Entertainment

Some people are tricky to buy for until you remember what they actually do in their downtime. They have game nights that last until midnight. They escape into movies like it’s a form of worship. They collect records. They hoard puzzles. They spend entire weekends embroiled with a favourite board game. When you start thinking about how people spend their leisure time beyond the surface level you realise that the right gift is nowhere near as hard to find. That realisation is what this guide is founded on. Not entertainment itself but the joy you can bring someone by honing in on exactly what they spend their downtime doing and giving them something that enhances it. Something that doesn’t sit on the sidelines of a hobby but lands squarely in the middle of it. That meant being selective about what we included here. The market for entertainment related gifts is massive and largely filled with noise. Novelty items that are funny for a minute. Generic gift card vouchers that’ll get opened but then immediately forgotten. Gadgets and dongles that don’t actually fit into anyone’s life. We avoided all of that crap. Instead we honed in on what actually upgrades the experience. Here you’ll find gifts for the film buff who deserves better than streaming on a laptop. Games and accessories for the host of every gathering you know whose shelves deserve some worthy additions for game night. Gifts for the music fanatic. The puzzle enthusiast. The reader who has opinions about all three books they’re currently reading at once. When you care about the person you’re buying for enough you stop buying into a price point. Instead, you think about their life. The best entertainment gifts do one thing. They let someone know you were paying attention to the things they actually love to do rather than just wandering gift shopping in the dark. They don’t just sit on your desk or shelf. They sit in your life. That’s what separates gifts that get used all the time from gifts that are thanked politely and then forgotten. That was our standard for everything in this guide. Does honesty want to receive this? Would I actually use this? Is this the best version of this product? If the answer to any of those questions wasn’t a resounding yes, we slashed it.

Harry Potter

Fandoms come and go. Ours just doesn’t work like that. We grew up reading these books into our adulthood. Now we’re in our 30’s, buying homes, having children of our own, and still geeking out HARD over a good piece of Wizarding World swag. And no, that’s not us being nostalgic. We just plain old love it. . So it’s also exactly why shopping for a Harry Potter fan is both so easy and so incredibly easy to mess up. Easy because they will love anything you pick. Super easy to mess up because let’s be real – there’s A…

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Movies

For some people, film is a spectator sport. Others live and breathe it: they quote movies at the dinner table, rewatch favourites on random Tuesday nights, feel actual sorrow when an old favourite receives yet another egregious reboot. Figuring out what to buy that second group of people is a challenge, because only something personal will suffice – otherwise it’ll just feel like proof that you haven’t been listening to them. They’ll notice. We kept this person in mind when compiling this list. The person who has probably already bought what’s already available. They own a TV, they have opinions…

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Music

The music fanatic in your life already knows more about this than you ever will. They’ve got playlists to match your mood and ten they didn’t know you had. They get personally invested in albums and speak about how this one song owes them like it’s a debt. Trying to buy them something is like walking into the middle of an argument you’ve been avoiding since college. No judgement, we’ve been there too. That’s why we built this selection to get past it. Not with some baby-play it-safe options that only scream music giftcard shoved into something vaguely music-themed. Think…

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Star Wars

There’s someone in your life who doesn’t need another poster, another mug with a lightsaber on it, and certainly doesn’t need another LEGO set they already own. Finding something for that person can be tricky. Officially licensed merchandise is saturated with middling efforts, and most of it is as uninspired as it sounds. We built this gift guide because we were tired of reaching for the easy answer. We love Star Wars. Not just as some namby pamby cultural touchstone but like, legitimately love Star Wars. We have opinions on the original trilogy that we will never stop talking about…

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Superheroes

There’s a certain type of person we have in mind when we curate a collection like this. The ones who grew up with these characters in just the right way that it never really fades. They know which issue is the “good” run of a comic. They’ll explain to you—verbally masturbating, usually—with very little prompting how a given film completely missed the point. To them, none of this is consummedatically ingestible bullshit. Buy enough things for them and it’s easy. Know what you’re doing. Don’t know what you’re doing? Good luck. We know what we’re doing. We put this together…

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TV

Some people watch TV. Other people live through it. We make gifts for the latter group. Figuring out what to get those people can be tough. Once you forget about the temptation of novelty items and realize they care about much more than a quote printed on a mug, it becomes pretty simple. What tv buffs want more than anything is for people to show they were listening. That you know they spent three weeks in the same universe as this character they can’t stop thinking about. That you know they’ve watched the same episode six times. That you know…

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Video Games

Buying a gift for a gamer is something that people think they know how to do until they find themselves staring at shelf after shelf of plastic whilst having absolutely no idea what platform they play on, what they own already and if the thing in their hand is three years old and they bought it day-one. We’ve done it. Trust us, it’s tough. Nobody knows games like you do and that makes buying something genuinely thoughtful seemingly impossible. Unless you’re_OBJ_, of course. So this list is us saying f*** that. We’ve curated every item with one thought of the…

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