The Dr. Suess - Jurassic Park Themed Hotel That Can't Possibly Be Part Of a Major Hotel Chain.. But Is!

Chain hotels tend to be just that... links in a a chain. They are cookie cutter, exactly alike, and a word like unique is not often used to describe them. Holiday Inn, Best Western, Days Inn... no matter where you are in the country, if you walk into one of these places than you are basically going to see more of the exact same things. The lobbies are identical, the rooms are furnished the same, and the rates are about the same no matter where you go. Truly not unique. Unless you go to the Best Western in Denver.. than you are in for a treat!!! The BW in Denver decided to convert their hotel to a themed resort... not only one theme, but two! They love Dr. Suess, and they love dinosaurs... so why not make Suesstastic Park!!! Yup, the whole hotel has a dinosaur theme with a Suess-ian twist. This is so amazing, and even more impressive when you realize that you are getting such a unique experience while paying the same price as most other Best Westerns (around 90-100 a night). One of the coolest aspects has to be that they contacted awesome toy customizer Sillof to create some figures to display around the property that adopt the characteristics of what a Dr. Suess designed dinosaur would look like. A very unique hotel in the world of usual normalcy. Book your stay at the Best Western Denver asap by clicking here, and check out some cool pics after the jump...

Now This Is The Kind Of Shit I Would Do If I Had Celebrity Money...

I love when I hear things like this. Artist and action figure customizer Sillof does some unreal work, especially with Star Wars as the subject. He has done all types of customization to Star wars figures such as Steampunk Wars, Medieval Wars, and even Samurai Wars (which we featured way back when here on CCD...)... but his most recent collaboration is by far the coolest thing I ever heard. Uber nerd and amazing actor/comedian Patton Oswald has reached out to Sillof and commissioned him to create a line of Star Wars figures as if the characters were designed by Russ Meyer (called Faster Empire! Strike! Strike!... get it). What does that mean for the Wars figures? Well, first off it means all the dude characters are being restructured to be buxom beauties, and Leia gets the dude treatment (lots of chicks in Meyer's film, not so many dudes) and the characters have a real 60s/70s feel to them. He even designed a vehicle for the crew, a hot rod type car that would obviously replace The Millennium Falcon. Oswald deserves major props for taking some of that Justified & King of Queens money and teaming up with an artists as talented as Sillof to give us great geek action figures. He also dedicated the line of toys to Roger Ebert, who recently passed away and was the writer of the script for Meyer's classic Beyond The Valley of The Dolls. All in all a cool collabo (click here for even more pics), and definitely something I would do if I had a bunch of celeb money burning a hole in my pocket...