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I haven’t played with Legos since my Mom ‘gave them away’ or threw them out rather when I was a kid. I remember playing with legos for hours on end, building cities and fortresses and then knocking them down Godzilla style. I also remember constructing a death ray out of my legos thinking that it would actually work. Looking back, I was probably that weird creepy kid who sat behind you in 3rd grade kicking your chair and stabbing you with pencils.

Fast forward a decade plus and legos are still going strong – perhaps stronger than ever. If you walk down a toy isle at the department store you’ll see what I mean. The word “Lego” gets over 10,000 searches per day in Google alone. That got me thinking, are these parents searching out legos for their kids (aww how nice), or is this some sort of closet Lego addiction for adults? After all…

Zombie Legos sound fucking awesome.

Not only does it sound fun, but Zombie Legos would offer some strategic value as well. Create your city and plan your escape route. This could be viewed as not only a fun way to spend time with your kids but educational as well since you can plan for the zombie apocalypse together as a family.

ZombieFest is here! Over the next month Audible will have four exclusive early-release zombie novels — starting with Ex-Patriots by Peter Clines. With each of the four books, you’ll get one of Clines’ interlocked stories from The Junkie Quatrain — written just for zombie fans like you, and available exclusively through Audible. Plus, check out our authors/zombie experts Iain McKinnon, Peter Clines, Craig DiLouie, and Bryon Morrigan providing video answers to your zombie questions.

Want more? You can follow the Zombie Apocalypse in real-time with @audiblesteve and @CanaryWil over on twitter. And next week Steve and Wil’s will post their first video update from the Audible ZombieFest bunker.

The Walking Dead Poster

Drew Struzan’s unique and instantly recognizable artwork has been seen on many high profile book covers and movie posters, from the likes of Star Wars and Indiana Jones to Blade Runner and Back to the Future. This 24″ x 36″ poster reproduces the artwork he created for AMC’s The Walking Dead, the hit television show created by The Shawshank Redemption’s Frank Darabont based on Robert Kirkman’s best-selling comic book.

At the time of this writing, The Walking Dead Poster is up for pre-sale at TFAW and will be officially available in late August or early September of 2011.

There are all kinds of emergencies out there that we can prepare for. Take a zombie apocalypse for example. That’s right, I said z-o-m-b-i-e a-p-o-c-a-l-y-p-s-e. You may laugh now, but when it happens you’ll be happy you read this, and hey, maybe you’ll even learn a thing or two about how to prepare for a real emergency.

Top 10 Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack:

1. Organize before they rise!
2. They feel no fear, why should you?
3. Use your head: cut off theirs.
4. Blades don’t need reloading.
5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair.
6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it.
7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike.
8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert!
9. No place is safe, only safer.
10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.

Don’t be carefree and foolish with your most precious asset—life. This book is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now without your even knowing it. The Zombie Survival Guide offers complete protection through trusted, proven tips for safeguarding yourself and your loved ones against the living dead. It is a book that can save your life.

Seven months have passed since the dead took over. Many cities and states have been abandoned and left to die. Society is trying to create a new order from the chaos. The military has been officially assigned the task of fighting the undead hordes. However several self sufficient hunting groups made up of everyday citizens have been established to take on the zombie threat in a war aptly referred to as the ‘War on Dead’.

24-year-old Canadian filmmaker Reese Eveneshen aims to inject new life into the ongoing but graying zombie-film genre. In whatEveneshen considers a uniquely honest homage to the classic George A. Romero “Dead” series that started with Night of the Living Dead in 1969. Eveneshen’s feature-length Dead Genesis passes on campy revisionist efforts to re-visit the stark, bleak landscape depicted in the original monster movie.

Interested? You should be! Here’s an exclusive look at the first 5 minutes.

Movie poster for new film, Dead Genesis.

Marvel Zombies

It started with a flash in the sky, and a ripple through the clouds. The hunger is what brought it here, and feed it did, until the Marvel Heroes were no more. They were replaced by soulless monsters, driven only by an insatiable craving for human flesh.

After they ran out of food, Reed Richards devised a plan to lure his counterpart from another dimension into a deadly trap. Thanks to Magneto, who had managed to stay uninfected, Reed’s plan failed, leaving him and the rest of the Fantastic Four stranded in another dimension.

Magneto has destroyed the machine that allowed their passage to another dimension, an action he paid for with his life.

The Silver Surfer appeared in the skies, followed shortly thereafter by the arrival of Galactus. It was little more than a minor obstacle for the monsters the Marvel heroes had become. Devouring The Silver Surfer and Galactus provided the zombies with cosmic powers and cosmic hunger. With no food left on Earth they set their sights for the stars, for space, and the universe was never the same.

This is no world of Marvel Heroes. This is the world of: MARVEL ZOMBIES

Spanning multiple mini-series and one-shots by the likes of Robert Kirkman, Sean Phillips and others, MARVEL ZOMBIES comics also feature Arthur Suydam’s iconic zombiefied covers.