Don’t tell Shredder, but it turns out New York’s sewers are just one of the Turtles’ hangouts. They also have a nice three-bedroom apartment in Manhattan, and they let folks stay there while they were out fighting crime.
To promote the upcoming movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Out of the Shadows, Paramount turned a Manhattan apartment into the Turtles’ lair, complete with a TV area filled with boomboxes, a basketball ring, a weapon locker and lots of graffiti. Then they put it up for overnight stays on Airbnb, throwing in a couple of free pizzas. It’s already fully booked, but at least we have these pictures.
Their Airbnb account says that for every guest that stayed, Paramount will donate money in their name to PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center. Check out the Airbnb page for more shots and messages from Leonardo. So what’s next, Casey Jones on Tinder?
Are you tired of using Ziploc bags and tackle boxes to organize your board games? Check out KeepGear’s upcoming Gamefolio System, which includes a carrying case filled with pockets for tokens, dice, cards and a board.
The Gamefolio Case is padded and water-resistant. It has 12 clear pockets, a label window, and comes with six removable pouches that fit in its bottom inner pockets. The board compartment can fit boards that measure or fold down to 13.5″ x 11.5″ x 1.25″ or smaller.
The Gamefolio Vault on the other hand isn’t as impressive. It’s a lot like a gym bag, except its main compartment has a large opening. It can fit up to five Gamefolio Cases.
Pledge at least $25 (USD) on Kickstarter to receive a Gamefolio Case as a reward. You’ll get the Gamefolio Vault for a pledge of $99 or more.
If you can’t afford a table tennis coach but a wall isn’t good enough for you, check out the Trainerbot. It’s a smart ping pong ball launcher that will give you the exact shot you want for as long as you want.
Using its mobile app, you can program Trainerbot to fire very specific shots. It even divides your side of the table into nine zones, Baby Steps-style, so you can pick where you want it to shoot. You can also fine tune the trajectory and spin of its shot. You can also string multiple shots together and save them as a training drill. You’ll also be able to export the drills you created to help – or troll – other Trainerbot users.
Trainerbot also has preset drills with varying difficulty, a multiplayer mode and a cathartic smash mode for quick plug-and-play sessions. The robot can hold up to 30 ping pong balls, which it can all throw at you in 15 seconds at its fastest setting. It doesn’t come with a Ballboybot though.
Pledge at least $329 (USD) on Kickstarter to receive a Trainerbot as a reward. The Trainerbot Pro variant comes with a stand so you can position it from a more realistic distance and height.
So you’ve finished Dark Souls 3 54 times, including a no dodging, no armor, level 1 run where you used a theremin as a controller. While your crotch was filled with fire ants. Now you can do all of that from a fresh perspective, thanks to Zulliethewitch’s first person mod.
The mod appears to work like a charm, except for the fact that your character’s arms are invisible. But hey, at least you get to see what its like to be teabagged by a gigantic tree monster.
Find a bonfire and travel to Redditor Sylverski’s post to download the mod.
So you’ve finished Dark Souls 3 54 times, including a no dodging, no armor, level 1 run where you used a theremin as a controller. While your crotch was filled with fire ants. Now you can do all of that from a fresh perspective, thanks to Zulliethewitch’s first person mod.
The mod appears to work like a charm, except for the fact that your character’s arms are invisible. But hey, at least you get to see what its like to be teabagged by a gigantic tree monster.
Find a bonfire and travel to Redditor Sylverski’s post to download the mod.
LEGO enthusiast Nick Brick made this formidable life-size replica of the M41 SPNKR, one of the classic weapons from the Halo franchise. Just look at it. You don’t even need to know a thing about Halo to love it.
Nick says he spent about two months making the toy rocket launcher. It’s made of about 6,000 LEGO pieces, measures 50.5″ long and weighs 24lb. Its distinctive double barrel unit is also removable.
Ride a Warthog to Nick’s Flickr page for a few more shots of the SPNKR.
Etsy shop The Geekerie presents a ton of Game of Thrones spoilers in an orderly fashion in the form of a periodic table. The Table of Thrones gives each major character their own symbol and number, a color based on their House or other grouping, and most importantly states whether they’re dead or just dead people that haven’t died yet.
Cut off some of your hair, sprinkle it on your browser and head to The Geekerie to order the poster. It costs between $22 to $95 (USD) depending on the size you choose.
It’s hard to 3D print a transparent object because even if the raw material itself is clear, you’ll need to completely fill any gaps at the right temperature and speed in order to avoid imperfections. ColorFabb claims that its new HT Clear filament makes it easier to print transparent objects thanks to its high flow rate.
These two pictures show small objects that are made of HT Clear, which is the latest variant of ColorFabb’s high temperature-resistant copolyester filament. The company says the object above came straight out of the printer, while the one below has been sanded several times. You’ll still need to experiment with your printer’s settings to maximize HT Clear, so there’s no getting around that part yet. ColorFabb advises that you use a printed with a bed heated between 100-120ºC, the extruder at 250-280ºC and the print speed at 30-50mm/s, but again your experience with your printer may vary.
You can get a 700g spool of HT Clear from ColorFabb for ~$50 (USD).
Clothing brand Dope and hat store Hat Club celebrate the release of the DOOM reboot with this snapback cap, featuring the brand’s name screenprinted in the style of the game’s original logo.
Henry Smith’s Spaceteam – a cooperative game about fixing a spaceship that’s quickly falling apart – is one of the best party games on mobile devices. It’s free, it’s funny and it’s fast-paced. The game’s only downside is that it requires all players to have both a mobile device and the app. Until now. Henry worked with Timber & Bolt to make a version of Spaceteam that’s played with cards.
The Spaceteam card game’s theme is similar to its digital predecessor: multiple components of your spaceship are failing, and you have a short amount of time to fix them all. Each player is randomly dealt several orange cards face down and blue cards face up. When the game starts, you will each reveal and then resolve one orange card at a time. Orange cards can be spaceship defects, Anomalies, or the coveted Systems Are Go cards. To fix the spaceship defects, you’ll need to put down the blue cards that depict the appropriate tools, as indicated on the orange card. This is where the chaos begins.
There will be instances where the tool cards you have are not the ones that can fix your current spaceship defect. Fortunately, you can ask for tools from the other players, but you need to say which tool you need out loud. To complicate matters, players can only pass tool cards to adjacent players.
Then there are the orange Anomaly cards. These cards ask the group to perform physical actions, such as switching seats, or getting up from the table and asking the other players to pull you back in. But shuffled among these menacing orange cards are the six Systems Are Go cards. Your goal is to find all of those cards before the time is up, which by default is a mere 5 minutes.
Here’s a quick demo of the game:
Launch Hypertext Protocol Analyzer and order Spaceteam the card game from Amazon for $25 (USD). The base game contains 90 game cards, but there’s already an expansion that adds 48 NSFW cards, as well as an upcoming second expansion that will add 48 more cards.
