Wow, Newsweek has published an incredible gallery featuring rare photos of early Star Trek conventions in the 1970s!

I love the old school look and feel of these events, and the costumes are awesome! The original Star Trek fans successfully fought to save their show. They kept Trek alive, and they started the entire fan convention phenomena. Geeks around the world owe a lot to these passionate fans. Truly amazing and wonderful people!

[via Newsweek]

Thanks to Bonniegrrl for the tip!

I’m not sure how I missed this, but back in March, Dvice.com ran a Steampunk Cylon contest. The entries are incredible.

What cool idea. I love the detail that went into the designs. It just goes to show that everything is better with steampunk!

View the whole gallery at Dvice.com.

To celebrate the new Star Trek movie, MSNBC has posted a fun gallery of fan-submitted Star Trek costumes! It looks like a mix of homemade, commercial and Star Trek Experience costumes.

These are really great. I bet movie theaters will be full of fans dressed in Star Trek costumes this weekend, it will be a total blast!

[via MSNBC]

A Firefly Archive has been recently put online. Very, very cool! It includes actual props and costumes that were used in the filming of the 2002 TV series, Firefly.

The owner of the site is a rabid collector and it’s really nice that he put his collection online for fans. He has Mal’s original browncoat, along with lots of weapons and set props - many are actual antiques from the early 1900’s.

Check it out at the Firefly Archive!

 
Never seen Firefly before? You’re really missing out! The entire series is available on Hulu.com for free!

I have a Twilight sweater that’s too small for me…but I wear it anyway. I just can’t bring myself to part with it. I guess you could say I’m a sucker for most things “Twilight.” But I do have limits…I’m not going to wear an Edward and Bella Band-Aid, for example.

With all the available Twilight paraphernalia out there, I’m like a kid in a candy store…speaking of which, did you know you can now dazzle your mouth with Twilight candy? (I wonder what “Dazzle” tastes like?)

Sweethearts Conversation Hearts has created “Forbidden Fruit,” Twilight candy that sparkles. The hearts include messages like: Bite Me, Soul Mate, Bad Guy, Always, U R My Life, I Trust You, Lamb, Dazzle and Live 4 Ever. You can buy Twilight Sweethearts Conversation Hearts on Amazon and I’ve heard, at your local FYE.

Right now I’m just curious about that mysterious little message on the box that reads “secret scent rub to reveal.” I gotta go check that out.

[via Io9 and Amazon]

I found a couple lists of terrible costumes from the 1970’s and ’80s. You’ll probably have to be 35+ years old to remember these characters. Apparently you can still find this stuff on Ebay.

The list was started by retroCRUSH, and KinderTrauma followed with a list of their own. Check out their websites, they are hilarious!

Fantasy Island Costume

 

Mash Babies Costume

 

Gong Show Costume

 

One Day at a Time Costume

Those are downright creepy!

On the web: retroCRUSH | KinderTrauma

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has converted the world’s largest collection of historical clothing and accessories, The Costume Institute, into a searchable database which is now available to view online.

This project begin back in 2000, and for eight years they’ve worked on formatting and digitizing their 31,000-piece collection. Amazing!

Harold Koda, the museum curator, reports, “Once we got the information together, we thought it would be ideal if the general public could log in and, for instance, find all of our Christian Diors.”

Wow, a person could spend countless hours on their website, and still not see everything. It’s so great that the museum is digitizing and preserving this information for countless generations to come.

Disney knows a good thing when they see it. So they came up with their own line of Disney / Muppets Star Wars action figures.

The Disney action figures will be sold individually for $9.95, and include Mickey Mouse as Anakin, Minnie Mouse as Amidala, Goofy as Jar Jar, Donald Duck as Darth Maul, and Stitch as Yoda, available for sale inside Disney Theme Park gift shops.

Muppets Star Wars figures will be packaged separately or in a boxed set. Characters include Kermit as Luke Skywalker, Miss Piggy as Princess Leia, Beaker as C3PO, Fozzie as Chewbacca, Rizzo as Yoda, and Gonzo as Darth Vader. These figures are also for sale sale inside Disney Theme Park gift shops.

Just when you thought you were done collecting action figures…

Wonder Woman — an American icon. She symbolizes strength, beauty, justice, patriotism… I could go on and on.

Through the years, many have worn a Wonder Woman costume. Admittedly, not everyone looks great dressed as Wonder Woman….

Well now, thanks to Bam! Kapow!, the 50 hottest Wonder Woman look-alikes have been gathered for your viewing pleasure.

Great pics! You can view the entire Wonder Woman gallery HERE.

Check out welovefancydress.com - it’s a fun costume website that lets users upload their costume photos. Their motto is, “Your online dressing up box. Put ideas in, take ideas out….”

You can browse through the photos, and “tip” the ones you like. Tipping is basically voting, and you can see which photos are the most admired. Fun!

The website is run by Clementine & Rebecca. Great job, Ladies!

www.welovefancydress.com

Minutemen from the upcoming Watchmen movie

Harry over at AintitCoolNews just broke an exclusive story regarding the upcoming Watchmen movie. In the movie, there’s a group of old superheroes called Minutemen (shown above).

Who are the Minutemen? Well in WATCHMEN - it was the first team of superheroes that formed in 1939 and pulled a BEATLES in 1949. In the pic you’ll see the classic SILK SPECTRE and NITE OWL… you’ll see CAPTAIN METROPOLIS, MOTHMAN, SILHOUETTE, COMEDIAN, DOLLAR BILL and with the noose… HOODED JUSTICE.

I love this photo… just look at those costumes, the hairstyles and makeup. Isn’t that classic? It’s that attention to detail that I think bodes very well for this project.

Yes, those costumes are sensational. They look so authentic for the year 1940. The Watchmen movie will come out next year, I can’t wait!

The Dragonfly costume from Superhero Movie is up for auction on Ebay.

Direct from the set, this is Mike’s screenworn Dragonfly stunt costume. This hero stunt costume includes a green and black w/ black dragonfly on front and attached mask spandex zip up the back dragonfly superhero shirt, green and black w/ hard shoes inside spandex dragonfly superhero pants and a green and black w/ velcro belt that attaches to shirt w/ black buckle. Includes the original wardrobe tag.

This movie is a silly spoof on superheroes. It was released in theaters last March, and the DVD comes out this July, 2008.

Here’s the official movie trailer, if you haven’t seen it already: