Disney breaks ground on AVATAR inspired park at Animal Kingdom

Almost a year ago we heard about director James Cameron, producer Jon Landau and Walt Disney World Resort Chairman Tom Staggs, teaming up to create a park, within Animal Kingdom, that will be inspired by Pandora, well on Jan 10, 2014 they broke ground on it. Said to be one of the most ambitious undertakings

Wanna visit The Green Dragon Inn from The Hobbit? Now you can!

Has anyone named New Zealand the geek capital of the world yet? If not, someone needs to go on ahead and do that damn thang, cause they’ve gone and turned another Hobbit movie set piece into a real functioning facility. I found this bit of news out via Firstshowing via Nerd bastards via Slash Films

New Zealand’s Media Design School does it again, with their latest robotic comedy SHELVED

“Never send a robot to do a man’s job” Several months ago I wowed  you guys with Media Design School’s Steampunk short “The Deadliest Game” based on the Weta Digital character Dr. Grordbort. Today those digital genius’s are back with this odd couple meets WALL-E esque story about two working class droids whose jobs at

Stream The World Premier of The Hobbit live in New Zealand at 6:50 PM (PST)

If your not doing anything at around 6:50 PM today you should tune in to the World Premier of The Hobbit live from the red carpet in New Zealand. Expected to be in attendance, the cast and crew of The Hobbit along with a special performance of the song “Song From The Lonely Mountain” from

New Zealand issues legal tender in honor of The Hobbit

We learned via MTV GEEK that New Zealand is issuing a set of coins, that can be used as money (in NZ of course) and that they all contain characters from the new Hobbit film. This of course isn’t the first time New Zealand has celebrated the geek, in fact a few months ago they

New Hobbit trailer arrives and it’s amazing!!

Man…December 4th can not get here soon enough. This latest trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is chock full of new images, environment’s and monsters, but still no Smaug. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to most of our readers who have been following the Middle Earth shenanigan’s. According to Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch