Dadnology Week 37: Ocarina of Time Dated, iPhone Duo Lands

🧭 The Week That Was — Zelda Finally Answers the Big One

Two Nintendo Directs in two days did more work than most single announcements manage all year: the Ocarina of Time remake finally has a release date, a brick-built LEGO Epona is coming, and a new amiibo actually poses. If a kid in your house has been asking about Zelda, Kirby, Metroid, or a phone that folds, this is the week all four questions got real answers — starting with a date that arrived sooner than anyone expected. Away from Nintendo: Apple’s first foldable phone made a genuinely convincing case for itself, Avatar: Seven Havens confirmed it is killing off its own legend before the story even starts, and a beloved Nicolas Cage show got cancelled despite eleven Emmy nominations. There is also a full age guide to every Zelda game, if that particular question has come up at your dinner table lately — and it usually has, by this point in a Switch 2 household.

Jump to: 🍿 Watch This Week · 🎮 Play This Week · 🎬 Movies & TV · 🎮 Gaming · 🧱 LEGO & Family · 🏠 Smart Home, Camera & Tech

🍿 What to Watch This Week

Top Tip: Slow Horses Season 6

Slow Horses season 6 — Apple TV+, premiering Wednesday. The event of the month: six episodes adapting Joe Country and Slough House, the two books where the series stops circling its own history and walks into it. Six seasons in and it has never had a bad one.

For the Whole Family: Stranger Things: Tales From ‘85 Season 2

Stranger Things: Tales From ‘85 season 2 — Netflix, Thursday. Ten episodes under half an hour each, and the short runtime is the feature — the rare franchise spin-off you can actually watch with a ten-year-old on a school night.

Once the Kids Are in Bed: Neagley

Neagley — Prime Video, the same Wednesday as Slow Horses. All eight episodes at once, no weekly wait, and the smartest thing it can do is resist becoming Ritchson’s show. Prime Video’s free trial covers this and Reacher’s finale, which hands the story straight over the same day.

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Home to Neagley and Reacher's finale, both landing the same Wednesday this coming week.

The Classic: Alien

Alien — Netflix, still there from the 1 September catalogue drop. Slow Horses week is the right week for it: both are about competent people discovering that the institution behind them is not on their side.

Also landing this week

• Reacher season 4 wraps up Wednesday on Prime Video — Gone Tomorrow’s finale, moved to Philadelphia, hands straight over to Neagley the same day.
• South Park season 29 arrives Thursday on Paramount+, twenty-nine seasons in and still willing to say the thing nobody else will.
• MobLand season 2 arrives Friday on Paramount+ — Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren back for ten weekly episodes.

Still running

• Ted Lasso season 4 — Apple TV+, new episode Wednesday. Back to the tighter season-one shape, and Richmond is not the story any more.
• Lanterns — HBO Max, new episode Sunday. A detective story with Green Lanterns in it rather than another origin, finishing 4 October.

Full dates, platforms and the rest of the month are in What to Watch This Week, publishing alongside this roundup.

🎮 What to Play This Week

Top Tip: Marvel’s Wolverine

Marvel’s Wolverine is out Tuesday, PS5 only, and it is the month’s one true exclusive. Mature-rated — read the age guide before the pre-order conversation happens, and check the PS5 listing once you have.

With the Family: LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight

LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight — Switch 2, Friday, with the Mayhem DLC. Fine from about six upward, and the one to hand over when Wolverine is the answer you are not giving.

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The console behind nearly everything in this week's Gaming and LEGO sections, from Ocarina of Time to the Direct's other 36 games.

From the Backlog: Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection

Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection — PS5, a 5 out of 5 from us. If Wolverine has you wanting a PS5 action game without the day-one price, this is two of the best ever made, and they hold up.

Also releasing this week

• Two Point Hospital: Full Health Collection (Switch 2) releases Wednesday — not a new game, but the full management sim finally bundled for the console.
• Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave releases Thursday — four protagonists, four routes, and the first Fire Emblem built for Switch 2.

Full details on every one of these are in What to Play This Week, publishing alongside this roundup.

🎮 Gaming News for Dads

Ocarina of Time Returns 5 November, With Voices and a Jump Button is the headline of the whole week. Fifty-eight days from now, a remake that has sat somewhere between “never going to happen” and “they’ll get it wrong” finally has a date and real gameplay behind it — full voice acting the 1998 original never had, a genuine jump button, and a 40th-anniversary special edition Switch 2 landing a week earlier on 29 October. It is a Switch 2 exclusive, and this is the article to read in full if you have been waiting as long as we have.

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The remake we have been waiting on since the switch to Switch 2 - out 5 November, and now with real gameplay to back up the date.

A New Kirby and a New 2D Metroid Just Got Dates covers the second Direct of the week, a deliberately quieter one the day after the Zelda anniversary show: 36-plus games got release windows, and only two of them are worth circling — Kirby and the World Beyond (Spring 2027) and Metroid Ravenous, a new 2D entry landing 28 January. Everything else is winter-lineup bookkeeping safe to skip until closer to release.

Mineru’s Construct amiibo Lands 17 September is the most interesting amiibo Nintendo has made in years for one specific reason: it is the first Zelda amiibo with articulated, posable arms. At $35 it unlocks rewards across three games, but the unlocks are not the reason to buy it — buy it if you want the object on the shelf, and keep it away from anyone who has not finished Tears of the Kingdom’s story yet.

Is Zelda OK for Kids? A Dad’s Age Guide to Every Game is the new addition to our age-guide hub, and the headline finding is the useful part: of fifteen Zelda games we have reviewed, exactly one carries a Teen rating. That makes “is Zelda safe” the wrong question — the real one is which specific game suits which specific kid, and which moments are worth knowing about before your child hits them alone at bedtime.

🎬 Movie & TV News This Week

Korra Is Dead in Seven Havens, and the New Avatar Is Hated for It confirms the boldest choice a legacy sequel has made in a while: Korra has died, now guides the new Avatar Pavi as a spirit, and the world actively fears Pavi as a destroyer rather than welcoming her as a hero. A world that hates its own protagonist on sight is a far more interesting starting point than another chosen-one origin, and committing to Korra’s death outright rather than leaving it vague is what makes this feel earned rather than nostalgic. Premieres 9 October.

Godzilla Minus Zero Trailer Sets Up a Second Monster confirms Toho’s sequel to the best kaiju film in fifty years, set in 1949 and in cinemas 3 November in Japan, 6 November in North America. Book the IMAX seat on the strength of Minus One alone — just do not promise anyone a three-headed dragon yet, because nobody outside Toho has actually confirmed one.

Spider-Noir Cancelled After One Season Despite 11 Emmy Nods is a strange sentence and it says more about streaming economics than the show itself: eight complete episodes with a genuine point of view is still a better return on a limited evening than most of what gets renewed. Just do not hand it to a primary-schooler expecting a superhero cartoon.

Mayday turned into one of our better movie nights of the month, and it earned a genuine 4 out of 5 — Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh’s odd-couple chemistry carries the whole thing, and one absurd closet-hiding sequence had us both laughing out loud. Read the review for why the mixed critical reception undersells it.

Mutiny is Jason Statham doing exactly what Jason Statham does, and it earned the same 4 out of 5 from us despite a mixed 50 percent on Rotten Tomatoes — the review gets into why that critic-audience gap does not surprise us, and why the cargo-ship setting makes for a genuinely tense couple of hours.

The Rip reunites Ben Affleck and Matt Damon as Miami-Dade narcotics detectives sitting on $20 million in cartel cash the same week their captain turns up dead, and it earned a strong 4 out of 5 from us — a slow-burn erosion of trust between everyone in the room that runs a shade long but never lets you settle. Read the review for why it is the tensest of the three movie nights this week.

🧱 LEGO & Family Round-up

LEGO Zelda: Link & Epona Revealed, 1,750 Pieces is a brick-built Epona that LEGO would have fudged five years ago, and the one photo Nintendo showed suggests they did not fudge it this time. No minifigures, no price yet, and spring 2027 is a long way to carry a wish list — hold the enthusiasm until the number lands.

LEGO Icons Bookshop: Book Nook (11379) Revealed is a genuinely good idea done at a fair price per piece: 1,690 pieces, $149.99, out 1 October, built to stand on a shelf between your actual books rather than take up table space. Two minifigures and a spiral staircase come with it. The open question is depth — a book nook only works if it fits in the row, and LEGO has not published the measurement yet, so it is worth waiting for a real photo of it sitting on an actual shelf before you commit the $149.99.

Both LEGO reveals this week share the same shape: a genuinely appealing idea shown off before the number that matters — price for the Bookshop, a set number and a minifigure count for Link & Epona — actually exists. Worth watching, not worth pre-ordering off a single photo.

🏠 Smart Home, Camera & Tech Round-up

The iPhone Duo Just Made Every Other Foldable Phone Boring is Apple’s first foldable, and it is real: a 7.6-inch inner display, a 5.4-inch cover display, a titanium hinge, and a genuinely funny, genuinely useful Kid Cue feature that suggests someone on that team has actually tried to photograph a toddler. It is also a $1,999 first-generation product with a moving part, shipping 23 October. The same keynote also confirmed the iPhone 18 Pro, Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, and AirPods 5 with real active noise cancellation — all landing 18 September, a full five weeks ahead of the Duo. Buy any of those four with confidence; give the Duo until our hands-on review before it goes near a school bag.

Apple’s September 9 Keynote: What’s Confirmed, What’s Rumour was our preview ahead of the show, written under a new CEO running his first keynote — and it undersold what actually happened, since the foldable was still Bloomberg rumour when we published it. The reliable outcome held anyway, the same way it always does: last year’s iPhone got quietly cheaper the same day the new one was announced, and for most families that discount is worth more than anything shown on stage.

The Dadnology Week archive: missed last week? Catch up with Dadnology Week 36.

❓ FAQ

What were the biggest dad-relevant releases in week 37, 2026?

Nintendo answered nearly every open Zelda question in two Directs back to back: the Ocarina of Time remake finally has a release date (5 November), a brick-built LEGO Link and Epona set was revealed, and a posable Mineru’s Construct amiibo lands 17 September. Apple’s iPhone Duo foldable also became real at $1,999, and Avatar: Seven Havens confirmed it kills off Korra before its 9 October premiere.

What is the best family pick from week 37, 2026?

Our new age guide to every Zelda game, at /gaming/is-zelda-ok-for-kids — fifteen games graded one by one rather than by a single series rating, since only one entry in the whole franchise is rated Teen. For something to watch together tonight, Stranger Things: Tales From ‘85 season 2 is short enough for a school night.

When does the Ocarina of Time remake come out, and do I need a new console?

5 November 2026, and it is a Switch 2 exclusive. If you already own a Switch 2 you need nothing else — the 40th anniversary special edition console and matching Pro Controller landing 29 October are for anyone upgrading anyway, not a requirement to play it.

What did Dadnology publish this week?

Ten news pieces plus one new guide and three movie reviews: Nintendo’s September Direct recap, the Ocarina of Time remake release date, the Mineru’s Construct amiibo, LEGO Zelda: Link and Epona, LEGO Icons Bookshop: Book Nook (11379), the iPhone Duo announcement recap, the Apple September keynote preview, the Godzilla Minus Zero trailer, Spider-Noir’s cancellation, and Avatar: Seven Havens’ timeline confirmation — plus a full age guide to every Zelda game and reviews of Mayday, Mutiny, and The Rip. Our What to Watch and What to Play picks for the week ahead publish alongside this roundup.