Keefer Madness

Las Vegas Almost Had a Full Size Starship Enterprise

// April 10th, 2012 // No Comments » // Film, Strange & Bizarre, Tech

This would have been massive and crazy cool, but I’m not sure it’d be the universal attraction Vegas would profit from. Sure, Vegas ended up with the Star Trek Experience, but this would have been unprcedented — and out of place. It would have been great for Trekkies though.

But man, construction costs were $150,000,000 (in 1992 dollars).

Now It Can Be Told: The “Star Trek” Attraction that Almost Came to Life in 1992

Hoverboard Test Footage from Back to the Future II

// April 3rd, 2012 // No Comments » // Film, Video

A co-worker who is as big of a Back to the Future fan as I am, sent this video to me yesterday — test footage of the hoverboard filming and effect. So cool, and well done. We were saying it was so well done, it’d be hard to improve on the effect in present day.

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Look at Mattel’s Hoverboard Prop-Replicas

// March 5th, 2012 // No Comments » // Film

Check it out — there’s finally going to be a hoverboard. Granted it’s not going to have the hover part. But check out the article and the video about the whole prop replica coming soon.

The video is also coincidentally hosted by the guy who provided the voice for Marty McFly in the recent TellTale Games Back to the Future game series.

Prices are a little steep and the pre-order is only through a little past mid-month. I’d love to get one, but not sure it’s in the cards for the Keefer household.

Look at Mattel’s Hoverboard Prop-Replicas

PercyFX App Launches on iOS and Blackberry

// January 17th, 2012 // No Comments » // Film, iPad, iPhone

Saw this over at bttf.com. I’ve yet to download it to my iPhone, but will check it out in the morning. Seems like it could either be pretty cool, or pretty clunky. I’ll post a followup after I’ve downloaded and played around with.

But just so you know, I’m pretty much a sucker for anything Back to the Future related.

PercyFX App Launches on iOS and Blackberry, Melding the Best of Entertainment and Technology for Back to the Future Fans

Update: OK, I can already tell you, this is pretty worthless. No video clips are included with the app itself. You have to buy credits to get clips. Then, the clips don’t have the original soundtrack, and most of the text effects are just total cheese. The flying DeLorean that ends Back to the Future and the Hill Valley clock tower getting struck by lightning with a custom message inserted just aren’t worth anything to me. I can’t see getting any utility out of this. Deleted within five minutes of installing. Don’t waste your time.

50 Years of James Bond: All 22 Movies on Blu-Ray Soon

// January 11th, 2012 // No Comments » // Film

Wow. There have been 22 Bond movies. I’ve got a bunch of them on DVD, and had several back on LaserDisc. Recently though, MGM announced a 50th anniversary collection though of all 22 Bond movies to date on Blu-Ray. I tried to find what it’d cost to pre-order on Amazon, but nothing yet. This would be cool to have, but I’m thinking it may be cost prohibitive.

Moviebarcodes: Whole Movies at a Single Glance

// March 14th, 2011 // No Comments » // Design, Film

I love unique and cool visualizations of data. Actually, I like visualizations of data in general. This one is cool, showing the color profile for given movies.

"Marty McFly" AJ LoCascio Interview From New Back to the Future Game

// January 17th, 2011 // No Comments » // Film, Gaming

I still haven’t had the time (nor money) to play the first episode of the brand new Back to the Future game, but the Angry Video Game Nerd recently did a pretty extensive interview with AJ LoCascio, who is doing the voice of Marty for the new game. Pretty interesting stuff for Back to the Future fanboys, like myself.

Back to the Future: The Game Now Available

// December 31st, 2010 // No Comments » // Film, Gaming

I missed this release with the holidays and all. The first episode (of five!!!) of new Back to the Future episodic game for Mac and PC came out just before Christmas.

The trailer looks really impressive in terms of graphics, sound, voice and just overall staying true to the films. Hopefully the game play is better than past games based on Back to the Future I can’t wait to buy and play the first episode. Look for a review… in the future.

Back to the Future: The Game Now Available

Delorean Time Machine Hard Drive

// November 29th, 2010 // No Comments » // Computers, Film, Tech

Love this idea, if not the price — it combines a Back to the Future III DeLorean (notice the collection of tubes on the car’s hood, with a 500GB Seagate harddrive. OS X’s built-in back up software is called “Time Machine,” so why not make your backup hard drive an actual time machine? My external backup hard drive is named, “Flux Capacitor” and even has the Flux Capacitor icon. Yes, I’m that much of a dork.

Delorean Time Machine Hard Drive

Back to the Future The Game

// November 15th, 2010 // No Comments » // Film, Gaming

Love that it’s the 25th Anniversary of Back to the Future, and we’re getting all kinds of new stuff. Telltale games, which has also brought back a couple of other properties, such as Sam & Max. It’s cool they got Christopher Lloyd to return for some voice acting, and Michael J. Fox signed off on likeness rights. The game is going to consist of five episodes ($24.95 for all five) that start soon after the end of Back to the Future Part III. Can’t wait to check it out. It won’t take much to beat out the crappy two NES games that were created back in the day.

Back to the Future The Game

Two other BTTF-related things. Telltale games also released a puzzle game on Facebook. It looks to be a lot like bejeweled, with a BTTF theme. While it does play the Back to the Future Overture theme in the background, the original sound effects don’t seem to be reproduced. Will have to check that out eventually.

There’s also full footage of the video from the Biff Tannen museum from BTTF II’s alternate 1985. It’s rough, including unfinished/placeholder voiceovers, but still pretty cool.

The Full Biff Tannen Museum Video From ‘Back to the Future Part 2′