than before. Plus if you speak French, it now has the Bilingual Voice Track. So check it out in Stores on October 2nd 2007.

Download and Enjoy!

Reviewers:/n
Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd

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If you enjoy what we do here at TWiG you will love Geek Cred.

Check it out at http://geekcred.net

Check out the episode by going to http://www.geekcred.net/2007/09/15/geek-cred-episode-14-live/

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In time for the release of the first half of the soon to be Classic, Grindhouse, we at This Week in Geek present to you the DVD Review of Quentin Tarantino Grindhouse feature, Death Proof.

Download and enjoy

Reviewers:/n
Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd

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What is the video you ask?

Well, since Mike likes to torture his body to no end, he got the hair brained idea (I/'m not sure if he was drunk at the time) to get a tattoo. This tattoo puts him into the upper echelon of dedication to the world of geekdom. I present to you Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd, proud card carrying member of the ScrewATAT

Special thanks to DJAxis for the tattoo artwork and to screwattack.com for their great web content

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Continuing Part 2 of the original, yes thats right a sequal *groan*

No, seriously this is a good one....Seriously.

TWiG Blog attacks again with Birdman/'s Boombox Episode 002

Download and enjoy.

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Continuing our Geek Gamers expansion into all Current Gen Consoles we focus on the Portable Platform with the under-appreciated Sony/'s PSP. Today we review the 3D/2D Puzzle game by Sega called Crush.

Check it out.

Reviewers:/n
Steve /"Snowball/" Saylor/n
Pierce /"The Punk/" Derks

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You may want to bring those Parachute Pants out of moth balls for this review. We attempt to rock out to Sony PS2/'s Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80/'s. We will try not to compare the bad 80s hair to this game.

Enjoy.

Reviewers:/n
Steve /"Snowball/" Saylor/n
Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd/n
Pierce /"The Punk/" Derks

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In trying to come up with an intro for this great entry into the TWiG Interview Archives, there are no words that can do justice to how hawesome this interview is. I know, I know we say that a lot here, but when you/'re a geek and you get a chance to talk to your heroes there is nothing that can compare to who we/'ve talked to. Which brings me to today/'s guest.

Today we speak to the most famed authoress in geekdom, author of the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series, Laurell K. Hamilton. Listen to this most hawesome interview again if you dare!!!!!!! Mwahahahah

Yeah I know, we rule.

Interviewers:/n
Steve /"Snowball/" Saylor/n
Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd/n
Ashlee /"Geek Accessory/" Kivell

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Starting off the first of Reviews for the Masters of Horror DVD series, TWiG presents to you the DVD reviews for /"I Scream for Ice Cream/" and /"Valerie on the Stairs/"

Download....if you DARE!!! Mwhahahaha

Reviewers:/n
Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd/n
Pierce /"The Punk/" Derks

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Did you ever play Brain Age on the Nintendo DS? Want to play it on the Wii? Well that/'s where Big Brain Academy: Wii Academy comes in. Download and listen to our Geek Gamers Review

Reviewers:/n
Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd/n
Pierce /"The Punk/" Derks/n
Ashlee /"Geek Accessory/" Kivell

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Finishing off our whirlwind Toronto weekend, TWiG went to Toronto Fan Expo 2007 where Sci-Fi, Comic Books, Horror, Anime, and Gaming combines. We got to talk to some awesome people, so download, enjoy and wish that you were there at Fan Expo. Remember, there is always next year.

Guests include:/n
Daniel Logan - Young Boba Fett in Star Wars Prequels/n
Sean Shemmel - Goku from DragonballZ/n
Kim Poirier - Star of Dawn of the Dead, Decoys and Decoys 2, and former host of Hypaspace on the Space Channel/n
Veronica Taylor - Ash from Pokemon/n
Casey McKinnon & Rudy Jahchan - Stars of Galacticast.com/n
Brenna Pierson - G4TechTV/'s Wired Road Trip Tech Junkie/n
Teumuera Morrison - Jango Fett/Stormtrooper Clones in Star Wars Prequels

Interviewers:/n
Steve /"Snowball/" Saylor/n
Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd/n
Pierce /"The Punk/" Derks

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In a whirlwind explosion of content that TWiG has been able to produce over the past six months, nothing can compare to the day that we just had. We at TWiG got invited to X/'07 Microsoft Games Press Conference in Toronto Ontario Canada to see what cool games are coming out on the Xbox 360 and Windows Vista Platforms! We get to talk to developers for Halo 3, Guitar Hero 3, Tony Hawk/'s Proving Ground, Lost Odyssey, and the XNA Developers platform.

This is amazing coverage that you can only find at This Week in Geek!

Enjoy!

Crew:/n
Steve /"Snowball/" Saylor/n
Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd/n
Pierce /"The Punk/" Derks/n
Brandon /"MacGyver/" Chambers

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If you grew up in the 1980/'s like we did watching Canadian Television, there is one geek that has stood the test of time that taught young geeks everywhere. Yes, today we talk to Prisoners of Gravity, History Bites, and The Red Green Show Co-creator/Comedian Writer Rick Green!

It was an awesome pleasure to speak to Commander Rick himself, and if you ever picture what TWiG would/'ve been if we were on TV in the 80/'s Rick Green/'s projects were it.

Make sure to pick up the History Bites First Collection DVD at amazon.ca

Download, and enjoy!

Interviewers:/n
Steve /"Snowball/" Saylor/n
Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd/n
Ashlee /"Geek Accessory/" Kivell/n
and introducing Rachelle Shelky

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In another installment of Game Reviews, or as we now call it, Geek Gamers, we head to the Xbox 360 and review Square Enix/' Project Sylpheed.

To discuss this episode, head to our TWiG Forums at http://thisweekingeek.net/forums

Reviewers:/n
Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd/n
Pierce /"The Punk/" Derks/n
Ashlee /"Geek Accessory/" Kivell

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In another TWiG Reviews, we take a look at Anchor Bay Entertainment/'s DVD release of Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction - Season 1. Check it out when it/'s released on August 28th, 2007

Discuss this DVD review by going to our TWiG Forums at http://thisweekingeek.net/forums

Reviewers:/n
Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd

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In another awesome entry to our interview series, we bring you the multi-talented Tiffany Grant. You may know her in many Anime Productions such as Neon Genesis Evangelion/'s Asuka Langley Soryhu and her many, many voice over work at ADV Films at http://advfilms.com

Check this interview out, it/'s an awesome one if you are thinking of getting into Voice Over Work, such as our very own Snowball.

Interviewers:/n
Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd/n
Pierce /"The Punk/" Derks

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Continuing our great effort to bring you in depth reviews for games YOU want to play or stay away from, we bring you the great launch title for the Nintendo Wii, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Interviewers:/n
Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd/n
Pierce /"The Punk/" Derks/n
and introducing Ashlee Kivell

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Continuing our growing friendship with ScrewAttack.com/'s creators and community, we bring you the inside story of Handsome Tom and Perfect Liz and including a special guest. It/'s different than who you would think.

For more info about Screw Attack check out their great videos at http://screwattack.com

Download enjoy and watch out for the Screw Attack......that sounded dirtier than I thought..........Oh Well! LOL

Interviewers:/n
Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd/n
Pierce /"The Punk/" Derks

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In another one of our bite size hawesome Movie Review, we review Alliance Atlantis/' Hot Fuzz. From the makers of Shaun of the Dead, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, we take a look at the DVD itself reviewing the film and what the DVD has to offer to us geeks.

Check out the DVD now in stores.

Reviewers:/n
Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd

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Seems we keep pushing new content like there is no tomorrow! Well this time Steve /"Snowball/" Saylor introduces his own Steve Saylor/'s Writecast.

A Writecast is a podcast showcasing Short Audio Stories that are usually written and performed by the author.

Today/'s Short Story:/n
The Godson Part 010 - Written and Performed by Steve Saylor

If you would like to provide feedback on this Writecast call our Voicemail line at (206)339-3234 or email us at feedback@thisweekingeek.net

Download and Enjoy!

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In another TWiG Reviews, we review Transformer/'s Musician and Composer Stan Bush/'s latest album, /"In This Life/"

To learn more about Stan and to buy his music go to http://stanbush.com for more details. Tell him TWiG sent ya.

Also if you would like to hear our interview with Stan, go to http://thisweekingeek.net/node/56

Music Heard in this episode:/n
Stan Bush - I/'ll Never Fall

Reviewers:/n
Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd

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Bringing back the cool to the Classic Rock, here is According to Snowball - Rockin/' Remix Mix Tape Edition. In this episode Snowball updates you on TWiG and the Super Secret Writing Project as well as share some really hawesome, rockin/' remixes!

You can find more about Steve /"Snowball/" Saylor by going to http://stevesaylor.vox.com

This episode is in Enhanced AAC Format.

According to Snowball - 002

Intro/n
Wax Audio - Whole Lotta Sabbath (Led Zeppelin vs. Black Sabbath)/n
Hello World/n
- Another According to Snowball brought to you by This Week in Geek and http://stevesaylor.vox.com/n
- We have a voicemail line! Woot! Send us feedback/questions/ comments by calling (206)339-3234/n
- Double D voicemail/n
- What I/'m talking about today/n
- It/'s the Rockin Remix Mix Tape Episode/n
- Super Secret Writing Project/n
Phuegoo - Sympathy for the Warhols (The Rolling Stones vs. Dandy Warhols)/n
DJ Reno - Too Fat to Dance/n
Super Secret Writing Project/n
- Update/n
- Voice Overs + Word Count/Page/Chapters - Writecasts/n
- More updates coming soon!/n
Jammi Jammes - Sgt. Pepper/'s Paradise (The Beatles vs. Guns /'N Roses)/n
The End!

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Continuing on in our effort to take over the world, TWiG brings you another TWiG Blog. But this time it/'s from our very own Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd with /"Birdman/'s Boombox/" which is part of his own personal blog at http://birdmanofsteel.vox.com

This episode Birdman digs into the mix tape of Video Game Remixes.

Download, Enjoy and go play something.

To all are one!

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In another one of our great interviews here at TWiG we got to speak to Stuttering Craig from http://screwattack.com. Today we discuss the current state of E3 and gaming, and the history of Screw Attack

So download and enjoy! And for the best in funny great gaming videos head to http://screwattack.com!

Interviewers:/n
Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd/n
Pierce /"The Punk/" Derks

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In another great TWiG Game Review we stick again with the Nintendo Wii with Wario Ware Smooth Moves

Reviewers:/n
Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd/n
Pierce /"The Punk/" Derks/n
Brandon /"MacGyver/" Chambers

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Today we bring you another TWiG Game Review with Nintendo Wii/'s Launch Title Excite Truck. Enjoy!

Reviewers:/n
Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd/n
Pierce /"The Punk/" Derks/n
Brandon /"MacGyver/" Chambers

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In all honesty, one of the absolute best interviews we at TWiG have had ever! Showcasing the creepy and fascinating world of Ghost Investigating Snowball and Birdman speaks with Beth Goulden a professional Ghost Investigator!

Make sure you pay attention to this interview, because we provide you with actual recorded evidence of Ghostly EVP! It is extremely creepy!

Listen and enjoy! Mwwwahhahhahhahhahahah! .... Sorry

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Today we start another new feature to our Geek repertoire(How/'s that for fancy words), we introduce TWiG Game Reviews. In this short inaugrial episode we review Activision/'s Transformers: The Game for the PS3, the Xbox 360, and the Nintendo Wii.

Today/'s Reviewers/n
Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd/n
Pierce /"The Punk/" Derks

Special thanks again go to Pierce Derks for editing this episode.

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Today we get our ultimate geek on by talking to playwright Dave Roberts and actor Devin Upham from the geekiest play this side of the galaxy, GeekGasm. GeekGasm is premiering at the Fringe Festival in Toronto, Ontario Canada. Listen, enjoy and please support this play by going to see it.

/"Star Wars vs. Star Trek. Marvel vs. DC. Furries vs. Everyone. Critical Fumble Productions explores these weighty philosophical divisions and others in Geek-Gasm, a comedy about life, love and embracing your inner geek. Level-up and geek-out with our heroes and vixens at the biggest Convention of the year. We guarantee you will find your ‘G’ spot.

Come see the worldwide premier of Geek-Gasm, a comedic play for Geeks, by Geeks and about Geeks/"

There are three days left to see it! The last dates are:/n
Friday July 13th, 12:30 PM/n
Saturday July 14th, 11:00 PM/n
Sunday July 15th, 4:30 PM

GeekGasm Myspace: - http://myspace.com/critical_fumble

Venue: Venue: George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire Place (Bloor/St. George) - http://www.toronto.com/arts/listing/100273

Tickets are 10$ and can be purchased at the door or by calling the Fringe Hotline: (416) 966-1062.

Special Thanks to Pierce Derks for filling in for co-host Steve /"Snowball/" Saylor who was unfortunately under the weather

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This episode is more than meets the eye my friends. This episode we review the Michael Bay Directed film, /"Transformers/". We HIGHLY RECOMMEND watching the movie before listening to this review due to Spoilers.

Reviewers:/n
Steve /"Snowball/" Saylor/n
Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd/n
Pierce Derks/n
Brandon /"MacGyver/" Chambers

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Today we have the honour and pleasure once again to speak with another composer/musician, and this week we speak with Stan Bush. Stan is the composer behind such Transformer classics as /"The Touch/" and /"The Dare/". So listen, enjoy, and make sure to head to http://stanbush.com to buy Stan/'s newest album /"In This Life/" on sale now!

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Introducing a brand new type of content for This Week in Geek is our very own personal audio blogs. Starting off first is Steve /"Snowball/" Saylor with /"According to Snowball/" which is part of his own personal blog at http://stevesaylor.vox.com

This Episode is in enhanced AAC format.

Shownotes:

According to Snowball - 001

Intro/n
Brother Love - Summertime/n
Hello World/n
- Brand new content for TWiG - Personal Audio Blogs - Provided by Vox.com/n
- Using Garageband to record, which means m4a format only. Sorry mp3 lovers/n
- So New Mike doesn/'t know about these yet. LOL/n
- What to expect?/n
- Not sure. Pretty much up to what we want to talk about/n
- Also this is your chance for feedback!/n
We have a voicemail line! Woot! Send us feedback/questions/ comments by calling (206)339-3234/n
- What I/'m talking about today/n
- Our TWiG Relay For Life experience/n
- Super Secret Writing Project/n
The Cool Water/'s Band - 2 Car Garage/n
TWiG Relay For Life Experience/n
- The trip up/n
- The actual event - Check out the video blogs at http://thisweekingeek.net/n
- Let/'s make Cancer History/n
American Heartbreak - The Last of the Superheroes/n
Super Secret Writing Project/n
- A bit about the Project/n
- Where the Superhero meets the Supernatural/n
- Status/n
- More updates coming soon!/n
- Music sometimes gives you ideas. Today/'s track/n
Aphrodite/'s Child - The Four Horsemen/n
The End!

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Video length comes in at about 19 minutes, so sorry for the huge file.

Mike and Steve want to thank the Canadian Cancer Society for Allowing us to come up to Cape Croker Ontario to be a part of this wonderful event.

Cancer has hit the lives of millions of people.

Cancer needs to be stopped...NOW!!

With the Help from events like the /"Relay For Life/" Millions are raised for Cancer Research. We urge you to donate to this great cause and to make Cancer History!!!

Please head to http://cancer.ca for ways on how you can donate.

When Life Kicks you...Kick Back!!!

This video is in iPod H.264 m4v format. Quicktime or iTunes is needed to play this video. Go to http://itunes.com or http://quicktime.com to download the applications.

Music:

Ooh La La Summer Nights - Party Ben/n
School of Rock - Jack Black and the School of Rock Band/n
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynrd Skynrd

Singing Live/n
Long May You Run - Dave Nixon/n
I Hope You Dance - Josie Dingler

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This video is in iPod H.264 m4v format. Quicktime or iTunes is needed to play this video. Go to http://itunes.com or http://quicktime.com to download the applications.

Music:

Steppenwolf - Born to be Wild/n
Free - All Right Now/n
The Allman Brothers Band - Ramblin/' Man

Singing Live - Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

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Lower your shields and surrender your listenership like you never have before. The progenitor of our now famous slogan is here with the first of what we hope of many Star Trek DVD Commentaries starting with Star Trek First Contact. Of course WE RECOMMEND watching the movie first then watch along with this track. If you would like to purchase the DVD click on our Amazon.ca link.

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE

Commentators:/n
Steve /"Captain Snowball/" Saylor/n
Mike /"Lieutenant Commander Birdman/" Dodd/n
Brandon /"Lieutenant MacGyver/" Chambers of Punk The Dial

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/"This is our world now. The world of the electron and the switch; the beauty of the baud. We exist without nationality, skin color, or religious bias. You wage wars, murder, cheat, lie to us and try to make us believe it/'s for our own good, yet we/'re the criminals. Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto./"

And with those words, TWiG presents to you our Hackers manifesto in the form of a DVD Commentary. Of course WE RECOMMEND watching the movie first then watch along with this track. If you would like to purchase the DVD click on our Amazon.ca link.

Commentators:/n
Steve /"Snowball/" Saylor/n
Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd/n
Brandon /"MacGyver/" Chambers of Punk The Dial

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We/'re back!!! Yes that/'s right join us as we celebrate our Season 1.5 launch with the biggest TWiG event of the year! Live from MT Bellies in Welland Ontario, the Season 1.5 Party/Charity event for Little Geeks. Find out more about Little Geeks by going to http://littlegeeks.org

Total we raised almost 200 dollars for http://littlegeeks.org That/'s so cool.

We want to thank all our sponsors for providing such awesome prizes for a good cause. But above all we would like to thank MT Bellies for letting us have this event in their restaurant. Without them this event wouldn/'t be possible.

Now with all the amazing prizes we had, we still have one left for one special Internet listener. We have an unlocked Sony Ericcson J300a phone specifically set aside for you! All you have to do to enter the contest is to send an email to feedback@thisweekingeek.net with the Subject line /"GIVE ME A PHONE, DAMNIT/" with your name in the body of the message and you are automatically entered. If you would like to donate to Little Geeks if you dontate by clicking here and copy the PayPal receipt number in the email then you get not only one entry, but two!

You have until 11:59pm June 30th to enter in which we will randomly draw for the phone. So enter, and good luck!

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So Say We All folks. Today we have the honor of presenting to you an exclusive interview with Sci-Fi Channel/'s Battlestar Galactica Composer Bear McCreary. Snowball and Birdman talk with Bear about his career, composing BSG, and the fan favorite Season 3 finale episode ender /"All along the Watchtower/"

So listen, and enjoy.

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Here is Part 2 of our Star Wars 30th Anniversary special which concludes with our coverage of Star Wars Celebration Welland which Mike and Snowball attended.

Special thanks to Rob at http://www.yodascorch.piczo.com/ for putting on this amazing event!

Enjoy!

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Today we celebrate a moment in our geek history. Thirty years ago today, geeks became cool. A 2 hour experience changed the world, and the pop lexicon that we geeks cannot look back in awe and smile. Yes of course, today May 25th 1977, the very first Star Wars hit the big screen and permanently changed the world as we saw it.

In celebration of this 30th Anniversary, we dedicate this Geek Roundtable to the franchise of Star Wars.

May the Force Be With You!

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Of course we can/'t go a 30th Anniversary without going back to the original. Here is the fifth Fan Made DVD Commentary for the movie /"Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope/" as it was originally released back on this day May 25th 1977. Of course WE RECOMMEND watching the movie first then watch along with this track. If you would like to purchase the DVD click on our Amazon.ca link.

Commentators:/n
Steve /"Snowball/" Saylor/n
Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd/n
Shawn /"Shep/" Shepherd/n
and who joined later in the movie.../n
Pierce Derks of Punk the Dial

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Yar Mateys!! This be our fourth Fan DVD Commentary for the movie /"Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl/" in celebration of Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At Worlds End. WE RECOMMEND watching the movie first then watch along with this track. If you would like to purchase the DVD click on our Amazon.ca link.

Commentators:/n
Steve /"Snowball/" Saylor/n
Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd/n
Pierce Derks of Punk the Dial/n
Shawn /"Shep/" Shepherd

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After a 3 week hiatus, we are back with another Geek Roundtable! This week we catch up with each other on what we have been doing for the past few weeks, as well as an update with our TWiG Season 1.5 Charity Event. And we talk about what we thought about Spiderman 3!

WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND WATCHING SPIDERMAN 3 FIRST BEFORE LISTENING TO THE FULL EPISODE. THERE ARE A FEW SPOILERS.

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Come one, come all to our very first Party and Charity Event! That/'s right Season 1.5 is about to begin, and we need your help to celebrate!

What is also cool about this event is that it is also a Charity Event! All proceeds of this day/'s events will go to the Little Geeks Foundation. A great organization run by TWiG friend Andy Walker, which provides computers to underprivleged children. Find more information at http://littlegeeks.org

Details are listed below! Head over to http://thisweekingeek.net for all Party details!

Hope to see you there!

WHEN? - Saturday June 9th, @ 1-4pm

WHERE? - MT Bellies in Welland Ontario/n
871 Niagara Street/n
Welland, Ontario/n
Website: http://www.bigfoodbigfun.com/

Free Wi-Fi available

SPECIAL FEATURES

- Charity - All proceeds of this day/'s events will go to the Little Geeks Foundation. A great organization run by TWiG friend Andy Walker, which provides computers to underprivleged children. Find more information at http://littlegeeks.org

- Prizes and Giveaways - More details coming soon!

- Live Online Show - For those who can/'t make it to Welland, we will be streaming a live show on Talkshoe at http://talkshoe.com More details coming soon.

- Music - Our good friend Pierce Derks from Punk The Dial is joining us to bring the punk, or funk, or whatever he brings. All I know is he knows how to rock the house, yo!

That/'s all we have for now, stay tuned to this page for more details coming up!

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Here it is another Geek Roundtable folks! This time Steve /"Snowball/" Saylor and Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd discuss all the really bad Video Game and Comic Book movies that we/'ve seen in the past. Why have they forsaken us? Well listen and find out.

We couldn/'t do it alone however, with the help of Pierce Derks from Punk The Dial and Kevin MacDonald from 98.1 The Beach in Port Elgin, we can finally tackle this issue dead on!

Enjoy!

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Here it is folks, the last episode of the season in our little fishbowl at Niagara College for this term. Don/'t worry though, TWiG is going to continue in the summer with Season 1.5, but we are going to take 2 weeks off for exams and working on our revamp for Season 1.5 including live Internet Streaming episodes!

Today/'s Episode we go to a galaxy far far away and take on the Dark Lords of the Sith as Jedi Knight/'s Stevo Kenobi Saylor and Mikian Geekwalker Dodd teach you the ways of the Force.

Impressive this episode is!

Shownotes are at: http:/del.icio.us/thisweekingeek/TWiG011

Here is our second part to our Pure Pwnage Premiere coverage. This time we talk to some fans of PP and what they like about the show, as well as a special interview and message from teh_masterer and Anastasia!

teh_masterer thinks we/'re cool ;)

LOL

Here is our special interview with husband and wife super team, Cali Lewis and Neal Campbell of GeekBrief.tv! We talk about the show, how they started, and including a special exclusive for TWiG only where they launch a cool new service called DearCali.com! Uber awesome!

So download, enjoy, and head over to geekbrief.tv for this awesome podcast!

It/'s a little bit late, but just in time. Here is our Binary episode 010. This episode takes terrorists by the balls with Bauer Power. Jack Bauer that is. The following takes place between the time you start this episode to an hour later. 59:46 to be exact. Yes that/'s right 24 is here on TWiG

Shownotes can be found at http://del.icio.us/thisweekingeek/TWiG010

Sorry for the slight delay in posting TWiG-Episode010, but we are having so much fun here in Toronto. Mainly because we are here to see a screening of Pure Pwnage from purepwnage.com. Mike and I had the opportunity to interview Geoff Lapaire /"Kyle/" and Jarret Cale /"Jeremy/" at the Pure Pwnage studios which we now bring to you!

Don/'t we pwn?

Yes, yes we do.

The Official James Bond episode is here. Yeah I know it/'s not our 007 episode, but hey at least we at least tried. So download, enjoy, and please excuse the awkward moments from the random, unexpected, non-airable phone calls.

For shownotes go to http://del.icio.us/thisweekingeek/TWiG009

A tad bit delayed, but we bring you a new piece of content for your grubby little ears, our Geek Roundtable! This first episode of our Geek Roundtable the Geeks go against the Punks where we talk about the biggest war in geekdom, The Console Wars!! Download and enjoy

Geek Roundtable Panelists:/n
Steve /"Snowball/" Saylor/n
Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd/n
Pierce Derks - Punk the Dial/n
Brandon Chambers - Punk the Dial

Well it/'s the biggest rumble of all time. Which is better Marvel or DC Comics. Well this week we take the behomith hulk of a battle between the top comic companies and seek justice as this civil war ensues! I bring you episode 008 of TWiG!

Shownotes can be found out: http://del.icio.us/thisweekingeek/TWiG008

I can assure you we don/'t have a license to kill, but we do have something in common with that guy who likes to say his last name first then say his full name, this is Episode double /"O/" seven. And as we ride our Astin Martins to fight off Goldfinger with Iron Jaws, here is This Week in Geek 007. Name is Geek, This Week in Geek.

Shownotes are at http://del.icio.us/thisweekingeek/TWiG007

This is our third Fan DVD Commentary for the movie /"Flight of the Navigator/" WE RECOMMEND watching the movie first then watch along with this track. If you would like to purchase the DVD go to http://thisweekingeek.net and click on our Amazon.ca link.

Commentators:/n
Steve /"Snowball/" Saylor/n
Mike /"The Birdman/" Dodd/n
Pierce Derks & Brandon Chambers of Punk the Dial/n
Lesley Smith/n
Blaire Henry

/"Flight of the Navigator/"

Director: Randal Kleiser

Cast:/n
Joey Cramer as David Scott Freeman/n
Paul Reubens as Trimaxion/Max (voice) (as Paul Mall)/n
Veronica Cartwright as Helen Freeman/n
Cliff De Young as Bill Freeman/n
Sarah Jessica Parker as Carolyn McAdams/n
Matt Adler as Jeff Freeman, 16 Years/n
Howard Hesseman as Dr. Faraday

Crew:

Randal Kleiser - Director

Mark H. Baker - Writer /n
Michael Burton - Writer /n
Matt MacManus - Writer/n
Mark Damon - Producer/n
Malcolm R. Handing - Producer/n
John W. Hyde - Producer/n
Alan Silvestri - Composer

As Bill Shatner keeps milking his Cap/'n Kirk fame /'til it/'s run dry we are attempting to do the same with this episode. But, as you know we have. better. content. then. /"every. word. is. its. own. sentence. Shatner./" So with that in mind we present TWiG-Episode 006

Shownotes are at http://del.icio.us/thisweekingeek/TWiG006

This is our second Fan DVD Commentary for the movie /"Back To the Future: Part I/" WE RECOMMEND watching the movie first then watch along with this track. If you would like to purchase the DVD go to http://thisweekingeek.net and click on our Amazon.ca link.

Commentators: /n
Steve /"Snowball/" Saylor /n
Mike/" The Birdman/" Dodd /n
Lesley /"TWiG Groupie/" Smith

/"Back to the Future: Part One/"

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Cast:/n
Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly/n
Christopher Lloyd as Doc Emmett Brown/n
Crispin Glover as George McFly/n
Lea Thompson as Lorraine Baines McFly/n
Thomas F. Wilson as Biff Tannen

Crew:

Robert Zemeckis - Director

Bob Gale - Writer/Producer/n
Frank Marshall - Producer (executive producer)/n
Harry Keramidas - Editor/n
Alan Silvestri - Composer/n
Lawrence G. Paull - Production Designer/n
Robert Zemeckis - Writer (Written by)/n
Neil Canton - Producer (producer)/n
Kathleen Kennedy - Producer (executive producer)/n
Steven Spielberg - Producer (executive producer)

Yes it is time folks for another installment of This Week in Geek. This week we cover the wonderful world of Saturday Morning cartoons! So sit back relax, grab a bowl of Cap/'n Crunch cereal, don/'t wake the parents up, and listen in to TWiG Episode 5, and as Porky Pig once said, That/'s all folks!

Shownotes can be found at http://del.icio.us/thisweekingeek/TWiG005

This is our first foray into videos. Plus it/'s also our entry into the Network2.tv contest on /"How to watch Internet TV/"

Hope you enjoy!

This is our very first Fan DVD Commentary for the movie "Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut" WE RECOMMEND watching the movie first then watch along with this track. If you would like to purchase the DVD go to http://thisweekingeek.net and click on our Amazon.ca link.

Commentators:

Steve "Snowball" Saylor

Mike" The Birdman" Dodd

Brandon "MacGyver" Chambers

Superman II: Richard Donner Cut

Director: Richard Donner

Cast:

Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor

Marlon Brando as Jor-El

Christopher Reeve as Clark Kent/Kal-El/Superman

Margot Kidder as Lois Lane

Terence Stamp as General Zod

Sarah Douglas as Ursa

Jack O'Halloran as Non

Jackie Cooper as Perry White

Marc McClure as Jimmy Olsen

Ned Beatty as Otis

Valerie Perrine as Eve Teschmacher

Crew:

Richard Donner - Director

Michael Thau - Producer/Editor of "The Richard Donner Cut"

Mario Puzo - Writer (Screenplay)

Leslie Newman - Writer (Screenplay)

Derek Hoffman - Producer (co-producer)

Pierre Spengler - Producer (producer)

Stuart Baird - Editor

John Victor-Smith - Editor

Mario Puzo - Writer (Story)

David Newman - Writer (Screenplay)

Tom Mankiewicz - Writer

Ilya Salkind - Producer (executive producer)

Well we are back in our regluarly scheduled program and we bring you the lost Geek Love episode. We talk about our recap of Podcamp Toronto 2007, plus all your geek news, and other great stuff!

Shownotes at http://del.icio.us/thisweekingeek/TWiG004

Special thanks to Chris Brogan - http://chrisbrogan.com and Christopher Penn of the Financial Aid Podcast - http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/ for all their Podcamp and Podcasting knowledge.

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Wow what a weekend it has been! Mike and I were having so much fun this weekend that we really couldn't sleep without having to record a special episode with a few special guests!

Guests include:

Brent Morris - The Closet Geek Show - http://closetgeekshow.com

Al "DocWu" Gritzmacker - Buffalo Live! Music Podcast - http://wnypodcast.com

Tara Thompson - Uncle Seth - http://musicface.com/uncleseth

Charlotte Ann - Blogger/"Podcast Virgin" - http://www.charlotteann.wordpress.com/

In this episode we talk about PodCamp and Podcasting in general

Hope you enjoy the episode!

For all shownotes see http://del.icio.us/thisweekingeek/TWiG003

Here are the shownotes for this week's episode

THIS WEEK IN GEEK
Episode two

Show Notes

This Week in Geek News:

Wall-Mart launches video download service – In Beta

Wal-Mart will have about three thousand films and television episodes available for download, with movies going for $12.88 to $19.88 and TV shows for $1.96 per episode -- a whopping 4 cents cheaper than Apple's price. New releases will be available the same day they come out on DVD. Older movies will sell for $7.50, compared with Apple's $9.99.

Need Windows XP or Vista and Internet Explorer to download videos

You can backup a video up to three times, but you can only burn it to DVD as a data disc, which will not play in a DVD player.

Make your own Optimus Prime

Paper Robots has created its greatest achievement: Optimus Prime. This site gives downloadable instructions on how to cut-out and shape your very own Transformer

You just need a color printer, an exacto knife, tape, and the ability to fold paper.

Fox issues cease-and-desist order to Swiss Family Guy Robinson

- Brian Froud's theater show Swiss Family Guy Robinson. one-man act is essentially a staged mash-up of the original Swiss Family Robinson but with Family Guy characters

- Froud's show was a hit at Toronto's Fringe Festival, but his chances of ever staging the show again are slim to none. Fox has slapped Froud with a cease-and-desist order for unauthorized use of Family Guy characters.

Super Bowl commercials list:

TV Squad has a list of all Super Bowl commercials

My favourite the GoDaddy Marketing commercial. Internet celebs Cali Lewis of GeekBriefTV and Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose of Diggnation were in the commercial

Star Trek Enterprise on iTunes

First Season up

Episodes cost 1.99 and Season box set is 48.99

Cheaper box set than through other retailers

Apple Corp and Apple Inc settle differences

After more than a decade of fighting over Apple's use of the name in selling music-related products, as well as music itself with the iTunes Store, the two companies are calling it a day.

Quote from Press Release – "Under this new agreement, Apple Inc. will own all of the trademarks related to "Apple" and will license certain of those trademarks back to Apple Corps for their continued use."

In other words: it seems as though Apple Inc. has won the trademarks, but we don't really know how or why.

Indiana Jones 4 releases on May 22 2008

Movie will be released one day before Speed Racer by the Wachowski brothers the official followup to the Matrix (unofficial was V for Vendetta)

It will already be hard enough for Speed Racer to attract the audiences away from HYPERLINK "http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371746/" Iron Man which Jeff Bridges has also been cast as a “mystery man” along with Robert Downery Jr. Terrence Howard and Gwenyth Paltrow(I'm looking forward to this and I never even read the comic) and the second picture in the Narnia franchise, which will open May 2 and May 16, respectively.

Outsourcing World of Warcraft skills

According to an estimate from a company called Power-levels.com, it would take someone starting from scratch 768 hours to reach the highest level you can hit in World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade.

To level from level 1 to 70 costs $556. The jump from level 60 to 70: $239.

It’s against terms of service but site is still up and running

TOPIC: The evolution and history of the ROLE PLAYING GAME

Dungeons and Dragons

Created in 1974 by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson

Originally developed from a game called “Chainmail”

Split into two version into Advanced D&D in 77

Evolved into D&D 3rd edition in 2000 when Wizards of the coast bought TSR

Made up 50% of all RPG products sold on 2002

Greyhawk-default game setting and created by Gyrax

Forgotten Realms- characters drizzt (Night elf guy with two swords)

Ravenloft- Gothic horror setting

Spelljammer- Outer space fantasy (Steampunk)

Vampire:The Masquerade

White Wolf studios

Had a short lived Tv series based on the game called : Kindred:the Embraced

2004 was rebooted into Vampire:The Requiem

Many companion games like Mage:The Acension, Hunter:The Reckoning,

Werewolf:The Forsaken,

Very active LARP community

Shadowrun

Developed and published by FASA from 1989 to 2001

Sold to Wizkids and Fan Pro publishes the game now

In 4th Edition

Most successful cyberpunk RPG

Game mechanics based on six sided dice

Various video games published

Fanfilms based on the game usually made in germany

Battletech/Mechwarrior

Designed by FASA in 1984

Based on a board game/war game

Militay space opera

Orginally called “battledroids”

Lucasfilm had the name changed as they hold a license on the name “Droids”

Had an animated TV show based on the propetty with 3d CGI graphics

Various video game properties developed

Rifts

Meant to be mulit use with various other products produced

Game has universal game mechanics and characters,etc

Not unusual for a wizard to be fighting aliens or robots in a game

Game world is EARTh hundreds of years in the future

Potential psychic energry is very important to the game

Various Wormholes or rifts opened up on Earth after a huge war and let all sorts of weird things in

Call of Cthulhu

Published by Chaosism

Has had 7 editions published

Currently celebrating 25 years as an Rpg

Based on the world of Hp Lovecraft

Has had a Wizards of the coast version which uses the D20 core rule system

Is possible with the D20 rules to cross CoC with D&D

Has alternative settings by different publishers, Delta Green being the most popular with the X files setting

Players do not necessary win, more like how much of their sanity is left when the character is done

Very much in tone and theme with Lovecraft’s atmosphere

Video Game RPGs

First RPG was Dungeon back in 1975 using Unix PDP-10 computers

The early Video Game RPG’s were all text based. Which some people thought were better than today’s RPG’s because of use of the imagination and bringing the same feeling you get when playing the tabletop games

Most popular modern RPG’s

Final Fantasy

Made by Square Enix

As of Winter 2006, twelve games have been released as part of the main (numbered) series

First installment was December 18 1987 in Japan

Final Fantasy is Square Enix's most successful franchise, and the third biggest selling video game franchise of all time, having sold over 68 million units worldwide as of May 2006 behind Mario and Pokemon series

Most popular of the series was Final Fantasy VII due to it’s being released on the Sony Playstation instead of Nintendo’s 64. Which because of the growth of the Sony Playstation brand many gamers got into Final Fantasy because of Final Fantasy VII

Other notable RPG’s

Diablo II

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic

Neverwinter Nights

Baulder’s Gate

Dungeon Siege

Elder Scrolls

Warcraft

MMORPGs

Where many believe that the RPG universe is heading into the future because of it’s connection with other people throughout the world

What MMORPG we got into? - Matrix Online

Made by Monolith Productions

Incorporates the Matrix universe after Matrix Revolutions

Story originally created by Larry and Andy Wachowski which was supposed to be Canon to the Matrix universe

Game now owned by Sony

Not exactly doing as well as people hoped, subscriptions have since gone down.

Other popular MMORPG’s

Everquest – The original most addictive MMORPG

Sometimes known as “EverCrack” due to its addictive gameplay

Most controversial case of Shawn Woolley who committed suicide at the age of 21 on November 2001

Star Wars Galaxies

City of Heroes/City of Villains – Players who continue to play this game still love it due to it’s Superhero premise.

Also with it’s unique combination of two games where actual player heroes can take on Player villains is what attracts people to this game.

Guild Wars – The very first free MMORPG after purchasing the game. No monthly fees.

Made by the same people who made City of Heroes – Cryptic Studios

Dungeons and Dragons – Wizards of the Coast and Turbine

Not that bad

Most popular MMORPG – World of Warcraft

Made by Blizzard Entertainment

Most commercial success of any RPGs based on active subscriptions

Was released on the 10th anniversary of the Warcraft Franchise

On January 11, 2007, Blizzard announced that the subscriber base for World of Warcraft has reached a new milestone, with 8 million players worldwide; there are more than 2 million players in North America, 1.5 million players in Europe, and 3.5 million players in China.

Combines a lot of similarities to Dungeons and Dragons

Well known for its simple and fun gameplay

Expansion Burning Crusade

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This Week in Geek - Episode 001 - Shownotes

Hosts: Mike "The Birdman" Dodd, Steve "Snowball" Saylor

This Weeks News:

Vista Launches with a "meh" - Need we say more?

Hum search tool

Mobile Phone tech to allow cell phones to analyze a hum and find what tune it actually is It's like Myspace and allows users to submit songs that they have sung or match performances with others for comparison

Uses MARS search tool which analyzes the human voice and looks for recognizable patterns

Britney Spears on Doctor WHO as a sex crazed villain

Weird idea and the producer wants the BBC to move the show to LA for an episode

Previous shows have included Simon Pegg as a villainous TV producer

Could happen but who knows, her image needs a lot ot touch up after recent party binges and questionable photos

Doctor Who Animated

Buffy vet, Anthony Head aka Giles will be the bad guy

Takes places during the current continuity in the third season

Looking for a spaceship called “The Infinite”

Colbert Day in Oshawa

A potential date of March 20th for The day

Saginaw beat the Oshawa Generals by 5-4 over the weekend

John gray, Mayor of Oshawa issues challenges to wear jersey for whole ep or have a day named him

Console wars, PS3 losing

Lost almost half a billion dollars in sales

Sony says poor pricing and selling at a loss contributed to loss

Nintendo wii out sold PS3 during the Christmas almost 2 to 1

No good launch titles

British cops PSP

Lazy cops playing Soccer on their PSP while guarding a Dangerous wall of collapse

NERDS the musical:

Story of Bill gates and Steve Jobs

Mircosoft and Apple computers

Songs include “think different” and “let’s merge”

Writers are from Robot Chicken

www.nerdsthemusical.com

Obi wan Cloak on Bidding Block - 100,000 starting bid

Titanic, Indiana Jones and Evita costumes on sale as well Similar Star Wars orginal props have sold for millions and hundreds of thousands of dollars

This Week's Topic:

UPCOMING COMIC BOOK movies

Ghost Rider - Marvel

Nicholas Cage

Eva Mendes

David Goyer writer (Batman begins)

Sells soul in order to be a bounty hunter for the devil and fight the villain Blackheart

Release in feb

Pushed back by several years due to script and cast changes

Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles

First movie in 14 years

March 27th release

First completely CG animated movie for the turtles

Turtles have drifted apart as a family and must reunite for newest threat which is an alien warlord

Spiderman 3

May 4th release

Venom (Topher Grace) Thomas Hayden Church (Sandman) and James Franco (Green Goblin)

Tobey Mcguire’s potential last movie due to contract

Has expressed potential interest in returning if Rami does

David keopp has signed on to write a 4th spiderman film

300

Frank Miller aka mr Sin City and Robocop

Battle of ancient greek Spartans vs an entire army

Director by Zack Synder (Dawn of the Dead 2004)

March 7

Transformers

July 4th

Dreamworks

Michael Bay directing, exec Spielberg

Peter Cullen Confirmed as voice of Optimus Prime

Frank Welker heavily favored for Megatron

Autobots

Bumblebee

Jazz

Rachet

Ironhide

Decepticons

Megatron

Starscream

Brawl

Barricade

Bonecrusher

Blackout

Frenzy

Scorponok

Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer

June 15

Same cast as before

Villian seems to be Silver Surfer and Galactus

Simpsons Movie

July 27th

Same animation as show

Story appears to be Springfield is cut off from rest of world by nuclear accident

Resident Evil: Extinction

September 21st

Continues where Apocalpyse left off

Claire Redfield added as a character

Final installment

NO FOURTH

30 days of night

vampires take over alasken town when the sun goes away for 30 days

Based on IDW comic

Josh Harnett stars

Aliens VS Predator 2

Survival of the fittest

December 21st