Like many in the community this past week we were saddened by the news of the passing of the legendary Ray Harryhausen.  Also like rest of the world we were captivated by the man’s work our entire lives.   Jason and I both had the opportunity to meet the man on separate occasions and we share some of our remembrances.

In this episode we cover:

• - Electronic Arts announce exclusive deal to do Star Wars games
• - World’s End release the first official trailer
• -  Our Iron Man 3 thoughts
• - Iron Man 3 takes in $175 mill in opening weekend.
• - Jason’s spoiler-free thoughts on Star Trek Into Darkness
• - Dueling Spocks Audi commercial
• - Daniel is enjoying playing the Star Trek video game from Namco Bandai.
• - Nathan for You on Comedy Central.
• - Mattel’s Surprise MOTUC “Spirit of Hordak” figure
• - New Arkham City and Arkham Origins figures announced by DC Collectibles.
• - Documentary of the week: The Art of the Steal
• - Jason finished up ‘House of Cards’ on Netflix.
• - Daniel will again be judging at UCB’s Tournament of Nerds, May 5/18 at midnight.  You can get tickets here for only $5 here!

All that and more in this week’s brand new episode!

Just for the record I did NOT jump the line at my local Free Comic Book Day.  I waited just over and hour outside with my buddy Bill who went with me, so not small hearts were broken as Mr. Big-shot strolled past them.

Iron Man 3 opened over the weekend and word is it has the second highest weekend opening of all time, right behind The Avengers… The geek truly shall inherit.
In this episode we cover:

• - Pacific Rim Wondercon footage posted by WB.
• - Dr. Demento documentary “Under the Smogberry Trees” on Kickstarter.
• - The Bobs have a new  Kickstarter campaign for their next album.
• - We briefly revisit the topic of the Zach Braff Kickstarter project.
• - Daniel recommends another podcast: Kevin Smith’s ‘Fatman on Batman‘
• - Chris Guest’s new HBO series ‘Family Tree.‘
• - ‘Veep’  get’s picked up for a 3rd Season.
• - John Williams is supposedly in to score SW VII
• - Jason saw part of Les Miz
• - Wings Over America [Deluxe Edition] coming out
• - Good shows coming to an end: final season of “Dexter”, “Breaking Bad” and one more season of ‘Mad Men.”
• - And it’s not called out but there are some season 3 Game of Thrones spoilers at the very end of the episode, so if you are not caught up beware!

All that and much more here in Episode 71!

Once again we set out to cover the “week in geek” in about an hour and ended up with a little over an hour and a half at no extra charge!    There is a lot to discuss from the world of film and the upcoming releases of Iron Man 3 and Man of Steel, then couple all that with a weekend packed with Free Comic Book day and that makes it easy to profess that this episode truly IS full of “Geeky Goodness!” (But don’t worry… it’s not hurting anyone.)

In this episode we discuss:

• - Thor 2 trailer hit this past week.
• - Iron Man 3 already passed Avengers overseas. Weekend opening $195.3 vs $185.1.
• - Daredevil rights back under Marvel Studios.
• - Halle Berry Storm picture from X-Men: DoFP.
• - Michael Shannon reads the Sorority letter. (In NO WAY safe for work!)
• - Hollywood Tests Movie Ticket Sales at Walmart With ‘Man of Steel.’
• - Fake ‘Man of Steel’ opening is released.
• - Universal closing Gibson Amphitheater for “The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
• - Jason started watching House of Cards on Netflix.
• - Man of Steel Mattel toys leaking early.
• - Zach Braff Kickstarter movie project “Wish I Was Here” (Also Jason sent this link to me today to help solidify his thoughts on this.) PS- It’s funded the $2mil.
• - Free Comic Book day May 4th.
• - NECA Making Batman: Dead End Albino Predator figure.
• - Jason watched ‘Behind the Candelabra‘

In this episode we discuss:

• - Action Figure Insider is celebrating our 8th Anniversary this week – April 22nd-26th.
• - New Man of Steel teaser and a fantastic trailer.
• - New Star Trek Into Darkness trailer.
• - New Lone Ranger trailer.
• - Disney announces new Star Wars movies coming every summer starting in 2015.
• - Figures Toy Company Retro/Mego announcements – 66 Batman, Tarzan, Conan, Dukes of Hazard and more!
• - Jonathan Coulton “Code Monkey Save World” comic book Kickstarter campaign.
• - Batman: Arkham Origins announced
• - Free Comic Book Day -  May 4th.
• - Harrison Ford’s latest appearance on Jimmy Kimmel.
• - Gerry Rafferty documentary narrated by David Tennant;
• - Daniel is watching Vikings on the History channel. Vikings and Bates Motel get 2nd season.
• -  Jason celebrated Record Store Day this past Saturday with a Paul Weller box set.
• - Stone Roses documentary ‘Made of Stone’ directed by Shane Meadows coming out in June.
• - Jason ran into Maurice Lamarche last week.
• - Legendary album cover artist Storm Thorgerson passed away.

All that and more!

It was a tough week for loosing folks that impacted geek culture and pop culture.  The impact of losing Roger Ebert, Jonathan Winters, Annette Funicello and Carmine Infantino will be felt for many years to come.    Our thoughts and prayers go out to their friends and families.

Also we are posting this late in the day on Monday the 15th and the events from earlier today in Boston still weigh heavy on all of of our hearts.  We are sending good vibes to the people involved in that tragedy.

We were trying some new tech in this episode, and it worked great at first… and then one of the channels went South.  So bear with us this episode.

In this episode we discuss:

• Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere on BBC radio
• New “Man of Steel” images and info  from Entertainment Weekly.
• Daniel was whizin’ with Tom Skerritt.
• Jason saw ‘‘Cloud Atlas.‘   Now he’d like for the rest of us to see it so we can all discuss it.
• Speeder Bikes on Tattoine in Return of the Jedi?
• Death of Thatcher and ‘Ding Dong the Witch is Dead’ climbing the charts in the UK!
• New ‘Neon Neon’ album Praxis Makes Perfect hits end of month.   You can check out some of their other stuff here, here and here.
• Jason educates us on the finer points of Rastamouse.
• ‘Tales of Television Centre’ doc about the history of BBC
• More goodies that Jason got on his trip to the UK.
• All that and much more!

My other favorite thing in this episode is us talking about the last episode of ‘The Walking Dead” as vague and as spoiler free as possible.

In this episode we discuss:

• - Do you dare attempt ‘The Great Horror Campout?’
• - Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One – Avengers Assembled (10-Disc Limited Edition Six-Movie Collector’s Set) [Blu-ray] is finally released.
• - Disney shutters LucasArts games division. “1313″ canceled.
• - Daniel finished watching all 53 episodes of “Arrested Development”… just in time for the 15 new episodes.  Season 4 starts May 26th, exclusively on Netflix.
• - Power-Con 2013 tickets are now on sale.
• - The “Star Wars 6 in 1 video” is amazing… and has already been pulled from YouTube by Disney.
• - The Tennant/Smith pics from the Doctor Who read thru.
• - Jason got a mystery box from BAD ROBOT.
• - Shatner vs. Gorn commercial for new Star Trek video game.
• -  Daniel’s thoughts on Wondercon 2013.
• - Battlestar Galactica 30th anniversary Ralph McQuarrie portfolio available now.
• - And we announce our two contest winners of our very first “caption the pic” contest!

All that and more are waiting for you in GSi episode 067!

In this episode we discuss:

• - Daniel hit Wondercon 2013 this year.  You can see all of his pictures of this year’s event here.
• - Also last week Daniel hit the ’66 Batman’ launch event.  There were some very cool reveals that you can check out here.
• - The weird, weird world of Hollywood paparazzi.
• - Both of us are giving A&E’s Bates Motel a try.
• -  Super 7′s awesome Kenner-esque Alien catalog.
• - The Four Horsemen’s Outer Space Men series 5 are gorgeous!
• - The Walking Dead Season 3 so far as spoiler-free as possible.
• - Robert Redford in Captain America 2? We sure hope so!
• - New ‘The Wolverine’ trailer.
• - Harrison Ford mum on Star Wars Ep 7 during 42 press.
• - The Phil Spector bio-pic movie on HBO.
• - Documentary of the week: Paul Williams: Still Alive.
• - Our recent toy finds.
• - Super rare “Mr. Gold” Lego mini figure in series 10.

All that and much more!

We have an all new episode for you this Monday, packed with the latest and greatest news of pop culture for the week as well as some blasts from the past that you may or may not know about.

All that AND our very first GSi give-away contest, which you can find out how to enter at the bottom of this post.

But first, in this episode we discuss:

• - Barenaked Ladies, Ben Folds and Guster are all going on tour together this summer.
• - Jason’s long strange journey to get a custom  Flash Gordon Rocket Sled.
• - The Makerbot people announce the development of a home laser scanner to go with home 3-D printer.
• - A new Michael Keaton superhero comedy – “Birdman“
• - Ant-man test footage leaked.   It’s been pulled now, but it was awesome.
• - Kick-Ass 2 has a new red band trailer (Which makes it NSFW.)
• - New Star Trek Into Darkness UK trailer.
• - Stripped the comic strip documentary.
• - The Bloom County animated specials and the Doonesbury Animation special (and a Doonesbuy musical).
• - Lenzi Attic Treasures – Jason digs up some INCREDIBLE treasures in the form of some rare baseball cards and some super rare ESB Japanese puffy stickers.
• - New BBP Venture Bros 3.75″ wave one is out!  You can get wave one at EntertainmentEarth.com..
• -  Neil Gaiman at Marvel – brings former Spawn character Angela to ‘Age of Ultron’ storyline.
• - Daniel rewatching Arrested Development and Sports Night.
• - Josh Ritter’s new album ‘Beast in Its Tracks’
• - New ‘Pod Stalions’ podcast

And now the GIVEAWAY!!

“Attention Geek Shall Inherit fans! You asked for it, and we’re delivering! Yes, it’s our first GSI Contest and Giveaway! We’ve thought long and hard about what this might entail, a competition with an even playing field, and most importantly, no math. It can’t be a quiz (that pesky internet can sometimes contain INFORMATION) and it shouldn’t be a ‘first one in with the right answer wins!”, cause that’s just lame. Which means it’s going to be a creative contest! And since the world already knows that GSI listeners are the smartest, snappiest MOST creative cats out there, this should be a cinch for everyone!

We thought this first of (hopefully) many comps should try and involve some of the stuff we gab about week in and week out, kinda giving a little Easter Egg inside the question. Put on your thinking caps because it’s time to be clever in our first ever ‘Caption the Picture’ contest.  Look at the image below which we plucked from one of Jason’s dreams all Inception-style.

Think of a caption and email it to Daniel@geekshallinherit.com.   We will pick our top TWO winners! (one prize per winner)    Email us your name, mailing address and your caption.   ONE entry per person (so make it count!)  US Listeners only (sorry people on other continents).  You must be 18 or older to enter.

Easy peasy, lemon squeezy, as the kids say. Entries will be taken until midnight west coast time, this Thursday night 3/28/13. They will be studied over the following days, and Daniel and I will be sequestered for a GSI summit to determine the winner. The super cool wining name and entry will be read out in the next episode of GSI (Episode 67), and of course, posted on the GSI site.

What’s that you say? Prizes? But of course, there are prizes, who are we, Stan Lee??  The winning entry will get the following:

We’ve got two fabulous monitor mates from BifBangPow!   You might have heard of them.

And of course, bragging rights for the rest of their days that they won the first ever Geek Shall Inherit competition! (Guaranteed to get you at least one comped drink at the nearest dive bar).

Alright, GSI Cadets, good luck, and godspeed to you all. For the sake of the show, and the fate of mankind, don’t let us down!

In this episode they discuss:

• - The end of Green Lantern: The Animated Series and Young Justice.
• - TV  Daniel is watching – The Americans and  House of Cards.
• - WonderCon 2013 in Anaheim March 29th-31st.
• - Star Wars “This is madness” bracket.
• - Return of Doctor Who and Game of Thrones return at the end of the month.  Here’s the new Doctor Who trailer.
• - The future of Clone Wars and a “new direction” for Lucasfilm animation.
• - Documentary pick of the week: Nina Conti: Her Master’s Voice.
• - Harrison Ford appearing in Anchorman 2.
• - David Bowie new album The Next Day (Deluxe Edition).
• - The Castle Grayskull controversy.
• - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey out on DVD and Blu-ray tomorrow.

All that and more!   Also, if you get a chance head over to iTunes and throw us a review!   You’ll feel a lot better about yourself if you do.

So grab your towel, slip a babblefish in your ear, sit back and enjoy an all new episode of the Geek Shall Inherit podcast!

In this episode we discuss:

• - Daniel is starting to build “Geekville” in the new SimCity.
• - Rumor is the main 3 are on board for Star Wars 7.  But is ANYONE talking to Billy Dee?
• - The new Iron Man 3 trailer snuck up on us, but we love it all the more for doing so.
• - Rumors about the upcoming “Justice League” movie.   Is Nolan taking over?
• - Early buzz on Man of Steel is REALLY good.
• - Documentary: Craigslist Joe
• - Sony announces Playstation 4.
• - New  5″ Justice League line at Target from Mattel.
• - Gentle Giant Club Exclusive Gamorean Guard and Boba Fett.
• - Daniel gives you his thoughts on Fox’s “The Following”
• - Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome out now on DVD and Blu Ray.  – Could there be more BSG after Blood and Chrome?
• - Casting News – Chris Cooper as Norman Osborn in Spiderman 2.  Also Spidey 2 suit revealed.
• - Ray Cusick designer of the Dalek passes away.
• -A&E’s new Bates Motel series set in modern times?
• - Sam Mendes Says ‘No’ to Next James Bond.
• - Dear Mr. Watterson - Calvin and Hobbs documentary.

All that, and much more packed into over 70 minutes of podcasting goodness!