Table of contents for September 2016 in Mania

MANIA HQ Pokémon GO has just about taken over our lives and the lives of the rest of the world! We’re not complaining though, it’s like a dream come true being able to catch Pokémon in the real world around us - we even caught a Zubat on our comptuer here at MANIA HQ! We hope you like our AWSM Pokémon GO issue. Happy hunting trainers! CAPTION COMP! What do you think they’re saying? Cut out and send in your captions for your chance to win an awesome mystery prize! EMAIL Dom: dbayley@nextmedia.com.au LIKE US! FACEBOOK.COM/MANIAMAG MANIA 192 CAPTION COMP Locked Bag 5555, St Leonards NSW 1590…

How do you spend your free time? a) Hanging with your bros. b) Building cool gadgets. c) Baking. d) Pretending you’re a space adventurer. Favourite type of music? a) Classic rock. b) Mash-ups and remixes. c) Electronic. d) Anything I can party to. For Halloween you’d go as: a) Princess Leia. b) Han Solo. c) A cool robot, like IG-88. d) Luke Skywalker. You see a Jedi. What do you do? a) Make sure they’re not actually a Sith. b) Ask them to lend you a hand. c) Run away! d) Ask if you can borrow their lightsaber. You’re in a spaceship – what do you do? a) Give orders as the captain. b) Pilot that bad boy! c) Try to keep the ship running. d) Shoot down some enemy…

Q: Why did the Creeper cross the road? A. To get to the other ssssssssside! Q: How does Steve like to exercise? A. He runs around the block! Q: What did the Minecraft Turkey say? A. Cobble, cobble, cobble! Q: What did the sheep say when it got sheared? A. Sher-iously? Q: What did the miner say when he found some diamonds? A. This is oresome! Q: What was Steve doing near a mob spawner? A. Creeping warm! Q: How do Minecraft fans react to jokes? A. Oh the IRON-y! Comedy GOLD!! Hah, GLASS-ic! I’m LAVA-ing my face off! Q: What did the doctor prescribe the Pigman for his rash? A. Oinkment! Q: Where do ghasts go on holiday? A. The Nether-lands! Q: Did you hear about the Minecraft movie?…

LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION! Stop Motion Animation Alien Movies Stockists: Australian Geographic, Big W, Kidstuff, Myer, Toys R US and all good independent retailers. SPLAT THE SLIME! Splat It! Stockists: Big W BELIEVE IT! Uzumaki Naruto Shinobi Relations DXF (Limited Edition) Stockists: Madman web store START UR ENGINES! Rev Racerz Launcher Pack & Triple Loop Pack Stockists: Big W, Target, Toys R Us, Toyworld, Mr Toys. POWER UP! Super Saiyan Goku: Resolution of Soldiers fgure Stockists: Madman web store, Zing Pop Culture stores and specialty stores. GROSS URSELF OUT! Grossery Gang Regular Pack & Collectors Cup Stockists: All major retailers. TEST UR NINJA REFEXES! Split Second Stockists: All major retailers. EYE POPPIN’ FUN! Googly Eyes Stockists: All major retailers. KNOW UR HEROES! Captain America: Civil War Top Trumps Stockists: www.winningmoves.com.au…

REBEL ALLIANCE PROS I get to pilot an X-Wing. WIKKID! I can hang with Han Solo and the gang and listen to Wookiee jokes I can wear a different colour suit instead of just black or white I get really good medical equipment. If I lose a hand I will get a robotic one! CONS I will be wanted throughout the galaxy for crimes against the Empire. It makes hanging out a bit of a chore. Admiral Ackbar will think EVERYTHING is a trap I will be a bit cramped on the Millennium Falcon THE IMPERIAL FORCES PROS I get to pilot a Tie Fighter I can be Darth Vader’s apprentice and learn Sith powers My Stormtrooper armour will look AWSM. I get to live on the Deathstar CONS It…

Pokémon Sun & Moon A few details have emerged about the next generation of Pokémon, and it’s looking amazing! The games will be set in the region of Alola, which is based on Hawaii, and your adventure will be split between four massive islands, so expect to use Surf a lot! The three new starters are Rowlet, a grass owl; Litten, a fire cat; and Popplio, a water sea lion – we want them all! The new Pokedex will actually be a Rotom, too, and it will talk to you sometimes! Platform: 3DS Style: RPG Publisher: Nintendo Out: November 23 Skylanders Imaginators In Imaginators, you’ll be able to make your very own Skylanders! You can use Imaginite Creation Crystals to create and store brand-new Skylanders, which you can then fight…

Kirby: Planet Robobot Gameplay: Kirby’s back, and this time the little pink fluffball has brought a mech suit with him! If you played Kirby’s last 3DS adventure, Triple Deluxe, you’ll know what to expect – Kirby can absorb enemies to gain new attacks, and you can move into the backgrounds of some levels to explore further and solve simple puzzles. Jumping into a mech suit makes you SUPER powerful, and you can still absorb powers in this form – you can even turn into a plane and take to the skies in some levels! Planet Robobot is a very short and easy game, but we had a lot of fun searching each level for as many hidden objects as we could! There are bonus games included as well, including an…

Ratchet and Clank UNLOCKABLE EXTRAS Collect Gold Bolts hidden throughout the levels to unlock these AWSM extras! (Gold Bolts Required: Unlocks) 1: Victor Von Ion mask. 2: Action-Bustor and 1970s screen filters. 3: Metal Currency bolts. 4: Qwarkbot mask. 5: Slow and normal game speed. 6: Snagglebeast mask. 7: Bleached and Cross Process screen filters. 8: Adorable Toruses bolts. 10: Fast game speed. 11: T-Rex mask. 12: Old-Fashioned, Silver and Sepia screen filters. 13: Rare Minerals bolts. 15: Ability to hide the HUD. 16: Burning Inferno Ranger armour paint. 18: Spherical Spheres bolts. 19: Hot Rod Ranger ship paint. 20: Nefarious mask. 21: Chrometastic Ranger armour paint. 22: Anodized Ranger ship paint. 26: Qwark Green Ranger armour paint and Ninja Black Ranger ship paint. 27: Infinite ammo cheat. 28: Invincibility…

WIN! Now you can help a team of top scientists and LEGO ®  City explorers save the city from an erupting volcano. We’ve got 3 amazing LEGO City Explorers prize packs up for Grabs. Winners will receive a LEGO City Volcano Exploration Base and a Volcano Exploration Truck. For your chance to win, just draw LEGO City Volcano explorers on a LEGO City Volcano! Send your entries to: MANIA 192 LEGO City Explorers Locked Bag 5555, St Leonards NSW 1590…

“I hope you like my Minion drawing!” Does anyone know how to say “That’s AWSM, Jesse” in Minion-speak? “Hi MANIA, I love your AWSM mags! I hope you like my Colossus.” “Hi MANIA, I love your magazine! Check this picture of a Minecraft zombie!” Woah, Dylan! We love your Minecraft zombie! Keep up the good work! Your Colossus looks unstoppable, Krystos! Thanks for sending it in! “Sup, MANIA! I love yo mag and I can’t stop reading it. Hope you like my BMO pic!” Wassup, Leo! That’s a sweet BMO pic! Thanks for writing in! Thanks, Sammy! We love making as much as you love reading them! “Hey MANIA! I think your mag is AWSM! I love what you put in them!” “Hi MANIA! I’m a huge Star Wars fan…

FROM: Powells Point, North Carolina TRUCK: Grave Digger ACHIEVEMENTS: World Championship Freestyle Winner 2008 and 2016, World Championship Racing Winner 2013 and 2014. MANIA: “Does it feel weird to drive in a normal car after driving your monster truck? ADAM: “It’s weird to be so low to the ground. I take out a lot of aggression on the track, so I’m a pretty laid back driver.” MANIA: Have you ever driven your truck outside of the stadium, like on the street? ADAM: “Only in parades. They’re not really made for that, and the police don’t like it either, haha!” MANIA: Is it hard to control such a powerful vehicle? ADAM: “It can be. But in Monster Jam, it doesn’t really matter if you crash! If you land it, you’re a…

STEP 1 Draw the basic outline of your dragon. Give it a head, body, tail and some wings. Use this as a guide for your drawing. Be sure to use pencil! STEP 2 On top of your outline, give your dragon some features - define its head, its legs and its body. Don’t worry about detail too much yet - we’ll get to that later. STEP 3 Continue adding detail to your dragon - sketch in its other legs, its toes, its tail and the basic parts of its wings. STEP 4 Add the finishing touches - scales, claws, spikes or whatever looks most AWSM! Then go over it with a pen or marker, and erase your guide lines. STEP 5 Now the really fun part: give your dragon some…

Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright Gameplay: The latest Fire Emblem game comes with three different releases, but we’re going to recommend Birthright to begin with. It’s a LOT easier than Conquest, and once you finish it you can buy the Conquest plot line as DLC from the eShop for half price! Birthright is a lot like Fire Emblem Awakening – you can pair units up on the battlefield and eventually get them to have kids, who you can recruit to fight for you! For the best experience, we played on Hard difficulty with Classic mode enabled, which meant that when troops died they stayed dead unless we reloaded our saves! Birthright is a big adventure with a great story and heaps of missions to play through, and we loved coming up…

Star Fox Guard Star Fox Guard uses the Wii U Gamepad in a clever way, letting you switch between cameras that are displayed on the TV to guard your base from robot invaders! You’re helping Slippy’s uncle, Grippy, by firing lasers at all sorts of crazy robots in this Star Fox spin-off. There are heaps of levels to play through and it can get really hard, but it’s a really cool use of the system that wouldn’t work on any other console! Platform: Wii U Style: Strategy Publisher: Nintendo Price: $19.50 (eShop) HOT! Heaps of levels! NOT! It can be frustrating! MANIA SCORE 7/10 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan The TMNT crew are all here, and ready to take the fight to the Foot Clan! We enjoyed some…

Only 80 cars will be made – making it a very rare (and expensive) car to own! Fully robotised body system that raises all the body panels! 5L twin-turbocharged V8 engine with three electric motors Koenigsegg 9” infotainment system, including 4G, Wi-Fi, front, inner and rear camera system with recording capability, Apple CarPlay and supreme sound system! Koenigsegg Z-style lightweight anti-roll bars front and rear! Wing mirrors, and openings fitted with proximity sensors to protect against damage during opening and closing doors! Custom designed titanium exhaust system with fish tail outlet gives the car the sound of performance cars from the past Active front and rear wings! Regera is Swedish for “to reign”. That’s a pretty good name for a car so powerful it could be king of the road!…

DOES LANCE SOUND FAMILIAR? JEREMY ALSO VOICES FINN ON ADVENTURE TIME! MANIA: Were you Voltron fan growing up? JEREMY: “I never saw the old series, but I always knew what it was.” MANIA: How did you approach voicing Lance? Did you find it challenging getting his character right? JEREMY: “I didn’t want a character who sounds like Finn. The way I see it, he’s like a young, wannabe Captain Kirk. He’s definitely a bro who thinks he’s way more awesome than he actually is. It’s so much fun to play around with his one-liners.” MANIA: You worked with New Zealand comedian Rhys Darby on the show. Did you get to do any improv with him when recording? JEREMY: “There are quite a few scenes where I got to act with…

What’s Kubo about? It’s a wikkid story about Kubo, a boy with a musical instrument called a shamisen. The Moon King is after him, now Kubo must team with Monkey and Beetle and master his magical powers and with the help of his shamisen, battle monsters and gods to save the day! KUBO’S SAMURAI GEAR GUIDE KUBO’S WEAPON: Shamisen This isn’t a traditional samurai weapon but Kubo uses it like one. Using his shamisen, he is able to manipulate origami to perform marvellous tricks and create objects, such as wings, boats and his own tiny samurai, Little Hanzo. MONKEY’S WEAPON: Katana This long curved blade was a samurai’s main weapon. Samurai would name them and believed that their katana contained their soul. They were made in a special way so…

MOVIE MARATHON Talking monkeys and hidden treasure. If those two things don’t immediately get you hyped, we don’t know what to tell you! Pop some popcorn and pour out a huge glass of soft drink, because it’s time to get your movie on! 15 googly-eyed MANIACs will win a DVD prize pack containing Little Savages and Monkey Up! DISGUSTINGLY GOOD Do you love playing with your food and grossing out your mates? Sounds like you need to join the Grossery Gang. Five mouldy MANIACs will beef up their crusty collection and win a Grossery Gang prize pack containing five Surprise packs, two Regular packs, two Large packs, a Collectors Cup, a Slushie Playset and a Yucky Mart. KEEP ON TRUCKIN’ Love Monster Jam? Then dig this! Two major winners will…

Felix’s dog Teddy. CHECK OUT MY RAP ALBUM ‘NOTORIOUS D.O.G. Jess’ cat Belle NOW THAT MY HUMANS ARE GONE, I CAN FINALLY MARATHON ADVENTURE TIME! Seb’s dog Buddy. WHAT? I LIKE HAVING CLEAN SHEETS. Dom’s cat Napoleon ONE DAY I’LL PLAY IN THE AUSTRALIAN OPEN! Chris’ pup Beans I’M THE BEST AT CALL OF DOGGY: BARK OPS! Zara’s bunnies Alfie and Maisy IT’S OURS! IT’S ALL OURS! Liz’s pup Lulu NEXT STOP, NEW YORK CITY! Jess’ dog Jasper I FIGHT A NEVER-ENDING BATTLE FOR TRUTH, JUSTICE AND BELLY RUBS!…

LEGO Dimensions Keeps Getting Better! The line-up of levels and characters coming to LEGO Dimensions in the future is AMAZING! We’re getting packs from Ghostbusters, Harry Potter, Adventure Time, The LEGO Batman Movie, The Goonies, Sonic The Hedgehog, Teen Titans Go, LEGO City Undercover, The Powerpuff Girls, E.T., and more! We can’t wait to play as all these new characters! Xbox Scorpio Will Change The Game! Surprise – there’s a new Xbox coming at the end of 2017! That’s ages away, but Microsoft are promising the most powerful console ever made, and honestly the statistics we’ve heard are stunning! It’ll take a pretty amazing console to pull us away from our PS4s, Xbox Ones and Wii Us, but it sounds cool! Spider-Man Swings to PS4! Woah – the developers of…

Dirt Rally Gameplay: This is for anyone out there who wants to see what it’s like to drive a real rally car! Dirt Rally is a super hard game, made with the hardcore fans in mind – but if you love rally racing, then racing over these 70 courses in your mud-splattered cars will be a fantastic experience! We found that we had to go and do some study into how cars work to really get the most out of Dirt Rally, but when we turned the difficulty down we were also able to have heaps of fun sliding around corners and doing our best not to crash! You’ll have to be slow and careful sometimes in Dirt Rally, but if racing is something that you love and take seriously,…

Steppy Pants This wacky game takes something fairly simple walking – a game! You control each leg by tapping the screen, and you have to avoid stepping on gaps in the pavement or stepping too far and falling over – it’s way harder than it sounds, but it made us LOL a lot! iOS/Android, Walking Simulator, Free SCORE 8/10 Rodeo Stampede: Sky Zoo Safari This is a great idea for a game, ride YAKs a – bull you through various levels, catching animals with your lasso, which you then get to take back and look after in your zoo! It’s great catching a new animal and then getting to keep hanging out with it afterwards! iOS/Android, Arcade, Free SCORE 9/10 Kingdom Hearts: Unchained X This free mobile Kingdom Hearts RPG…

STEP 1: You need to get as much speed as possible when approaching the ramp. This will give you more momentum, which will give you more airtime to perform the trick. STEP 2: Get as much height as possible when you clear the ramp’s coping. Keeping both feet on the deck, bend your knees and bring the scooter up. Hold on tight with one hand, while taking the other off the handlebars. STEP 3: At the highest point, reach down and grab the bottom of your deck. Slightly twist your handlebars sideways and tweak your deck forward just a bit. STEP 4: After you’re done performing the T-Bog, return your hand back to the handlebars and straighten up your scooter. STEP 4: Make sure your wheels are facing forward as…