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Is John Hurt the Eighth Doctor?

DoctorwhoWe are just over a month away from the Doctor Who 50th anniversary and Steven Moffat, lead writer and executive producer, has given us a whooper of a problem. He’s hinted that fans have miscalculated the regenerations of the good Doctor and that means he has not used his 12 lives.

On October 13th Moffat confirmed in the Radio Times, “He can only regenerate 12 times”, which leaves us with the question, just who is John Hurt portraying and what is his place in the Doctor Who canon?

It appears my brother John came up with a simple solution this morning, that so far, few have voiced. John Hurt is playing the part of the eighth Doctor. You may ask how is this possible and my he gives a few reasons (backed with my own observations):

1. Hurt is attired in what appears to be the ninth Doctor’s leather jacket.

2. Hurt is wearing a vest similar in style to that worn by the eighth Doctor. Included is what is a chain to perhaps a pocket watch used by both the seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and the eighth regeneration (Paul McGann).

3. We never did see visually at what age the eighth Doctor regenerated into his ninth life.

Take it with a grain of salt Whovians but I’m backing my brother on his opinion. So what is yours?

Source(s): Radio Times.

Transformers Prime: Predacons Rising Review & Final Thoughts

The number of days between Deadlock Predacons Rising left ambiguous, and what we get here takes place a few days after.

TransformersPrimeWhen there are many loose story threads to tie up in the Transformers Prime Beast Hunters series, not every detail is going to get covered in the epilogue, Predacons Rising.

Curiously, the question of whether or not any Cybertronian has gone deep underground (as suggested by IDW’s comic books) is never considered. In what does is an interesting biblical take in the final struggle between the Autobots and Decepticon’s quest to awaken their home planet.

There is a resurrection at hand. As the title implies, someone is going to experience a rebirth. With no surprise, and with no thanks to Hasbro’s marketing department, everyone knows Megatron will return. As for how he manages to do so, only a god is able to bring him back to life—or a devil. Unicron finally makes a proper appearance to go destroy Primus once and for all. But there is more than meets the eye for this particular aspect of the tale to take shape. More than one figure will “rise.”

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Coppelion: Scifi with School Uniforms

By James Robert Shaw (The Wind up Geek)

coppelionProduction Company: GoHands

Series Directors: Hiromitsu Kanazawa and Susumu Kudo

Based on the manga written and illustrated by Tomonori Inoue, Coppelion looks 20 years into Tokyo’s future after a 2016 accident at the local Odaiba nuclear power plant causes the once great city to become uninhabitable. Fast forward to 2036 and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force dispatches a group of three genetically modified girls called Coppelion (pronounced Kopperion) after receiving an SOS signal from the heart of Tokyo.

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The Cast of Thunderbirds are Go in 2015!

ThunderbirdsBy Ed Sum (The Vintage Tempest)

… and I can not wait for this series to air. The style is going to be very different from the original, and I can accept that. There is a unique style charm that marionettes offer which made the classic series great. The storytelling was top-notch and there’s nothing like revisiting some fond ol’ memories.

In contrast, this new series will feature CGI animation and live-action sets. That’s a very curious mix. Who knows, maybe this style of presentation will work. No stills have been released yet as news of who will be voicing whom is the talk of the town in cyberspace.

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The Weird and Wonderful Ebay: Life Size Scout Walker

starwarsSo how much will approximately £10,000 buy you in the UK? Well if you’re a geek with big dreams, you can buy yourself one heck of a conversation piece.

If fixing up your flat to look like Pee Wee’s Playhouse (or perhaps you like Rainbow) is out of the question then look no further at 16ft in height of the Star Wars AT-ST Scout Walker. This is definitely one toy that won’t fit into your display case at home. But if you have an available car park space, it can act as the beacon for Star Wars fans within your neighbourhood.

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Gojira Spotted! Tokyo Wetting Itself!

templateOver at Cosmic Book News is a post that reveals that Pretty Much Geek on Facebook has found the radioactive reptile in all his glory. This movie poster emerged at a licensing expo in Sao Paulo and Godzilla looks terrifyingly awesome.

The wait for this film to appear next year is only going to be monumental.

Next year’s summer blockbuster season will have a lot of iconic giants facing off against one another. The question of who will emerge as victorious, dollar-wise and expectation-wise, will be the one to watch. The movies range from the Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (July 18) to X-Men: Days of Future Past (May 23).

Somehow, Amazing Spider-Man 2 (May 2), Transformers 4 (June 27) and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Aug 8) will have to survive.

If combined, maybe they can take Big G on, but that’s unlikely. Unlike other superheroes or monsters that’s achieved world wide-recognition, Godzilla is unstoppable.

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