Fun and games - toys and kits for nerds

When the rain pours down on the countryside in the Studio Ghibli classic My Neighbor Totoro, he appears: the big grey forest spirit who sleeps on a...

No ship on the seven seas carries as much heart and soul as the Thousand Sunny. Built by shipwright Franky from the legendary Adam wood, the vessel...

Anyone who has ever crept down a gloomy dungeon corridor knows the shiver: something translucent shimmers ahead of you, almost invisible, and befor...

Anyone who once chose Bulbasaur in Red or Blue was rewarded with one of the most loyal companions of all. At the end of its evolution stands Venusa...

Every dungeon crawler knows the moment: at last the supposed treasure chest stands before you, but the instant you reach out for it, a tooth-lined ...

Hardly any chapter of the One Piece saga has gripped fans like the great war for Marineford: Ace sits bound on the scaffold, the Marines have deplo...

In Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro, a gentle, furry spirit lives deep in the forest, appearing only to children and making entire treetops grow...

I'm Pickle Riiick! With these words, the greatest genius in the multiverse turns himself into a pickle without a second thought, just to escape fam...

The world of the shinobi is on the brink: the criminal organisation Akatsuki is hunting the nine Bijuu, the mighty beasts, to seize control over ev...

In the world of Kaiju No. 8, humanity is on permanent duty against monstrous beasts, and anyone who knows the Defense Force knows that Vice-Captain...

Three simple rules, and yet they go wrong in every Christmas movie: no water, no sunlight and never, ever feed after midnight. The only Mogwai who ...

High above the clouds floats Laputa, the legendary sky island from Hayao Miyazaki's classic. Among its weathered walls and overgrown gardens, adora...

On the desert planet Pandora, only one rule counts: whoever roars the loudest and swings the biggest axe lives to see the next sunrise. Among all t...

In the 41st millennium there is only war, cold spaceship corridors and Orks who drag anything with teeth into battle. Among their favourite compani...

A good campaign rarely ends on time. Eventually the dragon is slain, the treasure recovered, and the party sits around the table, exhausted but hap...

For decades he's been snatching the princess, roaring at the top of his lungs and barricading himself behind a moat of lava at the end of every cas...

After the big bang, not much of the old life remains, except a blue jumpsuit, a raised thumb and the unshakeably good mood of the Vault Boy. Fallou...

Naruto Uzumaki has fought his way up from the class clown everyone laughed at to the hero of his village, powered by sheer stubbornness, a wide gri...

Sasuke Uchiha carries an entire tragedy with him: the survivor of a wiped-out clan, driven by revenge and an ambition that leads him ever deeper in...

In Hayao Miyazaki's 'Spirited Away', a quiet figure drifts through the steaming bathhouse: No-Face, a lonely spirit behind a white mask who wants n...

In the vast reaches of Warhammer 40,000 there's hardly anything with more bite than a Squig. These perfectly round fungus creatures are basically n...

There are films that play every rainy Sunday afternoon, and yet nobody stays glued to the sofa. Bud Spencer and Terence Hill raised a whole generat...

There's hardly a more satisfying sound at the gaming table than the hearty clatter of a die rolling across the wood and coming to rest on the twent...

On Egghead, the island of the future, the Straw Hat crew meets the brilliant scientist Vegapunk. Instead of his vest and sandals, Luffy slips into ...

In Minecraft everything is decided between sunrise and sunset: by day you build your world block by block, but as soon as darkness falls, creepers,...

Above the Hidden Village of Konoha towers the Hokage Rock, its stone carved with the faces of the greatest ninja leaders. And it's at this very ven...

Anyone who has seen The Empire Strikes Back never forgets the sight: across the ice field of Hoth the mighty AT-ATs come stomping, step by step, wh...

There's that one scene everyone who loves Studio Ghibli knows: two children waiting in the rain at a bus stop, and suddenly this huge, fluffy fores...

Order versus chaos, a cool head against pure gut instinct: between Batman and the Joker it's never just about fists, but always about the better pl...

At the end of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the thing the wizarding world has feared for years finally happens: in a graveyard at night, the...

The icy wind of Hoth, a deep metallic pounding on the horizon, and then they emerge from the driving snow: the AT-AT Walkers of the Empire. Few sce...

Deep in the fire of Mount Doom, where the air shimmers with heat, the Dark Lord once forged his most dangerous weapon. One Ring to rule them all, c...

Some heroes draw a sword; Steve Rogers simply raises his shield and lets whatever evil hurls at him bounce right off. The scrawny kid from Brooklyn...

There's that moment when Darth Vader enters the room and every conversation falls silent. No other villain in film history commands the dark side a...

“Blood for the Blood God, skulls for the Skull Throne.” Few battle cries in the Warhammer universe are as infamous as that of the Khorne Berzerkers...

No Chapter of the Space Marines carries the weight of its past like the Dark Angels. Behind their dark green armour, the „Unforgiven“ hide an ancie...