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Help Design a New Transformer
image: Hasbro Ever dreamed of creating your own Transformer? Well now’s your chance! Yesterday our friends at Hasbro unveiled a program that democratizes the design process. Readers are encouraged to...
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Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction Returns With Small Siege Weapons
We like to fight, most of us. Somewhere, in the caveman part of our brains, it just feels good. Consider kids, with little exposure to violence, setting up elaborate battles with action figures, Hot...
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Transformers, Connecting the Generations
There are plenty of card and board games that have endured for generations — many of them that arguably didn’t deserve to. But, because of the evolution of the technology behind toys, relatively few...
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Kickstarter Funded Terrible Things Game Being Forced to Change Name
The recently funded Kickstarter game, Terrible Things, comes with the tagline “The party game where everyone loses”. Apparently some of those losers are the game designers themselves, as the euphoria...
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Magic: The Gathering Is Coming to the Big Screen!
Image: Wizards of the Coast I’m giggling so hard I’m giddy! Okay, enough of the super-fan. Magic: The Gathering, property of Hasbro and iconic trading card game, is now slotted to be a Twentieth...
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Print & Play: Hasbro Announces Partnership with 3D Systems
[Editor's Note: This is interesting news. Toy companies partnering with 3D printer manufacturers to start marketing print-yourself toys is a great step forwards.] Print & Play: Hasbro Announces...
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Age of Extinction Toy Round-Up: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
While Michael Bay’s Transformers certainly aren’t my favorite incarnation and the latest film in the franchise, Age of Extinction, seems to have been the worst reviewed to date, it’s hard to deny the...
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Magic: The Gathering Strategy Board Game Announced
My son and I have spent many evenings staring at each other over hands of Magic: The Gathering, trying to guess strategies, short-circuit attacks, or summon enough beasties to overwhelm the other and...
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A Different Way to Play Battleship
Kre-O's U.S.S. Missouri. (The plank on the port bow was my kids' addition.) As you’ve probably heard, there’s a movie opening next weekend based on Battleship, the classic pick-your-coordinates board...
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A Different Way to Play Battleship (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
Kre-O's U.S.S. Missouri. (The plank on the port bow was my kids' addition.) As you’ve probably heard, there’s a movie opening next weekend based on Battleship, the classic pick-your-coordinates board...
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Bop It! Smash: Lightning-Quick Reflexes Not Included
No, she’s not impersonating a Cylon. She’s playing Bop It! Smash. Photo: Jonathan Liu That weird dumbbell-shaped gizmo you see above is the latest incarnation of Hasbro’s popular Bop It! toy. The...
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Kaijudo: Evo Fury Spoiler Card
As you have seen before here on GeekDad, Kaijudo is the hottest new addition in the world of Trading Card Games. Now that you have probably been playing for a while and have your deck just the way you...
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Tactile Digital Play, Part 1: Sifteo Cubes and Hasbro Zapped Toys
Spellshot zAPPed on the iPad uses physical figurines on a digital surface. Photo: Jonathan H. Liu As much as I love my iPad apps and computer games, I still have a preference for something physical....
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Review: Star Wars: The Ultimate Action Figure Collection
When I was in elementary school, my dad and I were at a local department store when I spotted the latest, greatest Kenner Star Wars action figure: Boba Fett, from the as-yet-unreleased The Empire...
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Hasbro Reveals Plans For An Easy Bake Oven For Boys
Marketing image from Hasbro In case you missed it last week, the Internets blew up at Hasbro when they responded poorly to McKenna Pope’s petition. McKenna, and about 40,000 other people, would like...
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Hasbro Introduces Construct-Bots: Transformers With Interchangeable Parts!
<< Previous | Next >> A3741 Construct-Bots Ultimate Megatron Robot Mode << Previous | Next >> View all Transformers have been a favorite toy of geeks in both their original...
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The Fans Have Spoken! All-Female ‘Transformers’ Team to Debut!
Left, Windblade’s ‘RiD’ model; Right, Leading the charge in ‘Combiner Hunters’ My daughter was picking through my Transformers toys the other day and came across two recent additions to my collection,...
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‘Magic: The Gathering Arena of the Planeswalkers’ Now Available!
Image courtesy of Hasbro Back in October, I wrote about an as-yet-to-be-named Magic: The Gathering board game. The concept was pretty exciting – Hasbro was working with Wizards of the Coast, pulling...
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New ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Toys Are Coming On Force Friday
One of the best things about being a Star Wars fan is the collecting, or, more accurately, the obsessive hoarding. George Lucas really knew how to merchandise, and thus created an entire empire of...
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Hasbro and Indiegogo Announce the ‘Next Great Game Challenge’
As you might have noticed, the past few years have brought a tabletop gaming renaissance. This has been thanks, in large part, to crowdfunding (you might have noticed, we have a bit of a Kickstarter...
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