There’s a reason mum told you not to play with knives. But why didn’t she ever warn you not to play with plastic ones (especially if you’re planning on dressing as Rambo for a night out on the town)?

British student, Anthony Radley, 21, must have missed that lecture.

He was approaching a friend’s house in Lenton, Nottingham (England), when he was stopped by officers. While the police didn’t seem to mind his menacing Rambo attire, they did take exception to his six inch plastic toy knife.

Police demanded that Radley put his hands in the air before they cuffed and searched him.

Radley was arrested and spent three hours in a cell before being charged with causing public alarm.

He was then offered an £80 fine instead of having to go to court. Initially taking the fine, he later decided it was silly and appealed it.

The case has been dropped, but it seems to have cured Radley of any desire to go out and about with a plastic knife in tow.

[via Telegraph.co.uk]

Just when you think you’ve seen it all. Chocolate costumes!!

The Chocolate Show in New York City debuted with a chocolate superhero fashion show. These costumes were created by chocolatiers and pastry chefs, and I must say they look very tasty!

Shown above are photos of a chocolate Batgirl and Laura Croft in this “edible catwalk extravaganza.”

Via Telegraph.co.uk:

Bat Girl sported a fitted chocolate bodice as well as large chocolate wings with the classic comic-book words ‘Kapow’ and ‘Bang’ painted onto them.

The Lara Croft outfit comprised a chocolate bikini top and chocolate hotpants complete with a chocolate holster and guns.

Of course, no superhero fashion show would be complete without Wonder Woman and Iron Man. There was also a bodybuilder outfit complete with giant chocolate dumbells, as well as a fantastic Warrior Woman made of French chocolate that reportedly took 120 hours to make.

Wow, that’s pretty crazy. Let’s hope they kept the room temperature nice and cool.

Simply amazing! Wouldn’t this make a great “Got Milk?” commercial?

[Via Telegraph.co.uk and Trendhunter.com]

PARAMUS, N.J. (CBS) - West Brook Middle School students celebrated Halloween last Friday by wearing costumes to school. But 13-year-old Alex Woinski was kicked out for showing up in a Jesus costume. Alex has long brown hair and bears a striking resemblance to Jesus, his friends say.

According to the school principal, his costume was offensive to some students, and this was the first time any student had dressed like Jesus.

“I don’t think I overreacted,” Principal Joan Broe told CBS news.

CLICK HERE to watch the CBS news video.
 
What do you think? Is the costume offensive? Did the principal overreact? Feel free to share your opinions in the comments below.

Various websites have released exclusive photos of the upcoming Star Trek movie prequel. Above you can see (from left to right) young Checkov, Kirk, Scotty, Dr. McCoy, Sulu and Uhura.

And here’s young Spock, played by Zachary Quinto, from the popular TV show Heroes. He looks a lot like Leonard Nimoy!

To compare, here’s a photo of these same characters from the Original Series:

So what do you think of the new uniforms? Personally, I think they look… pretty good. The texture of the material makes them look a bit like thermal underwear. But it’s not too bad.

I’m pleased with most of the casting, especially Simon Pegg as Scotty. As a long-time Trek fan, I’m a little concerned that this might become Trek 90210. But I have faith in J.J. Abrams and I will certainly be at the theater on opening weekend.

Here are a few more photos. I’m glad they kept the miniskirt, it keeps things consistent with the Original Series.

[via UGO, JustJared, IGN, AICN, MTV]

The famous Forbidden City in China gets tens of thousands of visitors each day. But now anyone in the world can visit this cultural landmark for free through a new 3-D Virtual recreation of the palace.

When you enter the Forbidden City, you choose one of nine historical costumes! Virtual visitors can partake of activities such as guided tours, Wei Qi, the game of Go, and archery. You can also watch Qing dynasty emperor feast at dinner, surrounded by his imperial servants.

The museum teamed up with IBM to develop this project, which took three years and three million dollars. You can enter the Forbidden City by visiting www.beyondspaceandtime.com and downloading the free program.

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.

Okay, what is it with cow costumes and troublemakers? Just last week I wrote about another bad cow.

This woman got drunk, blocked traffic and chased terrified children through an Ohio town dressed as a cow. Since she had nothing else on underneath, she was forced to stay in jail and appear in court dressed in her cow costume. Yesterday, she was sentenced to 30 days in jail for disudderly conduct. [via itv.com]

Is this the beginning of a new trend of cow crimes? Cow costume gangs? Soon the world will cry out for a hero.

This sounds like a job for…

This story is pretty bizarre:

If you live in Japan, for $25 you can hire a sexy girl in a maid costume to play Wii Fit with you.

According to the owner of Akihabara’s Refresh Club, “Playing Wii Fit by yourself is lonely. But here, playing along with a maid makes exercising enjoyable.”

Okay…. I’m a little speechless. That’s just so very funny and weird.
[via Gizmodo.com]

What if there was a place where monsters, unimaginable creatures and un-human humans could find sanctuary?

Now there is. On Friday, October 3rd the season premiere of Sanctuary begins with a full thirteen-episode first season on the Sci-fi channel.

Sanctuary, a fantasy video series about a safehouse for abnormal creatures, originally premiered in May of 2007 as a webisode. The series follows the exploits of Dr. Helen Magnus (Amanda Tapping of Stargate SG-1) as she studies and helps terrifying and monstrous creatures with her reluctant protégé Will Zimmerman and her reckless daughter Ashley. Together they will seek out and protect frightening and mysterious beings that defy explanation.

Did I mention that Dr. Magnus is 157 years old? Through some sort of accident, she was infused with longevity, so she cannot age or die of natural causes. Who better to sympathize with other abnormal creatures?

Unlike most shows, 90% of Sanctuary’s sets will be computer-generated imaging, blending and bending reality with computer animation.

Here’s the first webisode and you can check out other webisodes on You Tube. Also, head over to the official Sanctuary site to watch promos, trailers and interviews with the cast.

If you have cable, plant yourself in front of the TV next Friday for a frightful dose of creepy Sci-Fi monster-y goodness. Don’t be scared…it’s a Sanctuary, remember?

This is some extremely cool comic book news. Marvel just announced that “Spider-Man and acclaimed television personality Stephen Colbert will join forces in an all new eight-page story featured in the extra-sized AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #573!”

How totally bizarre, but I love it. We’ve blogged about Colbert before when he wore a Neil Young costume and sang with Crosby, Stills and Nash. I didn’t think that could be topped, but… swinging around with Spidey is about as good as it gets.

Marvel appears to be quite the fan of Colbert. In the Marvel Universe, Colbert is still a popular presidential candidate, even though in real life he was voted off the Democratic ballot last November.

Here’s a clip of the Colbert talking with Joe Quesada, the editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics:

“You are polling incredibly high among super-humans and mutants.”
- Joe Quesada

Congratulations, Stephen Colbert. You are truly a hero among men. I hope Marvel ends up giving you a super power.

The Colbert/Spider-Man #573 will be released in October. In the meantime you can keep track of Stephen Colbert’s presidential campaign in the Marvel Universe HERE.

In closing, I just want to say that DC Comics seems to be missing the Colbert Boat. If they knew what was good for them, they’d be rushing to sign Colbert for a live-action Plastic Man movie. I think he’d be perfect. In the meantime, Colbert’s presidency in the Marvel Universe will just have to do.

UNION, N.J. — A high school student has been suspended for wearing a cow costume at his school pep rally. It’s a pretty severe punishment, and his fellow students are having a cow.

The school’s mascot is the “Fighting Farmers” and every year students dress in farmer and animal themes for the annual pep rally.

The school claims the issue was not the cow costume, but the offensive jokes involving the prosthetic udders “that continued throughout the day.”

Okay, hmm, it’s probably best that we don’t know the details. Looking at that cow costume, I can see how inappropriate jokes could be made.

[via WABC]

And now for something completely random…

Last week, as a local live TV newscast covered Hurricane Ike in Texas, someone decided to put on a bear costume and walk into the background.

What is it about live news that makes people act crazy?