D&D's The Falling Star ship mini (officially known as D&D Icons of The Realms: The Falling Star Sailing Ship), is truly a table top RPG wonder to behold. I'm not usually one for props at the gaming table beyond maps and figure minis, but when one of my players bought this from our FLGS ...
Category Archives: Toys
GoBots! – Episode 176 – Shane Plays Geek Talk
Podcast version of the Shane Plays Geek Talk radio show from 2/9/2019: GoBots! Highlights: The GoBots! Yep, that's right... those beloved (by some) transforming robots from the 80’s! The toys! The cartoon! The movie! The... Rock Lords?? Who came first: Leader-1 or Optimus ...
The Overstreet Guide to Collecting Tabletop Games! – Radio Show / Podcast Ep. 156
Podcast version of the Shane Plays Geek Talk radio show from 7/14/2018: The Overstreet Guide to Collecting Tabletop Games! Highlights: Carrie Wood & Richard Ankney, authors of The Overstreet Guide to Collecting Tabletop Games! Plus RPG news and Red Rooster, Black Hops and Trump's Space Force comic ...
Justin Nimmo the Original Silver Ranger and Optibotimus! – Radio Show / Podcast Ep. 100
Podcast for the Shane Plays radio show from 5/13/2017: Justin Nimmo the Original Silver Power Ranger & Optibotimus! Highlights: Justin Nimmo the original Silver Power Ranger and popular YouTube personality and toy reviewer Optibotimus! Guests courtesy Little Rock Comic Con. Shane Plays airs on Saturdays at 1:05 ...
Belaphoss statue from Sword Coast Legends
Game dev studio n-Space offered a pretty spectacular upgrade reward for their D&D based cRPG Sword Coast Legends. In addition to multiple other goodies, customers who purchased the Deluxe edition also received a Belaphoss the Mad statue. (NOTE: Special thanks to n-Space ...
Video: Star Wars BB-8 Astromech Droid Remote Control Toy
I happened to run into a cute little remote control BB-8 in the wild, and caught some video of it before it loped off into the trees. It rolls around, makes little boopy noises and almost but not quite words (like "uh oh"), has preprogrammed gestures and movement patterns plus augmented ...