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Articles by Andrew Girdwood

In this archive, you'll find Andrew Girdwood's recent work on Geek Stuff, Online Shows, and Art.

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Behold! The rainbow unicorn dress

July 2, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Now you don’t need to decide which you like the most. [I need this] Think Geek have an exclusive on this geekbright design. We’ve loads of unicorns. We’ve loads of rainbows. They’re all mushed up together in this tank-top style summer dress. It has pockets! POCKETS!

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: fashion, think geek, unicorns

Starz, owner of Manga, bought by Lionsgate for $4.4bn

July 1, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Analysts have destroyed both Starz and Lionsgate as being involved in geek. Starz has American Gods coming, Ash vs Dead and Outlander while Lionsgate brought us Hunger Games. Now Lionsgate has gobbled up Starz for a cool $4.4bn in cash, stock and debt. That’s a price 20% higher than Starz share price at closing but […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: manga, starz

Harmonquest live RPG webseries mixes animation, orcs and jokes

July 1, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Fan of the Harmontown podcasts will be pleased to know that there will soon be a webseries that takes Dan’s humour and brings D&D. Harmonquest is an interesting mixture of animation and live fantasy roleplay. Yup; tabletop RPG played out in front of a studio audience! We’re expecting a range of guests including Aubrey Plaza, […]

Filed Under: Online Shows

WizKids reacts to fatal HeroClix train crash

July 1, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

WizKids have expressed their sympathy to the families of rail workers who died in a train crash in Texas. Two intermodal trains collided near Panhandle in Texas in the morning of the 28th. One of the containers involved in the crash contained a shipment of Marvel HeroClix: The Superior Foes of Spider-Man. As a result […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: HeroClix, wizkids

Are more Dark Crystal figures on the way?

July 1, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The current Dark Crystal POP range includes a Aughra, Kira and Fizzgig, Chamberlain Skeksis, UrSol Chanter and a Jen. Now Funko is teasing us with the idea they might do some Dark Crystal models. The Nerdist had this Landstrider and Jen set as a Comic-Con exclusive.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: funko, models, the dark crystal

Dinosaur melting candles

July 1, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The wax candle melts away to reveal a non-melty (porcelain) raptor. Once free, the baby raptors run chaos throughout your kitchen, feasting on scraps until they’re large enough to hunt down the neighbour’s yippy dog.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: candles, dinosaurs, household

The bold art of Ian McQue

June 30, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Local artist and native of Geek Native’s Edinburgh Ian McQue has a range of fantastic illustrations on show. He’s bot blogged for a while but pop over to

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: fantasy, sci-fi

Fighting Fantasy in Spaaaace! Stellar Adventures on Kickstarter

June 30, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Here’s a straight forward Kickstarter proposition for you. In 2011 Arion Games re-released the Advanced Fighting Fantasy RPG and now they’re offering to take it to space with Stellar Adventures. You can follow the campaign progress online. [Back this Campaign] There’s no video pitch. Arion are asking for £3,500 and with 20 days on the […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Advanced Fighting Fantasy, Arion Games, kickstarters, sci-fi

Ingress sub-factions could turn politics and plot into gameplay

June 30, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I’m fond of the augmented reality game Ingress, recently suggested some shard alternatives even though they may well be controversial or dismissible and expressed my concerns about the Resistance plot. I think those Resistance concerns have been validated. Since the original box post more plot politics have been revealed. We now know that Resistance founder, […]

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: ingress

Where can you get the Labyrinth POP figures?

June 30, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Yup! They look awesome, especially Ludo, and they’ll soon be here – Labyrinth Funko Pop figures! It looks like there’s a first set of four; Sarah and the worm, Hoggle, Ludo and Jareth. I’m not sure why Sir Didymus and Ambrosius aren’t around. Perhaps they’re much harder to turn into POPs? Who else would you […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: Labyrinth, models

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