Feeling like a hot dog... and driving like one !

Sometimes an advertisement stunt transforms itself into an icon of pop culture. This is definitely the case with Oscar Mayer's Weinermobile ! Heck ! It even appeared on the Simpsons !

Weinermobile bank, China ?, 1990's

Weinermobile bank, Molto, Spain, 1970's

Modern Weinermobile

1952 version

1960's ?

Light my fire, Emeraldas !

Queen Emeraldas Zippo lighter w/base, 1998, USA production for Japan

Bat Hair day ? Use some conditioner, girl !

Batgirl, McDonald's, 2015, Vietnam

Please recycle - Part two

Wall E - rubber figurine - Disney-Pixar, China (no date)

Comic Con Lisbon

Cosplayers at Comic Con Lisbon 2018

Comic Con in Portugal happened for the first time in Lisbon yesterday. (before this it was always organized at Exponor in Porto). Maybe not as big as some of the other Comic Cons around, but still lots of cool costumes and Geekdom galore ! 

Gaming was there... from Pong to the unreleased SMASH game for the Nintendo Switch...

The Geyper gun

Pistola del Espacio, Geyper, Spain, 1970's

This is not a joke...

Laughing robot, Yonezawa/Waco, Japan, 1969

You know this thing is evil... See it function here :

And another T-28...

Iron Robot Type 28, Crown Models, Japan, 1960 ?

One small Tetsujin...

The LeSabre concept

Buick LeSabre, Marx, USA, 1952

Sometimes the design of one object leads the way to the future... This was certainly the case with Harley Earl's designs at GM. The LeSabre car was based on every curve and line aviation from that jet age could throw at it... and it went 12Volts - this at least is a characteristic every modern car has by now. In 1951 ? Kind of the exception.... 

It is nice to have a toy with a driver from time to time... 

 

Changing a tire ? No problem, electric lifting jacks were integrated in the car...

Harley Earl, top designer at GM, driving his creation.

Your friend from space...

Mechanical Shooting Man from Mars, Irwin, USA, 1952-1953