Friday, October 14, 2011

Freaky Friday #FF - Woman revels in 'unique' gum collection | Offbeat | Eugene News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | KVAL CBS 13

Woman revels in 'unique' gum collection | Offbeat | Eugene News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | KVAL CBS 13
Woman revels in 'unique' gum collection
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"When the 77-year-old Idaho Falls woman spread her treasured collection across her coffee table and living room floor, her face lit up and she spoke with youthful giddiness. Maughan looked like a child unleashed in a candy store — and that's no exaggeration.

Mounds of brightly-colored, creatively packaged gum surrounded her.

"It just intrigues me," Maughan said. "When I see a new flavor; oh dear, I'm not obsessed, but it almost seems like it."

Maughan started collecting gum in 1948. While her peers found fascination in matchbooks, stamps and bottle caps, she wanted something different.

As a 15-year-old, Maughan watched the Freedom Train pass through Pocatello with her schoolmates. While there, she bought her collection's first piece — Popeye bubble gum, inspired by the cartoon "Sailor Man" and his gal, Olive Oyl.


After that, she was hooked.

For the next 63 years, Maughan kept an eye out for new packages and flavors of chewing gum wherever she went."



Puppeteers, CG meet to create 'Real Steel' robots | Crave - CNET

Puppeteers, CG meet to create 'Real Steel' robots | Crave - CNET:


"... director Shawn Levy decided to build huge, gadget-rich "puppet" versions of the boxing robots from the new Hugh Jackman action movie "Real Steel." ... working "real life" versions of the creatures via animatronics to interact with Jackson and the other actors on-set.

Legacy Effects built 24 robot puppets in total, including versions of the main "stars" Atom, Noisy Boy, and Ambush. According to Legacy's statistics, each puppet contained more than 350 individual machine parts, making for a final creation that weighed more than 250 pounds. Each limb joint could be adjusted to let operators take control of the bots with puppet articulation rods.

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Robots take title as 'Real Steel' earns $27.3M | Deseret News

Robots take title as 'Real Steel' earns $27.3M | Deseret News:

FILE - This file image provided by Disney/DreamWorks II shows Hugh Jackman, left, and Dakota Goyo in a scene from Real Steel. (DreamWorks II, File, AP Photo/Disney)
Hugh Jackman's "Real Steel" movie, set in a near-future when robot fighters have replaced humans in the ring, debuted at No. 1 with $27.3 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Look at that smile on Dakota Goyo

A DreamWorks release distributed by Disney, "Real Steel" added $22.1 million in 19 overseas markets for a worldwide total of $49.4 million. The movie casts Jackman as a former boxer reluctantly thrown together with his young son as they turn a junkyard robot into a world-class contender.


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Real Steel Minifigs by Medicom

Real Steel Robot Toys
Collectible mini-figures created by Medicom for the Real Steel Movie with Hugh Jackman and Dakota Goyo. Noisy boy and Charlie (with trademark beard stubble) are in the first set, packaged together. Atom and Max are the characters in the second 2-pack of these minifigs that will be very popular Christmas and Holiday gifts for 2011.

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Noisy Boy robot and Charlie (Hugh Jackman)

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Real Steel "Kubrick" characters
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William M. Tweed also created one of the most beautiful buildings in Manhattan, right behind City Hall. After paying-off the construction workers who were his friends, the original New York City Courthouse was built at a cost of ten times the standard market rates for construction in the 1860s. The "Tweed Courthouse" is now used by the Board of Education.
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