Indice dei contenuti per July 2016 in Mania

MANIA HQ   Have you ever seen a squirrel in space? if there are acorns involved we reckon Scrat will go anywhere! Try our Ice Age space quiz pgs 8-9, then slide on over for crazy facts, winter jokes, pranks and more in this icy cool issue. Wanna know how to make your own Let’s Play vid? Check out our awesome guide pgs 47-49. There’s heaps of fun to be had, so go nuts, MANIACs! CAPTION COMP! What do you think he is 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 190 CAPTION COMP Locked Bag 5555, St Leonards NSW 1590…

SLIME SEASON 16 two-person teams have been picked out of thousands of auditions. Each week, four teams will go head-to-head on the slime filled battlefield, with only one team emerging victorious. The final four teams will duke it out at the Slime Cup Grand Finals. Slime Cup isn’t just a physical challenge. Players will have to stomach some disgusting dishes in the FAST FOOD challenge! The players aren’t the only ones at the risk of a severe gross out. Their family members will be placed in the STANK TANK . The slowest time for the first challenge will result in a dank stanking for mum or dad! In the NOSE RUN , players will face a never-ending stream of snotty slime and pull boogers out of a giant nose. The…

The Peach Blossom Spring (By EpicWork) Sometimes you want to fight hoards of zombie mobs, and sometimes you just want to chill out and explore. This map is definitely built for relaxation, with its serene river, beautiful peach blossom trees and towering Japanese castles. This is the perfect map to just wander through, discovering all the nooks and crannies after rage quitting a tough battle with the Ender Dragon. Cathedral (By Patrix) It’s common courtesy to keep your voice down when inside a cathedral – but thankfully, no one’s here so we can yell “THIS IS AWESOME!” all we want in this wikkid build! This is one of the most detailed builds we’ve ever seen. And if you think it looks good on the outside, wait until you go inside…

JUST KEEP SWIMMING My Friend Dory Stockists: All good toy retailers START YOUR ENGINES Rev Racerz Launcher & Dash’n’Smash Track Stockists: Big W, Target, Toys R Us, Toyworld, Mr Toys SUPER-SWAG Marvel and DC Ooshies Four Packs Stockists: All leading toy retailers COLOURERS, ASSEMBLE! Crayola Colour Alive – Avengers Stockists: Kmart, Target, Big W, Toys R Us CASTLE CRASHERS! Qixels Kingdom: Castle Attack Playset Stockists: Kmart, Target, Big W, Toys R Us CALLING ALL CARD SHARKS DC Comics, Marvel Comics and Harry Potter playing cards. Stockists: Big W, EB Games, Zing stores, Toys R Us and all good toy retailers GOTTA CATCH’ EM ALL Pokémon TCG Darkrai Pin Box & Blastoise EX Figure Box Stockists: EB Games, Toys R Us, Kmart, Target, Big W, Kidstuff and all good independent game…

FEELING FISHY We’re so stoked for the release of Finding Dory, that we’ve managed to reel in some fantastically fishy Finding Dory prizes. Eight lucky YAKs will swim away with a Finding Dory prize pack, which includes a Change-and-Chat Hank the Octopus and a Let’s Speak Whale Dory. Just don’t be like Dory and forget to enter! POWER PACK! Avengers assemble and Justice Leaguers unite! These soft and squishy pencil toppers are based on all your favourite superheroes and villains: There’s Iron Man, Venom, the Joker and Superman, just to name a few! One lucky MANIAC will win a super-powered prize pack containing 24 Marvel Ooshies four packs and 24 DC Ooshies four packs. LAB RATS! If you’re a serious scientist or an insane inventor, you’re gonna want to add…

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan Mutants in Manhattan offers something a bit different from previous TMNT games! This time the levels are big and open, and filled with different kinds of missions – sometimes you have to beat enemies, but sometimes you have to do weirder things, like rolling a giant bag of stolen money back to the bank! Each turtle has their own unique special moves, and the developers Platinum are legendary for designing cool combat, so fighting bad dudes should be super fun, especially when playing with friends! Platform: PS4/3, Xbox One/360, PC Style: Action Publisher: Activision Out: Winter Monster Hunter Generations The next Monster Hunter game is a mix of old and new elements from the series – it’ll be missing some of the features…

Trackmania Turbo Gameplay: Trackmania has been around for a while YAKs, but this is the first time it’s popped up on Xbox and PlayStation! Turbo is a really great version of Trackmania, and we found that once we started we couldn’t stop! The track designs are super crazy, and they get super hard – you need to finish all of them as fast as you can! We loved working out how to get through them, driving up walls, around loops, and over massive jumps! You can even go online and take on up to 99 opponents, to see who can get the best time possible on each level! There’s a track creator too, so you can make your other courses and share them with your mates. It works super well…

Trackmania Turbo EXTRA MULTIPLAYER MODES Select ‘Multiplayer’ on the main menu, then scroll down to ‘Secrets’ and enter these codes! Arcade Smash! PS4: Square, Circle, Any button XB1: X, B, any button Arcade Stunt! PS4: Square, X, any button XB1: X, A, any button Hotseat Smash! PS4: Triangle, Circle, any button XB1: Y, B, any button Hotseat Stunt! PS4: Triangle, X, any button XB1: Y, A, any button Mono Screen Fun! PS4: X, any button, X XB1: A, any button, A Mono Screen Pro! PS4: X, any button, Triangle XB1: A, any button, Y Splitscreen Bonus Fun! PS4: Circle, Circle, X XB1: B, B, A Splitscreen Bonus Pro! PS4: Circle, Circle, Triangle XB1: B, B, Y Splitscreen Classic Fun! PS4: Circle, X, Circle XB1: B, A, B Splitscreen Classic Pro!…

WANT TO PRACTICE YOUR SKILLZ ON YOUR VERY OWN CRISP BLASTER SCOOTER? ENTER OUR PRIZE PASS COMP ON PG.50 AND YOU COULD RIDE AWAY ON ONE OF FIVE BRAND NEW SCOOTERS! START HERE! STEP 1: On a flat surface, gain some speed (but not too fast – a bit above casual rolling speed at most). The momentum will help you perform the trick! STEP 2: As you’re rolling, bend your knees and prepare to jump. Both feet need to be on the scooter deck. STEP 3: Jump into the air and lift your feet off of the scooter deck. With one foot you need to flick the deck so it will perform a complete rotation. STEP 4: When the scooter has spun completely around, use one foot to catch the…

Does Nick have what it takes to make it at Football High? Grab a copy to find out! Check out this sneak peek of Football High 1: Young Gun... On the Train Week One: Thursday I’m on the train speeding towards school. I think I’m even more nervous today than I was yesterday and not just because it’s my first time catching a train by myself. Today will be our first full day of classes as well as our first Football Skills and Fitness class. I can’t wait to get out on that pristine, green pitch but at the same time I can’t help wondering just how good all the other kids will be. The train pulls into a station and I jump out of my seat when a lunatic…

Yo MANIA! Your mag is the best. This is my sick drawing of Harvey Beaks! I hope you dig it! Thanks for your artwork, Ben! We totally dig it! Harvey Beaks is looking fantastic here! We bet you’re pretty good at Minecraft, Jett! It’s a totally cool game. Your artwork is awesome! Hey MANIA, I’ve drawn a picture of Minecraft and this is a drawing of Toad from the Adventures of Super Mario Bros 3. Your magazine is my favourite thing in the whole world! I read it every single month and am so excited to open it! Thanks, Aston! We think your drawings are absolutely AWSM! Toad looks so cool. We love playing Minecraft and Super Mario Bros! Hello MANIA! This is a drawing of my favourite thing that…

What’s the difference between an iceberg and a clothes brush? One crushes boats and the other brushes coats! What did the beanie say to the scarf? “You hang around while I go on ahead.” What do you call a snowman standing in the desert? A puddle! What’s an ig? A snow house without a loo! What do you call fifty penguins standing in the desert? Really, really lost! What do you call a cold vampire? Frost-bite! What do you say to an angry snowman? Chill out! Where do snowmen keep their money? The snow bank! What did the police shout at the guy robbing the snow bank? Freeze! What did the seal say when he swam into a concrete wall? “Dam!” What do you call a clown trapped in a…

Ice climbing is an extreme sport where climbers scale frozen ice walls. These ice walls are either waterfalls that have frozen due to the extremely cold weather, or snow that has frozen together on the side of mountains. Some of the ice is so strong that even the smallest of indents is enough to hold the climber’s bodyweight. It’s an incredibly dangerous sport, as climbers must deal with the freezing weather conditions, the slippery uneven surfaces, and the possibility of cracking the ice!…

CHILD OF THE JUNGLE When a British lord and his pregnant wife are marooned in Africa, they build a treehouse to take shelter in. Unfortunately , they cannot withstand the harsh jungle environment and pass away shortly after the birth of their son. Their lonely son is then adopted by Great Apes, growing to become the jungle hero Tarzan! JUNGLE WARRIOR Growing up in the dangerous jungles of Africa, T arzan has developed some serious abilities. He can climb, swing and leap just as well, sometimes even better, than any Great Ape. His strength, speed, refl exes and senses are all much higher than the average human’s. He can even communicate with animals! Since 1918 there have been over 200 movies with Tarzan in the title! THE WORLD OF MAN…

Leo, NSW LEO LOVES HANGING OUT WITH TILLY, HIS PET JUG (JACK RUSSELL X PUG). Ben, NSW BEN IS CHILLIN’ WITH HIS POOCH! Beware the Jabberwock, the most fearsome beast in all of Wonderland! The original illustrations for this man-eating monster depict it as a hodge-podge a head of different like a fish animals , rabbit – teeth the , body insect of -like a dragon antennae , and bird talons for hands. It can only be defeated if struck by a vorpal blade. During her adventures in Wonderland, Alice meets a strange creature known as the Mock Turtle, who has the body of a turtle, but has the head, hooves and tail of a cow. His name is a reference to a mid-18th century soup, which was made from…

OUR SPIDER-SENSE IS TINGLING! Due out in July 2017, the new Spider-Man movie has an official subtitle: Homecoming. If you dug Spidey hanging out with Iron Man in Civil War, we’ve got good news for you. Tony Stark is set to appear alongside our friendly neighbourhood wall-cra wler in the new movie. Were you bummed that Hulk and Thor weren’t in Civil War? (We were!) Good news, the two will be teaming up next year in Thor: Ragnarok. There aren’t many details available, but you know there’s gonna be some epic smashing! JOIN THE DARK SIDE! Remember that AWSM dream-sequence from Batman vs Superman? Keen ey ed viewers might have noticed the giant symbol burnt into the wasteland. That’s the Omega Symbol, the logo for the DC universe’s biggest and…

Pokkén Tournament Gameplay: Woo – we’ve always wanted to control our favourite Pokémon while they fight on the big screen, and now we can! Pokkén Tournament is from the rad developers of Tekken, and it pits 16 Pokémon against each other in epic battles! Even if you’re not a big fighting game player, Pokkén Tournament is pretty easy to get into – all of your special moves are pretty easy to do, and the game has a great tutorial mode that teaches you everything you need to know. You can assign other Pokémon to assist you in battle, and use Mega Evolution to get extra strong. We felt like experts after a few hours! There isn’t a whole lot to do in single-player mode aside from fighting over and over…

Day of the Tentacle Remastered We love a good blast from the past YAKs, so we were super excited to jump into this classic adventure game with wonderful new graphics! It’s pretty hard, so you’ll probably want to look up a guide online for some of the really crazy puzzles, but that’s okay – following the three characters as they travel through time and solve super smart puzzles is heaps of fun! The script had us LOLing super hard too – it’s got some of the best characters in gaming! Platform: PS4, PS Vita, PC Style: Adventure/Puzzle Publisher: Double Fine Price: $29.95 HOT! This classic is still heaps of fun! NOT! Old adventure games were very hard! MANIA SCORE 8/10 Hyrule Warriors Legends Warning to 3DS Zelda fans – Hyrule…

July 9th is the 35th anniversary for everyone’s favourite gaming gorilla, Donkey Kong! To celebrate we’ve gone bananas and collected a whole bunch of DK facts! The original Donkey Kong arcade cabinet was released in 1981. Despite being the title character, Donkey Kong was actually the game’s villain. Cranky Kong is actually Donkey Kong from the original arcade games! The current Donkey Kong is his grandson. Donkey Kong was the first game designed by Shigeru Miyamoto, who would go on to become one of the most important game designers of all time. He also designed Nintendo franchises such as Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda and Star Fox. Have you always wondered why his name is Donkey? Miyamoto thought the name “Donkey” would make it sound like Kong was either…

Age: 25 Hometown: Mt Buller, Victoria Occupation: Olympic freestyle skier Achievements: 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, 7th place at the Ski Cross World Championships 2013 Trivia: At school he also did rowing before eventually choosing to ski! 1. How many snow crystals fall each winter? A) A million B) A septillion C) A bajillion Anton: A bajillion, the more snow the better! 2. Can you ski faster than a sabre-toothed tiger can run? Anton: I would try my best, but I think I may have met my match! 3. Snow dwelling Wolverines are part of the weasel family. True or false? Anton: False 4. The coldest temperature ever in Australia was: A) -23ºC B) -18ºC C) -11ºC Anton: -23ºC 5. Fill in the gap: The 11th of December is International Day.…

1) If you combined every known asteroid, their combined size would be smaller than our moon. TRUE / FALSE? 2) In 1998, a team of miners were sent into space to split a large asteroid in half. TRUE / FALSE? 3) “Asteroid” comes from a Greek word that means “Big Space Rock.” TRUE / FALSE? 4) The first asteroid was discovered in 1801. TRUE / FALSE? 5) Meteors and asteroids are the same thing. TRUE / FALSE? 6) It’s widely believed that an asteroid colliding with Earth is what killed the dinosaurs. TRUE / FALSE? 7) Shooting stars are actually meteors burning up in Earth’s atmosphere. TRUE / FALSE? 8) Two asteroid belts that run parallel with one another are called asteroid suspenders. TRUE / FALSE? TIME 2 BEAT: 11:23…

We had a chat with lead singer/songwriter Anthony Salce and uncover The Hiding. MANIA: What’s your favourite thing about being in The Hiding? ANTHONY: “The friendships and memories that have come form years of international touring.” M: How would you describe your music? A: “Electro pop.” M: What is the first album you bought? A: “I think it was a Bon Jovi or Michael Jackson album.” M: How do you pump yourself up before a gig? A: “We play practical jokes on each other!” M: Favourite prank to pull on your band mates? A: “I grabbed some chocolate and made skid marks on our keyboard player’s bed then called housekeeping and told them he had an accident. I also put tuna and mayonnaise in his socks.” M: What is the…

Exodus landed the role of Young Simba at age 8, making him the youngest performer to portray the lion cub! Get to know Exodus with his personal faves: Video game: Minecraft. TV show: Gamer’s Guide to Pretty Much Everything. Movie: The Nightmare Before Christmas and Richie Rich. Superhero: Wolverine. Food: Butter Chicken. Animal: Panda. Pizza topping: BBQ Meatlovers. Earlier this year, Exodus took home the Golden Trophy for “Best Performance in Live Theatre – Young Actor” at the 37th Annual Gala Young Artist Awards! MANIA: How did you get into acting? EXODUS: “Lion King was my first gig. Before that I used to be involved in my church’s youth plays.” M: What was the audition process like for the Lion King? Do you have any tips for overcoming nerves? E:…

An elephant can smell water nearly 5km away! The medical term for a brain freeze is “sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.” There are 1.6 millions ants for every living human. A hummingbird weighs less than an Australian 5 cent coin! Emus can’t walk backwards. Squirrels can’t burp! Strawberries aren’t actually berries! Letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is thought to be a sign of good luck in Japan. Got a mosquito bite? Rubbing a banana peel on it will make it stop itching. Walt Disney’s favourite character was Goofy. Octopuses have three hearts!…

BROKEN – DO NOT USE Sometimes the simplest pranks are the best. Print out some official looking OUT OF ORDER or BROKEN - DO NOT USE signs and stick them up everywhere. We recommend bathroom doors or on toilet seats! HIT SNOOZE! This one takes a bit of prep, but it’s well worth it, YAKs. Set as many different alarms as possible and hide them in random spots around the house (in cupboards, under beds). Watch as everyone loses their minds trying to find them! SCARY SHADOWS Cut out the silhouettes of cockroaches and spiders, and tape them to the inside of a lampshade. When your victim turns on the lamp they’ll be shocked to see a huge bug chilling out! A REAL SURPRISE! Tape a scary photo onto the…

Matthew, VIC Something tells me you’re a big Dr. Who fan, Matthew! That’s an epic collection! Chris, NSW MANIA’s writer, Chris, has a huge comicbook collection! There’s a second row of books behind what you can see here! ONE HAIRY COLLECTION! John Reznikoff might have the weirdest collection we’ve ever seen. He collects human hair! But not just any hair – it has to be the hair of famous celebrities! In his collection, Reznikoff has clippings of celebrity’s dos from Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein and even Abraham Lincoln! He even paid Neil Armstrong’s hairdresser for some of the astronaut’s cut-offs. TOAST WITH THE MOST! Nothing beats a nice piece of toast for breakfast on a cold morning. No one knows this better than Jens Veerbeck, whose love for toasters extends…

 Q1. Your friends think you're: STRAP ON YOUR PROTON-PACHS AND LAY DOWN SOME GHOST TRAPS TO CATCH GHOSTBUSTERS WHEN IT FLOATS INTO CINEMAS ON JULY 14TH. a) Way too enthusiastic. b) A mad scientist. c) A bit quiet. d) One tough dude. Q2. You encounter a ghost, what do you do? a) Get excited! b) Try out your new anti-ghost tech. c) Try to speak to it. d) Send it back to wherever it came from. Q3. If you could be any animal, what would you be? a) Pug! Pug! Pug! b) A unicorn, bro. c) A wise owl. d) A grizzly bear. Q4. You’ve just been slimed, what do you do? a) Take a funny selfie. b) Taste some of the slime. c) Shower ASAP. d) Return the favour.…

Minecraft: Story Mode Gets Longer! Fans of Minecraft: Story Mode will be happy to hear that there are three more episodes coming now that the first five are out! You’ll need to pay a bit of extra money for them, but they extend the adventures of Jesse and his mates in the Order of the Stone! PlayStation VR Coming In October! The PlayStation 4’s VR helmet is coming in October, and first shipments are already selling out! You’ll really need to save up your pocket money though, YAKs – it’s going to cost $550 at launch, the same price as the console when it first came out! We might have to wait a Christmas or two! Final Fantasy XV Looks HOT! We’re super excited to have a release date for…

Disney Infinity 3.0: Marvel Battlegrounds Gameplay: Wow – Marvel Battlegrounds is a pretty huge shake-up for Disney Infinity! This isn’t like the Star Wars Play Sets, or even the previous Marvel one – this is more like a fighting game, where every level is set in an arena that robotic versions of your favourite Marvel heroes are trying to take over! This means that you can bring in all your favourite Marvel characters from 2.0 and fight against every Marvel character released so far! Each character has unique moves and stats, and any upgrades you’ve applied carry over! Outside of the story mode there’s a battle mode that lets you pick and play as some of the characters that you don’t have the figurines for as well – you’ll need…

Flipped Out: The Powerpuff Girls This is a really cool idea for a game – when you hold your phone sideways you’re playing an action game with the Powerpuff Girls, but flip it the other way and the game transforms into a Match 3 puzzle game, letting you take on enemies in both forms! This is AWSM stuff! iOS, Action/Puzzle, $4.49 SCORE 9/10 Miitomo Miitomo is Nintendo’s first proper app, and we’re having a lot of fun with it! Miitomo lets you answer questions and share them with your friends, while dressing up your Mii in new clothes and earning points to spend on Nintendo games. We added all our mates and LOL’d at their Miis! iOS/Android, Social, Free SCORE 8/10 LEGO Jurassic World We’re always happy to see the…

Only 30 will be produced! “F5” is reference to the highest rating on the Fujita scale, which is used to classify a tornado’s intensity. F5 tornadoes have a wind-speed between 261 – 318 mph (419 – 512 km/h) The Hennessy Venom is the second fastest car in the world behind the Bugatti Chiron Body is designed to lower aerodynamic drag to increase its performance Body is a hybrid of aluminium and carbon fibre, and will weigh less than 1,300kg In terms of power to weight, the engine generates 1000 bhp per tonne Runs on a 7.0 litre V8 twin-turbo engine Predicted to hold the world record for fastest street-legal production car TECH SPECS PRODUCTION: 2016 COUNTRY: United States of America TOP SPEED: 290 mph (467 km/h) MAX POWER: 1400 bhp…