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Find Fame in ‘FlipToons’
Everyone wants to be the next big breakout cartoon—assemble the best cast of characters and find fame! FlipToons is a deck-building game for 1 to 4 players, ages 10 and up, and takes about 15–30 minutes to play. It retails for $19.95 and will be released at Gen Con 2025, with pre-orders open now that…
Click That Brick! The LEGO Icons Sherlock Holmes: Book Nook
LEGO has recently introduced a new line of sets: Book Nooks, which unfold to present scenes from the novels they are based on. The first of these is based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes books, and gives us a scene from Baker Street. The LEGO Icons Sherlock Holmes: Book Nook, set #10351, is a 1,359-piece…
Guess That Pokémon – Unova Edition!
Ultra PRO has released their latest Pokémon Electronic Guessing Game – the Unova Edition! The Electronic Guessing Game is designed for players 6-years-old and up. By now, everyone is likely very familiar with websites, apps, and games that focus on a specific fandom or theme and ask the player to “think” of a specific thing,…
Stack Overflow: Reading Grab-Bag
School is finally out for us and we’ve moved into our summer schedule, though you wouldn’t know it from the weather—we had a grey, rainy summer solstice this weekend. Today’s stack doesn’t have a specific theme; it’s primarily comic books, but I’ve also got a couple of joke books in there for good measure—just a…
Cardboard Crafting with ChompSaw
If you’ve got crafty kids and you’re looking for a fun activity for the summer, here’s a nifty tool to consider: the ChompSaw! Originally funded through Kickstarter back in 2023, the ChompSaw is like a kid-safe table saw for cardboard. My kids were working on some cardboard projects recently so I looked it up again,…
DC This Week Round-Up – Fusion and Fan-Mail
Ray: Tying in with the events of “We Are Yesterday”, the finish to this sci-fi adventure delivers some great action. Captain Atom has been captured by Inferno – but there’s a stowaway on board in the form of Ryan Choi, who has infiltrated the enemy base to try to free his subject/friend. As Ray Palmer…
10 Things Parents Should Know About Setting Up the Nintendo Switch 2
Nintendo’s launch of the Switch 2 has been a real ride, due, at least in part, to these unprecedented times in which we live. (Oh, dear reader, how I long to return to precedented times!) There was a trade war and related shipping concerns. There was a rush for pre-orders… and then a number of…
Father’s Day Gift Guide 2025
Price: $69.95 Amazon Perfect for the prequel-loving dads, his 616-piece LEGO set brings Jango Fett’s iconic Mandalorian helmet to life in amazing detail. From the color-scheme to the adjustable range finder, it’s a stylish display piece that’s as fun to build as it is to show off. Whether he’s Team Fett or just a sucker…
Stack Overflow: Here We Go Again
Today’s stack is about time travel. Wait, didn’t that just happen last week? Maybe you’re stuck in a time loop. In this book, time traveling is an ability that some people just develop, usually when they enter adulthood, and they find they’re able to walk through the mists of time—though it wreaks havoc on regular…