Last weekend, a huge box was sitting patiently outside my front door as I arrived home. The markings on the outside labeled it clearly as coming from Mattel, but instead of the usual Masters of the Universe Classics or Dark Knight Rises fare, it was from a brand I don't normally cover here on Geek: Hot Wheels! Inside wasn't the track set or small die cast cars I was expecting, not by a long shot. Instead, staring out at me, and my incredibly excited 4 year-old son, was the new Terrain Twister! Naturally, I charged up the included battery for a few hours and we made our way out into the wilds to put this thing to the test! Come along as I get muddy and take a closer look at the Hot Wheels' R/C Terrain Twister!


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The screen above is from one of my favorite transitions in the entire series, the jump from the flashback at the opening of The Last Crusade, to Indy, aboard a ship, grinning like the devil, even as he's about to take a solid punch to the face. It's a beautiful moment, segueing his first adventure to his then-latest, and the way John Williams' score swells here is simply one of the big, heart-bursting moments of joy in action cinema.

And across all the entire series, they've been wonderfully reproduced in this remastered, polished, and prettified Blu-ray release in the "Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventures" five disc set from Paramount.

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Season 3 of AMC's "The Walking Dead" roams its way onto TV October, 14th, so what better time to bring you a closer look at the latest set of show-based action figures from McFarlane Toys?! Rick Grimes, Shane Walsh, The Bicycle Girl Zombie (from season 1), the R.V. Zombie, and the Well Zombie make up the latest assortment and are just as putrid and show accurate as the last ones. I'm packing all five figures into this one measly review, so make sure to scroll all the way through for a ton of gore-filled, plastic goodness!

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Six years after his collaboration with directors Katsuhito Ishii and Hajime Ishimine, Writer-director Shunichiro Miki put together this semi-sequel to 2005's "The Funky Forest" with the solo effort, "The Warped Forest." But instead of the out and out surreality of the low-key alien encounter fantasy "The Funky Forest," Miki goes for domestic comic situations that are just a little bit bizarre and often bittersweet.

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A pirate, a ninja, and a zombie walk into a bar. Yeah, there's no good ending to that joke, especially when aliens, dinosaurs, gnomes, robots, and a few other friends are all on their way. Publisher AEG took a big risk in cramming all of those tropes into a single game, but the geeky melting pot that is "Smash Up" lives up to its billing. "The Shufflebuilding Game of Total Awesomeness" uses a new innovative mechanic (we'll explain "shufflebuilding" in a bit) that is indeed quite awesome.

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Maybe the most unsettling thing about the HD release of 1988's Killer Klowns From Outer Space is that for 20 years I've been mispronouncing the names of indie filmmakers/animation and effects pros the Chiodo Brothers (the "Ch" has a "k" sound). There's not anything overtly scary about the Chiodos'--Charles, Stephen, and Edward--horror-comedy, although I can imagine the visual of their saw-toothed, grease painted alien invaders might have caused at least a few cases of coulrophobia over the years.

Fox and MGM have given the film a decent, if not spectacular HD upgrade with all of the features intact from the 2001 DVD.

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"Let the Right One In" writer, John Ajvide Lindqvist has created a true horror story with "Little Star." It's not a slasher, it's not about monsters, it's not about ghosts. It's a book about the horrors of existence. The horrors of loneliness. The horrors of fame. The horrors of youth. The horrors of violence. The horrors of life.

"Little Star" is almost unbearably stark, relentless in its decent into darkness, and fearless in its graphic violence. But most importantly, it's brilliant.

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Like the monster at the heart of the film, Victor Salva's Jeepers Creepers is made of borrowed parts from horror movies past. And like the Creeper, all of those borrowed parts are combined into a gruesome, but brutally efficient whole, one part Duel, with a little bit of Terminator, of all things thrown in at the end, and all sorts of creature feature nods strewn throughout, without showing the seams too much.

Revisiting the movie 11 years later on MGM/Fox's recently-released Blu-ray, Jeepers Creepers still holds a lot of the power it did over a decade ago thanks in large part to its ability to morph and change styles during its brisk 90-minute running time.

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When it comes to European-style strategy board games, The Castles of Burgundy is one of the best I've played in recent memory. What exactly does that mean, you ask? OK, so it has been a while since we reviewed a serious Euro game here, so I'll lead off with a refresher.

Euro games are known for: favoring skill over luck, taking 60-90 minutes to play (with no player elimination), avoiding direct conflict between players, and having short bite-sized turns that keep players interested in the game. The themes in Euros aren't as strong as typical American designs, with players usually competing for the most points rather than to accomplish some story-driven objective. The playing pieces are generally abstract as well, with Euro games packing wooden cubes and discs rather than sculpted models.

But while thematic games are undoubtedly popular, not every title on store shelves has to be about Cthulhu, Star Wars, or zombies. Just look at the Euro shelf and you'll find games that somehow manage to turn mundane tasks such as farming or construction into fiercely competitive experiences. It can sound odd to the outsider, but trust me, there's a lot of fun to be had here and The Castles of Burgundy is a great place to start.

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Director Oh Young-do's hard-boiled sci-fi detective comedy involves among other things: a time traveling client, a sinister killer who jams watches into his victims' eye sockets, and a debt-ridden private eye with a cybernetic hand. Our hero, Young Gun (Hong Young-geun) finds more than he bargained for when he goes looking for a missing watch and so do we in this independent gem from South Korea.

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This September, DC Comics is turning it all the way back to zero, taking a look at what went on in the DCU before the New 52. Like we did a year ago with the first month of DC’s new universe, we’re going to give you some looks at all the "Zero Month" titles coming out over the next few weeks.

So here we go:

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This September, DC Comics is turning it all the way back to zero, taking a look at what went on in the DCU before the New 52. Like we did a year ago with the first month of DC’s new universe, we’re going to give you some looks at all the "Zero Month" titles coming out over the next few weeks.

So here we go:

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This September, DC Comics is turning it all the way back to zero, taking a look at what went on in the DCU before the New 52. Like we did a year ago with the first month of DC’s new universe, we’re going to give you some looks at all the "Zero Month" titles coming out over the next few weeks.

So here we go:

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When I opened up the first page of "Wolverine and the X-Men #17," I did a double take. “Wait, Mike Allred is drawing this? When did that happen?” I said to myself, but really probably out loud. Doing some checking around, it turns out the reason I had no idea Allred was drawing this was because the originally solicited issue was an Avengers vs. X-Men tie-in, which has now been moved to next issue.

Well, thank goodness, because this might be the funniest comic book released all year.

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This September, DC Comics is turning it all the way back to zero, taking a look at what went on in the DCU before the New 52. Like we did a year ago with the first month of DC’s new universe, we’re going to give you some looks at all the "Zero Month" titles coming out over the next few weeks.

So here we go:

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