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13.7 million conversations later: Luna Lovegood is fan favourite Harry Potter character

February 7, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

With so much conversation buzzing around the game online, eBuyer wanted to look into the most loved characters in the franchise over the years, to see those which have had a lasting impact on fans for both positive, and negative, reasons.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: harry potter, stats

In London, Harry Potter competes with the horror of Saw

January 6, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The interactive experience is a mix of theatre with escape rooms. If you pick Saw as your reason to visit London, your moral choices will be examined, and your mettle tested.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: harry potter, horror

Stranger Things and Hellfire Club fashion top Merchoid’s 2022 sellers (as Potter wanes)

December 24, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The site has tracked a boom in Stranger Things merch, up +13,126% from the year before, with Batman a distant second place in year-on-year growth, with +106%.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: batman, harry potter, merchoid, resident evil, shopping, stats, stranger things, warhammer 40k

What did they not mess up? The most popular sci-fi and fantasy book-to-film adaptations

July 21, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Superproof combined IMDB and Goodreads data to work out which sci-fi and fantasy books are popular, which have movie adaptations of which of those adaptations people actually liked!

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: 2001: A Space Odyssey, blade runner, dune, harry potter, stats, the lord of the rings

15 Fabulous and Fun Genderswapped Cosplays from the 2022 WonderCon

April 11, 2022 by Jill Harness Leave a Comment

Every convention has its share of cosplayers doing Rule 63 cosplays depicting characters with their genders switched.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: beetlejuice, cosplay, daredevil, deadpool, Doctor Strange, doctor who, firefly, fourth doctor, harry potter, judge dredd, Nightmare on Elm Street, Sonic the Hedgehog, street fighter, the witcher, wondercon

IWD: How many of your Pops are women?

March 5, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I don’t have all that many Pops, but if I buy another, everything else being equal, it should be of a female-identifying character.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: harry potter, international women's day, pop in a box, pops, star wars, Wonder Woman

Death and surprises: Fandom taps its mighty database to give us a geeky summary of 2021

December 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Fandom, which has generally has a job role open for data people, analysed billions of its own data points over 40 million pages of content to uncover some geeky facts.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: fandom, harry potter, how to train your dragon, jurassic park, Loki, lord of the rings, squid game, stats, Suicide Squad, wandavision

Visualising the biggest on-screen fantasy battle of all time (so far)

December 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I’ve been in paintball battles, and it gets pretty intense with just a few people. So when I got an email inviting me to guess what the biggest on-screen battle of all time was, I was curious.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, game of thrones, harry potter, lord of the rings, star wars, stats, the hobbit

Geek bookends: Art put to practical use

December 5, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Bookends are art with a practical value and immediate use.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: harry potter, household, jurassic park, lord of the rings

Pets from geek culture transformed into old skool Tamagotchis

November 18, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Toy Zone Collectable site have turned iconic fictional pets, geek culture critters, into all-colour Tamagotchi.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: Futurama, harry potter, sailor moon, super mario, the simpsons, yoshi

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