Fun and games - toys and kits for nerds

Between Naruto and his teacher Kakashi lie roughly two temperaments. One of them yells his goals across the village until everybody knows them. The...

Naruto Uzumaki never worked his way up on talent, he did it with blunt repetition: hundreds of Shadow Clones, hundreds of goes at the same exercise...

The residents of Minecraft cover an astonishing range. A wolf turns into the most loyal companion you have ever had for the price of a few bones, a...

Imagine tapping your fully packed moving box with nothing but your fingertips and watching it float. That is exactly the Quirk of Ochaco Uraraka fr...

In Minecraft everything starts the same way: you punch a tree, collect wood and dig into the nearest hill. Three hours later there is a complex wit...

On paper Nick Fury’s plan made no sense at all: a billionaire in a metal suit, a god of thunder, a super soldier thawed out of the forties and a sp...

Deadpool is the one character in the Marvel universe who knows he is being watched. In the middle of a fight he turns to the camera, mocks the budg...

Tony Stark is the kind of man who bolts his own name onto a skyscraper in glowing letters and then takes a finished suit of armour apart again beca...

Back in the day the stickers of your favourite band went into a collector's album and the duplicates changed hands in the school yard. Today the co...

Instant noodles are the unofficial staple food of every long night: tear the lid half open, pour on hot water, wait three minutes. In Korea the cup...

Ordinary playing cards have been ruled by the same little court for centuries: king, queen, jack, all of them solemn and none of them with any expe...

Kafka Hibino scrapes monster remains off the street while other people do the actual monster fighting. His dream of joining the Defense Force expir...

The huge gate swings open, the jungle waits below, and the visitors roll off on their first lap through the park. White paintwork, red stripes, a b...

The rubber duck has had a remarkable career: from squeaky bath toy on the edge of the tub to serious collectable on the shelf. Anyone who owns one ...

Three rules, that is all it takes: no bright light, no water, nothing to eat after midnight. Break them and instead of one cuddly Mogwai you sudden...

Ray Stantz dug the car up as a rattling old ambulance, complete with a fault list running from the shock absorbers to the transmission, and bought ...

When that one siren goes off in New York, the kind that wails rather than yelps, half the city knows what is coming: a converted Cadillac from 1959...

There is that one moment in Fallout: you climb into the power armor, the hatch shuts behind you with a heavy hiss, your whole field of view turns i...

In Dungeons & Dragons the books are something like the holy scriptures of the gaming table. The Player's Handbook says what your character can ...

Long before text messages existed, Dungeons & Dragons already had the Sending Stones. The pebbles always turn up in pairs, and whoever touches ...

Every roleplaying group knows the moment when the Dungeon Master can no longer hide the grin: out of the dark corridor a horned skull pushes into t...

Collect seven Dragon Balls, then Shenron appears and grants one wish. Sounds like an afternoon, turns out to be half a world tour. Nobody in Dragon...

Goku has knocked out space tyrants, stopped androids and turned entire tournaments of gods upside down. Between two world rescues, though, he would...

The Council of Elrond is basically a round of cards: in Rivendell, Elves, Dwarves, Men and one very small hobbit sit around a table, everybody lays...

The founding bet in Dandadan is quickly explained: Momo thinks aliens are nonsense, Okarun says the same about ghosts, and whoever gets it wrong ha...

Gotham, 1992: the Penguin chases the Dark Knight through ever narrower alleys until the gap is finally too tight for the Batmobile. Batman hits a b...

A reporter ducks into a phone booth, steps back out in blue tights and a red cape and takes off into the sky: since 1938 that has been one of the m...

The White Scars are the fastest warriors among the Legions: riders from the steppes of Chogoris who would rather race past their enemies than plant...

Nobody builds a realm in a single evening. First a handful of goblins turn up, then a shaggy wolf, at some point a distinctly hot tempered demoness...

In the Hogwarts common room, nobody spends all evening on homework. Wizard's Chess sits on the shelf, and right next to it Exploding Snap, a card g...

The Fellowship set out to save Middle-earth – and the Hobbits of the Shire proved that the smallest are often the greatest. Frodo, Sam, Bilbo, Merr...

A thousand years of adventure, and in the end stands an elf with silver twin tails and a staff that doesn't just hint at magic – it practically glo...

A god of death doesn't carry keys – but you do. Ryuk, the immortal Shinigami from Death Note, who threw the fateful notebook to Light Yagami and ha...

In Minecraft there's that one magical moment: you place your hard-mined Diamond Sword on the Enchanting Table, the mysterious runes flicker, and ou...

At the end of every great Minecraft journey it awaits: the Ender Dragon, the dreaded boss from the dark End dimension. Anyone who wants to defeat i...

A glowing crystal, a girl who falls from the sky, and a legendary island floating high above the clouds: Hayao Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky tells t...