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This Chinese Building Looks Like Star Trek’s USS Enterprise

star trek enterprise building
This is certainly a first. Don’t tell Kirk and crew, but this building in China looks just like the USS Enterprise from Star Trek. From the ground it just looks like a nice building, but the drone footage from the air shows that it is really a Star Trek ship in dry dock.

It’s actually the headquarters of NetDragon Websoft, a Chinese mobile Internet and gaming company. The company Chairman Liu DeJian is reportedly a Star Trek fan who licensed the rights to construct this Enterprise replica. Construction began in 2008 and was completed in 2014. It cost $160 million in all. This is probably the only Star Trek building/ship in existence.

via Mashable

Scifi Staff by — May 21, 2015 in Props/Replicas 0
Fan Builds Amazing Life-Size Hulkbuster Armor

Fan Builds Amazing Life-Size Hulkbuster Armor

Oh. My. God. I am gonna need a bigger garage if I ever want some Hulkbuster armor this extreme. This life-size Hulkbuster armor was built by a 26-year-old teacher in China named Xing Yile. Awesome stuff like this doesn’t happen overnight. It took two months for him to build this thing. He did have the help of an assistant, but still. This thing is unreal.

It stands 3.4-meters tall and weighs half a ton. They also built a smaller sized Iron Man as a companion piece so you can get an idea of scale I guess. Small Iron Man and gargantuan Hulkbuster armor.

Fan Builds Amazing Life-Size Hulkbuster Armor

Fan Builds Amazing Life-Size Hulkbuster Armor

Fan Builds Amazing Life-Size Hulkbuster Armor

via Business Insider

Scifi Staff by — May 18, 2015 in Props/Replicas 0
Father And Son Build Giant Transformers Out Of Junk Parts

You can have your Michael Bay-directed Transformers. Even though I’m not a fan of the current generation of Transformers movies, I can still appreciate the Transformers themselves. Just like I can certainly appreciate the wonders that this father and son build together. They create huge and amazing Transformers of their own out of junk car parts.

Yu Zhilin and his son are quite the talented pair. They live in the Hunan province of China and have made a business out of building and selling these statues. You can see why. These statues have character and all the right details. They must be a real pain to transport.

giant transformers built from car parts

giant transformers built from car parts

giant transformers built from car parts

giant transformers built from car parts

via Geek Tyrant

Scifi Staff by — March 31, 2015 in Art 0