http://www.urbanretrolifestyle.com - Art, Vinyl Toys, Video Games, Culture, Comics and Cartoons Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:03:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Looking to waste some time or do you want to finally get a chance to create your own Kaleidoscope without cutting out loads of tiny little shapes. Believe me it is addictive so start out with the basic version here and then move on to the more advance and confusing ... http://www.urbanretrolifestyle.com/2008/06/28/neato-online-kaleidoscope/ In the world of video games getting more and more complicated with amazing graphics its cool to see people doing the opposite as an experiment. "Here's an experiment in keeping things small and confined to one Javascript file. There are no external image files or anything, everything is rendered with ... http://www.urbanretrolifestyle.com/2008/06/21/super-mario-gaming-goes-small/ Star Wars characters get the vintage treatment or as the as the artist has descrived it "hi-tech meets the middle ages, with accents of the western cowboy & eastern samurai influences". Check out all the characters at the SILLOF WORKSHOP http://www.urbanretrolifestyle.com/2008/05/18/star-wars-re-visioned/ Children love wearing costumes to replicate their most loved superheros and you would think that growing up you would get over that habit. But that's not the case for this Spidey fan. What an incredible tattoo which has his skin ripping and peeling away to reveal the spiderman outfit. [via ... http://www.urbanretrolifestyle.com/2008/04/26/insane-spiderman-tattoo/ Whenever I receive an email from Erick at Esc-Toy the little kid inside me gets very excited because I know he will be showing something very cool, unique and exciting. Esc-Toy are dropping some of the hottest toys I have seen so far this year at this years NYCC. The ... http://www.urbanretrolifestyle.com/2008/04/16/esc-toy-exclusives-at-nycc-2008/ Pixeloo has bought 2 loved cartoon and video game characters to life with some awesome Photoshop skills. The Mario image looks super cool while the Homer image just creeps me out. I can not wait to see what character is kicked in to the real world next. CLICK ON THE IMAGES ... http://www.urbanretrolifestyle.com/2008/03/24/the-real-mario-and-homer-simpson-spotted/ Its great to see that vintage coin-op machines are not all being chucked away but instead restored. The Coin-Op collection on flickr is a superb collection and example of what a wonderful sight old coin-op machines can be. [tags]Retro, Retro Machines, Coin-Op, Pinball[/tags] http://www.urbanretrolifestyle.com/2008/03/22/retro-coin-op-collection/ Beetlejuice is one of my favourite movies of all time so I think I will have to grab myself one of these fantastic looking Cult Classics Beetlejuice Action Figure produced by NECA. [tags]Toys, Action Figures, Beetlejuice[/tags] http://www.urbanretrolifestyle.com/2008/03/16/cult-classic-beetlejuice-action-figure/ Artist Chris Beaumont has promised to bring us a new cube styled paper toy every week and if he can keep up the great work it looks like Cube Craft will be home to one of the finest paper toys collections on the web. I can not wait to download ... http://www.urbanretrolifestyle.com/2008/03/13/awesome-cubecraft-paper-toys/ After being mesmerised by the Doktor A Spit & Polish Soopa Coin-Up I got a bit excited by the possibility of seeing even more awesome Soopa Coin-Up customs at the upcoming Soopa Show in New York. The best thing is there is a small chance I may actually be ... http://www.urbanretrolifestyle.com/2008/03/13/the-soopa-coin-up-show/