Good enough

I got this deck because someone recomended it to me.It is not really invincible and it needs some more magic cards so that you can win.I would get the God deck whitch is the best deck if I were you.(If you get that deck then your win is sure.

With great power comes great responsibility...

Once upon a time in the toy factory there was a nerdy potato. He was bitten by a radioactive toy spider, and turned into Spider-Spud.

What more do you need to know? Get it now. And get Darth Tater and have a face-off.

[Tip: Tie a white shoe-lace to Spider-Spud and suspend him from the ceiling. It's a wonderful conversation starter.]

Nostalgic fun

I used to play Top Trumps on the playground with my friends. Now I'm a dad, and am delighted to be able to introduce this game to my own children.

This set is bang up to date, featuring characters in the third (2007) series of Doctor Who and is one of the few things which will keep my children entertained on long car journeys.

A great expansion to an already great game

This review is going to assume that you already own the original Carcassonne game, or that you at least already understand the basic rules - after all, like most 'expansions', this cannot be played on its own. So if you do not fall into either of the above categories, I suggest you instantly go and get Carcassonne itself, and when (not if!) you fall in love with it, then please come back and read this review later.

This is an almost essential add-on to the game. It adds new elements to the game which are fun, and actually enhance the game, without detracting from what attracted you to it in the first place. Ever since we bought this expansion, no-one has even suggested that we should play the game without it.

So what do you get for your money? Well, some more tiles for a start. The most important ones, as far as this expansion is concerned, are the new city pieces which may have a little symbol printed on them, representing wine, cloth or wheat. This relates to the 'traders' in the title. The player who completes a city gets a token for each symbol within it - so they might get 2 wine tokens and a wheat one, for example. At the end of the game, the player with the most tokens in each of the three trades gets 10 bonus points - which can obviously be a significant factor in the final reckoning. Notice that it is the player who completes the city that gets the tokens, rather than the player who actually owns it. This is obviously deliberate, to encourage players to complete other people's cities - and leads to some interesting decision making, as you could be giving points away to an opponent in the hope of benefitting at the end.

Next comes the builder. This is a tall thin 'meeple', and you get one of them in each of the six colours, so every player is given their appropriate piece at the start of the game. The way it works is as follows. Suppose you place one of your followers on a road. At some later point you will extend that road, and you can then choose to place your builder on the tile that you have just laid - this counts as the end of your turn, by the way - you cannot also place a follower in the field or city on the same tile. At a later time still, you will eventually add to the road again. This is when the builder comes in - once you have done everything you would normally do from placing that tile, you get to draw and play another one. Note, however, that, if this 2nd tile is used to extend the road again, you don't get to draw a 3rd tile. But with this one exception, you will get an extra go every time you extend the road.

Builders are obviously very useful. Everything that I have said about 'roads' in the previous paragraph applies equally to cities, though you cannot add a builder to a farm or a cloister. They behave exactly the same as other followers, in that they cannot be moved once played, and you only get them back when the feature is complete. Once again, it adds an interesting element to the game - if someone is profiting too much from their extra goes, is it worth completing their feature for them, even though they will score from it, in order to slow them down a bit?

The last element in this expansion is the pig. Not known for being either traders or builders, this is a slightly odd thing to include in this set, but serves a useful purpose nonetheless. Like the builder, each player is given the pig of their own colour at the start of the game. When you expand a farm that you already own, you can choose to play your pig on the tile you have just laid. In the final reckoning, the pig adds 1 point for every city served by that farm. Of course, you need to play this piece wisely. You only have one, and, once laid, it cannot be moved, so if an opponent manages to link up with your farm, and outnumber you, then you have effectively wasted the pig completely.

So, are there any downsides to this expansion? Well, if you want to be really picky, the trade tokens are fairly small pieces of cardboard, and look as if you could easily lose one or two (we haven't, by the way, but I'm always conscious that we might!). But this is a really minor point. Basically, if you love playing Carcassonne, this expansion can only increase your enjoyment, and comes heartily recommended.

not very comfortable

my 7 year old wanted this for his bday,he's not a doctor who fan so if your child is you may think different,my boy complained of it hurting him as its very heavy,played with it on his birthday now its thrown in his toy box, he'll get it out the odd time to scare his baby sister apart from that he's not bothered at all

K9 lives master!

The David Tennant action figure really is just the standard figure you can buy on his own (still cool looking though) The main attraction is the K9, my gosh is he fast, the number of times I've driven him off a table because his speed takes me by surprise. K9 can go whatever direction you want. Because of his size, his head/ears/tale/gun don't move, but the remote does have sounds from the dog himself. I've waited since I was 11 to have a remote controlled K9, the main reason this doesn't get top marks is becuase of the 10 inch all singing all dancing K9 coming out later in the year, really can't wait for that,bring it on!!!!

"Hunt down and kill the remaining Jedi!"

Lego kick off their 2008 Star Wars series with the first ever kit based on a Star Wars computer game with the excellent Rogue Shadow from The Force Unleashed.
This model is a great representation of the ship used by Darth Vader in the game. It features opening cockpit canopy to reveal the pilot area (for 1 figure) and storage compartment, rotating wing panels which simultaneously fold the engine port back for either flight position or landing and moveable landing gear which folds away neatly for flight. There are weapons pods on the tip of each wing which add to the sinister look.
The port wing has two compartments. The upper one which opens to allow a missile rack which activates with a lever from the outside. The two missiles are simply pulled out for use. The lower compartment has a swivelling weapons rack which has two of the heavy assault rifles in it. The starboard wing has one compartment which opens via a lever from underneath which ratchets a firing missile launcher from inside - the same type as the one in the 2007 Imperial Landing Craft or 2006's Slave 1.
The bonus of this kit is the 3 mini figures with it. You get a battle damaged Darth Vader figure with great face and body detailing. You can choose to have him wearing his helmet or a partial version and wielding his red lightsabre. You also get Juno Eclipse who has a choice of hair or Imperial Officer's hat and like Vader, has better face detailing. Finally you have Vader's apprentice complete with a red lightsabre. Unfortunately he is relegated to the basic Lego face which is a shame seeing as how the other two look so good.
The kit is composed of 460 pieces, not including the figures, weapons, alternate head pieces and firing missile.
Rogue Shadow measures 38cm long from aft engine to laser cannon tip, 32cm wide from wing to wing and 9cm high not including wings in vertical landing position.
It takes about 45 minutes to build and is a very welcome addition to the Star Wars universe. Let's hope Lego continue further releases from the Star Wars games soon.

Sportacus is cool!

Fantastic toy but this one is a little expensive we have found them in Asda for £7, worth shopping around it's a great toy.