From now until Friday May 26, you can get rentals at Movielink (including, say, Serenity) for half price. Download the movie directly to your computer and watch it on your schedule. Windows only, sorry folks.

New at The Prop Store of London - a distressed Alliance officer jacket and some production artwork for Reaver weaponry.

New at The Prop Store of London: a “hero” Reaver dagger, used in the final battle scene. It’s metal (not rubber) with wire wrapped around the handle. Also, a Chinese brush set used as set dressing in Inara’s room.

Yay! Hot Topic has Serenity shirts, again!

You got your logo shirt (in regular sizes, 2XL, and a ladies’ fitted tee), you got your Blue Sun shirt, you got your “Let’s Be Bad Guys!” shirt, and you got your Buddha shirt.

Available at local shops (search for one near you) or online. If your local shop is out of stock, they will ship store to store. You can also try asking for the previous, sold out designs in case any of the stores still have any.

Inkworks has announced that the Jonathan M. Woodward autograph cards from the new Firefly card set are now available. If you got a redemption card, go for it!

This detailed replica of the PDA Dobson tried to use and then smashed in the Firefly pilot episode “Serenity” is now for sale! $50 shipped to the US or Canada, adjusted shipping for other countries.

More details and bigger pics here.

New at The Prop Store of London: another data pad with classified info about River’s stay at the Academy (but in Chinese) and a prototype Reaver helmet. The helmet was made for a Reaver but was never used in the film; it comes with four sheets of production photos.

Get a peek at the development of the Reavers with The Prop Store of London’s latest edition, a set of nine sheets of sketches for assorted Reaver weapons and nasty stuff.

Pointy things, spinny things, pointy spinny things, and devices for throwing pointy spinny things. Just what you need framed on your wall to impress Browncoats and terrify casual visitors.

Oh my God! We’re all going to die! Who’s flying this thing?

Oh, wait. It’s you. 

Wizard Jon Marcure started with the excellent (and open source) space flight simulator Orbiter and he modded out a Firefly for us to play with. Update: a new version and even cooler version is available to go along with the 2006 Orbiter update.

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To kick off the new site, the Lilac Trading Station is giving away a heap of cool stuff in June, and all you have to do to enter is to buy something in May.

Three names will be drawn at random. The grand prize includes a brand new Serenity DVD (WS, R1), a Jayne action figure (unopened), a UK mini movie poster, the Serenity comics miniseries, LTS’s own Browncoat shirt, and whatever other Serenity stuff he can find to toss in. 

The other two names drawn will receive a free shirt. If you were maybe thinking of someday ordering something from here, this would be a good time. Head to the Lilac Trading Station for more details.