Two Animated 'Doctor Who' Fan Films To Amaze The Timey Whimey Out Of You

I ran across two great short films that are worth checking out for all the loyal Whovians out there in Whoville. Each has its own take on paying homage to the animation genre, one in a classic cartoon style, the other a stop-motion short reminiscent of the iconic Rankin/Bass holiday specials.

Blink To The Future is fun and clever animated mash-up of Doctor Who and Back To The Future, featuring a tricked out TARDIS inspired DeLorean. As creator James Farr puts it on his YouTube Channel: "Somewhere in the jaw-dropping vastness of the multi-verse, I like to think that this cartoon plays at 7am every Saturday morning."

Animator and artist Alisa Stern cooked up the heartwarming stop motion film How The Doctor Puppet Saved Christmas, and created the latest adventure for the Doctor Puppet just in time for the holidays.

SOURCES: JamesFarr.com, Alisa Stern YouTube Page

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'Back To The Future' Takes On 'Grand Theft Auto'

Great Scott!! Check out this awesome mod demo for Grand Theft Auto IV that has the 1985 Marty McFly and Doc Brown's time traveling DeLorean zipping through the modern day streets, highways, and bridges of New York City.

All the familiar references are there, the Flux Capacitor, Marty's orange 'life vest,' a rocking guitar version of the Alan Silvestri's Back To The Future theme, and the flaming tire trails as time travel engages.

There is even a clever second pop culture nod at the top of the clip showing the Dukes of Hazzard's General Lee parked on the street next to Marty's plutonium powered ride. Sounds like actual movie dialogue with the voices of Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd were included as well.

Of course in Grand Theft Auto IV: Hill Valley, Marty is armed with a shotgun and shoots at the NYPD, but what can you expect when Back To The Future collides with Grand Theft Auto? That's heavy.

SOURCE: Geekologie

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Eddie Van Halen On 'Back To The Future' Guitar Riff: "It Was Me!"

In what is the most random of years-in-the-making rumor confirmations, TMZ caught up with (as in ambushed) Eddie and Alex Van Halen at what could be an airport, and besides the typical awkward banter you expect to hear off camera from the show's distinguished photojournalists, I must admit this guy kinda scored a geektastic of a doozy.

He asked Eddie if it was actually him playing the screaming guitar riff in Back To The Future that was heard on the cassette tape Marty cranked via a Walkman for young George McFly in 1955.

You remember, when Michael J. Fox as Marty snuck into his father's bedroom disguised in his plutonium safe suit and revealed himself as Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan...

Anyway, Eddie off handedly confirmed that it really was him who played the guitar riff. All these years I had assumed director Robert Zemeckis and the filmmakers just had some dime-a-dozen 1985 Eddie VH knock-off session guitarist quickly bang out some garbled riffs in post production and called it a royalty free day. Eddie also performed the guitar solo on Michael Jackson's Beat It in a two take favor on the Thriller album. Kinda makes you wonder what else might be out there.

In lieu of yesterday's big internet hoax/sensation/snafu regarding June 27, 2012 as being the day Marty traveled (forward) to the future, and that future being yesterday (sorry, it was actually a doctored screen capture), but score one for TMZ for putting this 27 year mystery to rest (that is if Eddie was actually being serious)...

Doctored photo that made the rounds yesterday...

But Marty, Doc, Einstein, and Jennifer actually travel to October 21, 2015 in Back To The Future II.

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