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Din a nin a nin a (Lego) BATMAN

So our Ben had a Superhero party last week. Now, imagine he had invited you. (He didn't mean not to invite you. After all, strangers are just friends he hasn't met yet. But there's a limit to the number of people you can sleep on one sofa.*) You're sitting there thinking "just how can I wow my new Firebox friends with a superhero costume?" Well, were you thinking Lego Batman? Of course you were.

 

Meet friend to Firebox, Pete "All Kinds of Awesome" Wycherley.

In typical Yorkshire fashion, Pete here didn't want to fork out on buying a costume for the party, so spent three weeks making this. Scaled exactly so both he and Batman could bend at the waist, the mouth also slides around so you can chat to people while waiting for your pint at the bar.**

Pete, who always played it safe at uni, had this to say: "He got covered in beer stains! I'm currently looking to find somewhere for him to live, he'd like an out of town mansion (ideally with a cave system below)."

Inspiration! Creativity! Dedication! Yorkshire Charm! We love all of these things. Talking of which (although perhaps not exclusive to Yorkshire) have you seen our Firebox Inventor competition? If you've got any of these attributes, or just a clever little idea, let us know!

*Three. In case you were wondering.
**We should probably mention, before you spend your lunch hours trying to recreate this with cereal boxes and double-sided sticky tape, that Pete is a professional Model Maker (no sniggering at the back) and recently won an award for a shelving unit. Fancy.

Could You Be A Firebox Inventor?

We have just announced our new competition to find a Firebox Inventor.

Calling all creative geniuses, visionaries, mad scientists, tinkerers, ponderers and garden shed inventors:

We’ve teamed up with Stuff, the World’s best-selling gadget magazine, to launch Firebox Inventor: a national search to find the next must-have product for 2010 and it might just be your idea that makes it onto our shelves! It could be a cool new toy, handy gadget, or something else entirely: if it’s original and it fits our quirky range, we want to hear about it.

Morph Finalists

The results are finally in....we got 132 amazing entries for our Morphmation animation competition, and have now selected the finalists. So now its up to you to help select a winner! All five videos have been put onto the Aardman YouTube channel. Head over there, watch the Morph adventures, and vote for your favourite (by giving them 5 stars). You can also leave comments. Aardman will choose the winner in 2 weeks time, taking into account everyone's votes as well as their expert opinion.

We'd like to thank everyone who entered, and you can watch all the great films that didn't quite make it over at the Morphmation page.

Morphmation Animation Competition Now Closed

Well we've managed to successfully authorise all of your entries to the Morphmation Animation Competition and we're very impressed with the standard of entries that came in.

We received a staggering 132 videos by customers of all ages. Who would have thought that little plasticine fella could have been so busy? The videos range from Morph going on boating trips, making magic and dancing in some funny musical numbers. This is going to be a very difficult competition to judge, so if you're one of the talented animators then thank you very much for your video.

Remember the winning entry will get a one-off signed and framed sketch autographed by Morph's creator, Peter Lord. That's an amazing prize for any budding animator.

If you didn't enter then take a look at the entries and comment on this post with who you think should win.

New Product Test Helps Fireboxer!

We had the opportunity to test out a UK exclusive... and stock controller Matt Shone jumped (or ran) at the chance to trial Droidwear's SatNav Shoes. Matt is a semi professional runner - he's even represented Great Britain in various long distance events. He runs twice per day roughly covering 80-90 miles per week! He also isn't always conventional when it come to his training as quoted by one of his club mates: "Lunchtime runs would often include a stop off at the curry house to pick up the week's lunch supply, so the run back would be 2 or 3 miles with a carrier bag full of curries."

So instead of running his usual route we dropped him off in the middle of Woking - so all he had to do was put in the Woking postcode then his home postcode... and start running. The shoes did the talking (telling him where to go) while he did the w.. running!

Apart from a few near accidents with cyclists Mr Shone did pretty well and he seamed very pleased with not having to worry about the route. "These shoes are great - I no longer have to spend time planning routes and memorising them - I can concentrate on thinking about my tea whilst running!"

SatNav Shoes are ONLY available at Firebox.com!