8BitKid: Living Bit by Bit

Luckily, the New York Comic-Con happened to overlap with my trip to the Big Apple to visit my family and catch up with some old friends. I found a couple of hours on Saturday and rolled over with a fellow geek to witness the con craziness. Here is a video of some people doing a lightsaber stage combat performance. I don’t want to think about how many hours of practice went into this…

So it seems like Hasbro is getting into the “designer toy” game. They have a new toy series called “Mighty Muggs” that looks equally at home in Wal-Mart as it does in Kidrobot. I started getting into this style when I moved to LA, and I guess most cool sub-cultures are destined to be appropriated by more commercial establishments. It wasn’t long ago that the legal chums at Epic threatened to sue someone over a custom “Munny” depicting Marcus Fenix from the game”Gears of War”.

Either way, the picture above is from a new Marvel line coming out in March. You can see the current “Star Wars” series on the Hasbro website.

Welcome to a new feature on the site: “Viral Video Fridays”. Why, you ask? Because who really wants to do anything on Fridays except mentally check out early and start thinking about the weekend. I am happy to help you and you wandering attention span get there.

Check out this classic: