Geek Culture & Nostalgia
A few days ago I reviewed The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Disney’s attempt at making an action-adventure film out of the classic Mickey Mouse sequence in Fantasia. Seeing that so-so movie really made me want to watch the original, and luckily Disney released Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 on Blu-ray last week.
Remember when having an Ewok on your shirt was grounds for ridicule? Or when your regulation Star Trek uniform would get you pantsed in gym class? Ok, well, both of those things might still hold true today, actually. The point is, there was a time when wearing your geek on your sleeve was a bad thing. But now that Mario Bros. red is the new Goth Kid black, it’s become perfectly acceptable to have a clever reference to video games, comic books, Star Wars, or Transformers as part of your wardrobe.
We here at Tophat Sasquatch fully support this new fashion sensibility by bringing you our TSOTD (For those of you not into the whole brevity thing, that’s our “T-Shirt Of The Day”).
As you’ll quickly learn about me, I’m both a dad and a huge Star Wars fan. For me, this video came several years too late. I realize now that I didn’t start early enough with the Star Wars indoctrination education of my young son. Much to my dismay, a babysitter told him of the relationship between Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker when he was just five. It was a secret I was holding until he was just a little older. That secret disappeared at $20 for three hours’ work.
Needless to say, we never used that babysitter again.
If you a parent to small children, or even if you think you’ll have kids one day, it’s important — nay, it’s imperative — that you watch this video now. You can then plan according for your child’s path to Star Wars. Believe me, it’s never too early.
I love a clever Star Wars shirt, and Bad, Bad Walker from Threadless is just that. Also, it’s my second favorite example of AT-AT bathroom humor, being narrowly beaten by the Jabba the Hutt cameo in ‘AT-AT Day Afternoon.’
Pick up Bad, Bad Walker from Threadless.
Yesterday we got the first sneak peek at the official Thor poster, and today the trailer is upon us in all it’s glory. It’s pretty much the same trailer they showed at SDCC, but everything looks more polished and there is a bit of new material. I think it looks very promising, but what do you think?
