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At the bottom of the world Carrie Stetko is in exile. A place where she hopes she can forget her past, however fate has other plans. The discovery of a body starts a murder hunt across the stark Antarctic landscape which turns out to be a very dangerous place indeed…

This is not your regular everyday rodan, he’s had the optional fire upgrade fitted. I naively thought that this meant he’d breath fire, instead he’s packing a uranium heat beam! Clearly that extra radioactivity gives him that little extra that other city-destroying monsters just don’t have.

Ghost World is about girls… strange girls, acting strangely. The blond one is less strange than the not-blond one but still a little weird. How’s that for a synopsis! I bet you feel like you’ve read it already. This is a new edition of Daniel Clowes’s classic comic. The original release weighs in at 80 pages which makes this 288 page extended hard cover edition very generous.

Fat inflatable tires give this wagon some major off-roading potential and the real wooden sides should keep the little ones, pets, groceries etc. safe and sound while you pull them around the neighborhood. You could probably crush a few toy cars if you want to get into the true monster truck spirit.

Before the Next Generation came along with it’s high technology eveything on Star Trek looked a bit like a 1950s home appliance. For instance this could quite easily have been some sort of portable television for use while on a picnic. Of course those of you in the know, recognize it to be the height of 23rd century medical technology, as carried by Dr McCoy of the Starship Enterpise.

There was a time, in the early days of motor racing, when a car’s steering wheel was twice the size of the driver’s head and the bonnet was large enough to land a light aircraft. It was time of daring, when you didn’t need a seat belt, or lights, or doors… All you had were your trusty goggles, a thin leather cap and a fervent belief that everything was going to be okay.

There are times when you need to terrorize a city full of innocent civilians, but your budget won’t quite stretch to a brand name monster. Well it’s time to head for the own brand aisle. This guy looks enough like a certain famous Japanese lizard that the fleeing people won’t be able to tell the difference.