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3D printers have revolutionized the way we produce materials. Across industries, these powerful printers have overhauled the production of components for everything from electronics to housing construction. Gamers are modding controllers with 3D-printed parts. Now, this incredible technology is changing the way children, or even adults, create and play at home.

The Toybox 3D printer is the world’s first 3D printer designed to be used by children. This printer puts the user in the driver’s seat of their creations, and the limits are only their imagination. Right now, you can pick up the Toybox 3D Deluxe Bundle for only $315, down from $469 (that’s a savings of 32%).

This bundle is perfect for any creatively minded child or young adult. Its durable case protects the device from damage, and its no-knife print retrieval keeps users’ hands safe. Included in the bundle is the Toybox 3D printer, a manual, and eight different colors of filament (printer food). The spools carry enough filament to make anywhere from 100-300 toys, dependent on size and complexity. Also, the filament is made from non-toxic, biodegradable plastic that is safe for homes and the environment.

The Toybox 3D printer is super easy to use and can be set up in just minutes. The companion app allows users to choose from an ever-expanding catalog of hundreds of toys that they can send to their printer over Wi-Fi. Or, users can draw their own schematics directly on the app to have printed up, bringing their imagination to life.

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Let the creativity of the little ones in your life soar. Give them the gift of wonder, endless possibilities, and the bottomless toy chest found in the Toybox 3d Printer, on sale now for $315.

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Now that Mayans MC Season 3 has come to an end on FX, it’s clear that the show has vastly evolved from its first two seasons. The connections to Sons of Anarchy, the show it’s spun off from, have been reined in. Instead, it now looks to its own characters for ways to explore their individual stories within the world of this outlaw motorcycle club on the border between the United States and Mexico. In doing so, Mayans MC was reborn–and for showrunner Elgin James, it’s finally the show he wanted to make.

Warning: The following contains spoilers for Season 3 of Mayans MC. If you haven’t finished the latest batch of episodes yet, you can check them out on FX on Hulu.

“This is the show that I actually pitched to [co-creator Kurt Sutter] and to the network and studio,” he told GameSpot. “When people would talk about how much they love the show [in the first two seasons], and even episodes I wrote, and I’d be like, ‘Oh, yeah, man, that wasn’t me,'” he admitted. “Like, not in a bad way, because I know I [co-]created these characters, you know? Kurt had the idea, created the characters, he created the world and he is just such a particular and special storyteller. So those are the stories we were telling, right? So when people were saying really nice things… even when I go on set with the actors, even when I direct, and they’d asked me something, I’d be like, ‘Oh, man, I don’t know.’ They’d be like, ‘But your name’s on it.’ And I was like, ‘I know, but I didn’t write it.’ And that’s just how a lot of TV is. That’s not us in particular, that’s just how a lot of television is.”

Now, though, after stepping in as the sole showrunner of the series, James and his cast and crew were able to make the show he’d been hoping to since day one.”With this season, as [star JD Pardo] always says, this was our first season,” he explained. “Not to discount the other seasons at all, it’s just this became the stories that we really wanted to tell.”

One of those stories centered on Coco’s (Richard Cabral) slide into heroin addiction and how it impacted everyone around him. For James, this was a story that demanded to be told. “These characters for nine seasons [between Sons of Anarchy and Mayans MC], I guess, have been selling heroin, and we’ve never seen the repercussions of that,” he explained. “We’d always talk about it in the writers’ room in the first two seasons.”

He continued, “Nevermind that the country has been torn apart by this opiate crisis now for so long. It hit New England, it hit New Hampshire and Massachusetts, South Boston over a decade ago. Where I grew up, that’s been something that’s been happening for a long time, even before it cut off to the rest of the country. And we’ve never shown repercussions. I think so many of us have family members and then there’s people attached to the show that have gone through their own journeys with opiates, so I felt it was so important to tell this story. Then even on a deeper level, it was just, again, about the repercussions of your actions.”

Beyond the clubs trafficking the drug, for Coco, in particular, those repercussions stem back to killing his own mother in Season 1. And while it may have taken until Season 3 for Coco to spiral downward, his struggles are far from over.

“He’s not healed. He survived, but Coco is not healed,” James said. “Where is he going to go from now? And how is he going to find the tools to keep it together [and] make his way back into the only world that’s ever really felt like home?”

Thankfully, fans will get the chance to see where Coco–and the rest of Mayans MC–goes from here. The series has already been renewed for Season 4. And with a creative rebirth like what’s seen in Season 3, there’s no telling what will happen next. Chances are it’s going to be bloody and violent, though.

One of the most anticipated programs coming to HBO Max is the one-off Friends reunion special that brings back the cast of the iconic TV show. Lisa Kudrow, who starred as Phoebe on the show, has now said everything she can about the show to try to get people hyped.

Speaking with Conan O’Brien, Kudrow read from a prepared statement about what she’s allowed to say. The bosses at Warner Bros. are trying to preserve the mystery so as to entice people to watch, but for now, Kudrow said she could share the official description: “Joined by special guests, we all, the cast, return to the original sound stage–Stage 24–on the Warner Bros. studio lot for an unscripted reunion special in celebration of the show.”

Pressing for more details, O’Brien asked Kudrow if part of the reunion show involved the cast recreating the famous fountain scene from the show’s credits where they are splashing around in the water as “I’ll Be There For You” plays. They did not, Kudrow said, but she teased that the cast did return to the fountain for … something.

“We’re at the fountain and there is footage I’ve never seen before that I was really excited about. So if you do like the fountain, then yes, that will be kind of thrilling,” she said.

Kudrow added that the reunion special will feature footage that people haven’t seen before, including the cast. This may include clips that previously apparently never made it to air.

The reunion special is not a Friends reboot, and the actors will not be in character. The special will instead be a reunion for the actors, who have not gotten together for a TV special since 2004 when Friends went off the air.

All six of the main cast members are coming back for the special. In addition to Kudrow, Jennifer Aniston, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, Courteney Cox, and David Schwimmer will all take part. Series co-creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane will be included as well.

According to a report, all six stars are being paid between $2.5 million and $3 million to appear in the reunion. The actors are said to have collectively negotiated for the fees in the Friends reunion special. This is in keeping with tradition, as fans may recall that the actors also negotiated together to be paid $1 million per episode for the original show. This kind of collective bargaining was rare at the time, and it still is today for major TV shows.

No release date has been announced for the Friends reunion show yet, but we know filming wrapped up in April after being delayed due to COVID.

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Fortnite Week 9 challenges have just gone live, and one of them requires you to activate a rift by purchasing it from a character. There are several NPCs around the island who sell rifts for you to use, but the game doesn’t reveal this information anywhere, so we’ve gone ahead and marked their locations for you. Here’s how and where to activate a rift in Fortnite.

Activate A Rift – NPC Locations

There are six different NPCs on the Fortnite island who will sell you a rift. A rift is like a wormhole that instantly teleports you from the ground up to the sky where you can dive and/or glide back down to the island. It’s useful in escaping an encroaching storm or a firefight you don’t want any part of.

To activate a rift, simply buy it from one of the following five NPCs, found at the locations mentioned and marked. Note that a sixth NPC, Bunker Jonesy, also sells rifts, but he spawns randomly in one of ten spots every round, so unless you manage to stumble on him, he’s really of no use for this challenge. Here’s where you can find the other five NPCs selling rifts for 245 Gold Bars each.

• Castaway Jonesy – on the small island northeast of Steamy Stacks
• Rebirth Raven – in a cliffside house on the west beach of Sweaty Sands
• Willow – roaming Weeping Woods
• Raz – in a large building within Colossal Crops
• Cabbie – outside the building with the pool in Lazy Lake

Speaking to any of those five and activating a rift for 245 Gold Bars will complete the challenge and bring you one step closer to wrapping up the full slate of Fortnite Week 9 challenges. This week’s list also includes asking you to hunt a boar, which you can do using our wildlife guide. A bulk of the other challenges focus on the Storm, like one asking you to Shockwave yourself while in the Storm and another that asks you to gain health while in the Storm. There was also a planned challenge asking players to gather intel on wildlife, though it’s been scrapped for now. We’ve left the guide up and noted it’s inactive in case Epic decides to bring it back in a future week.

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Two of Marvel’s upcoming movies, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and the Eternals, feature Chinese-born creators in front of and behind the camera. And yet, these two movies may not make it to Chinese theaters if a hint from CCTV6 China Movie Channel ends up being accurate, according to a report from Variety.

CCTV6 aired a list of the United States release dates for all of the upcoming MCU Phase Four films, but Eternals and Shang-Chi were missing despite being the nearest films after Black Widow, which releases July 9. As Variety notes, their absence from the list doesn’t guarantee they won’t make it over, but the two films are already facing some challenges. These two movies are the first to significantly feature Asian creators; Shang-Chi stars Chinese-Canadian actor Simu Liu, while Eternals was helmed by Academy Award-winning director Chloe Zhao.

Shang-Chi‘s major obstacle comes from its history as an older Marvel comic. Shang-Chi first appeared in Marvel comics in 1973, a time when Marvel creators were taking inspiration from Eastern film and culture. Doctor Strange first appeared in 1963, and the Mandarin and Iron Fist a year after Shang-Chi, in 1974. Marvel didn’t always handle these characters gracefully. Variety points out that Shang-Chi’s father in his original backstory is a character called Fu Manchu, a character long associated with Asian racism and stereotyping. Marvel tweaked Shang-Chi’s backstory for his movie, making the Mandarin his father and casting veteran Chinese actor Tony Leung, but Chinese moviegoers appear skeptical.

“So you change the name and it’s not Fu Manchu anymore? The Mandarin is inherently a character that blackens the image of the Chinese people,” one user wrote on Weibo, China’s major social media service.

The situation with the Eternals is a little bit different because there, it’s more about the director herself. An article from Time explains that while Zhao was originally lauded in China for her groundbreaking Best Director win at the Golden Globes, comments from Zhao resurfaced, including one where she spoke about growing up in China, describing it as “a place where there are lies everywhere.” Chinese state-run publications did not report on Zhao’s similarly groundbreaking Oscar win, and a hashtag on Weibo mentioning Zhao was censored, along with mentions of her on other sites and services.

All movies that play in Chinese theaters are approved by the government before they get in front of citizens. For Shang-Chi, the issue seems to be more of a cultural one, but if the committee views the history of the movie’s villain as significantly offensive to Chinese culture and history, that may be enough to keep it from seeing release. For Eternals, Zhao herself seems to be the primary obstacle. Releasing a film created by someone the government views as persona nongrata, that would generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for Marvel, could be a huge sticking point. None of this is guaranteed, but Marvel is almost certainly keeping an eye on both of these issues.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings releases on September 3, 2021, followed by the Eternals on November 5.

With vaccines rolling out across the country, in-person gatherings are finding calendar dates again. Star Wars fans can look forward to their next event even sooner than planned, as Lucasfilm has moved the next Star Wars Celebration date up by three months, from August 2022 to May 2022.

Star Wars Celebration Anaheim was initially scheduled for August 18-21, 2022. Instead, Lucasfilm announced today that the event will run from May 26-29, 2022.

“These new dates will provide fans with more incredible offerings to enjoy at Star Wars Celebration,” the organizers wrote in the official announcement.

Star Wars Celebration is the one-stop shop for Star Wars announcements. Celebration 2019 revealed the title of Episode IX, The Rise of Skywalker, along with a trailer for the film. The event also featured the first event-only Mandalorian footage, along with character reveals for the show, and tons of Clone Wars reveals. Gamers, meanwhile, got an early look at Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.

Disney has a big batch of Star Wars movies and shows planned. Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins’ Rogue Squadron and Taika Waititi’s untitled project are headed to the big screen. For television, Disney has announced shows for Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka Tano, Cassian Andor, Lando Calrissian, Boba Fett, and more. While the Book of Boba Fett is releasing this year, many of these projects are further out, and we can likely look forward to reveals for some of them come next May.

According to the official announcement, fans who want to keep their tickets don’t have to do anything. If those new dates don’t work, though, you can request a refund through the Star Wars Celebration website.

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Set in the beautiful, volcanic scarred high-desert of the Pacific Northwest, Days Gone is an open-world action-adventure game where you play as Deacon St. John, a Drifter and bounty hunter who would rather risk the dangers of the broken road than live in one of the “safe” wilderness encampments.