E:23/07 Win Loads Of Sci Fi Goodies ( and I mean LOADS!)

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Yes, it's another bonanza giveaway from SCI FI! We've got a crazily huge pile of weird and wonderful prizes lying around the office, and we've decided to give them all away! Altruism is our middle name. SCI Altruism FI. You can see why we usually omit it.


There are little gems here from throughout our twelve-year history, so don't expect everything to be brand new - some of this stuff has been lost to the labyrinthine filings systems of SCI FI for many a moon, and are virtually antiquities in their own right. Most of the figures are unboxed (so no, you can't immediately put it all on eBay), and some of the books would be best described as "near mint" at best. Deal with it, compadres, it's still all free!</< P> This competition is in honour of our very sexy new on air 'look and feel', as we like to call it (because it looks so damn good you'll want to stroke your TV). Indeed, part of the prize is a little package of our very newest SCI FI merchandise, featuring our slinky new stylings. Slick.


Staggeringly, there's even more stuff than last time, so we've split it into three groups. The Grand Prize, five Slightly Less Grand prizes, and thirty(!) Not Exactly Grand But Still Very Exciting prizes.

Here, in no particular order, are the contents of the prizes:

GRAND PRIZE

• A brand new Optimus Prime Voice Changer! You can see it in the picture; it's a phenomenally cool-looking Prime helmet thing which you can physically put on and it will 'transform' your voice. It also has buttons on the jaw which, when pressed, prompt a movie sound effect or quote. Geek out, man. Geek the hell out.

• A Transformers toothbrush! It transforms from a toothbrush, right, into a... a thing that isn't a toothbrush and looks faintly mechanical in a plastic way! NICE!

• A Woody Woodpecker snowglobe. Don't ask.
• Starfox Adventures for the GameCube.
• A talking pen! No, it's not magical, it's actually a Doctor Who thing with a Cyberman on it, and it has some suitably scary soundbites on it. "Resistance is illogical. You will be upgraded or you will be deleted!"
• A toy alien in a tin can. Apparently he is "Zilly" from the planet "Zod". Closer inspection, however, reveals that he is from BHS.
• A lovely, silvery, sturdy torch. It says "SCI FI Survival Kit Spain 2006" on it. Apparently we survived Spain. Hoorah for us!
• A remarkably beautiful juicer. Designed by Philippe Starck, the box is a bit battered but the device itself is perfectly fine. I mean, look at it. Elegance personified.

• A classy leather autograph book in its own box, branded with The Studio (a distant relation of SCI FI).

• You know those wobbly-headed figures who always look like they're nodding at you? We've got a pair of particularly scary ones - a Predator and an Alien! You could probably make them fight until one of them knocks the head off the other. If you so chose.
• A test tube full of... stuff. It looks a bit like rock salt with glitter in it. We're honestly not sure what on Earth it is, but we wouldn't recommend eating it. Whoever wins - do some experiments and let us know what you find out, we're curious.

• A Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver surfer hooded top. Lovely and soft and warm, we were given this on the set of the film as a gift, and given that we haven't seen them on sale anywhere, we presume it's pretty rare and exclusive and all that.

• The Farscape Companion books for series 2 and 3. Illustrated and everything.

• Anime! A Beginner's Guide to Japanese Animation by renowned anime expert Helen McCarthy, and The Erotic Anime Movie Guide by Helen McCarthy and Jonathan Clements. If the second book is what you want to win more than anything else here - be worried.

• Not one, but two 128MB Bourne Ultimatum memory sticks. The film isn't even out yet! That's how cutting edge we are. Ouch! We just cut ourself on our edge.

• A SCI FI branded record bag, which is very handy, but utterly incapable of containing even a tenth of the Grand Prize, thus emphasising just how much stuff there is. See what we did there?

• The Red Planet movie soundtrack. Featuring Sting, Peter Gabriel and William Orbit!

• A red spinning top thing. Now, we think it's a spinning top, but we can't get it to spin. It has circuitry of some kind inside it, and what looks like a little magnet. It's intriguing.

• A copy of the Day of the Triffids novel by John Wyndham.

• Some truly enormous Universal movie posters. We've got United 93, Skeleton Key, The Interpreter, American Pie 2 and... wait for it... a Hot Fuzz poster signed by director Edgar Wright and star Nick Frost!

• Volumes 3 & 4 of the Otherland saga by Tad Williams.

• A 13th STREET t-shirt. If you're not sure what 13th STREET is, it's the most dangerous address on television! And if that still doesn't help, it's kind of a sister channel of ours in various European countries. It deals with crime, thrillers, drama, that kind of thing. This t-shirt is exceptionally rare and exceptionally cool, as it features a kind of bullethole design with blood splatters and a tattered hole blasted clean through it!

• The novelisation of the Final Fantasy: Spirits Within movie.
• The Fortean Times book of Close Shaves and Amazing Luck.
• Farscape 2.1 on DVD. Plug that annoying gap in your collection!
• Halo 3 is on the way, I'm sure many of you out there can't wait. We have two eight inch posable figures for ya from the original Halo: a dark green Master Chief complete with handgun, shotgun and rocket launcher, and a Covenant Elite with plasma pistol and needler. Sweet.

• A little Woody Woodpecker figurine. Don't ask.

• No less than twenty-eight recent sci-fi novels from Orbit publishing house.
• That's well over 200 worth, right there. For the full list, see the link to Terms & Conditions below.

• A sealed pack of oversized Farscape postcards. There's absolutely loads of them. Honest, the stack is precisely 3/4" deep. We measured it.

• It, Stephen King's terrifying clown story on VHS.

• A SCI FI branded UFO book. This is a little piece of history, as it comes from the early days of the channel - ten years ago!

• Four human teeth in individual bags. Not real teeth, you understand! Oh ho no! They are macabre little promotional items from the release of Saw III. Very tasteful.

• A Rubix cube style puzzle made out of Darth Maul's head. A little plastic version, of course, not his actual head. He's not real. It will reach the Grand Prize winner nearly but not quite complete, because we can't finish it and it's frustrating us.

• A Truth Machine. It's tempting to just leave it at that and let your imagination do the rest, but we should really elaborate. It's a device that measures voice stress and indicates the likelihood of falsehoods being uttered by the simple use of coloured LED lights. The box is a bit damaged, but you don't mind... right?

• One of the most beautifully surreal items we've ever seen - a Woody Woodpecker CD where he sings various pop hits... In French. It's a miracle this is still sealed. We want to hear his version of Aqua's Barbie Girl very, very much.

• The Faber book of Utopias. Lovely hardback, this. Quite scholarly.
• Babylon 5 volume 10 on VHS. Do you have every single tape except this one? Then this is your lucky lucky day!

• Zoltar Fortune Teller. A little bit like the magical booth in Big, this is a pretty big toy, still in the box, of a mystical dude with a crystal ball who will tell your fortune. Sadly the demonstration battery has run out, or we're sure he'd tell us "Your fate is to give away the best competition prize eveeeeeeer!"

• A delightfully shiny SCI FI branded metal water bottle in bold red.

• A rather funky looking device called the inVoca 8-in-1 Voice Activated Universal Remote Control. Apparently it lets you control your TV, CD, VCR, DVD and so on - just by talking! We haven't tried it yet, but it sounds very swish.

• A Red Dog videogame for the Dreamcast console. One of the finest gaming consoles ever made, in our honest opinion.

• Three unopened Doctor Who audio dramas, each well over two hours long: Sting of the Zygons, Wooden Heart, and Last of the Dodos (read by our friend Freema Agyeman - see our interview with her [URL="mms://wm3.narrowstep.tv/url2/c311/2602/marthafinaledit1800.wmv"]here[/URL]).

• A City of Villains Collector's DVD edition, added last minute because we completely forgot about it in a random drawer. It's a fantastic online-only computer game where you get to create and play a diabolical comic book style supervillain! It also includes an artwork book and seven HeroClix figurines, all in a lovely big box. Important: you can't play this without an internet connection!

• The Universal story, a glorious coffee table tome which tells "the complete history of the studio and all its films". 496 pages in all, covering over 3,000 films. It's exhaustive, and if you wanted to carry it any distance, pretty exhausting too. You'll definitely need both hands!
• A whole bunch of DVDs - Twelve Monkeys, The Grudge, Apollo 13, Shaun of the Dead, Meet Joe Black and the 2-disc Collector's Edition of Van Helsing.

• A Media Mogul boardgame, unopened, where you get to build a media empire from various top real world TV channels, radio stations and magazines. And yes, SCI FI is in there!

• A huge Medium poster. Huge.

• Two Headf**k t-shirts, one grey and one pink.

• A SCI FI branded lava lamp, which has glittery stuff instead of lava. Glitter lamp? Perhaps.

• A Mathmos colour changing rechargable desk light. Like a large smooth white pebble. Very ambient, very cool.

• Last, but by absolutely no means least, an extremely exclusive, limited edition SCI FI merchandise bundle. We only just got this stuff in the office recently, and it's beautiful. There's a very sleek diary riddled with interesting imagery and cool quotes, a box of flash cards to intrigue and inspire, and some beautiful postcards based on the same imagery.
  Oh, and some SCI FI fridge magnet words and phrases!

SLIGHTLY LESS GRAND PRIZE
Five of you lucky people will get the following:

• Headf**k t-shirt (grey)
• Headf**k t-shirt (pink)
• SCI FI record bag
• The Red Dog game for Dreamcast
• Apollo 13 on DVD
• Huge Medium poster
• A Mathmos light
• SCI FI new merchandise package

NOT EXACTLY GRAND BUT
STILL VERY EXCITING PRIZE
Thirty more of you will get:

• Headf**k t-shirt (grey)
• Headf**k t-shirt (pink)
• Huge Medium poster
• Mathmos light
• SCI FI merchandise package

Question: How old is the UK SCI FI Channel?


Answer: 12 years


Good Luck