I saw this little bad ass car on The Chive recently. and I can’t help but be impressed. Master mechanic/fabricator Dean Shorey of Rochester, New York created this Colonial Viper Starfighter from Battlestar Galactica out of a old United States Postal Service vehicle. Dean Shorey is a huge fan of the original Battlestar Galactica series and wanted to create something to pay tribute to his love. Equipped with a small block Chevy V8, this Cyclon blasting Viper is running a V8 engine and was built to be street legal!!! Mr. Shorey is a ride mechanic at Seabreeze Amusement Park (as pictured behind the Viper-car), and due to his dedication to keeping the rides safe, him and crew have a lot of spare time on their hands. I’m a huge fan of the newest BSG, and not too familiar with the original, but I do love the new Vipers. Its a bit more battle-tested and grungy lookin’. Maybe driving this Viper V8 through some trash cans and mud will get it to the point where it needs to be to look like the new Vipers. This little baddie was made back in 2006, but this epic vehicle HAS to be mentioned for BSG fans to appreciate and drool over. Now I have to ask… does it come in black? (sorry… that was pretty lame)
Hit the jump to check out more pictures of Dean Shorey’s great Viper V8!
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Battlestar Babes. Tricia Helfer & Grace Park Set Phasers to Sexy…. (WTF!)
As long as I could remember, I’ve been collecting magazines that have featured cool covers for sci-fi or fantasy movies and televisions show. Thanks for scifiwired.com, I will be camping the local 7-11 for the November issue to Maxim magazine. Gracing the cover of Maxim will be Tricia Helfer and Grace Park of Battlestar Galactica (the newer one. If it was the original, that would be awkward as hell…). We all know that Tricia and Grace played cylon hotties, Six and Boomer (if you didn’t know, I really hate you) on BSG (thats what we cool kids call it), and even though the series came to an end this year, the lovely ladies are strutting their stuff. Battlestar Galactica was an epic story that will be a fan favorite for many years to come. I am pretty sure Tricia and Grace will have hordes of lovestruck geeks (and drooling stalkers) following them to every convention that they appear at. If its a bit odd to you for the reason why Maxim would be featuring BSG on their cover after the series ended, the reason may be because the prequel to BSG, Caprica will be premiering in 2010 (and if you didn’t know THAT, I hate you even more).
I still don’t get why Maxim used a Star Trek reference for their caption on the cover. I just don’t give a crap if you noted in perentacies. Its still stupid.
Side note: Yes. You are right. I only made this blog post so I can shamelessly put up pictures of purrdy girls. I LOVE YOU SIX!
Hit the jump to see more from the issue!
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You might be wondering what a “kokeshi” is. Kokeshi is a Japanese wooden doll originating from Northern Japan. They are handmade from wood, have a simple trunk and an enlarged head with a few thin, painted lines to define the face. “temple7e” on Etsy (an online community where you can buy and sell handmade goods) has taken the traditional kokeshi doll and put a delightful geek twist to it.
Featured on temple73’s Etsy page is a collection of kokeshi dolls titled, “The Kokeshi Clan”. It seems that temple7e is a sci-fi geek considering some of her kokeshi designs are modeled after Battlestar Galactica, Star Wars, and Star Trek.
Each of these dolls are quiet adorable and are carefully hand-painted. You can get these little geek kokeshi dolls for about 20 to 30 bucks each on temple7e’s site. Hit the jump to see some of the other dolls!
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