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Go back to your childhood with the voice-changing Dalek helmet

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Ok, you’re grown up now, with a proper job and possibly a mortgage. But that doesn’t mean you can’t have some seriously childish fun with the voice-changing Dalek helmet.

it does as it says – just stick it on your head and you get a Dalek head and a Dalek voice – which should be fun for at least 15 minutes or until someone else in the house confiscates it off you.

Oh yes – and it has a glowing blue light too. Interested? You can buy it online for £40.

Find out more at the Character Online website

Categories / Art and Photography, Books, Film and TV

James Bond novels reissued in hardback – with Michael Gillette retro-styled artwork

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To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Ian Fleming’s birth, Penguin is reissuing all of the original James Bond novels in hardback.

All have co-ordinated sleeves too – stylish retro designs that are the work of San Francisco-based illustrator Michael Gillette. Two of the books are pictured above, but you can pre-order all of them now (and see the artwork of all the books online), with a release date of 29th May 2008.

Recommended price for each is £14.99, although Amazon is doing advanced orders for £9.89 each.

Find out more about the books at Amazon.co.uk

Categories / Film and TV

Authentic Star Trek Classic Communicator

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Ever feel the urge to wear pointed ears and a tight nylon top? I’m guessing you could be a potential customer for the Star Trek Classic Communicator.

Yes, you can re-enact a vintage sci-fi adventure with some replica Star Trek kit. Flip up the grill and you’ll be greeted with authentic lights and sounds, including a ‘hailing function’ and over 20 sound effects and phrases, including ‘Spock here, Captain’, ‘Scotty here, Captain’, ‘Transporter room ready to beam up’ and…well…just about everything else you might recall from the original TV series.

It’s not very grown up – but it could be a lot of fun. Yours for $29.99 (around £15).

Find out more at the ThinkGeek website

Categories / Art and Photography, Film and TV

Habitat’s Girl On A Motorcycle movie canvas poster

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The film might not be very good, but the poster for Girl On A Motorcycle is an iconic image of the 1960s. And it’s available to buy from Habitat as a canvas print.

It features the one memorable thing from the 1968 flick – Marianne Faithfull’s leather catsuit, which she slips on to ride her motorbike over the border to Germany to see her ‘other man’ – Alain Delon.

Still an image with impact, you can buy it instore or online for £85.

Find out more at the Habitat website

Categories / Film and TV, Men's Fashion

Sesame Street character t-shirt and hoodie

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Amazingly these items are for men, but I can’t think of too many blokes who would go out in a Sesame Street character t-shirt and hoodie, no matter how nostalgic they were.

Yet they are incredibly eye-catching items – even if they aren’t all that stylish. Packed with all your ‘old school’ Sesame Street favourites, they appear in full on the t-shirt or in part/detail on the hoodie, with the oversize t-shirt made from 100 per cent cotton and the hoodie from a soft cotton/poly blend with satiny lined hood and contrast drawstring pull.

Both are limited items, with the t-shirt retailing for $33 (around £17) and the hoodie for $80 (around £40).

Find out more at the Fred Flare website

Categories / Film and TV

The South Bank Show: Revolution 68

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I can’t say I’m a regular viewer of the South Bank Show, but the Revolution 68 show on Sunday March 16th (ITV1) seems worth a look.

It explores the art, artists and music at the heart of the revolutionary year of 1968, looking at the role of writers, actors and musicians in the street battles that marked 1968 – and whether they helped to change western society and culture.

The show includes interviews with Vanessa Redgrave, Tariq Ali, Oliver Todd and Tom Stoppard, as well as features on The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, with two never before broadcast interviews from 1968 – one with Mick Jagger, shortly after he attended the rally in Grosvenor Square and another with an angry John Lennon as he responds to attacks from the far left at the end of 1968.

Find out more at the ITV website