According to people who do ridiculous things like “read”, the Iron Man films, as well as Marvel’s The Avengers, have featured bits and pieces of a popular story arc known as “Extremis”. The six-issue story followed Tony Stark as he tried to stop a villain known as Mallen, who had been injected with a knockoff super-soldier serum like Captain America, only to turn into a super strong freak show hellbent on murderous revenge. This is important because the Extremis serum/virus may play a role in Iron Man 3, and we know this now thanks to… LEGO?

The company responsible for the greatest toys ever made has released the box design images for the new Iron Man 3 LEGOs, and right there on the box is the word Extremis, which leads us to believe that the virus is for real. But is there more? Bleeding Cool says, “Maybe.”

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Spoiler Alert: The villains are blocks

Two weeks ago, LEGO unveiled some samples of its upcoming Marvel series toys, including the highly-anticipated X-Men and Avengers sets, based on the successful comic books and film franchises. Even Chris Evans and Chris Hemsworth showed up to the International Toy Fair in New York City as part of their contractual obligations love for their biggest roles, and they played with some of the toys while geeks snorted and snarfed.

Today, LEGO has officially unveiled a number of images that finally show us what LEGO Captain America and LEGO Thor look like, and a lot of people were quick to point out that the toy images – based on the upcoming mega summer blockbuster film – spill the beans on who or what director Joss Whedon had secretly chosen to be the film’s main villains.

Big deal, I still can’t find a damn elbow piece to finish my Robin Hood castle from 1988.

Now, for the last year, popular fan theory has held that the attackers were the shape-changing race of aliens known as the Skrulls… When I first saw these images, I though I finally had confirmation that the invading force was actually going to be a totally different alien race: The Kree. (Via EW Pop Watch)

Well that’s definitely some insightful nerdery right there. Oh, what’s that? There’s more? Then geek on, brave warrior.

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The 109th American International Toy Fair took place this past weekend in New York City, and among the offerings were new action figures related to the upcoming films G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Battleship and The Avengers. Better luck next year, The Descendents Nerf rocket launcher.

On hand to debut their toys were some of the stars of the movies mentioned, including Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Alexander Skårsgard and Chris Evans. But for the toymakers that didn’t have the luxury of B-list actors hamming it up for the cameras, choosing the toys to bank their futures on is all about what your Cheetos-inhaling brats are into from one minute to the next.

“Toymakers continue to innovate at the speed of light to keep up with trends in other areas – from pop culture to technology – because they know that kids want to be a part of the mix and mimic what’s happening in the world around them,” said Adrienne Appell, TIA’s in-house trend expert. “The toy industry draws upon economic and birth rate data to determine price points and product lines, which accounts for the prevalence this year of big-ticket items and toys for infants and pre-school children.” (Via Market Watch)

That’s dead on. In fact, over the weekend I visited my two-year old niece and purchased her the Kim Kardashian Play-Doh Ass Factory. It’s a far cry from my Pogo Ball.

Not much has changed, though, when it comes to the action figure, which is why these stars were so excited to check out their likeness in a 6-inch figurine, or as it’s referred to in the biz, a Tom Cruise.

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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the blocks began to take hold…. (Thanks to Luchador for the tip)

DAILY CIRCLE JERK LINKS

• Sexy Celebrities with Ugly Significant Others: a Field Guide, by Matt Ufford. |Uproxx|
• The Smoking Section Present Smokers Delight, a collection of mellow instrumentals. |SmokingSection|
• Meet the fat two year old who smokes cigarettes like it’s his job. |GammaSquad|
• As a Californian, this is how I’ll always remember Gary Coleman. |WithLeather|
• Woman leaves angry message about local TV station pre-empting Criminal Minds for tornado coverage.  This message is America. |WarmingGlow|
• How to get rid of a hangover. |HolyTaco|
• Resident Evil 3D has a poster.  Guess who’s in it. |ScreenJunkies|
• Band member falls from balcony and impales head on fence. Fortunately he was a drummer, so nothing serious was threatened. |Fark|
• ICP’s “Miracles” as covered by twee assh*les in their loft with a ukulele.  I made a documentary about this, it’s called “Paper Fart.” |Urlesque|
• Denmark leads the world in meat consumption, behind only of course, your mom’s vagge. |Asylum|
• The 20 sexiest videos shot by GG Magazine. |Guyism|
• Ashley Judd: Indy car Wag. |Gunaxin|
• Tara Reid may have fixed her botched plastic surgery. Ahh, nothing like a girl whose only job is to be in shape needing liposuction. |FListed|

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I realize this is super old, but I hadn’t seen it before today and yadda yadda yadda I’m posting it anyway so shut your face.  The animation was done by Pete Levin and the music comes from Silence! the Musical, a musical based on Silence of the Lambs that played at the New York International Fringe Festival in 2005.  In any case, it proves what science has always known, that musicals are a lot cooler when you sing “c*nt” a lot and have lines like, “It’s a waste of skin they don’t sell fat girls in a f*cking stooooore…”  I like this way better than Sweeney Todd.

[hat tip: cinematical]