Toys for nerds

Als Tanjiro Kamado nach Hause kommt, ist seine Familie tot und seine kleine Schwester Nezuko keine Menschin mehr. Statt sie aufzugeben, nimmt er si...

At Ollivander's in Diagon Alley the narrow boxes are stacked all the way to the ceiling, and the old man says the line that explains half the wizar...

Seven Dragon Balls scattered across half the planet, and once you really do have them all together, the sky turns black. Then Shenron coils out of ...

Night City is brutal, loud, and neon-lit – and the toughest guys there wear gold chains, cyberware, and a jacket with more zippers than a Swiss Arm...

Aquaman herrscht über Atlantis, redet mit Haien und trägt dabei ein Schuppenhemd, das noch im tiefsten Ozean glänzt. Von allen Helden der DC-Riege ...

There is one creature in the dungeon that makes even hardened adventuring parties think very seriously about retreating: the beholder, a floating s...

„Ein Zauberer kommt nie zu spät“, stellt Gandalf im Auenland klar, „ebenso wenig kommt er zu früh. Er trifft genau dann ein, wenn er es beabsichtig...

Lange bevor Sam Wilson den Schild von Captain America übernahm, war er vor allem der Held mit dem Vogel. Redwing gehört zu ihm wie der Hammer zu Th...

Vier Freunde, ein bunt bemalter Kleinbus und ein Hund, der immer genau dann Hunger bekommt, wenn es gefährlich wird. Scooby-Doo löst seit Jahrzehnt...

Im Upside Down ist alles genau wie bei uns, nur kälter, dunkler und mit deutlich mehr Ranken an der Wand. Wer in Hawkins etwas über diese Schattenw...

Am Ende von Naruto Shippuden hängt ein rot leuchtendes Auge als Mond über der Welt, und die gesamte Shinobi-Welt träumt denselben Traum. Das Unendl...

1981 rannte ein Archäologe mit Hut im Kino vor einem rollenden Felsbrocken davon, und plötzlich wollten alle Peitsche statt Pinsel. Kurz darauf sta...

The moustache was a stopgap. On the screens of the early eighties there was barely room for a face, so a dark bar simply separated nose and mouth. ...

In 1980 a new cabinet suddenly stood in the arcades, with a yellow circle of endless appetite racing through a maze while four colourful ghosts cha...

Along the harbour walls of every sea they hang in stacks: wanted posters with a face, a name and a number underneath. The higher the bounty, the mo...

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...

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...

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...

Quidditch is played on flying brooms: seven players per team, four balls and remarkably little concern for intact bones. As a first year, Harry sli...

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...