June 7th, 2017March’s Loot Anime explored the various ways society can go cyberpunk with FUTURE! We took a tour of tomorrow’s technology and the worlds that create them. This crate was filled with items from Ghost In The Shell: Arise, Psycho-Pass, Clockwork Planet and Kiznaiver.
To celebrate the live action debut of the iconic Anime, Ghost...
June 6th, 2017Fans of Neil Gaiman's celebrated novel American Gods have embraced the STARZ television adaptation by Bryan Fuller and Michael Green, for all its tall tales, legends, and bonkers imagery – even when characters and storylines deviate, it captures the novel so well.
Capturing a mood or evoking a feeling is something that the wizards at...
June 6th, 2017Want to talk about 'Incredible'? We've got some awesome Hulk trivia that will prepare you for any Avengers-style smackdown! Check out these details about our favorite scientist turned green monster of mayhem:
1. If you can imagine it, The Incredible Hulk we know as a keen green - wasn't actually going to be green! Hulk was...
June 5th, 2017So, we know we're getting another Deadpool flick in 2018 but that doesn't have to mean you're without the Merc with a Mouth until then! Looper put together this awesome video of the intensely crazy details of Wade's history, which will entice you for tons of comics reading and movie watching until then. Check it out!
Additional...
June 5th, 2017Robots that turn into cars don't come from far away in the darkness of space.
They mostly come from North Hollywood and Studio City.
The "CarBotz" trailer for June's ALTER-EGO crate is an amalgamation of several different influences that all came together and shot in under a week. The script was written in two days with Adam Murray...
June 2nd, 2017Happy National Donut Day! It is that celebration of joy, that ode to sugar and carbs that comes once a year and means you have the perfect excuse to get that extra large apple fritter, so GO FOR IT.
And on this delightful (and delicious) invented holiday, we wanted to dedicate our Friday Five to our favorite characters who have...
June 2nd, 2017Hey RPG lovers! Dungeons & Dragons are putting on one heck of an official, live-streaming event this weekend that you don't want to miss; and to celebrate, we're doing a giveaway of rad D&D loot!
It's all happening starting today, June 2nd, and again tomorrow, Saturday June 3rd. Two days of solid game play during which the...
June 1st, 2017How well do YOU know these facts?! (And how many of you fell asleep in that classics class you took in college? Mwahaha.)
At long last, tomorrow Wonder Woman opens in cinemas! We've been waiting a long time for Diana's above-the-title big screen debut, so to celebrate while we wait these last few hours, we put together a 10-question...
June 1st, 2017To say we're excited for the latest reboot of Marvel's friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is a complete understatement. However, it also got us thinking of how many times we've seen Peter Parker on film so far! Let's revisit the trailers...
Spider-Man (2002)
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
The...
May 31st, 2017*Play Ghostbusters theme song to enhance blog experience.*
“Who you gonna call?” If you don’t know the answer to this famous pop culture question, we’re not sure what rock you’ve been hiding under for the past 30 years.
To commemorate three decades of proton packs, free floating apparitions and of course, slime, we...
May 31st, 2017We've got edge to our ALTER-EGO this June and that comes in the form of lovable misfits Jay and Silent Bob! To get you excited for their part in Loot Wear this June, we thought we'd hit you with some gifs from the darling duo and get you in the mood!
If you're wanting to see...
May 30th, 2017The Alter Ego theme is all about celebrating secret identities, inner heroes, and extra personalities. And this inspired us for June's Spotify playlist on our Loot Crate channel!
We've included "Where is My Mind" by The Pixies, famously used in the ending of Fight Club after a certain character discovers and comes to terms with his...
May 30th, 2017Since we've got ALTER-EGO for Loot Crate in June and we're chock-full of Transformers, it seemed only fitting to test our Looters! How much do you know about the Autobots and their evil counterparts, the Decepticons? Take the test, we've got you covered!
1. Transformers isn't always called by the same name everywhere. In Japan,...
May 26th, 2017It's been less than a week since the first two episodes of Twin Peaks: The Return aired on Showtime. Subsequently, the third and fourth episodes went up on demand and streaming, so there's now four hours of new shenanigans for David Lynch fans to pour over obsessively. And boy, has the internet delivered in kind...
Several weeks back,...
May 26th, 2017Hello! This is the first of what will, hopefully, be an ongoing periodic update on what Loot Crate is up to that is new and exciting, as well as the overall direction that we're hoping to take you, our Looters, on with this blogtastic adventure we call The Daily Crate...
In the early days of Loot Crate, we thought it would be a great...
May 25th, 2017It's not uncommon in anime for the protagonist to find themselves teaming up with a non-human partner in order to save the day. But for the hero to wake up and find an alien life form trapped inside his hand?
This is the new normal for Shinichi Izumi in the hit series Parasyte as he and his newly acquired alien hitchhiker are forced to...
What do you get when you combine rock music, a creation loosely based on the Mega Man series, and robots? You get The Protomen. Who are The Protomen and why are robots mentioned? Robots are pivotal...
May 24th, 2017After over 75 years after her comics debut, Wonder Woman’s first live-action, big screen film will finally be hitting theaters on June 2. While she hasn’t quite had the same number of projects as the other two members of DC’s Trinity, she’s had a lot more appearances than you might’ve thought.
So here are the 22(!)...
May 24th, 2017Firefly fans know a little something about believing. Shepard Book is no different. This beloved Firefly character was the perfect subject of our recent Firefly Cargo Crate, “The Worthier Part.”
Each bi-monthly Firefly Cargo Crate has been themed around one of the characters from the famous show. So far, we’ve featured Kaylee,...