Tabla de contenidos para July 2019 en Mania

1 JANNA ORDONIA An Earth girl from the same school as Star and Marco. She’s a bit of a bad girl and likes pranking Marco for fun. She tends to like all things gross and ghoulish. 2 STAR BUTTERFLY A magic medieval princess sent to Earth from an alternate dimension! She’s here to master her very own magic wand given to her by her parents, as is tradition. Star is really positive and bubbly, but don’t even think about underestimating her power! 3 MARCO DIAZ Star’s best friend! When Star is sent to our dimension she moves in with Marco and his family, and subsequently gets dragged into the thick of Star’s interdimensional lifestyle. He used to play things safe but Star tends to get him outta his comfort zone!…

DID YOU KNOW? Ukuleles aren’t actually from Hawaii. They became popular there but are actually from Portugal! HOW’D THEY GET TO HAWAII? Immigrants from Portugal brought instruments, known as ‘braguinhas’, with them. They migrated to Hawaii to work in the sugar plantations from 1850 onwards. Three cabinet -makers named Manuel Nunes, José do Espírito Santo and Augusto Dias, from Portugal saw how popular braguinhas were, and started making them for others to enjoy playing. WHERE DOES ITS NAME COME FROM? ‘Ukulele’ roughly translates to “jumping flea”! The Hawaiians watched a passenger who was on board the ship, Ravenscrag, play the instrument. They described his fingers as fleas jumping over the fingerboard. WHO MADE THE UKULELE FAMOUS? King David Kalakaua! Although Hawaiians were already beginning to fall in love with the…

BOX ROCKS Warriors in a box! The greatest warriors from all of time and space, miniaturised and chucked in a box! 10 YAK warriors will grab 5 Boxed Warriors Single Packs! Get ready to fight! GRIT-TITUDE The tightest scooters at the scootpark! Get a Grit under your belt and you’ll be popping rad tail whips all day long! 4 lucky scooterers will get a wikkid, new Grit Elite Scooter! POCKET POWER Open up your Polly Pocket Hidden in Plain Sight playset to reveal an even larger themed Polly World! 18 pocket YAKs will get one Polly Pocket Hidden in Plain Sight playset! COOL CARS Wanna drift and race with ya friends? Get your head around Micro Motorz - the tiny cars with the big power! 11 rev-heads will get 5…

BoxBoy! + BoxGirl! Platform: Switch Style: Puzzle Publisher: Nintendo Price: $15 Gameplay: BoxBoy’s back, and he’s brought over 270 new levels with him! If you played any of the BoxBoy games on the 3DS you’ll know what to expect, but BoxBoy! + BoxGirl! expands the series out further with a huge number of puzzles and an AWSM new co-op mode! You can now play as either BoxBoy or BoxGirl, and they’ve brought their rectangular mate Qudy along too for his own cool campaign! As in the 3DS games you’re solving puzzles by making shapes out of boxes, and there are heaps of tricks to learn and hazards to avoid. It’s not the most hardcore puzzle game, but we thought it was a great fit on Switch – you can take…

Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission Platform: Switch, PC Style: Card Battle Publisher: Bandai Namco Price: $79.95 The mega-popular Japanese arcade game has made its way to Switch! This is an interesting one, YAKs – you’re not controlling the fights, you’re collecting cards based on Dragon Ball characters and moving them around a playing field between turns to determine your attacks and combos! There are a lot of rules to learn, but it’s pretty satisfying watching your team of DBZ heroes do major damage in the game’s cool Story mode! Don’t expect a full-on Dragon Ball experience, but it’s fun! HOT! An interesting, unique strategy game! NOT! You don’t control Goku and his pals! MANIA SCORE 7/10 Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story + Bowser Jr’s Journey Platform: 3DS Style:…

ON THE TRACK Top speed: Bathurst 290 kms Go-to car: Toyota Landcruiser Racing idol: Dad Speedway Biggest win: 2016 Dunlop Series Championship Teammates: Simona De Silvestro, Rick Kelly & Andre Heimgartner Biggest rival: All drivers Fave track: Phillip Island Dream racetrack: Spa Race Circuit, Belgium Training regimen: Cardio Fitness, strength training, pilates and reflex training Temp in the cars: Up to 60°C PIT STOP POINTS A pit stop is a point in a race where a driver can stop to do a number of things to maintain their car, like refueling or changing parts with the help of a specialised pit crew! Check out these hot pit stop tidbits! The most common pit stop jobs are refueling and changing tyres, but other jobs include cleaning windscreens, adjusting tyre pressure and…

THIS IS PIPPA. SHE ISN’T REALLY BITING MY NOSE, JUST LICKING ME!” Aaron, QLD CRAZY CELEB PET STORIES! Beyonce’s Snake As a kid, the pop superstar used to look after her cousin’s python! The scaly snake buddy was called Fendi and apparently Beyonce even used to sleep in the same bed, and her dad hated it! Yikes! SANDRA’S CHICKENS Sandra Bullock, who you may know as Scarlet Overkill from the Minions movie has some unlikely and feathery friends. The Academy Award-winning actress has a trio of chickens called Carol, W anda and Phil! Who’da thunk! Mike’s Pigeons The former world heavyweight boxing champ has some feathery friends of his own! Iron Mike T yson keeps pigeons as pets, keeping 100s of birds at a single time! Mike even reportedly bought…

CHECK OUT THESE TIPS AND TRICKS IF YOU WANT TO UP YOUR TEAM SONIC RACING GAME! ITEM SHARING Want to shoot the racer in front of you right before they cross the finish line? Or speed past a racer the second they get in front of you? Y ou’re gonna need the items. If you don’t have the item make sure you master the Item Box Transfer move. This lets you get items from your teammates when you need them the most! FINE-TUNED CLASS LINEUPS Keep getting beat? Try these carefully chosen class lineups to get the competitive edge against your rivals! TIME TRIALS Wanna get really good? Make sure to play T ime Trial mode in order to perfect your racing game. Practice drifting around every corner , tricking…

WEYES BLOOD’S STATS Real name: Natalie Mering Age: 30 From: Pennsylvania / California Years in the music biz: 10! No. of albums/EPs: 4 Favourite song atm: Marz by John Grant Go-to food: Ceviché Best season: Autumn TONGUE-TWISTING TOUR Weyes Blood’s current tour is called the ‘True Love is Making a Comeback’ tour, named after a lyric from her new track Everyday. It’s a mouthful but we love it! AUSSIE IDOL Weyes Blood last landed on Australian shores back in early 2017 for shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane! MANIA: HOW’D YOU GET THE NAME WEYES BLOOD? Weyes Blood: “I read a book I truly loved with the same title when I was 15. Changed my whole world - I knew it was what I was meant to be called!” MANIA:…

STAR COLLECTOR The owner of the world’s largest Star Wars collection had an encounter with the dark side IRL! More than 100 pieces from his collection were stolen, apparently adding up to a grand total of $200,000! What sort of sith lord would do such a horrible thing? G.I. GINORMOUS This lady has a serious love of army dolls! Aire from the U.S. has a humongous G.I. Joe collection which is impeccably organized and contains toys from as far back as 1975. Her G.I. knowledge is so deep she’s even writing a book about collecting the action figures! YOU COULD WIN! For your chance to win a a DC Action Bendables figurine, just send us a pic of you and your collection and tell us about it! Mail it along…

DEADLY CREATURES The big bosses of the adventure. The Elemental Creatures have an appetite for destruction and will use their particular elemental abilities to wreak havoc around Europe! It’s a good thing Spider-Man and Mysterio are on the case! EVIL ELEMENTS The Elemental Creatures display some uncanny elemental abilities. A water-based baddie forms from water and can move bodies of liquid with ease! A fire-based baddie moves around encased in blazing flames! And an earth-based baddie can shift the ground right beneath your feet! TRUE ELEMENTALS The element dudes actually have a basis in real life myth and magic! In old school alchemy and occult practice elementals were said to be mythological entities which embodied one of the four base elemental forces; earth, water, air and fire! Who knew Spidey…

Designed for the 90th anniversary of the Ferrari Scuderia! Wikkid V6 turbocharged engine. Ferrari racer Sebastian Vettel nicknamed his SF90 Lina! Weighs a tight 743kgs. Raced for the first time in the 2019 Australian Grand Prix! TECH SPECS COMPANY: Ferrari PRODUCTION: 2019 COUNTRY: Italia TOP SPEED: 300 km/h on average MAX POWER: 120kw ACCELERATION: 0-62 pmph (0-100 km/h) in 2.5 seconds on average TRANSMISSION: 8-speed Ferrari gearbox COST (BASE VERSION): Heaps…

The LEGO Movie 2 Videogame Platform: Switch, PS4, Xbox One, PC Style: Action Publisher: Warner Bros Price: $59.95 Gameplay: The LEGO Movie 2 Videogame is a bit different from what you might expect – it’s more like LEGO Worlds than most of the other LEGO titles that have been released so far! It’s cool to see it trying some different things, although we found it a bit repetitive! There are seven different planets to explore and build on, and you can wander around each of them completing missions and picking off objectives! You can meet heaps of characters from the movie and even do battle against some giant LEGO bosses! It’s cool, although not quite as funny as some of the other LEGO games out there, and there aren’t really…

Rolando: Royal Edition  iOS, $4.49 This motion-controlled masterpiece was one of the best games on iPhone ten years ago, and this new version is great to revisit! You use tilt controls to roll a bunch of goofy ball folks around each level, and there’s plenty of charm in how the game looks and feels! SCORE 9/10 Oco  iOS/Android, free-to-play Oco is a cool, minimalist, one-touch platform puzzler where you need to collect all the pieces scattered around each level in as few taps as possible! It’s really simple, and pretty relaxing, but mastering each level presents a real challenge. We found that it’s a good game to space out with! SCORE 7/10 PGA Golf Tour Shootout  iOS/Android, free-to-play If you like golf games, this is one of the best versions…

Q 1 THE NEXT STAR WARS MOVIE (COMING OUT IN DECEMBER) IS SUBTITLED ‘RETURN OF OBI-WAN.’ TRUE OF FALSE? Q 2 WHICH ACTORS PLAYED BOTH AGENT H AND AGENT M IN MIB: INTERNATIONAL, AS WELL AS THOR AND VALKYRIE IN THE MARVEL MOVIES? A Chris Hemsworth & Scarlett Johansson B Chris Pratt & Brie Larson C Chris Hemsworth & Tessa Thompson D Chris Evans & Tessa Thompson Q 3 THERE’S ANOTHER DRAGON BALL SUPER MOVIE COMING OUT LATER THIS YEAR. TRUE OF FALSE? Q 4 WHICH OF THESE ISN’T A FUTURE DC EXTENDED UNIVERSE MOVIE? A The Batman B Batman v Superman 2 C The Flash D Wonder Woman 1984 Q 5 THE PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN MOVIES ARE BASED ON A RIDE AT DISNEYLAND THEME PARKS. TRUE OR FALSE?…

SLIGHTLY WORN AND MINT CONDITION TOYS THE OLD TOY STORY Woody, Buzz and pals have tangled with the likes of Sid the bad kid, Al the collector, Stinky Pete the prospector, and Lotso the bear! And now that Andy’s all grown up he’s handed our fave toys down to young Bonnie for a fresh start! Here we go again! A NEW TOY STORY Set a few years after Toy Story 3 the toys are living it up with their new kid Bonnie. When Bonnie crafts a handmade toy called Forky it quickly becomes her favourite plaything. And when Forky gets lost it’s up to Woody to get him back! WOODY There’s a snake in this guys boot! Sheriff Woody is back on the case when Forky - Bonnie’s fave new…

FAR FROM HOME! The next chapter of the Spider-story sees Peter and his school chums heading to Europe for a vacation! So much for a relaxing vacay however - he runs into Nick Fury who needs his help battling some element-based euro-baddies! PETER PARKER Peter, along with his arachnid alias are going on a big overseas trip! He’s hoping to hang out and take in the sights along with Ned and MJ, but our friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man never gets a break... he’s gonna have to save the day again! MICHELLE ‘MJ’ JONES Michelle Jones, a.k.a. MJ is going on the big euro trip! She’s got a great sense of humour, a big brain and seems to have a bit of spark with Peter. Hopefully she can stay out of trouble…

He-yo YAKs, I’m Whisper the Yo-Kai! Yo-Kai are supernatural dudes responsible for all the odd going-ons in the human world! And I’m Jibanyan! We’re here to show ya who we think are some of the most kookiy Yo-Kai of all time! Check ‘em out! NEKIDSPEED Japanese name: ばくそく (Bakusoku) Despite having a huge sneaker for head Nekidspeed doesn’t wear any shoes on his feet! Maybe he just wants to show off his muscles? This Yo-Kai makes any human it comes into contact suddenly want to sprint without stopping! HUNGRAMPS Japanese name: ひも爺 (Himojii) A grandpa lookin’ Yo-Kai. This elderly, cone-headed octogenarian is never seen without drool around his mouth and is ALWAYS hungry. Hungramps is infamous for giving humans a hunger that can never be satisfied! BROKENBRELLA Japanese name: さかさっ傘…

Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney HD Trilogy Platform: Switch, PS4, Xbox One, PC Style: Adventure Publisher: Capcom Price: $44.95 Gameplay: OBJECTION! Phoenix Wright has come to new consoles, which is a great excuse to replay – or discover for the first time – these cool games! If you’re after an experience with a lot of reading, and a few darker themes, these are great – there are nineteen cases to solve across three different games! You play as Phoenix Wright, an attorney who needs to clear the good names of a cast of crazy characters by searching for clues and then presenting evidence in court! These are REALLY funny games, with amazing scripts and extremely cool sequences where you pick apart a witness’ testimony! Knowing exactly how to prove that your…

You’re Team Sonic! TEAM MEMBERS: Sonic, Tails and Knuckles! This team has all the good guys in it! You want the best for everyone and will do anything for your buddies! You’re Team Eggman! TEAM MEMBERS: Dr. Eggman, Metal Sonic and Zavok! Three of the gnarliest villains in the Sonic series join forces! You’ll do anything to reach your goals! You’re Team Dark! TEAM MEMBERS: Shadow, Rouge and E-123 Omega! These anti-heroes aren’t all bad! You may not get along with everyone but you’re v strong-willed! You’re Team Vector! TEAM MEMBERS: Vector, Silver and Blaze! This group of oddballs have formed an unlikely trio! You can be a little greedy but you’re ultimately a cool dude!…