A Magazine Worthy of Thor

If you grew up in the late ’80s and early ’90s, you have to remember the multitude of movie-inspired activity books that were released.

At one time, if a film was destined to become a blockbuster, you could bet that the scholastic kid book flier that circulated around your elementary school every month would be selling an activity book based off of it.

Often a great amount of fun for preteens, these books were filled with crossword puzzles, mazes, posters and all sorts of cool stuff, which often gave them a nice bang for their buck. However, over time, these books weren’t released as often, especially with the creation of the Internet, killing a cute niche product that produced a nice following.

Luckily, Disney Publishing Worldwide is attempting to bring these type of books back with the Thor Official Movie Special, which not only has posters and fun stuff for the kiddies, but also an original comic book and interviews with the actors of the film that older readers will enjoy skimming through.

Considering it’s modest selling point at $10.00 as well, this is essentially a must-own for any young fan of the god of thunder.

Nevertheless, it may not be an amazing run through for adults, with all the games mashed in between the interviews and such. Children that dug the Thor film will find plenty of things in here to keep them occupied though. For that reason alone, it’s a worthy purchase for any parent with a young true believer.

Be warned though parents: once your youngin’ gets a look at this book, even Loki himself will have a hard time getting it out of their hands.

Visually, the book has a plethora of high-quality photos and concept art that older comic book fans and movie buffs will enjoy looking through. The Thor timeline, as well as the cast interviews are easy enough to read for children, but provide the kind of information into the film that hardcore fans will enjoy as well. The comic book, “citadel of the Spires,” in spite of its short length, is good-looking and a nice of the film and is another solid section in a book full of different things to read and enjoy.

Overall, the presentation of this 96-page publication is what you’d expect from the Disney brand and the effect it causes on their target demographic is similar. In the end, it’s simply a comfortable and easy to navigate experience and something you won’t mind your kids reading through and playing with.

Even better, it’s something the big kid in you may enjoy as well.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14263 Articles
Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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