MAD MAX TRAILER: "Blood and Fire" are the rules of Fury Road!

ZOMG! SO MUCH FIRE!

VIDEO: Mad Max has nothin' on these "New Barbarians"

This trailer for The New Barbarians, a.k.a. Warriors of the Wasteland (1983) sold me when they showed a motorcycle bandit take an exploding arrow to the neck (hilarity ensues thereafter). This is Italian-made Saturday afternoon, eighties Gamma-cheese at it's finest.

It looks like the prequel to my favorite Spaghetti-pocalypse film, 2019: The Fall of New York. (Somehow I missed doing a recap on that one, I'll have to correct that soon.)

It stars exploitation film staple Fred Williamson (Black Caesar, the Black Cobra series) as said, explosive archer. Really, what more can you ask for?

Anyway, check out the awesome trailer for Barbarians:

GEAR: Motopeds Survival Bike, a.k.a, The Apocacycle!

No humanoid scavanger, roving gang of mutanted hoodlums should be without their own personal mode of transportation. If you can find one of these babies, count yourself extremely fortunate as they were made for exploring (or escaping from) the ravages of the surface world.

Manufactured by the tens of thousands in the early part of the 21st century, the ZASser (as it came to be known) could be the perfect bike to give you a clean getaway from the hordes of zomibies/rogue robots/angry warlords/what-have-you. Have a look:

MOTOPEDS SURVIVAL BIKE*

• 2-stroke engine
• Range: 120 miles per gallon
• Speed: 40 MPH
• (More to come)

Accessories Package:

• Barnett Recruit Compound Crossbow (20 bolts, 2d6 dmg)
• Rotopax RX-1G Gas Packs - 1 Gallon ea. (120 MPG)
• United Cutlery M48 Tactical Survival Shovel
• United Cutlery M48 Hawk Tomahawk (1d6+1)
• United Cutlery M48 Hawk Harpoon (1d8+1 dmg)
• Gerber Fixed Blade Saw
• Blackburn X6 Light System (up to 200 lumens, range of 75 feet)
• Black Diamond Carabiners / Climbing rope
• Cree Mini LED Flashlight (up to 300 lumens, range of 35 feet, short periods)
• BioLogic Bike Mount for iPhone4/gps
• Tool Logic Tactical Multifunction Knife / light (+1d4 on any related mechanical skill rolls)
• Tool Logic Credit Card Companion multi-tool (+1d4 on any fine motor control technical skill rolls)
• CRKT Guppie multi-tool (+1d4 on any survival-related technical skill rolls)
• Tactical-Warrior Neck Knife (1d4+1 dmg)

 

Fully loaded...

 

...versus, the stock version...

 

*Couldn't resist imagining this for game use! Two caveats: 1. Motopeds hasn't released the specs yet and 2. I am not a motorbike person so I'm totally guessing on stats. I'll update as soon as Motopeds announces the final product (this is apparently just a prototype).

Via The Mary Sue and the Motoped Facebook page

EDIT: Motoped has updated the specs on their survival bike.

WAR MACHINE: The Technodrome!

What do you get when you put treads on a Death Star? 
In the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle universe, nothing matched the sheer menace or mechanical brutality as the Krang and Shredder's mobile HQ--THE TECHNODROME!

It was a massive, burrowing war machine, bristling with weapons and advanced technology. So OBVIOUSLY, It would make for a great set piece in any RPG.

As is, that is--a giant, earth digging, castle/tank for a mutant warlord looking for revenge against subterranean Valids.

Here's a scanner readout of some of the known features of this massive warmongering battlestation, courtesy of the TMNT wiki:

Equipment and Armament:

• A trans-dimensional portal
• Eyeball missile launchers
• 4 trident-shaped laser cannons
• A mounted surveillance eye on the top
• A mouser factory
• Training facilities for Shredder's henchmen, Bebop and Rocksteady
• Three-foot-thick titanium armor
• Huge tank treads
• Robot walker legs that can be used instead of tank treads (scene at the end of Season 3)
• Large holding cells
• Earthquake machine (used during Season 2)
• Various drilling mechanisms

Design Features

Classical Japanese Dojo Rooms

Balance control (during near the end of Season 3)

Anti-gravitation generators making the technodrome able to hover slightly above the ground (used during season 2 )

Disintegrator Unit (season 2)

Relay Room

Engine Room

Laundry room

For more, checkout...

• Technodrome image gallery on gammaworldwar.tumblr.com
• Great background info and episodes for inspiration at the TMNT wiki
• News of TMNT LEGO sets for 2013 bodes well for DIY Technodrome!

Mad Max 4 in production, sounds crazy/awesome

So you heard they're making a fourth Mad Max movie, right? Yep. With this guy as Max:

Tom Hardy wants to be friends

I'm pretty sure that the guy who played Bane has the street cred to pull off Max Rockatansky, post-apocalyptic badass.

And Charlize Theron is in it. Probably because she's in everything. But I heard she shaved her head for the role, so we definitely appreciate her dedication, don't we kids (yes, yes we do). She plays someone called "Imperator Furiosa".

New vehicles from Fury Road

Venerable geek temple io9 has a snippet about the plot which barely makes sense and that's why it's cool:

"Mad Max is caught up with a group of people fleeing across the Wasteland in a War Rig driven by the Imperator Furiosa. This movie is an account of the Road War which follows. It is based on the Word Burgers of the History Men and eyewitness accounts of those who survived."

Read the full report, including the new cast. FAIR WARNING: You'll likely run into spoilers for other movies on that page since it happens to be called MORNING SPOILERS.

UPDATE: What's an imperator anyway? And should she be called "imperatrix" instead?

UPDATE 2: io9 has posted some spoilerific photos of mutants and more vehicles which I won't post here for those hoping to remain blissfilly unaware...at least until the trailer hits.

UPDATE 3: Even MORE images of vehicles over at Comic Book Resources.