About the description of a toy
1.
"This time, Princess Bubblegum and her NiceLands deck take on Lumpy Space Princess's totally rad dual- Landscape deck in a royal rumble!"
What do "NiceLands" and "totally rad dual-Landscape deck" in the sentence mean?
2.
"First teased in the original two Collector's Pack sets and then previewed in the For the Glory!"
What do "tease", "preview" and "For the Glory" mean?
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Firstly, the quotes are really quite unusual English constructions - it's hard to get the meaning, and I'm a native speaker!
So for Q1: "What do "NiceLands" and "totally rad dual-Landscape deck" in the sentence mean?"
"Princess Bubblegum", "Nice Lands" and "Landscape" all seem to be proper nouns judging by the context (a toy) and because they start with capital letters. Therefore, "NiceLands" doesn't mean anything; it's just the name for something. And a quick google search gives us: http://cardwars.wikia.com/wiki/Nice_Lands
"totally rad (proper noun) deck" => 'rad' is slang for 'radical' which is a slang word which means something like 'cool', 'awesome', 'amazing', 'fantastic', 'brilliant', etc.
Q2 "What do "tease", "preview" and "For the Glory" mean"
For the Glory seems to be a PC strategy war game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_Glory
'tease' in this context means 'hinted' or 'mentioned' - i.e. <something> was mentioned to make you get your attention. "To tease" has many meaning, but has the sense of 'lacking follow through'.
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