When shopping this winter for your geeky sibling, significant other or co-worker you got paired with in secret Santas, you’re going to want a decent gift that they’ll enjoy and London has the perfect place for you to start shopping.

In 2013, Heroes Comics won the Joe Shuster award for Canada’s Best Comic Book Store, but that wasn’t just from selling Superman and Incredible Hulk comics. Collectible toys, Transformers, GI Joes, Star Wars figurines, statues, board games and sports cards from any time imaginable. The store is at the epicentre of geek culture in London.

Located at 186 Dundas St., the iconic shotgun style business is packed full of geeky goodies, and here’s just some starters to get you searching through the treasure trove that is Heroes.

Comics

The Trials of Apex is the first issue in a story that begins with an information-surrounded ship landing in the middle of a farm, and is a locally created and printed comic. It was printed by the Apex artist, Christopher Runciman’s own Runciman Press, and is $6.

Adventure Time Fiona & Card Wars is one of several Adventure Time series out now including the completely zany Bravest Warriors series, each are $6.

Saga is an awesome tale of love overcoming a massive intergalactic war, and the child born of that act, and is $3.75 each.

Attack On Titan is about giants who eat the last survivors of humanity. Walls designed to keep out theses “Titans” surround humans. The comic is also about the soldiers who confront the monsters head on, and are $12 each.

Vinyl

With the popularity of Doctor Who, these blind boxes are perfect for the Whovian in your family; each one is $11.

Jake and Finn or the Sailor Scouts, which do you choose? Sailor Chibi- Usa is actually an import figure from the Japanese toy market and while looking in Toronto shops and online could fetch $25 or more, but at Heroes is only $18. The Adventure Time blind boxes cost $15.

The iconic Alien character, including several variant Xenomorph figures, have been made into blind box figures. And for the BBC-phile in your family there’s all their favourite Sherlock characters made into goofy-looking figurines too. The Alien blind box- e s cost $11, while Sherlock characters will cost $12 each.

Pop Heads are a huge market, ranging from Star Wars to Marvel and DC, Charlie Brown to even the X-Files.

Here you can see that hasn’t stopped at real life movies either, with Marty Mcfly and the Doc’s DeLorean from Back to the Future, costing $35. The store is lined end to end with figures costing $13, so there’s plenty of variety to choose from.

Figures

This super posable Wonder Woman is just one of several posable figures from the DC Essential line, including Batman, Superman and a number of toher characters, each available for $24.

This Antman character is from the highly acclaimed Marvel Legends line, known for its attention to detail and a high level of posability. The Legends line even started a worldwide toy diorama contest, where first place winners can net up to $25,000. This movie-detailed figure costs $28.

While Breaking Bad has been finished for few years, everyone remembers the baldheaded Walter White getting into and out of his protective gear. This retro style figure of White includes a scale flat bottomed boiling flask and protective mask for $12.

With Star Wars coming back, Heroes has some of the newest toys in stock. This series has a gimmick where if you collect three, they form a special gun turret drone, and there are at least three of these to build, so at least nine figures to collect.

Finn is already gone, but Darth Vader, Rey and Luke Skywalker are still some of the available figures left at $11 each.

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