last round of Lego Ideas reviews came in and the Team BTTF Jules Verne Train did not make it into the production phase. Thankfully, they have released the building instructions for Lego Digital ...

Our friend Masashi Togami, the founder of Team Back to the Future, has a new BTTF project on Lego Cuusoo: Doc Brown’s Jules Verne Train.Like the soon-to-come-to-market Lego Back to the Future ...

The timing of Verne’s story is particularly significant, he writes: Train was making headlines in France (where Verne was) in late 1870 and early 1871, while Verne was looking around for a new idea.

Nowhere is that age evoked with more vigour than in the adventure novels of 19th-century French novelist Jules Verne. Here’s what makes Verne the godfather of steampunk. Professors, captains and ...

In addition to the manuscripts, the vehicle is also packed with 500 commemorative Jules Verne ATV mini-books and an Apple iPod pre-loaded with a special playlist of songs chosen by the winner of a ...

Phileas Fogg, the icy Englishman with a mania for whist and punctuality, was born in 1873, in Jules Verne’s deliciously wry novel “Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours” (translated that ...