August 31st, 2010
“What’s your favorite movie?”
is a question everyone can answer, and everyone will answer passionately. Film sees radical changes in technology and style; every decade of film has it’s own identity and has a different feel from the ones before and after it. But no matter where you came from, film has an undeniable impact on our culture, and it’s only natural to show the love. We have movie t shirts for all your favorites, old and new alike. We have a soft spot for the classic brat pack, Marty McFly, and the best of George Lucas’ films and don our 80s movie tees with pride, but all generations had movies to be just as passionate about. In fact, Citizen Kane is considered critically to be one of the best films ever made, and that came out in 1941, long before we were even born! Did you know that movie theaters have been around for almost one hundred years? Way back then, it was a far simpler time. Moving pictures  were spectacles, not yet evolved enough to tell a real story, but more than enough to captivate a culture. Back then, movies were only a few minutes in length, with choppy frame rates and blurry shots, and we didn’t complain! We walked a mile in the snow with no shoes to the five cent theater, and they didn’t even have air conditioning! Naturally though, theaters have grown a lot since then. Now, the first big trip to the movie theater is a childhood memory we can all cherish. Remember that first time you saw Star Wars as a kid and the Star Destroyer made it’s slow crawl over the audience, accompanied by a massive mechanical roar that echoed through the room? Remember the next five times you saw Star Wars after that? It’s a rhetorical question: you’ll never forget. A far cry from our childhoods, today we have the option to sit down in a body-hugging plush seat, recline it back, put a massive sugary soft drink in the arm rest and watch our favorite actors do their thing on a 40 foot screen in full HD and 3D while looking almost as good as reality. We have theaters with moving seats that weave and wobble along with the action, and massive screens that telescope across the ceiling, surrounding the viewer with an image on all sides. We’ve even moved past 3-D and have seen the introduction of “4-D” cinemas, which spray water, move seats, blow jets of wind, and more, all to immerse the next generation in the world of movies even more than the last. And if you don’t feel like going out and you feel like the magic is finally gone, with Video On Demand services now you don’t even need to leave the couch. Pop on your favorite movie t-shirt, slide the DVD in, and turn your own house into a theater to envy!
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August 17th, 2010
Doctor Who dates back all the way to 1963 and is still running to this day, making it the longest-running science fiction show in the world. It stars  the titular Doctor Who, a genius alien “Time Lord” who commands the time machine TARDIS, which takes the iconic form of a 1950s London police box. TARDIS randomly deposits the good doctor in different locations in time and space, wherever there is a problem only he can solve. With over 700 episodes and counting, the Doctor has been challenged by every situation you can think of, from bizarre aliens to rival Time Lords, and has even come back from the dead ten times!
That’s right, the Doctor can regenerate upon death, coming back with a new body and personality. Dr. Who is the time travel enthusiast’s answer to the James Bond series, with eleven actors each putting their own unique spin on the character. Fans will argue until the end of the series (or the end of time, whichever comes first) on which Doctor’s adventures were the best.
Tom Baker, the Fourth Doctor, continues to be the most iconic; he had the longest run on the tv series and his episodes were the ones most frequently broadcast overseas. His neurotic streak, including an excessively big scarf and a coat packed with jelly beans, remains the definitive version of the Doc to many old school fans. Still, many argue that 2005′s debut of David Tennant, the Tenth Doctor, was the start of the series’ best episodes, perfectly mixing modern CGI and editing with the classical intelligence of the old series. And of course, everyone else has their own favorites. If you’re a fan, who’s your favorite Doctor?
Even if you’re new to the series and Matt Smith’s Eleventh Doctor is the only one you know, we still have plenty of ways to show the love. Even if you can’t pick a favorite Doc, we have great Doctor Who t shirts featuring all the great recurring symbols of the series. The Doctor may change, but the TARDIS is recognizable the world over. And who can forget those lovable exterminators of all life in the universe, the Daleks? Their robot suit is an essential cultural icon, with a 2008 survey revealing that 9/10 British children can identify a Dalek. With a cool Dr. Who Dalek T Shirt, you can prove that you can too!
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August 10th, 2010
 Jeff Dunham is one of the most-viewed and most popular comedians of all time, dominating sites like Youtube and putting phrases like “Silence, I keel you!” and “on a steeeek” into the pop culture vernacular for years to come. Jeff Dunham T shirts are flying off the shelves, and he even had his own self-named tv show! If you live under a rock with no cable hookup and you missed his comedy specials, and somehow missed him online (his debut of Achmed is in the Top 10 most viewed Youtube videos, with over 350 million hits!), there’s one thing about him that makes these accomplishments all the more incredible: He’s a ventriloquist.
That’s right. Reviving an art that most thought to be long-dead, including many of the networks that wound up syndicating him worldwide, Jeff Dunham has become a self made millionaire by letting nobody convince him that the hobby he loves wouldn’t succeed. On the strength of his hilarious characters and his expertise of the form, he’s reached a level of success and popularity no fellow ventriloquist has ever seen. While his clean-cut image appeals to families, his act is edgy and offensive enough to satisfy any fan of modern comedy, and his characters continue to be contemporary and relevant. His most popular include:
Walter: A retired old man, Walter is discontented and sarcastic to a hilarious degree. Married for forty-six years, Walter claims the happiest moment of his life was “forty-seven years ago”. He’s often used to read and mock letters from the audience, and was one of Dunham’s original puppets, appearing in every one of his tv specials.
Peanut: A hyperactive, spastic purple puppet, Peanut often torments both the other characters and Jeff directly, even using a tiny Jeff puppet to mock him. A fan favorite and easily the most unusual of Dunham’s characters, he asked, after Dunham claimed to have never done drugs, “then how the hell did you come up with me”? Peanut was also one of his original puppets, another fixture of every one of his tv specials.
Achmed The Dead Terrorist: The newest addition, Achmed is a skeletal corpse of an incompetent suicide bomber used to satirize the terrorism issue. He suffers from “premature detonation”, and became the breakthrough star of Dunham’s act, propelling it to unheard-of levels of popularity. A very difficult character to make funny in such sensitive times, Jeff Dunham had the skill and professionalism needed to make it succeed. Now Achmed The Dead Terrorist T Shirts fly off the shelves and everyone knows that famous line, “I KEEL YOU!”. There are many more, usually up to seven different characters in one act, from a bumbling superhero to a smooth “Player In the Management Profession”. With such a wide variety, there’s a character for everyone to share a laugh with. We have Jeff Dunham t-shirts featuring the most popular characters and lines, and will continue to follow Jeff as he proves that ventriloquism, unlike Achmed, will never die.
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August 6th, 2010
 In one corner we have Nintendo’s Mario, a portly plumber hailing from the Mushroom Kingdom. His iron hard hands can bust right through bricks, and tales have been told of his legendary immune system, allowing the man to derive superhuman abilities from extremely sketchy mushrooms that would surely put even the best wilderness survivalist in a hospital bed for weeks. His innocent blue eyes conceal a long, difficult past fighting everything evil has to offer, from the darkest subterranean dungeons all the way into the furthest reaches of space. A super star athlete, Mario is proficient in every major sport, and has a jump height that blows away that of even the greatest Olympians. Depending on who you ask, he is either the ultimate alpha male or the cruel and ruthless face of years of turtle oppression. But even so, we all know Mario is the quintessential classic warrior, driven by love and fighting for the affections of a fair maiden. Mario’s dominance among his peers is without equal, and his popularity from over two hundred video game appearances knows no limits. Are you pro-Mario? Don your Mario t-shirt like a superstar and support this humble union worker’s proud legacy. In the other corner we have SEGA’s own Sonic The Hedgehog, a blue hedgehog with an attitude that can break the sound barrier. Facing the mass robotization of all his fellow animal friends, Sonic smashed, bashed, and dashed his way into the history books by overthrowing Dr. Robotnik’s evil empire time and time again in over fifty game appearances and counting. The lean, mean answer to Mario, Sonic The Hedgehog sets his sights on saving his world from robotic oppression and collecting every piece of fine jewelry and rare metal he can get his shaking, twitching hands on. Are you a born Sonic fan? Wear your Sonic The Hedgehog t-shirt proudly and get ready to run circles around your competition. But seriously, what gets a plumber and a hedgehog together in the same ring? This rivalry started way back in the early 90s, when SEGA debuted the Genesis to challenge Nintendo’s Super Nintendo, the industry’s top game console. Speeding onto the scene with the motto “Genesis Does What Nintendon’t”, SEGA used Sonic’s Generation X attitude and the game’s groundbreaking graphics to start a rivalry with Nintendo’s MVP that inspires debate to this day. Mario would go on to sell more games and Nintendo would ultimately overpower SEGA in the console war, but both characters leave behind a massive legacy of video games, cartoons, clothes, comics, toys, and more for our mutual entertainment pleasure! Both characters are some of the most identifiable characters in the world, and luckily for all of us the two have since resolved their differences, with SEGA now producing Sonic video games for Nintendo’s consoles and both with new, hotly anticipated games on the horizon. Everybody wins!
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August 4th, 2010
 2Bhip here with TV Show T Shirts! Don’t change the channel! This is not your average infomercial! Have you ever been couch-locked with one hand on the remote and the other elbow-deep in a tub of junk food? Do you know the pain of battered and abused thumbs? Did you know that thumb abuse is the number one overlooked form of minor bodily neglect in the world? Are you used to somebody in a screen asking you a whole lot of fast-paced rhetorical questions?
If you answered “yes” to one or more of these questions, you’re just like me; a child of the television era. Television is a constantly evolving form of entertainment, going from black and white to technicolor to cinema-quality with surround sound in just a few short decades. Television is fast becoming the top form of entertainment worldwide, with popular tv shows giving everybody something to talk about week after week. Now that innovations like TiVo and DVR allow us to fit compulsive surfing into any schedule, TV is more than ever on the fast track to becoming an integral part of our cultural identity. It’s a way to have fun that everyone can agree on! Tune in, keep surfing, or get off the couch.
Like you, we long to show our love for the tv shows that keep us tuning in, and we’ve made our dream come true! We have the newest and coolest designs for the best in popular television, and we go way back to TV’s golden age as well, those nostalgic days when we had to fiddle with antennas for twenty minutes to get reception. For the newest and greatest, we have a popular line of Big Bang Theory t shirts that will help take “Bazinga” all the way into the dictionary! We also have Family Guy tees, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia t-shirts, 24 tees, and so much more! We have more TV show tees than most people have channels!
Our TV t-shirts are all officially licensed, all totally awesome, and all guaranteed to turn heads and make thumbs envious. I know what you’re thinking: “I bet the guy on the screen is going to ask me another batch of rhetorical questions”, and you’re right!
Where can I get my hands on the coolest in TV tees? When does this amazing offer expire? How much time do I have left? If I call now, will I get a free juicer?
In fact, they’re waiting for you. You don’t need to call within fifteen minutes. We don’t need to throw in a novelty juicer to sell products this good. This is not a once in a lifetime offer, but take a look through our “ TV Show T Shirts” and I doubt you’ll want to wait!
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July 9th, 2010
 Total Film had Back to the Future fans in a frenzy from it’s Twitter post on Monday by declaring July 5, 2010 as “Future Day”. Total Film Tweeted a doctored photo of the delorean dashboard claiming that this was the date Doc and Marty traveled in time to. Followers of the site re-tweeted and their followers re-tweeted and so on. This quickly became one of the most searched terms across the internet and a trending topic on Twitter.
Total Film confessed of their doctored photo after die hard fans had demanded an explanation of the grevious mistake.
Rest assured Googlers the future date is a good 5 years away, October 21st 2015 (Back to the Future II). Bring on the hover board and Jaws 19!
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June 28th, 2010
 Get ready fairy fans…Tinker Bell and her friends are on their way to a new full length movie, Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue , set to release on July 30th 2010.
Tink encounters her first human, before Wendy and the Lost Boys, Lizzy. As the two unite, Tink develops a special bond with the girl in need of a friend. As Tink’s fairy friends launch a daring rescue, Tink risks her safety along with the future of all fairies. The action packed adventure takes all fairies of Pixie Hollow on a daring flight to London to save Tinker Bell and fairies of all kind.
Check out the official sneak peek
Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue Trailer
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June 21st, 2010
Today marks the first day of summer and is historically known as the longest day and shortest night of the year. Summer Soltice is a latin derived phrase meaning “sun” and “to stand still”. As the days lengthen, the sun rises higher and higher until it seems to stand still in the sky. As a major celestial event, the northern hemisphere celebrates in June while the southern hemisphere has their longest summer day in December.
In early celebrations, awed by the great power of the sun, civilizations have for centuries celebrated the first day of summer otherwise known as Summer Solstice, Midsummer, St. John’s Day, or the Wiccan Litha.
The Celts & Slavs celebrated the first day of summer with dancing & bonfires to help increase the sun’s energy. The Chinese marked the day by honoring Li, the Chinese Goddess of Light. Perhaps the most longest modern ties with Summer Solstice were the Druids’ celebration of the day as the “wedding of Heaven and Earth”, resulting in the present day belief of a “lucky” wedding in June.
Today, the day continues to be celebrated around the world. Most notably in England at Stonehenge and Avebury. Thousands gather to welcome the sunrise on the Summer Soltice.
Now that we got the history out of the way, bring on the flip flops, beach towels and hats. We’ve all awaited this day to come and can celebrate accordingly. Since you’ll be spending a lot of time in a swimsuit this summer, you could use some pocket alternatives. How about a bottle opener right on your flip flop strap or hat? Genious.
 
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June 11th, 2010
Brain child of the Disney Corporation and delivered with the flawless execution of a new innovative technology, Toy Story is fantastic on a number of levels. Toy Story was the first film for Pixar Entertainment who pioneered the use of cgi cinematography. Mix in a colorful storyline performed by an incredibly talented cast and crowds worldwide lined up to take part of this fantasy. Toy Story 2, the sophmore film, experienced the same success of it’s predecessor. The film featured a mix of familiar voices. Tom Hanks stars as Woody, the lovable old fashioned pull string cowboy and best pal to his child owner, Andy. A wonderland of it own, Andy’s room is full of toys who come to life when he leaves. Woody is their leader.
In the first film we’re introduced to Buzz Lightyear a fearless and dare say oblivious astronaut action figure who unlike the other toys, believes he’s real. Andy brings Buzz home after a birthday party and is awstruck with the buttons, new dazzling features and, of course, the trademark “To infinity and beyond!”. Alas, Woody is disenchanted fearing that his place in the boys heart as his best pal may be lost to this new toy. From there the movie unfolds as Woody plots to trap this intruder that results in him falling out of the Toy room only to having Buzz come to his aid. They learn that they must rely on each other to make it home.
Of course, as is the Disney way, the two toys become comrades in the end and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Just like that, a franchise was launched with plush dolls, funny t-shirts and the Toy Story Mania area at Disneyland California Adventure. The best part about the film(s) is not only the appeal they have for children but that the adults can enjoy it just as much. That’s an impressive feat and we’re all hooked as a result. 2010′s Toy Story 3 brings some old friendly faces back to the big screen, like the piggy bank named Hamm. “Lotso” (short for Lots-O’-Huggin Bear) is the newest member of the bunch. June 18th in the release date and the world is sitting in anticipation . With such a great time in store, who wouldn’t be.
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June 8th, 2010
The series that introduced most of the world to Mr. T, The A-Team is seeing a newfound revival as we count down to the new A-Team movie on June 11th. The A-Team series starred four soldiers of fortune who escape from military prison after being staged for the infamous “crime they didn’t commit”. Ex-Vietnam veterans, The A-Team are elites, each with a different mastery which makes them the best mercenaries of their kind. While most episodes were unrelated, their war experiences and now famous interplay (“I ain’t gettin’ on no plane!”) brought the team together for five seasons, before retiring Hannibal, Faceman, Murdock, and B.A. Baracus to television history. The massive explosions, macho look at warfare, and often subtle satire made it a homeland hit, and made it the target of international controversy. Though many critics would claim the mindless action and cartoonish look at warfare delegitimized the show, even calling it a “celebration of violence”, hardcore fans know that this was the magic of the A-Team, and what the show did better than all others. Few television moments match the pure entertainment value of a massive explosion triggering as Hannibal lights his cigar, walking off without looking back. There’s an art to action, and The A-Team mastered it, with many similar series taking their influences directly from The A-Team to this day.
A reinvention of the franchise, not a remake, the 2010 A-Team movie stars new actors in a more contemporary Middle East setting. As expected, it  keeps the trademark van, the explosions, and the high-octane approach to warfare. Though the cast has changed, they look to keep the spirit, with UFC’s Quinton “Rampage” Jackson taking the crucial role of B.A. Baracus and film veterans Liam Neeson (Schindler’s List), Sharlto Copley (District 9), and Bradley Cooper (The Hangover) filling out the rest of the crew. It is expected to lessen the slapstick aspects of the original series for a more gritty modern feel, making the A-Team concept more identifiable for new fans. Though it changes a few elements, old-school fans can take solace in the fact that both creators of the original series are involved with and supervising the project, so it should keep the spirit of the series alive and well. For A-Team fans, this movie is not one to miss!
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