On June 7th, Shout! Factory will release Transformers: Beast Wars- The Complete Series Collector’s Edition in honor of the series’ 15th anniversary. This Transformers series follows the descendants of the Autobots — Optimus Primal and the Maximals — as they …
Continue ReadingWe have a winner to announce for the Xbox Live Arcade Triple Pack Giveaway! Congratulations to William Grant, a resident of Massachusetts, USA, as he will be receiving an XBLA Triple Pack! A big thanks to all of our readers for …
Continue ReadingHave you ever wondered if you could view 3D movies on your iPhone? Now you can, with the My3D viewer! The viewer itself is made of a hard plastic shell that reminds you of the old View-Masters, originally introduced in …
Continue ReadingThe opening of the summer’s first Avenger movie, Thor, is just around the corner and the folks over at Hasbro have been working hard to come up with some great toys so you and your kids can act out the …
Continue ReadingEarlier this week it was announced that UK-based developer Jagex Games Studio has partnered with Hasbro to create a massive multiplayer online game using the Transformers license, and, try as I might to keep him caged, my inner fanboy went …
Continue ReadingOverview: Ratuki, a new card game from Hasbro, combines the stack-building of games like Skip-Bo with the speed and chaos of Spoons. It’s not a deep game, but it’s fast-paced and can be quite entertaining to play. Just watch out …
Continue ReadingPictureka! has been around for a while, but we hadn’t ever played it. My kids and I had been eyeing it in the store since it first arrived on the scene, but I was only recently fortunate enough to be …
Continue ReadingRemember that game we played as kids that we called “Telephone?” You sit in a circle and whisper things around the circle. By the time your phrase gets back to you, it has changed so much that it’s nothing like …
Continue ReadingYou may remember that GeekDad Dave Giancaspro saw Hasbro’s remote control Millennium Falcon at the Toy Fair earlier this year. I saw it again at Comic-Con this summer, and finally got a chance to give it a spin myself. Turns …
Continue ReadingIt’s hard to believe that I’m old enough that toys that seem so fresh in my memory are now considered vintage, but I guess it’s true. Recently, Hasbro began releasing 3 3/4″ Star Wars Vintage Collection action figures very similar …
Continue ReadingWhen I was a kid, if you wanted a radio-controlled Star Wars toy, you could have any one you wanted, as long as it was a super-lame Jawa Sandcrawler. And you could get any rocket-firing Star Wars toy you wanted, …
Continue ReadingI picked up the Dungeons and Dragons Heroscape Master Set: Battle for the Underdark not long ago and finally had a chance to play with my son.I was surprised to find a game that we both enjoyed and has my …
Continue ReadingOK, I’ll make this quick. We’ve been on a bit of a Boba Fett kick around our house. Still, when Hasbro asked me if I wanted to see the new Boba Fett Electronic Helmet, it didn’t take long to decide …
Continue ReadingWhat was billed as the “Main Event” at this weekend’s official Star Wars con Celebration V involved a long sit-down interview of George Lucas, hosted by The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart. As a special gift for John, the folks at …
Continue ReadingI have to admit: I don’t play a lot of classic board games. I don’t even own Monopoly (or any variations thereof) and the last time I played Risk I may have still had some of my baby teeth still. …
Continue ReadingThe new deluxe Star Wars AT-AT from Hasbro makes me envious of my kids. No, that’s not quite accurate: it makes the eight-year-old me, the one from 1981, pop up suddenly and want desperately to play with it. See, I …
Continue Reading“No other toy has saved the world, millions of times over, one backyard at a time.” That’s the go-to line that G.I. Joe Collector’s Club president and the driving force behind G.I. Joe Con, Brian Savage, likes to use to …
Continue ReadingLook, we Star Wars fans – especially those of us, um “seasoned” enough to remember seeing the originals in the theater – know we can be hard to buy for. All that preachy stuff from Yoda about patience and control? …
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