The Best Nerdy Gifts of 2024

Lego Dungeons and Dragons Collectible Minifigures

Sure, Lego did merchandise that huge, dragon-packed acceptable for D&D’s 50th day earlier this year, but if you privation thing that marries the satellite of the Forgotten Realms and Lego that doesn’t rob you of each your golden similar a peculiarly assertive kobold, this question of collectible minifigures is simply a large mode to bash so. With 12 figures to cod successful the blind-box series, there’s a premix of iconic D&D foes and creatures, alongside customizable species/class archetypes from close retired of the tabletop game.

Unsolved Mysteries soundtrack CD

Since the holidays and the paranormal spell manus successful hand, it’s ever a bully thought to person immoderate spooky euphony hidden distant connected your seasonal playlist. Bust this retired erstwhile it’s the clip of nighttime for recreational shade stories oregon competing impersonations of Phoebe Cates’ show-stopping Gremlins monologue: “The worst happening that ever happened to maine was connected Christmas…”

One Piece Luffy hat

Although One Piece has yet to unveil its ineffable treasure, the long-running anime has gone supra and beyond successful treasuring Luffy’s beloved straw hat. And with bully reason: implicit the past 27 years, Luffy’s signature headgear has go a awesome for holding accelerated to one’s dreams. Gifting your nonmigratory anime fanatic a straw chapeau takes attraction of their impending cosplay needs and allows you to recreate 1 of anime’s astir iconic moments, should you determine to spell the other mile of placing it connected their head.

Aliens What If...? graphic novel

When we deliberation of the What If…? franchise usually we deliberation of Marvel. But Marvel doesn’t deliberation that way. This twelvemonth it took 1 of the astir celebrated sci-fi franchises ever, Aliens, and did a afloat tally of What If…? comics successful that world. The question is simple: what if Carter Burke, the slimy enforcement played by Paul Reiser, had lived? What’s adjacent cooler than that is Reiser himself helped constitute the books on with a slew of different celebrated popular civilization junkies.

Fallout Original Series Vinyl Soundtrack

Fallout is simply a palmy video crippled and tv amusement rife with rad iconography. While immoderate different website would person you hard-pressed to interruption the slope buying a replica powerfulness suit helmet oregon a Vault Tech watch, we’ll alternatively urge you the show’s soundtrack… connected vinyl! This acquisition won’t lone gain respect from your hipster gamer friends; it’ll besides brace nicely with cozying up to a lukewarm occurrence (with a solid of eggnog successful hand) arsenic you ticker the extremity of the worl—er… year.

Hasbro Marvel Legends 25th Anniversary Superior Spider-Man

Hasbro has spent overmuch of its 2024 Marvel Legends output celebrating 85 years of the steadfast with a wide scope of deep-cut comics characters, but 1 of the champion offerings retired of the full enactment is 1 of the astir fascinating versions of Spider-Man successful caller comics history. This fancy instrumentality connected that clip Otto Octavius inhabited Peter Parker’s assemblage to go the Superior Spider-Man (it’s a agelong story) comes implicit with an alternate head, and adjacent a afloat articulated acceptable of 4 spider-arms for you to airs to your heart’s content.

Mubi x Super Yaki The Substance Activator h2o bottle

Speaking of hilariously niche items, this h2o vessel is the cleanable “if you cognize you know” tie-in for the Demi Moore-Margaret Qualley body-horror maestro class. Buy a fewer for your friends who watercourse genre films portion they’re hogging the cardio machines astatine the gym.

Exotic Themes for the Silver Screen: Volume One

Have you ever dreamed of proceeding immoderate of your favourite movie and TV scores rewritten with a decidedly formation vibe? Okay, you astir apt haven’t, but that’s astir to change. Legendary composer Michael Giacchino (Lost, Spider-Man, The Batman, The Incredibles, Up, etc.) has released an medium wherever helium rearranged immoderate of his astir celebrated themes and it’s conscionable fantastic.

Heretic blueberry pastry candle

Your acquisition recipient’s location tin odor arsenic deceptively welcoming arsenic Hugh Grant’s pad successful Heretic, acknowledgment to the recently released fearfulness film’s authoritative scented candle. This hilariously niche point hails from the authoritative merch store of A24, the workplace that besides sells replicas of the Talk to Me “party hand” and the Everything Everywhere All astatine Once “hot canine digit gloves,” successful lawsuit you cognize immoderate superfans who inactive request ‘em.

Mass Effect: Priority Hagalaz - The Board Game

BioWare fans mightiness person already feasted this twelvemonth connected Dragon Age: The Veilguard connected the video crippled front, but present arsenic each eyes crook to the agelong hold for the adjacent Mass Effect, you tin bring the enactment to your tabletop with this co-operative, narrative-driven run game. Set during the Reaper Invasion from Mass Effect 3, players tin instrumentality power of Commander Shepard and a fistful of favourite companions from the series, arsenic they look disconnected against Cerberus and contention to implicit objectives amidst tactical combat to signifier the destiny of the satellite Hagalaz.

The Art of The Legend of Vox Machina

Prime Video’s deed phantasy bid returned for a caller play a fewer months ago, and present it’s getting its archetypal creation book. For artists aiming to interruption into the manufacture oregon conscionable needing immoderate originative fuel, the creation publication covering the show’s aboriginal seasons volition nary uncertainty springiness you what you need. And for fans of the amusement oregon Critical Role much broadly, tin you truly crook down having much Vox Machina to look at?

The Art and Making of Arcane

While there’s definite to beryllium a batch of sermon implicit which anime amusement stands astatine the industry’s apex arsenic its existent champion and brightest, it’s astir intolerable to discount Netflix’s Arcane amusement arsenic the pick of the crop. What amended mode to observe the culmination of Riot Games’ and French animation workplace Fortiche’s curtain telephone connected the Emmy-award-winning bid than to procure an authoritative creation publication detailing the show’s creation? If anything, Arcane’s creation publication volition service arsenic a beauteous java antagonistic speech starter for anyone you’ll person implicit astatine your house. Cupcakes are optional, of course.

Dune: Part Two fig 4-pack

Dune: Part Two is shaping up to beryllium 1 of our favourite films of 2024, and present you tin bring immoderate of its astir intriguing characters to your table with this postulation from McFarlane. Complete with exclusive versions of Paul, Chani, Gurney Halleck, and Stillgar, this four-figure postulation includes a bevy of neat accessories for each figure, from crysknives to worm thumpers, conscionable arsenic the Lisan al Gaib foretold.

Interstellar 10th Anniversary Collector's Edition

Christopher Nolan’s movies are immoderate of the biggest and boldest retired there, truthful wouldn’t you privation to ain (or gift) the biggest and boldest mentation of one? That’s what’s happening for this year’s 10th day of Interstellar, starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, and others. Brand caller transfer, breathtaking caller extras, and each different sorts of goodies too.

Nosferatu movie poster sweater

If you’re looking for thing much seasonably due (location and upwind permitting), past effort this astonishing Nosferatu sweater based connected 1 of accumulation and costume decorator Albin Grau’s 102-year-old posters. With Robert Eggers’ caller mentation of the vampire communicative acceptable to merchandise December 25, Nosferatu is officially a Christmas movie now.

Andor: Season 1 Steelbook Limited Edition

While distant the agelong hold until April with Disney’s long-awaited carnal merchandise of Andor connected 4K UHD Blu-ray. Precariousness of streaming work contented libraries aside, the Star Wars instrumentality successful your beingness volition find plentifulness worthy revisiting successful immoderate of the champion worldly the galaxy, far, acold distant has to connection successful this collection, from behind-the-scenes snippets to the slick steelbook to location it each in.

Godzilla: The Original Years Omnibus

Celebrating Godzilla’s 70th day this year, Marvel has collected the implicit tally of its legendary 1970s comic starring the King of All Monsters for the archetypal clip successful hardcover format, bringing unneurotic 24 issues of wacky monster and superhero shenanigans arsenic Godzilla crosses paths with the Avengers, Spider-Man, and more.

2TB hard thrust for games/PC

It’s conscionable a information of beingness now: eventually, you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize is going to tally retired of retention for their computer, crippled console, whatever. Thank goodness for outer drives that travel with mode much abstraction and enactment immoderate concerns astir retention retired of show and retired of mind. If you cognize idiosyncratic who plays games, this’ll particularly beryllium utile to them, what with however large games tin get nowadays.

Mothra excavation float

Through the magic of this handsome excavation float, you oregon a loved 1 volition beryllium capable to personally recreate the Queen of the Monsters’ dramatically elegant decease country from Rebirth of Mothra successful your ain preferred assemblage of water. There’s genuinely nary amended mode to accidental “have a chill summer” than “Mothra, you indispensable effort to fly! Mothraaaa!”

Scott Pilgrim 20th day colour hardcover container set

If Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (RIP) got you hankering to revisit Brian Lee O’Malley’s seminal comic series, it’s ne'er looked amended than it has successful this sumptuous container acceptable celebrating its 20th anniversary. Available successful some colour and achromatic and achromatic editions, arsenic good arsenic the implicit comic crossed six volumes, the acceptable includes exclusive behind-the-scenes worldly astir the instauration of the series, collectibles inspired by the book, and a glorious, mid-aughts-nostalgia clamshell holding it each unneurotic inspired by the aesthetics of the PS2.

Delicious successful Dungeon implicit container set

One of the biggest anime of the twelvemonth has been Trigger’s adaptation of Ryoko Kui’s seminal phantasy manga, and if you can’t carnivore the hold for play two, this implicit postulation of the manga is indispensable reading. All 14 volumes are collected successful this peculiar variation container designed to look similar the treasure thorax mimics from the series, and there’s adjacent a peculiar poster included for bully measure!

“All the Haunts Be Ours” people fearfulness bundle

Warhammer 40K: Kill Team - Hivestorm

Lego Marvel X-Mansion

Including a modular plan to swap astir the assorted facilities, from classrooms to Cerebro and the Danger Room (to, of course, Logan’s chamber to recreate the iconic Animated Series meme), Lego’s latest and top X-Men acceptable comes with 12 minifigures—Professor X, Magneto, Storm, Wolverine, Cyclops, Gambit, Rogue, Bishop, Iceman, Wolverine, Bishop, and Jean Grey—as good arsenic a brick-built sentinel for them to duke it retired with.

Steam Deck

Valve’s handheld has been a blistery summons point since its debut successful 2022, and the holidays are ever the champion clip to get one. Not lone are determination a ton of games connected merchantability close now, galore of the year’s biggest titles, similar Persona 3 Reload and Balatro, are easy playable connected the device. And if the newer OLED mentation is simply a spot excessively pricey for you, that’s what the archetypal models are for.