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Kickstarter Update: Monster Factory Is Adding Pegasus

July 23, 2014November 23, 2017Jackie Reeve1

The Canadian toy company reached funding for their new line of three Mythicals toys in six days. They’d like to add a fourth toy to the lineup.

Introducing The Mythicals From Monster Factory

July 15, 2014November 23, 2017Jackie Reeve3

A new Kickstarter to bring Dragon, Unicorn, and Cthulhu to life with Monster Factory.

Fund This! Integrated Space Plan, Backstory RPG Cards, Evolution for young kids and Potato Salad!

July 8, 2014November 23, 2017Samantha Cook

GeekMom finds a diverse range of Fund This campaigns to pique your interest, including an integrated space plan to launch us into the next phase of space exploration and technology, cards that help RPG players expand their experience, a gorgeous book on evolution for young children, and a guy who wants to make potato salad.

Lovecraft’s Mountains of Madness Begins at Kickstarter

July 7, 2014November 23, 2017Kay Moore

Lovers of Lovecraft and Cthulhu have a chance to honor Those Who Cannot Be Named by backing a Kickstarter project to animate the master’s most highly lauded novella.

From One GeekMom To Another: Don’t Beg

July 1, 2014December 15, 2017Rebecca Angel7

A young mother is using crowdfunding to send her to a big convention. There are other ways!

Fund This! A New Role Model for Boys, Eating Good and Cheap, and a 3D Printer for Kids!

June 25, 2014November 26, 2017Samantha Cook

Get a peek at a company trying to expand the options of role models for boys in the toy industry, where eating healthy and well can be done on $4 a day, and a 3D printer designed for kids.

Fund This! Geek Illustrated Cookbooks, Inked Geek Shirts, and Interstitial Art!

June 12, 2014November 26, 2017Samantha Cook1

GeekMom finds a geek cookbook, geek ink shirts, and art that pushes the boundaries in this edition of Fund This!

Primo: A Mathematical Board Game

June 5, 2014December 15, 2017Helen Barker

GeekMom Helen plays Primo, a mathematical board game.

Help Bring Back Beat the Geeks—But Better. Ubergeek.

June 3, 2014November 23, 2017Ruth Suehle1

Remember Comedy Central’s Beat the Geeks? That show’s TV geek, Paul Goebel, wants to bring it back in a bigger way: Ubergeek. Here’s how you can help.

Kickstarter: Megalo Mini Phone Charger

May 31, 2014November 23, 2017Jenny Bristol

Support this Kickstarter campaign for a tiny, stylish, portable phone charger!

LeVar Burton's New Kickstarter Brings the Magic of Reading Rainbow to Classrooms

May 28, 2014November 26, 2017Jackie Reeve

LeVar Burton is launching a Kickstarter campaign to raise $1 million dollars to expand the modern digital Reading Rainbow program to the web. You can help bring the beloved show back to a new audience of kids on the web.

Fund This! Geek Dinnerware, Action Figures for Girls, Build Better Forts, and Compressed Air Rockets!

May 23, 2014November 26, 2017Samantha Cook

Fund This! gives you fancy dinnerware for geeks, action figures for girls that are all heroine and no hooters, fort building taken to a new level, and compressed air gliders that rock the atmosphere!

Evolution Card Game Review

May 16, 2014December 15, 2017Cathé Post

Evolution is fun, with the ability to be easy for beginning gamers or complicated for those who are seasoned strategy game players.

Catching Up With Storium

May 14, 2014November 23, 2017Helen Barker

GeekMom Helen catches up with online collaborative storytelling game Storium. What happened with its Kickstarter campaign?

CleverPet is Like Simon for Your Dog

May 8, 2014November 23, 2017Rachel Cericola

This upcoming WiFi-enabled device is designed to educate and entertain your pet.

Fund This! Tinkerbots, Self-Directed Learning, and Gender Non-Conforming Kids!

May 7, 2014November 26, 2017Samantha Cook

The first Fund This! of May finds Tinkerbots, a book on taking control of your own learning, and a platform for gender non-conforming kids!

Telling a Tale With Storium

April 24, 2014December 15, 2017Helen Barker8

GeekMom Helen explores Storium, an online collaborative storytelling game.

Zombicide: Can You Survive?

April 19, 2014November 23, 2017Sophie Brown3

Zombicide allows you and your friends to work together to achieve objectives in a customizable world filled with the undead.

Journaling with Tweets: GameStorm Day 1

March 27, 2014December 15, 2017Cathé Post1

Dear Internet Diary, there was a gaming convention. Games were played. GeekMom Cathé has the tweets to prove it!

Comic Preview: The Only Living Boy

March 26, 2014November 26, 2017Corrina Lawson

Is 12-year-old Erik Farrell the last human alive on Earth? That’s the premise of the new young adult comic, The Only Living Boy, by Harvey Award Winning Creators David Gallaher and Steve Ellis