Fun and games - toys and kits for nerds

In the Ghibli classic there isn't just one Totoro but three: the giant grey O-Totoro, the little white Chibi and, in between, the blue Chu-Totoro, ...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Behind Kurapika's calm exterior burns one of the coldest quests for revenge in anime history. As the last survivor of the Kurta Clan, wiped out by ...

In the world of Kaiju No. 8, humanity is under constant assault from giant monsters, and only the Defense Force stands against them. Of all people,...

When someone hears about Warhammer 40,000 for the first time and pictures a Space Marine, it's usually one clad in radiant blue. The Ultramarines, ...

When the time machine leaps through the years at exactly 88 mph, it comes back frozen over: travelling through the space-time continuum is bitterly...

In 2023, Netflix dared to do what many thought impossible to adapt: Eiichiro Oda's pirate epic One Piece as a live-action series with real people. ...

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war. Among the Imperium's Space Marines, the Blood Angels are perhaps the most tragic heroes ...

Anyone who's followed a young witch's move to the big city knows the secret star of Kiki's Delivery Service: Jiji, the black cat with the sharp ton...

Whether it's the Council of Elrond, Gandalf's cunning contest of strength with Saruman, or Frodo's journey to Mount Doom: the battle for Middle-ear...

Every Dungeons & Dragons session knows this moment: The Dungeon Master grins, and suddenly the Beholder emerges from the darkness – this insane...