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Quint needs your help for this year's Holiday Shopping Guide!!!

Published at:  Oct 25, 2006 4:29:11 AM CDT

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with my annual call-out for suggestions for my gigantor Holiday Shopping Guide. That big bastard of an article tries to kill me every year, but it has become very popular, so I keep at it.

But I can't do it without your help.

I need to know what YOU want, what you'd suggest. I'm looking for anything Geek worthy. DVDs, Video Games, Toys, Collectibles, Busts, Gadgets, Books, Comics, Clothing... whatever the hell has got you jonesing this Holiday.

Also, if you work at a publisher, PR firm, etc, please let me know if you believe you have the perfect item to fill the stockings of the geeks.

If you don't know what the hell I'm rambling on about then Click It Here to go to Last Year's Holiday Shopping Guide!!!

In the end, I'll gather together all the suggestions, find the most popular and combine those with the goodies I dig up. If all goes right the article (probably 2 or 3 separate stories going up at the same time... the list just gets bigger and bigger every year) will hit on Thanksgiving, just in time for the big Christmas shopping season.

Please email me your suggestions at quint@aintitcool.com. You can also let me know your thoughts in the talkbacks below, but emails will help me keep track of your ideas better.

Thanks!

-Quint
quint@aintitcool.com







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  • Oct 25, 2006 4:31:23 AM CDT

    first?

    by badmrwonka

    oh say it ain't so

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  • Oct 25, 2006 4:34:04 AM CDT

    toy

    by badmrwonka

    "the pursuit of crappyness"...a 'speak n spell' toy that teaches kids to spell and speak improperly...to be sold in conjunction with horrible hip hop music and the new Will Smith movie...book it! minorities can't spell! hollywood know this and wil perpetuate it!

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  • Oct 25, 2006 4:34:51 AM CDT

    sigh

    by badmrwonka

    sadly,I think a toy like that would sell...

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  • Oct 25, 2006 4:38:43 AM CDT

    oh come on

    by badmrwonka

    don't make me post again just for show...

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  • Oct 25, 2006 4:39:28 AM CDT

    I wonder how long this could go on...

    by badmrwonka

    indefinately...at least til 5am or so...

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  • Oct 25, 2006 4:40:29 AM CDT

    if I get to 10, is that a record?

    by badmrwonka

    especially considering I read the whole article?

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  • Oct 25, 2006 4:41:04 AM CDT

    somehow I feel dirty now

    by badmrwonka

    I should quit

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  • Oct 25, 2006 4:41:51 AM CDT

    I'm like a steroid filled monster

    by badmrwonka

    dominating, but unjustly so...

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  • Oct 25, 2006 4:42:27 AM CDT

    ok

    by badmrwonka

    it's done now, I feel like a vacuum cartridge full of lint...

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  • Oct 25, 2006 4:44:36 AM CDT

    I'm going to bed

    by badmrwonka

    Quint, here's the money prize for the best nerd Xmas gift: http://tinyurl.com/y6xlqa . . . get it? oh I'm so funny...time for bed...

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  • Oct 25, 2006 4:45:44 AM CDT

    I...can't...sleep...

    by badmrwonka

    I...must...stay awake...until someone beats me to the next post!

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  • Oct 25, 2006 4:46:37 AM CDT

    oh man...

    by badmrwonka

    this is ridiculous...should I start telling jokes?

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  • Oct 25, 2006 4:47:30 AM CDT

    or

    by badmrwonka

    plugging my website? http://tinyurl.com/y5bply

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  • Oct 25, 2006 4:48:29 AM CDT

    the flavor is gone!

    by badmrwonka

    I'm like that dude from the Twilight Zone that was left on Earth after the nuclear blast with a bunch of books, but his glasses broke!

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  • Oct 25, 2006 4:49:14 AM CDT

    no one at AICN

    by badmrwonka

    will ever read a script I've written in its entirety...

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  • Oct 25, 2006 4:49:42 AM CDT

    no matter how goos it is

    by badmrwonka

    or was...or could be? hmmm?

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  • Oct 25, 2006 4:50:25 AM CDT

    I will graduate from film school

    by badmrwonka

    in December...before anyone else posts a message on this talkback!

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  • Oct 25, 2006 4:52:29 AM CDT

    a joke

    by badmrwonka

    A husband comes home to find his wife with her suitcases packed in the living room. "Where the hell do you think you're going?" he says. "I'm going to Las Vegas. You can earn $400 for a blow job there, and I figured that I might as well earn money for what I do to you free."

    The husband thinks for a moment, goes upstairs, and comes back down, with his suitcase packed as well. "Where do you think you going?" the wife asks. "I'm coming with you...I want to see how you survive on $800 a year!!!"

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  • Oct 25, 2006 4:52:59 AM CDT

    jesus

    by badmrwonka

    I'm starting to think I'm drunker than I actually am!

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  • Oct 25, 2006 4:53:43 AM CDT

    Dear Mr Quint

    by franklin t marmoset

    I would like to suggest the USB smokeless ashtray. Not only does it remind us geeks of the Peltzer smokeless ashtray from Gremlins, but it's an ashtray you can connect to your computer (for the power - you can't program it or make it play mp3s), which seems to me so utterly ridiculous that it must the work of some crazed genius. I believe it also runs on batteries, just in case you don't have a computer. Also, it is shaped like a car.

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  • Oct 25, 2006 4:54:16 AM CDT

    Henri, the haunted kitty

    by badmrwonka

    http://tinyurl.com/y4onln

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  • Oct 25, 2006 4:55:00 AM CDT

    and I'm out...

    by badmrwonka

    like Seinfeld...on top...I rarely purr...

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  • Oct 25, 2006 4:55:52 AM CDT

    Deodorant Always Makes A Good Gift

    by tonagan

    You know a lot of us here have body odor problems, and our coworkers aren't forward enough to tell us...

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  • Oct 25, 2006 4:58:11 AM CDT

    Yes, 'be' is the missing word

    by franklin t marmoset

    Congratulations to anyone who noticed. Must 'be' the work of some crazed genius. Thank you again for considering the USB smokeless ashtray. Also, thank you MrBadWonka for your tremendous run of posts. Your prize? A USB smokeless ashtray.

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  • Oct 25, 2006 5:00:03 AM CDT

    USB smokeless ashtray

    by franklin t marmoset

    I just wanted to say it one more time. Also, to get it in the title.

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  • Oct 25, 2006 5:34:05 AM CDT

    Damn you Michael Bay

    by mcmlxxvi

    Damn you Michael Bay

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  • Oct 25, 2006 6:01:27 AM CDT

    A Mogwai...

    by film_fanatic_in_the_original_black_and_w

    Fantastic gift idea. Get your kid a doll that can offspring terrorizing creatures and Santa Ebert will give you two thumbs up! Jolly times to all!

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  • Oct 25, 2006 6:26:02 AM CDT

    Smoking killed my mother

    by pandamaster83

    and raped my father. I recommend The Natural Guide To Depression for all those poor sods who tried so hard to get hold of a PS3 by the end of the year.

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  • Oct 25, 2006 6:48:25 AM CDT

    Sorry to hear about that, panda

    by franklin t marmoset

    My mother was killed by Mo King, the local tax-free tobacco dealer. She tried to rape my father, but he remained defiantly flaccid.

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  • Oct 25, 2006 7:10:43 AM CDT

    One eightball of smack, please.

    by zarles

    The one from Sharper Image with the Vulcan logo on it.

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  • Oct 25, 2006 7:14:08 AM CDT

    Oh, and when I get that eightball of smack...

    by zarles

    ...I'd like to smoke it out of the hollowed-out corpse of pandamaster's mother. Thx!

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  • Oct 25, 2006 7:15:37 AM CDT

    Man... weak

    by pandamaster83

    I'll have Rob Reiner come down on your ass.

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  • Oct 25, 2006 7:55:17 AM CDT

    the classic toy with small parts that can choke you....

    by chickengeorgevii

    CHICKEN GEORGE VII PLAYSET!!!! I WANNA CHICKEN GEORGE VII PLAYSET!!!! EVERY KID WANNA CHICKEN GEORGE VII PLAYSET!!! GET YOUR TETNAUS SHOTS AND BUY A CHICKEN GEORGE VII PLAYSET!!! MAKE SURE YOU HAVE PLENTY OF VENTILATION AND GET A CHICKEN GEORGE VII PLAYSET!!! FIREPROOF THE LIVING ROOM AND GIVE THE CHICKEN GEORGE VII PLAYSET!!!!! THE GIFT THAT GIVES AS MUCH AS IT IS GIVEN!!!! And thus, batteries not included some assembly required! - - - George, The 7th Chicken!!!!

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  • Oct 25, 2006 8:46:53 AM CDT

    Man I missed ChickenGeorge...

    by ricky henderson

    I want a pony for X-mas.

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  • Oct 25, 2006 9:10:26 AM CDT

    Gears of War

    by godzillasushi

    Gears of War

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  • Oct 25, 2006 10:00:58 AM CDT

    zombies!

    by thehashishin

    personally, i think it would be pretty cool to own all the "walking dead" grapic novels, 1-5.

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  • Oct 25, 2006 10:54:15 AM CDT

    "Also, if you work at a publisher, PR firm, etc...

    by zacdilone

    ...please send me free stuff." (Translation by AltaVista BabelFish)

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  • Oct 25, 2006 11:13:23 AM CDT

    They should make a Giga Boxed Set.....

    by jaguart

    Of all the Boxed Sets in Existence. But would there be a Box big enough?

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  • Oct 25, 2006 11:32:44 AM CDT

    I love the yearly article, quint.

    by jonesey1111

    I just realized I have been coming to this site for 3 years...

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  • Oct 25, 2006 12:00:27 PM CDT

    The good version of Zelda:Twilight Princess.

    by shermdawg

    That would be the GameCube edition.

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  • Oct 25, 2006 1:04:25 PM CDT

    Really? On that note

    by pandamaster83

    For all the people intending to send me things, I urge you to make a donation to a charity of your choice instead.

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  • Oct 25, 2006 1:33:11 PM CDT

    One word:

    by mechasheeva

    Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!

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  • Oct 25, 2006 2:11:12 PM CDT

    Weren't there any good gift shops in Prague?

    by lando griffin

    Seems like a fellow who went to PRAGUE, as I understand you recently did Mori, would've have picked up a few gifts and knick knacks from the local Ma & Pa giftshops in PRAGUE.

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  • Oct 25, 2006 3:35:27 PM CDT

    When I was a kid...

    by bubba gillman

    ...about 30 years ago, I had this alien doll (or action figure, in geek parlance). It wasn't the Alien alien, it was just an alien. It was green, with sort of a maroon outfit, and its head was made of rubber that slipped over a light bulb so that its eyes glowed. It had this gun thing that it wore like a backpack and which shot little white rubber beebees. Does anyone remember this? That's what I want.

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  • Oct 25, 2006 3:48:50 PM CDT

    Comics

    by nevereverwhere

    Absolute Sandman
    Absolute Dark Knight
    Lost Girls
    Pride of Baghdad

    All essential.

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  • Oct 25, 2006 3:56:51 PM CDT

    One-up, up and away

    by zacdilone

  • Oct 25, 2006 4:57:45 PM CDT

    Ann Coulter's GODLESS

    by bannedontherun

    Autographed hardcover, please.

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  • Oct 25, 2006 5:38:38 PM CDT

    NOT a PS3

    by nachokoolaid

    For the price of one PS3, you can get an Xbox 360 and a Nintendo Wii. Also, Gears of War will be one of the hottest games this holiday season.

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  • Oct 25, 2006 6:31:15 PM CDT

    Lost Girls

    by quentintarantado

    I'm with neverwhere. Lost Girls. and for the Filipino geeks out there, an original Voltes V toy, (from that anime); the large die-cast metal set of five spaceships that transform into one robot, manufactured thirty years ago. They have a smaller version nowadays that would sell for $260.
    Also check out the reald.com website. They have a 3D projection system and a set of 3D glasses for the low price of $8,665! (Cheep, as MAD magazine would say). Currently they use it for movies and scientific, CAD/CAM applications, but I'd like the XBox 360 or the PS3 to support this. Imagine the possibilities.

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  • Oct 25, 2006 6:51:55 PM CDT

    going to space, personal subs, electric sports car etc

    by quentintarantado

    We can reserve a trip to space on Virgin Galactic ($200,000. Ivccorp.com sells personal subs starting at $15,000. Schwarzenegger was checking out a Tesla electric car (teslamotors.com) for $100,000. It goes 0 to 60 in 4 seconds. You can reserve a Transition personal plane at Terrafugia.com for $7,400 to be delivered 2009 (total price: $148,000, estimated).

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  • Oct 25, 2006 11:28:27 PM CDT

    I don't care.

    by thebearovingian

    But you'd better get me something awesome!

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  • Oct 26, 2006 1:43:54 AM CDT

    Hey Quint, are you going to con us again this year -

    by half vader

    By trying to convince us that "none of that is photography" in regards to some Tim Bradstreet art? What a crock! You think that's all freehand with no photo reference? He's a damn TRACER!

    Thus endeth the rant, as they say.

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  • Oct 26, 2006 1:55:42 AM CDT

    Oh yeah - for the list (geekiest & most obvious choice)

    by half vader

    The Humongous Millennium Falcon From Master Replicas. 4.5 grand in Aussie dollars (which translates to about 3.5 U.S. when you guys pay 2.2) so we'll never afford it - and that's the cheap non-Harrison Ford signed one!

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  • Oct 26, 2006 6:31:49 PM CDT

    I'M PISSED!!!

    by shermdawg

    I went over to Toys "R" Us today, to take advantage of there annual buy 2 games get 1 free deal. (I bought three bullshit titles and will just exchange them when the big guns come out in a few weeks.)I took a gander at the selection of action figures they have, something I haven't done in awhile, and something really ticked me off. There was this super cool $16.99 Marvel Masterworks 12inch Captain America figure, but the fucker had no mask!!! Not even a interchangeable head or snap on helmet!L-A-M-E!!!I would've totally bought it too.

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  • Oct 27, 2006 2:58:09 AM CDT

    another one

    by half vader

    Oh yeah - that 1:1 Terminator (can't remember if it's Master Replicas or Sideshow Collectibles) rocks too.

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