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Video: Griswold Family travels to Disney in the Family Truckster, for real

By Jeremy Korzeniewski

Wagon Queen Family Truckster

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Is there anyone among us who didn’t laugh uncontrollably at the Family Truckster that transported Clark, Ellen, Rusty and Audrey (along with a few other, less fortunate souls…) to Wally World in National Lampoon’s Vacation? We thought not. Such a classic piece of Hollywood automobilia deserves such recognition, we think, and we’re happy to report that one real-life Griswold Family has replicated the movie’s fateful trip the best way it can: with a Wagon Queen Family Truckster of their very own.

Wally World exists only in the imagination of the movies, and that’s fine because Disney World not only exists but is a perfect fill-in for the Griswold Family Vacation. The family may not be greeted by the late, great John Candy, and they probably aren’t going to see Christie Brinkley in a bright red Ferrari, but they will for sure see Mickey Mouse, and hopefully even Tinker Bell, if they’re lucky.

Check out the video below to see the real-life Griswold Family and their faithful recreation of the infamous Family Truckster, and feel free to head on over to the official Disney blog for more on the family and their vacationing travails. Finally, check out another fan-made Family Truckster here.

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Katy Perry House: Singer Lists Her Fortess For $6.925 Million (PHOTOS)

By The Huffington Post News Editors

LOS ANGELES — Katy Perry hasn’t been doing so well in the romance department lately — bye-bye John Mayer. But the singer-songwriter is stepping up her game to rid herself of reminders of her recent romantic past.

Perry has listed the Mediterranean home that she and then-husband Russell Brand bought from National Lampoon magazine executive Daniel Laikin in 2011, according to Realtor.com. The home is listed at $6.925 million; the singer bought the estate, which she never occupied, for $6.5 million.

The three-story Spanish-style estate spans 8,830 square feet of living space and sits on a three-acre property in the Sunset Strip area. It has a four-room master suite, a lagoon-like swimming pool and the listing describes the main house as having “fortress-security.”

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Noobz DVD Review

Cody is a dick, Andy is the glue, Hollywood’s a sham and Oliver might be gay. Together these Gears of War gamers must stick together in order to try and win $400,000 at the Cyberbowl Championship in Noobz, an earnest but fiercely flat indie comedy about gaming culture.

Jeremy Piven-esque writer/director Blake Freeman, who also plays Cody, piles on tepid, tired gags in the vein of National Lampoon while trying to infuse Noobz with the deeper, wordier male-bonding aspects of Kevin Smith‘s View Askew films. Sometimes it feels like you’re watching an unlikable frat boy romp and the next second it’s Chasing Amy, with each side nullifying the other. Kevin Smith-player Jason Mews, surprisingly, gives us Mews-lite here, acting as possibly the least inept, dysfunctional member of his gaming “clan.” So there are aspects of Noobz I admire, namely the by-your-own-bootstraps filmmaking, but the comedy just isn’t there.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games