Toys

It’s OK To Be Jealous of This Toddler’s Magnificent Star Wars Sandcrawler Toy Box

I always assumed I wasn’t the kind of person who’d be willing to take candy from a baby. A lollipop is easy to resist, but this epic toy box built to look like a miniature Star Wars Sandcrawler? Someone distract Matthew Regonini’s son so I can sneak this wonderful creation into my trunk. Made from…

io9 Andrew Liszewski

Now You Can Play the Switch With Just the Most Adorable Controller Ever

Playing classic 8-bit side scrollers with a touchscreen is awful, so 8BitDo’s releasing an updated version of its tiny, keychain-sized Zero gamepad with support for the Nintendo Switch, and motion controls, so it should be easier to be perpetually prepared for any retro gaming emergency. The original Zero gamepad featured a directional pad, four action…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Open Channel: Which Obscure Toy Should Get a Movie Next?

Growing up, we all had one weird toy or game we loved more than anything that today, nobody remembers. Well, maybe not nobody. Hollywood sure seems to remember. In recent years, M.A.S.K., Micronauts, Voltron, Creepy Crawlers, Dino Riders, and other movies based on toys have been in various stages of development. At the same time,…

io9 Germain Lussier

You Can Strap a GoPro to This New Hot Wheels Car and Ride Along on All Your Dangerous Stunts

Watching a race from the sidelines is never as fun as being in the driver’s seat, and with that obvious wisdom in mind, Mattel has partnered with GoPro to create a new camera-compatible Hot Wheels car that lets kids and grownups experience what it’s like to careen down those iconic orange plastic tracks. It’s also…

Other Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Hasbro Is Bringing Some of the Star Wars Comics’ Best New Characters to Comic-Con

Marvel’s Star Wars comics have given us some delightful new characters over the past few years, but none have been taken to quite like the intrepid archaeologist Dr. Aphra (one-time associate of Darth Vader himself) and her killer droid pals, Triple Zero and BT. Now, for the first time, they’re all coming to action figure…

io9 James Whitbrook

Solo‘s Breakout New Characters Get Action Figures, and More of the Coolest Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular round up of the coolest toys and merchandise we’ve seen floating around the internet lately. This week, the Solo deluge continues, SDCC’s 2018 exclusives begin tempting our wallets, and Lego just can’t stop revealing cutesy little BrickHeadz. Check it out! NECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie San…

io9 Andrew Liszewski

Now That It Owns Power Rangers, Hasbro Has Hopes For New Mighty Morphin’ Movies

The recent Power Rangers movie reboot had no right to be as alright as it actually ended up being (even if the actual Power Rangers-y aspects fell a bit short), but despite some incredibly optimistic plans for a whole Mighty Morphin’ saga, its box office performance put plans for sequels in doubt. Hasbro wants to…

io9 James Whitbrook

You Can Wait a Few Years For a Tesla—or Build This Magnificent Lego Bugatti Chiron Yourself

Two years ago, Lego rolled out one of its largest and most complex Technic sets ever with its 2,704-piece Porsche 911 GT3 RS. But that car looks about as exciting as going for a Sunday drive in Grandma’s sedan now that Lego has finally revealed its long rumored (and teased) Technic Bugatti Chiron. With 3,599…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Clever Cosplayer Hacks Nerf Blaster to Cast Floating Holographic Spells

Benedict Cumberbatch aside, the best part of Marvel’s Doctor Strange movie was the animated spells the magical characters could generate out of thin air. Given our world lacks real magic, a Japanese cosplayer has found a way to simulate the same effect using a modded Nerf blaster and a spinning LED wand. The holographic images…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

A Deadpool Figure Fit for the Dance Floor, and More of the Greatest Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s weekly roundup of the neatest toys around. This week, Hot Toys gives us a Deadpool with killer footwear, the incredible Batman Ninja gets an equally worthy action figure, and more Harry Potter Lego than you can shake a whomping willow at. Check it out! Hot Toys Sixth-Scale Deadpool 2…

io9 Andrew Liszewski

Hasbro Has Officially Trademarked the Smell of Your Childhood: Play-Doh

I have some bad news if you’ve created a perfume that has a sweet, slightly musky, vanilla-like fragrance, with slight overtones of cherry, and the natural smell of a salted, wheat-based dough. That’s exactly how Hasbro describes the scent of Play-Doh, a smell that many of us associate with out childhoods, and a smell that…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Lego’s New Remote-Controlled Batmobile Looks Fun as Heck

Lego just announced a new batch of smart systems that you can control with your phone. The so-called Powered Up Platform works with smartphones to turn classic brick-based creations into fun, animated sets. And right out of the gate, Lego is offering up a new app-controlled Batmobile. It looks awesome. The new Powered Up Platform…

io9 Adam Clark Estes

Lego’s Harry Potter BrickHeadz Are Going to Avada Kedavra You With Cuteness

Lego is about to take its biggest bite yet out of Funko’s domination of the adorably-deformed, collectible figurine market with the addition of its first Harry Potter BrickHeadz characters. The new figures include Hermione, Ron, Dumbledore, Harry himself, and his snowy owl, Hedwig. Harry Potter and Hedwig will be sold as a 180-piece two-pack for…

io9 Andrew Liszewski

This Glowstick-Shooting Star Wars Blaster Replica Looks Like It’s Firing Actual Lasers

Star Wars cosplayers of the world take note: Joerg Sprave, the internet’s favorite slingshot-designing mad scientist, has come up with a clever way to simulate blaster fire in real life. Instead of employing dangerously powerful lasers that will get you kicked out of a convention faster than you can reload, his replica of Rey’s blaster…

io9 Andrew Liszewski

XM Studios’ New Collector’s Statue Is the Greatest Red Ranger of Them All

In all of Power Rangers, which Red Ranger is the greatest, the most heroic, the best leader? Well, it’s this one, played by a statue. He’s perfect. This statue, produced by XM Studios in collaboration with Saban Brands (and likely one of the last lines of collectibles to be created for the brand without Hasbro’s…

io9 Julie Muncy

A Ridiculously Posable Batman Cape, and More of the Most Delightful Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s weekly round up of the best toys we’ve seen all week. This time we’ve got a bumper bunch of Jurassic Park merchandise (and some Jurassic-adjacent attempts too), rocking toys that boldly go, and perhaps the world’s most absurdly articulated action figure cape ever seen. Check them out! Kaiyodo DC…

io9 Andrew Liszewski

I Want to Super-Size Every Classic Lego Set I’ve Ever Owned

Matt Denton has been putting his 3D printer to good use again, possibly the only good use for those plastic-extruding machines. He’s super-sized all the pieces in Lego’s 1979 Technic Bulldozer set, which required over 600 hours of printing to recreate all 372 parts. Re-assembling all of those pieces into a five-foot long Lego Technic…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

Tesla Could Learn Something From This Lego Car-Building Factory

Tesla’s hit a few speed bumps in getting all the pre-ordered Model 3’s out the door and onto customers’ driveways. But perhaps the company can learn something from Daniele Benedettelli, who created a fully autonomous Lego car factory using the iconic building toy. Now, I’m not saying Musk should consider rebuilding his factories out of…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

Relive the Best Part of the Star Wars Prequels With These Custom-Built RC Pod Racers

Say what you will about The Phantom Menace, but the prequel’s pod racing scene is still one of the best sequences in the entire Star Wars franchise—even when you know Anakin was destined to win. But what if Sebulba had been victorious? Adam Woodworth built a couple of micro RC pod racers that let you…

io9 Andrew Liszewski

Ant-Man and the Wasp Gets a Snazzy Lego Set, and More of the Most Amazing Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s weekly roundup of all the coolest new collectibles we’ve seen this week. We’ve got even more Marvel movie merchandise (only one of which has anything to do with Infinity War!), an X-Files icon, and a very silly Rick and Morty umbrella. Check it out! Lego Ant-Man and the Wasp…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski

It’s OK To Be Jealous of This Toddler’s Magnificent Star Wars Sandcrawler Toy Box

Now You Can Play the Switch With Just the Most Adorable Controller Ever

Open Channel: Which Obscure Toy Should Get a Movie Next?

You Can Strap a GoPro to This New Hot Wheels Car and Ride Along on All Your Dangerous Stunts

Hasbro Is Bringing Some of the Star Wars Comics’ Best New Characters to Comic-Con

Solo‘s Breakout New Characters Get Action Figures, and More of the Coolest Toys of the Week

Now That It Owns Power Rangers, Hasbro Has Hopes For New Mighty Morphin’ Movies

You Can Wait a Few Years For a Tesla—or Build This Magnificent Lego Bugatti Chiron Yourself

Clever Cosplayer Hacks Nerf Blaster to Cast Floating Holographic Spells

A Deadpool Figure Fit for the Dance Floor, and More of the Greatest Toys of the Week

Hasbro Has Officially Trademarked the Smell of Your Childhood: Play-Doh

Lego’s New Remote-Controlled Batmobile Looks Fun as Heck

Lego’s Harry Potter BrickHeadz Are Going to Avada Kedavra You With Cuteness

This Glowstick-Shooting Star Wars Blaster Replica Looks Like It’s Firing Actual Lasers

XM Studios’ New Collector’s Statue Is the Greatest Red Ranger of Them All

A Ridiculously Posable Batman Cape, and More of the Most Delightful Toys of the Week

I Want to Super-Size Every Classic Lego Set I’ve Ever Owned

Tesla Could Learn Something From This Lego Car-Building Factory

Relive the Best Part of the Star Wars Prequels With These Custom-Built RC Pod Racers

Ant-Man and the Wasp Gets a Snazzy Lego Set, and More of the Most Amazing Toys of the Week

Even the ‘Avatar’ Fighting Game Is Disrespecting ‘Legend of Korra’

Bluesky Has a New App, and It’s All About AI

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor And an Action Figure!

Whatever Just Happened with ‘Fruit Love Island,’ Nobody Won

AMC Puts a Stake in ‘Talamasca’ After One Season

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

2027 Is Shaping Up to Be a Great Year for Big Sci-Fi RPGs

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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Toys

It’s OK To Be Jealous of This Toddler’s Magnificent Star Wars Sandcrawler Toy Box

Now You Can Play the Switch With Just the Most Adorable Controller Ever

Open Channel: Which Obscure Toy Should Get a Movie Next?

You Can Strap a GoPro to This New Hot Wheels Car and Ride Along on All Your Dangerous Stunts

Hasbro Is Bringing Some of the Star Wars Comics’ Best New Characters to Comic-Con

Solo‘s Breakout New Characters Get Action Figures, and More of the Coolest Toys of the Week

Now That It Owns Power Rangers, Hasbro Has Hopes For New Mighty Morphin’ Movies

You Can Wait a Few Years For a Tesla—or Build This Magnificent Lego Bugatti Chiron Yourself

Clever Cosplayer Hacks Nerf Blaster to Cast Floating Holographic Spells

A Deadpool Figure Fit for the Dance Floor, and More of the Greatest Toys of the Week

Hasbro Has Officially Trademarked the Smell of Your Childhood: Play-Doh

Lego’s New Remote-Controlled Batmobile Looks Fun as Heck

Lego’s Harry Potter BrickHeadz Are Going to Avada Kedavra You With Cuteness

This Glowstick-Shooting Star Wars Blaster Replica Looks Like It’s Firing Actual Lasers

XM Studios’ New Collector’s Statue Is the Greatest Red Ranger of Them All

A Ridiculously Posable Batman Cape, and More of the Most Delightful Toys of the Week

I Want to Super-Size Every Classic Lego Set I’ve Ever Owned

Tesla Could Learn Something From This Lego Car-Building Factory

Relive the Best Part of the Star Wars Prequels With These Custom-Built RC Pod Racers

Ant-Man and the Wasp Gets a Snazzy Lego Set, and More of the Most Amazing Toys of the Week

Even the ‘Avatar’ Fighting Game Is Disrespecting ‘Legend of Korra’

Bluesky Has a New App, and It’s All About AI

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor *And* an Action Figure!

Whatever Just Happened with ‘Fruit Love Island,’ Nobody Won

AMC Puts a Stake in ‘Talamasca’ After One Season

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

2027 Is Shaping Up to Be a Great Year for Big Sci-Fi RPGs

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

Let us help find what you are looking for...

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor And an Action Figure!