Author Archives: calum

BangZap Battles: Iron Man versus Starscream

Since the dawn of comic book heroes fans have asked each other the unanswerable questions. Who would win in a fight? Wolverine or Hulk? Superman or Thor? Batman or Catman? Maybe that’s not the No. 1 fight fans are waiting for but you get the idea. It’s always fun trying to figure out who would [...]

Marvel Legends Terrax Series

The new Marvel Legends Terrax Series are now in stock at BangZap Toys. The series contains some of the coolest Marvel action figures I have ever seen. The Legends series has delivered some brilliant action figures in the past. In fact you can see the Marvel Legends series IV figure of Beast up above holding [...]

Star Wars Phantom Menace Vehicles

As you may have noticed The Phantom Menace was recently released in Cinemas in 3D. And where there’s a Star Wars release there’s toys. Lots of them. Like all Star Wars movies The Phantom Menace has some unique looking spaceships and vehicles that make great toys. In stock now are some very cool Episode 1 [...]

Uncanny X-Force Dark Angel Saga: Conclusion #18

The Dark Angel Saga has been an X story worthy of the great classic X-Men stories of old. The last issue delivers big time. Warren Worthington has lost his battle with his murderous Archangel identity and is now in full on Apocalypse mode. X-Force have tracked down a lifeseed from the Age of Apocalypse which [...]

Catwoman – New 52

The reboot of the DC Universe has certainly garnered DC comics and DC characters a lot of attention. While being less than enthusiastic about the reboot for characters like Batman I was looking forward to being able to jump in on the ground floor with some others I hadn’t been following. I bought the first [...]

5 Best Star Wars computer games

   The Star Wars universe is perfect fodder for computer games. Space battles, lightsabre duels, bounty hunting and using the force are just some of the fine things that can be experienced in the galaxy far far away. The games from LucasArts don’t always deliver on the promise of greatness but there have been some cracking [...]

The build up to Episode 1

I have really fond memories of the Phantom Menace build up and finally seeing the film. With the Phantom Menace 3D cinema release coming closer I thought I would share some of my memories of the build up to it’s release back in 1999. Before I start I feel like I should make one thing [...]

Bumblebee Competition Winner

Congratulations to Kelly Alderson who is the winner of the BangZap Toys Transformers Bumblebee competition.  Bumblebee is on his way to you now.  Thanks to everyone who entered the competition.

X-Men Schism 1 – 5

Schism is an epic X-Men story that has been built up by Marvel as one of those ‘nothing will be the same again’ stories.  X-Men comics have a fantastic history of great stories and this one doesn’t disappoint. It starts off with Logan and Scott attending an arms control conference in Switzerland where Scott hopes [...]

Action Comics #1 – The New 52

DC Comics master plan has seen them restart their comics continuity and start all of their titles from number 1. So here’s a review of the first issue of Action Comics otherwise known as Superman. The original issue #1 of Action Comics with Supermans first appearance would set you back hundreds of thousands of dollars. [...]