When I was 15, the most I could make out of my LEGOs was a gun, and even then, you probably wouldn’t have been able to recognize it. Luckily, some 15-year-olds are a heck of a lot more talented than I was, like Sven Junga, who used LEGOs to create not only a spaceship—the Daedalus from Stargate Atlantis—but also an amazing diorama of the ship landing.

And it turns out that’s not the only sci-fi artifact re-created by Junga. Check out his Flickr feed for more of his awesome LEGO pics.

Source: Scifi Wire

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The 5th Race A StarGate Podcast News Episode 001  

In this episode Dominic and I review the some of the latest Stargate News.  

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Big Finish Productions is launching its second season of six Stargate SG-1 andStargate Atlantis audio dramas (three episodes each) this May, and the first episode is the SG-1 story entitled “First Prime” by James Swallow, the same writer who brought “Shell Game” (SG-1) and “Zero Point” (SGA) last season.

The CD for “First Prime” is now available for pre-order at the publisher’s website(USD $14.53 + $0.74 shipping) and will most likely be offered for download as well (last year, downloads cost USD $8.99).

Christopher Judge reprises his role as Teal’c and Doctor Who veteran Noel Clarke makes his Stargate debut as the Jaffa Sebe’t. Set during Season Five, the story’s tagline reads, “Teal’c’s past as First Prime of Apophis comes back to haunt him when Colonel O’Neill and Daniel Jackson are taken captive by the system lord’s forces. As Teal’c struggles to free them, he finds himself confronted by an old friend and fellow Jaffa, Sebe’t. Can this warrior really be trusted? Or has Teal’c reopened an old wound that can never be healed?”

The audio drama runs approximately 70 minutes and features an original music soundtrack.

Source:  Stargate-sg1-solutions.com

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“When we were breaking Enemy at the Gate,” Mallozzi explained in order to set the stage, “we saw it as a very special episode, not because it would be our series finale (at the time, we were somewhat optimistic that we would get that sixth season pick-up), but because it was going to be our 100th episode. For that reason, it turned out to be a little different from past finales, less a cliffhanger and more of a coming full-circle that featured the star of the series: the city of Atlantis.

“It was also intended to be the launching point for a very interesting early season 6 scenario:

• “With Atlantis back on Earth, why the hell would the I.O.A. ever let it go? And if it remained, which, by all indications seemed likely, what would become of its occupants, especially Ronon and Teyla?
• “Also, with a permanent station in the Milky Way, wouldn‘t Atlantis, logically, cease to be a launch point for gate travel and, instead, become a research center for Ancient technology?”

The Season Six opening two-parter is now the first Stargate Atlantis movie, about which Mallozzi declared, “[W]e’ll be able to tell our story on a much bigger, visual effects-laden, character-centered canvas.” Shooting is expected to take place this summer for either a late 2009 or early 2010 release (the Sci Fi Channel is expected to premiere the movie before it will be released on DVD).

Source:  Stargate-sg1-solutions.com

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 Major Paul Davis of the Pentagon will be paying a visit to the Pegasus Galaxy in the series finale of Stargate Atlantis.  Little is known about the episode “Enemy at the Gate,” which is the one hundredth episode of Atlantis, but the title implies alot.  Speculation is that it will involve the nemesis that will be introduced in the Season Five two-parter, “First Contact” and “The Lost Tribe.”

Actor Colin Cunningham declined comment on involvement in the episode, but did say that he would be “delighted and proud to continue on as Major Davis in the exceptional franchise that is Stargate.”

Source:  Gateworld.net

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The September / October 2008 issue of Stargate Magazine is now on available! This issue is dedicated exclusively to Stargate Atlantis, this 100-page yearbook looks back over the past year of the TV series.

Issue #24 includes interviews with Joe Flanigan (“John Sheppard”), David Hewlett (“Rodney McKay”), Rachel Luttrell (“Teyla Emmagan”), Jason Momoa (“Ronon Dex”), Robert Picardo (“Richard Woolsey”) and Jewel Staite (“Jennifer Keller”) all discussing developments in Season Five of the series.

Among other features, Stargate Magazine pays special tribute to actor Don S. Davis, looks back on the ever-evolving city of the Ancients with a feature called “Then and Now,” makes a close examination on the Season Three episode “Sunday,” and updates readers with a new set report.

Look for Issue #24 of Stargate Magazine in bookstores everywhere!

Source: GateWorld.net

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Stargate Atlantis has been nominated for four trophies in the 23rd Annual Gemini Awards.

The nominations for Atlantis are for Season Four:

Best Writing in a Dramatic Series: Alan McCullough for “Tabula Rasa”

Best Achievement in Make-Up: Todd Masters, Leah Ehman for “The Last Man”

Best Visual Effects: Mark Savela, Marco Checa Garcia, Sebastian Greece, Shannon Gurney, Paul Hegg, Brandon Hines, Jesus Lavin, Nikolas Slotiuk, Toby Taplin, Ray Van Steenwyk for “Adrift”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role: Jewel Staite for “Missing”
Congratulations to all the nominees!

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SCI FI Channel has announced that it has given a green light to a two-hour movie based on Stargate Atlantis.   The SCI FI channel will air the as-yet-untitled film as a world premiere before its release on DVD.

Announcement of the new film follows similar telefilms based on SCI FI’s Battlestar Galactica and two straight-to-DVD Stargate SG-1 movies, Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Stargate: Continuum.

The Atlantis movie will be written by executive producers Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie, who also serve as the series’ show runners.

The movie is set to follow the fifth and final season of Stargate Atlantis in January 2009.

“We’re excited to tell Atlantis stories on a bigger canvas,” said Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper, co-creators of SG-1 and Atlantis, in a statement. “The successes of the two original Stargate [direct-to-video] movies The Ark of Truth and Continuum have shown us the opportunities that the movie format offers. We have plans for both SG-1 and Atlantis to remain vital as we expand the franchise.” Atlantis will air a milestone 100th episode in January 2009

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I just hear today that the Sci-Fi channel is going to cancel StarGate Atlantis at the end of its 5th season.  Since the show is going to end with a cliffhanger they have green lit a 2 hour StarGate Atlantis made for TV movie.  So we have that to look forward too.

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Fandemonium Press has announced the publication of a new Stargate Atlantis book called “Mirror Mirror,” it is the ninth Atlantis novel to be released by the publisher. The novel is written by Sabine C. Bauer, who previously wrote the Stargate SG-1 novels “Trial by Fire” and “Survival of the Fittest.”

The book can be ordered now from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.

Fandemonium has released the following synopsis for “Mirror Mirror:”

When an Ancient prodigy gives the Atlantis expedition Charybdis — a device capable of eliminating the Wraith — it’s an offer they can’t refuse. But the experiment fails disastrously, threatening to unravel the fabric of the Pegasus Galaxy — and the entire universe beyond.

Doctor Weir’s team find themselves trapped and alone in very different versions of Atlantis, each fighting for their lives and their sanity in a galaxy falling apart at the seams. And as the terrible truth begins to sink in, they realize that they must undo the damage Charybdis has wrought while they still can.

Embarking on a desperate attempt to escape the maddening tangle of realities, each tries to return to their own Atlantis before it’s too late. But the one thing standing in their way is themselves

Source:  Gateworld.net

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