The Princess Bride Archives

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UPDATE: Less than  24 hours after we mocked Elon Musk for comparing himself to Mandy Patinkin's Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride in a recent interview with CNBC's David Faber (along with doubling down on his willingness to spread whackjob conspiracy theories and his Magneto ignorance), we have the only confirmation that we would need to[...]
BCTV Daily Dispatch
Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Elon Musk/The Princess Bride/Magneto, USA Network's WWE NXT/Raw, Disney+'s X-Men '97, ESPN's The Pat McAfee Show, Disney+'s Loki & Echo, Crunchyroll & Duolingo, Showtime's Yellowjackets, The CW's Nancy Drew, ABC's The Rookie, Max's The Penguin, Netflix's FUBAR, Supernatural, Comcast/Disney/Hulu, DC Studios & Arrowverse, Disney+'s The Mandalorian, Peacock's[...]
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Our two biggest takeaways? First, we can now officially add The Princess Bride to the growing list of pop culture references that Musk drops that end up proving he has no idea what they're really all about Second, if new Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino isn't updating her LinkedIn by the time she reads this, then[...]
The Princess Bride: Cary Elwes Commemorates Andre the Giant’s Birthday
It's no secret that one of the greatest joys in pro-wrestler André Roussimoff's (aka Andre the Giant) life was playing the beloved Fezzik in the 1987 Rob Reiner classic The Princess Bride Fezzik was the muscle, traveling companion, and best friend of Iñigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin), who's on the quest to avenge the death[...]
McFarlane Reveals Bloodied The Princess Bride Variant Figures
McFarlane Toys is back at it again as they add some more figures for their new 7" The Princess Bride action figure collection Wave 2 will consist of mostly repaints which will include Inigo Montoya and Westley with some new bloodied variants These two deadly swordsmen are back and ready for some new bloody action[...]
The Princess Bride Inigo Montoya & Fezzik Arrive at McFarlane Toys
McFarlane Toys continues to expand their brand new The Princess Bride 7" action figure line with two new figures We have already seen Westley and Princess Buttercup, but now we are getting Inigo Montoya and a MegaFig of Fezzik Indigo Montoya is out for blood as this iconic movie villain is faithfully recreated by McFarlane[...]
The Princess Bride Comes to McFarlane Toys with Westley and Buttercup
Fans of The Princess Bride are now able to recreate iconic scenes from the film with this new line of 7" scale figures Two of the biggest figures in the wave will, of course, be Westley as Dread Pirate Roberts and Princess Buttercup The Princess Bride figures will feature similar packaging to McFarlane Toys DC[...]
RSVLTS Announces Heroic The Princess Bride Button Down Collection
RSVLTS has just revealed their newest collaboration with the beloved 1987 film The Princess Bride Four button-down shirts are releasing, with three available now and another coming later in mid-August. Kicking things off first is a truly special The Princess Bride design as artist Ise Ananphada brings the love story of "Buttercup & Westley" to life[...]
Robin Wright as Buttercup and Cary Elwes as Westley in The Princess Bride (1987). Image courtesy of 20th Century Studios
Ted Cruz (R) is pitching an "inconceivable" hissy fit over a reunion for The Princess Bride (1987) in a Q&A fundraiser event stumping for Democrat presidential frontrunner Joe Biden "Do you hear that Fezzik? That is the sound of ultimate suffering," Cruz tweeted presuming over the sounds of the world's smallest violin "My heart made[...]
Ravensburger Announces The Princess Bride Adventure Book Game
Who says life is fair, where is that written? Hopefully in the pages of Ravensburger's latest title, The Princess Bride Adventure Book Game This is a pretty cool concept from the company as you won't just be running around doing a standard tabletop version of the film Instead, you'll be running through the "book" in[...]
Coronavirus: Wash Your Hands and Use Pop Culture References!
Plus, if you are in public I guarantee someone else starts singing with you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ9ymE2RcxoVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Batman 1966 Television Series HD – Theme Song Opening & Closing Credits in 1080p High Definition (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ9ymE2Rcxo) Inigo Montoya's Speech From The Princess Bride Just say it five times and you can dry your hands and[...]
No One Needs a Remake of "The Princess Bride"
The Princess Bride star Cary Elwes has spoken out in light of news that there are people who wish to remake the classic film. "There's a shortage of perfect movies in this world," Elwes wrote in a quote-tweet "It would be a pity to damage this one. There's a shortage of perfect movies in this world[...]
What's in the Box?!: Loot Crate DX – July 2018
So as we wonder what happened to the August and September boxes, let's check out what's inside this one. We'll start with the pin, which is actually a pretty cool looking one as we have three of the main characters from The Princess Bride stretched across a police lineup wall. The go, in order, Fezzik, Inigo Montoya, and[...]
Quantum Mechanix's Westley, AKA Dread Pirate Roberts 1:6 Scale Figure
We just can't get over how GOOD this Westley (aka The Dread Pirate Roberts) figure from Quantum Mechanix looks. Perhaps you'll recall the '80s film The Princess Bride and its masked-man heartthrob played by Cary Elwes, including all the super-quotable… quotes like "as you wish" and more Well, QM has the first officially licensed 1:6 scale articulated figure of[...]
Stranger Things Season 3 Adds The Princess Bride's Cary Elwes, Starship Trooper's Jake Busey
Credit (Elwes, left; Busey, right): Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com The world of Stranger Things is set to get a lot more "upside-down-ier" (definitely not a thing) with Netflix adding The Princess Bride's Cary Elwes and Starship Trooper's Jake Busey to the upcoming third season of the popular sci-fi series. Ted Sarandos, chief content officer, made the announcement as[...]