May 7th, 2020LEARN MORE ABOUT LOOT SCI-FI
MAY THE 4TH BE WITH YOU!
Even though it is the 7th. Close enough, right? ANYWAYS! This past week was national Star Wars day and to celebrate I have decided to write a blog on some of the best Sci-Fi characters of all time! Before you get all crazy because maybe your favorite character didn't make the...
May 31st, 2019Fans of one of the most acclaimed TV shows of the 21st century (so far) are finally getting their closure. Tonight, HBO airs Deadwood: The Movie, a two-hour coda to the David Milch Western series that was unceremoniously cancelled back in 2006 after airing a very open-ended third-season finale.
Now, Deadwood might not immediately seem...
March 19th, 2019Can you believe how long it has been since Star Trek: The Next Generation graced our television screens? I still can't and I remember watching weekly! If you haven't seen it, you can still watch on Netflix and take some of this trivia with you!
1. In a surprise to absolutely nobody who lived in the 80's -- Geordi La Forge's visor was a...
March 11th, 2019The 80's were an interesting time for cartoons and the toys based on them and we know that. However, Star Trek: The Next Generation had some crazy toys too and not even just for kids! It's Monday, so let's check out some TNG toys to start our week!
This is just a small smattering of the offerings out there. If you're a collector, you...
March 8th, 2019Happy St. Patrick’s Day, Looters! We’re celebrating this fortuitous holiday by counting down the seven luckiest duos in pop culture. Four leaf clovers, horseshoes and rabbit’s feet don’t have anything on these “charmed” pairs!
Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)
Not only were these two the...
March 1st, 2019It's nearly spring, Looters! As we slowly shuffle, shivering, out of winter, we're getting ready for finer weather with dreams of launching right up past the stratosphere...
Our March COSMIC-themed Spotify playlist, curated by our own Dawn Banks, features some hit songs, terrific scores, and other tracks that inspired us thinking of...
November 16th, 2018The second film in the Fantastic Beasts series hits theatres this weekend, bringing with it much witchcraft and wizardry – and Jude Law as a much younger version of Dumbledore than we're used to seeing.
As the notion of the prequel has taken hold over the past several years, we've seen a steady increase in the appearance of characters...
October 11th, 2018Originally launching in February 2010, Star Trek Online is now one of the longest running Star Trek series in the history of the franchise. For Trek fans, the MMORPG is a huge opportunity to deep-dive into the fandom they love.
We've previously spoken with some of the amazing creators that bring this deeply immersive gaming...
July 5th, 2018Originally launching in February 2010, Star Trek Online is now one of the longest running Star Trek series in the history of the franchise...
The game offers one-hundred-and-sixty-one episodes, three major expansions and fourteen full seasons of playable content. For Trek fans, the MMORPG is a huge opportunity to deep-dive into...
May 15th, 2018If you were one of the many thousands of Brooklyn Nine-Nine fans who did a happy dance all the way through the weekend, you're not alone...
It's May, one of the scariest times of year for TV nerds. Many fan-favorite shows either got hit with the cancel button or are still on the hook waiting for renewal news. (We feel you, Lucifer fans;...
May 1st, 2018According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a role model is defined as a person looked to by others as an example to be imitated. There are role models in our normal everyday lives that are tangible real people such as your friends, a humanitarian figure, etc., but there are also those figures in pop culture that fully take up that...
March 21st, 2018It's con season again, kicking off with WonderCon Anaheim! Next weekend, March 23rd-25th, attendees ranging from convention goers to pop culture fanatics, cosplayers and comic book fans, plus the general geeky types, will converge on the Anaheim Convention center for a weekend celebrating the best of popular culture.
The convention...
March 12th, 2018This mission has been one close to our hearts, Looters, and we are excited as we can be to see you all joining us on the first leg of what we hope to be an incredible journey!...
Loot Crate announced last year that we've joined forces again with Quantum Mechanix Inc. (QMx) to create the Star Trek Mission Crate. Each Mission...
January 30th, 2018Originally launching in February 2010, Star Trek Online is now one of the longest running Star Trek series in the history of the franchise and offers and offers one-hundred-and-sixty-one episodes, three major expansions and fourteen full seasons of playable content. For Trek fans, the MMORPG is a huge opportunity to deep-dive into the...
December 1st, 2017The superb storytelling of the Star Trek canon has presented us with many fun questions to ponder for over 50 years. One of the weirdest might be: Can you mix egg nog with Romulan Ale, or is that just not done?
Okay, you got me – this is a question that has never been addressed remotely during any Trek series. Still, every so often...
September 29th, 2017The fall season is upon us, which means it's almost time for the biggest pop culture con on the East Coast! Here's what Loot Crate is up to at New York Comic-Con 2017!
We’re incredibly excited to return to New York City for NYCC this year, and you can find us in Javits Center once more with more cool exclusives and events! Loot Crate...
September 28th, 2017On September 28, 1987, a momentous event happened – the premiere of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the first new Trek series in decades. The crew of the NCC-1701-D. lead by the diplomatically-gifted Captain Jean-Luc Picard, embarked on their exploratory mission to seek out new life and new civilizations a century after the Original...
September 15th, 2017SPOILER ALERT: This Q&A includes details around IDW's Mirror Universe-related Star Trek series, as well as an item in the upcoming ROBOTIC Loot Crate; if you don't want to be spoiled, bookmark this page and come back later! (You really should do that; the answers are great, thanks for the interview,...
September 1st, 2017For those of us who lived through it, it kinda feels like yesterday, though this year it's been 35 years since the Summer of 1982 — one of the greatest summers at the movies for geeks ever.
Sure there have been some pretty tremendous years since, and these days entire months' worth of Friday releases are meticulously planned to make...
August 31st, 2017Grab your dancing shoes, make sure your software is updated and get ready to rock: It's time for our ROBOTIC playlist for September's theme!
In this month's playlist we've tried to capture an array of robotic-themed faves, including tracks from Daft Punk (okay, several tracks from Daft Punk!), Flight of the Conchords, Styx, Sync24,...
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