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Continuing with our love of all things Mario (and handily combined with our love of food) we present: Super Mario Cupcakes.
Ana Fuji is a talented young lady who makes these wonderfully tasty-looking treats. But we're torn between wanting them to display on our desks with geeky/culinary pride and wanting to scoff the lot. (via Boing Boing)

An army of Morphs!

Yesterday Morph fans gathered outside the Tate Modern in London to pay tribute to everyone’s favourite art teacher, the late Tony Hart.

Hundreds of little Morph's in all shapes and sizes were displayed on the bank of the Thames, some happy, some sad and some sporting some strange facial hair.

All images by Krypto. 

Hop On

All aboard the disco train! Fridays are all about the tunes here at Firebox HQ, and thanks to aurally astute designers Yuri Suzuki and Yaroslav Tenzer, you can create your very own funky music, too. The duo have carved up old vinyl records (Thomas the Tank Engine, anyone?), letting you put the tracks (see what we did there?) together in whatever order you like.

This young chap demonstrates the correct headgear for track-assembly.

The train carriages are independent speakers, needles and motors.

 

Try putting several trains on your track and create some choo-choo choons.

(Bonus Train Fact: in the olden days, a firebox was a chamber in which a fire would produce sufficient heat to create steam for the railway engines.)

Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde

It must be October's blustery gales that are reminding us of Halloween's approach. That said, the charmingly retro ghosties of 80s arcade nostalgia are nowhere to be seen today, but this Italian design company obviously had a nostalgic moment when creating the Poufman

Luckily Poufman is available in different colour combinations (although sadly lacking in yellow), so you can buy a whole gang of them for your living room.

 

We don't want the Pac fun to stop there though, so how about bringing the action out of your living room and onto your desktop with a pie chart

Or if that's still not enough, head on over to junkie lovers for some chompingly awesome jewellery.

(Bonus Geek Fact: these depict the TV series, rather than arcade game, and the ghost is purple with panic meaning our little yellow friend has just eaten a power pellet)

P-P-P-P-PAC POWER!

Top Of The Props

MARRRRRRRTY!!!!!!!!!!

When I say Michael J. Fox what do you think of? Yep, got it in one! Eighties classic, 'Back To The Future'. Well now you can own part of film history and beat the queues to work (well in theory!) with the Mattell Hoverboard.

All good things come to an end, so thank god for Ebay. For a small fee of $30,000.00 you can amaze your pals with your Marty McFly moves and relive those golden memories from the film. And the geeks amongst you will already know that the board in question was used in the second film of the trilogy, but the wood-based prop looks like it's survived the rigors of shooting and looks to be in great condition.

The hoverboard comes with fully functional rear ballbearing-mounted footpad that rotates 360 degrees, as well as real magnets on the bottom. And the hole from which Marty removed the handle when he stole the board from a girl also gets retained.

Let us know if you win it!