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You can now create a public profile for your Mighty Ape account and share your reviews, comments, Wish List, Collection and Marketplace items with other customers.

Creating a profile only takes a few seconds and you can control exactly what you share using the privacy settings.

Once you've created your profile we'll link to it from your Marketplace items, plus reviews and comments you post on the site. Once a good number of profiles have been added we'll add new ways to find and interact with other customers. Enjoy!

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The amazing next generation portable console, PlayStation Vita, is launching on February 23rd. That is only four weeks away!

What's so great about the PS Vita? With the PS Vita you can play PS3-quality games on a portable system. A number of features will add new dimensions to your gaming experience including a touch screen on the front and touch pad on the back, front and rear-facing cameras, the ability to voice and text chat with your friends, motion sensitivity, and you will even be able to play against PS3 gamers on some games. Check out these features and more in the video below.

Whether you like gaming against your friends online at home or when you are out and about there is a PS Vita to suit your needs. You can pre-order a PS Vita console with Wi-Fi, or the Wi-Fi + 3G model which will allow you stay online where ever you are.

Be launch day ready. Store your game saves, PSN downloads, and personal media with a PS Vita Memory Card. The memory cards are available in 4GB, 8GB, and 16GB sizes. You'll also want to pre-order some of the hot launch titles including WipEout 2048, Uncharted: Golden Abyss, ModNation Racers: Roadtrip, and more.

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UPDATE: The winners are Adam Ramsdale, Sam Elton-Walters, Alison Stewart and Kate Taylor.

Want to compete in the London 2012 Olympics but don't have the time to do the training? Well here's your chance armchair athletes!

To celebrate the 2012 launch of London 2012 – The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games Fiveight are offering four lucky winners (two male and two female) the chance to get their names in the game.

Want your name immortalised in the London 2012 game? Simply tell us in the comment section below, in less than three sentences, about your favourite Olympic moment. Entries close at midnight on Sunday, 8th January 2012. We'll select and announce two female and two male winners on Monday, 9th January 2012.

Go for gold!

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At Mighty Ape we stock tonnes and tonnes of cool stuff. The very best games, movies, books, toys, collectibles, electronics and much more!

Let the world know what you truly desire by creating a Wish List and sharing it with your friends and family.

Update your Wish List before Thursday 22 December and you're automatically in the draw to win a surprise Christmas gift courtesy of the team at Mighty Ape!

Update your Wish List

The winner will be chosen at random but must live in New Zealand to ensure the gift arrives in time for Christmas. A random in stock product will be chosen from the winner's Wish List.

Good luck!

We're getting into the Christmas spirit by giving away an amazing prize to a different lucky customer, every day between now and Christmas Eve in the Mighty 24 Days of Christmas!

There are some fantastic prizes to be won including several awesome book packs, huge collections of DVD and Blu-ray discs, more candy and chocolate than could possibly be good for you, a train set, dozens of cool toys and novelties, a PSP console and much, much more. Some of you are going to be getting a pretty amazing surprise!

There are 24 different prize packs, and we're giving away one pack every day between now and Christmas Eve. Visit the Mighty 24 Days of Christmas page each day to see the day's prize. Place an order for any product and you'll be automatically entered into the draw to win that day's prize. It's that simple. We contact the winner's by email, and publish their names on the competition page.

Good luck and enjoy!

They say a picture speaks a thousand words, so what better way to show off our products than letting you guys submit photos and publishing them directly to the product pages. Think of it as your fifteen minutes of fame.

Starting today you can submit photos for any product listed in the Toys & Collectibles category, or the Home & Office category (we figured no body wants to see a picture of some dude reading a book!). Depending on how things go, we might open it up to selected products in the Games, Computers and Electronics categories – we'll see!

To submit a photo, navigate to the product page of any qualifying product, and click on the monkey with a camera underneath product images, or click the “Submit a Photo” button on the right hand side.

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Shopping online at Mighty Ape is the smartest way to get Christmas sorted. Avoid the busy malls and the parking hassles, put your feet up and browse millions of cool products from the comfort of home.

Here are some tips to get the most out of shopping online this Christmas!

Use the Gift Guide
We love finding cool gift ideas, and our team has worked hard over the past couple of weeks to assemble the Mighty Ape Gift Guide. We have all the best gift ideas in one place:

• Gifts for Boys
• Gifts for Teenage Boys
• Gifts for Men
• Gifts for Girls
• Gifts for Teenage Girls
• Gifts for Women

Get it in time
Products showing the green gift box icon will be shipped from Mighty Ape in time to be delivered before Christmas. The final shipping date for guaranteed Christmas delivery anywhere in New Zealand is 22 December. Christmas is the busiest time of year for both Mighty Ape and Courier Post, so try not to leave your shopping until the last minute.

It's a wrap
Don't risk paper cuts and scissor-related injuries, let Mighty Ape wrap your gifts for you. Christmas gift wrap is available on every product, and you can select a gift note too. You can select gift options from the Trolley – prices start at just $5.90 per item.

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UPDATE: The winner is Brad Jones from Auckland.

We love social media and put a lot of time and effort into our Facebook page. In fact, over 88,000 of our customers now “Like” us on Facebook! We think that's pretty cool.

If you're on Facebook jump over to our page and join the fun. We share pictures with other customers, run polls, announce new products, have competitions and answer support questions. It's a fun place to be.

This month we're also giving away an amazing iPhone 4S to one lucky customer who “Likes” us on Facebook (if you already “Like” us go here to enter the competition). iPhone 4S is the best iPhone yet and includes Siri, the amazing new assistant that lets you use your voice to send messages, set reminders, search information and more. Full competition details are over on Facebook, but we're drawing the winner the week before Christmas to make sure someone gets a great Christmas present!

Like Mighty Ape on Facebook and be in to WIN an iPhone 4S.

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Today we published a shiny new about Mighty Ape page that gives you the low-down on our company history, what makes us different, plus a picture of all 42 full-time members of the Mighty Ape team. We're a shy bunch, but we thought you'd like a peek behind the curtain…

Check us out and let us know what you think!

We're excited to report that our very first shipment of LEGO toys has arrived in our warehouse, has been stocked in and is now up for sale on the site!

The team here at Mighty Ape HQ absolutely love LEGO, and we've dreamed for years of being able to offer it for sale to our customers. It's been a long road – but the day has finally arrived.

We'll be receiving further shipments between now and Christmas, plus some limited distribution sets (including the Star Wars Imperial Shuttle and Millennium Falcon) early in the new year.

Our first shipment includes well over 80 different sets including Hero Factory, Ninjago, Kingdoms, City, Creator, Technic, Games and of course…Star Wars.

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