It was Doctor Who Day this week (23 November) so here at Hero Collector we wanted to share with you the brilliance of not only our exclusive (and frankly essential) advent calendar for time-traveling devotees but how some of our passionate fans have reacted to opening them! As you’ll be aware, we offer the greatest Who advent calendar … Read more
Coming soon to Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, an XL model of the refitted 32nd century U.S.S. Discovery. After its unexpected and violent arrival in the 32nd century, the U.S.S. Discovery NCC-1031 received an extensive upgrade at the Federation’s headquarters. Refitted with futuristic technology over long weeks of engineering, the ship was recommissioned as the U.S.S. Discovery NCC-1031-A! The Discovery’s refit has … Read more
Coming soon from the team behind Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, a new series of ships based on the animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks. Launching in January, and now available on pre-order here, take a look at the first XL-size starship in the series, the USS Cerritos NCC-75567, a hand-painted model nearly 10 inches (25cm) in length. The USS Cerritos specialized in second-contact … Read more
It’s official: Netflix’s Squid Game has been renewed for a second season. Not that it’s a surprise, considering the show took the world by storm back in September, as it set new records, including breaking 3 billion minutes of watch time by its second week. AP broke the news, after speaking to the program’s creator, Hwang Dog-hyuk, about … Read more
25 years on to the day from its first US broadcast date, James Cooray Smith returns to the Wormhole to reassess Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This week, the crew goes uncover as Klingons in ‘Trials and Tribble-ations’. The production of ‘Unification’, in the autumn of 1991, had set something of a precedent for Star Trek … Read more
Doom Patrol Season 3 has a UK airdate. The surreal DC superhero show will return to Starzplay UK on Sunday, November 14. Joining the cast this season is Michelle Gomez (Doctor Who) as Madame Rouge, with Sebastian Croft and Ty Tennant (War of the Worlds) as Edwin Paine and Charles Rowland, the Dead Boy Detectives, plus Micah Joe Parker, Wynn Everett, Miles Mussenden, Anita Kalathara and Gina Hiraizumi in recurring roles. New characters … Read more
Amazon Studios have shared the first trailer for the sixth and final season of The Expanse. The final season picks up with the solar system at war, as Marco Inaros and his Free Navy continue to launch devastating asteroid attacks on Earth and Mars. As the tensions of war and shared loss threaten to pull the crew of the … Read more
When Star Trek: Discovery changed the look of the Klingons it caused ruptures in the space-time continuum but it’s not the first, and won’t be the last, time that Trek has tweaked its alien gallery. Rich Handley maps their foreheads from 52 years of Star Trek. It’s a bumpy ride! Ever since the first images of Star Trek: Discovery’s … Read more
An isolated island community experiences strange events after the arrival of a mysterious new priest in Netflix’s new seven-part horror drama from writer-director Mike Flanagan. Strong on character and atmosphere from the start, it’s a thoughtful, slow-burn horror that explores some big ideas in amongst its scary moments. Matthew Turner feels the fervour. Writer-director Mike … Read more
As part of Star Trek Day’s event, we’ve been given a lot of new trailers and news. Two of the highlighted shows were new Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Star Trek: Discovery Season 4. As fan favorites in Discovery’s season 2, Captain Christopher Pike, Number One and Spock received their very own spin-off show featuring … Read more