As If ...

Add this one to the pile of head-scratching merchandising ideas: Paramount is releasing video games based on the teen chick flick classics Clueless, Mean Girls and Pretty in Pink later this year. Apparently, these will serve the previously untapped market of gamers who want to shop, sew and humiliate their classmates via digital technology.

Actually, these would be "so fetch" if you could hook them to each other and play them together. Just imagine: you're Cher, teaming up with Duckie to defeat The Plastics. Game on.

Elle: Oh, Dolly!

With Broadway's new Elle Woods almost crowned, it's time to take a look at the official Legally Blonde: The Musicaldoll!

The 16-inch limited edition creation from Madame Alexander comes attired in her "Harvard Variations" ensemble, complete with a tiny Bruiser in tow. The second dollin the collection is dressed in Elle's pretty in pink grand finale outfit.

Either way, it's two snaps up!

Giving Props: Back to the Future Edition

Don't want to shell out two grand for Nike's Marty McFly shoes from Back to the Future Part II (they don't even have automatic laces!)? Then how about this for a more economic souvenir, and it's from the vastly superior original Back to the Future too: an authentic replica of the OUTATIME license plate.

Or, if you want to get really geeky, you can always splurge on a flux capacitor.

Click here to get your own Back to the Future Outatime License Plate Replica from EntertainmentEarth.com.

I Went to Comic Con, and All I Got Was This "Rock Me Sexy Jesus" T-Shirt

Going to Comic-Con? Want to see Hamlet 2? Better yet, want one of these rockin', sexy "Rock Me Sexy Jesus" t-shirts?

Visit Cinematical to find out how.

UPDATE: And this year's Oscar for Best Original Song goes to ... this.

For the Birds

It isn't often that the realms of Barbie and Hitchcock collide, but when they do, the result is something as brilliant as this: the Alfred Hitchcock The Birds Barbie Doll.

Can't wait for the Psycho and Vertigo models.

Really Rosie

Back in the days of her eponymous talk show, the then reigning "Queen of Nice" had her very own fashion doll, known as Rosie O'Donnell, Friend of Barbie.

"Friend of Barbie" ... is that the female equivalent of "Friend of Dorothy"?

Desperately Seeking Closure

Desperate Housewives will conclude its revitalized fourth season tomorrow night (which will include the addition of Queer as Folk icon Gale Harold to the cast), so to keep all the Wisteria Lane action alive over the long hot summer, here is the Madame Alexander Desperate Housewives Doll Collection.

Yes, you too can recreate all the juicy gossip and homemaker intrigue of the popular nighttime soap with 16" recreations of Lynette, Gabrielle, Edie, Susan and Bree. And although I'm sure you would want him, tragically, there is no Mike Delfino doll.

Click Here for Official ABC Merchandise and to Shop the Desperate Housewives store!

If Adventure Were a Carb

Is it Raiders of the Lost Starch? Indiana Spud and the Tuber of Doom? Idaho Jones and the Mash Crusade?

Nope, it's the Indiana Jones Mr. Potato Head: Taters of the Lost Ark.

Speed Demon Barbie

So much for that pink Corvette ... with the new Speed Racer Barbie Doll Gift Set, a Trixied up Barbie and a sped up Ken will be pulling up the Barbie Dream House in style.

Click here to buy from EntertainmentEarth.com.

Thingamabobs

Unkle Lancifer at Kindertrauma takes a look back at the merchandise for John Carpenter's The Thing and wonders, "what were they thinking?"

Golden Voyages

It won an Oscar but closed a studio, so chances are you haven't seen The Golden Compass. Now's your chance, as the controversial fantasy adventure journeys to DVD April 29; just think of it as another way to piss off the fundamentalist crowd.

And, if it strikes your fancy, you can always pick up these highly detailed collectible figures of the film's stars Daniel Craig,Dakota Blue Richardsand Nicole Kidmanfrom the Robert Tonner Doll Company. After all, they may be the closest will ever get to James Bond and Satine dolls.

Click on the above links to purchase the DVD and figures from Amazon.com.